Honorary Doctorate Degrees
Purdue University awards honorary doctorate degrees to individuals who have national reputations in their fields of expertise, are recognized leaders, and who have demonstrated distinguished service to Purdue University and the State of Indiana. Since 1888, Purdue has awarded 853 Honorary Doctorate degrees. Here are the recipients who are graduates of the School of Mechanical Engineering:
2024
Jennifer Rumsey (BSME 1996)2022
Jill Hruby (BSME 1981)
2020
George Scalise (BSME 1956)
2013
Anthony Harris (BSME 1975)
2012
Ben M. Pollard (MSME 1961)
2009
William K. Cordier (BSME 1949)
Milton B. Hollander (BSME 1951)
2008
Ralph S. Johnson (BSME 1930)
2007
Raymond Viskanta (BSME 1956, Ph.D. 1960)
2006
Dennis W. Sullivan (BSME 1960)
2005
Ali S. Argon (BSME 1952)
Robert V. Adams (BSME 1954)
2004
Melvin J. Glimcher (BSME 1946)
2003
John M. Atalla (MSME 1947, Ph.D. 1949)
2002
Thomas J. Malott (BSME 1962)
2001
Donald W. Feddersen (BSME 1956)
1999
Fred M. Fehsenfeld Sr. (BSME 1948)
1998
John R. Horne (BSME 1960)
1997
James J. Stukel (BSME 1959)
1996
Richard C. Chu (MSME 1960)
1995
Donald A. Roach (BSME 1952)
1994
James E. Perrella (BSME 1960, MSME 1961)
1993
Robert L. Kirk (MSME 1952)
1991
Matthew O. Diggs, Jr. (BSME 1955)
1990
Floyd H. Lawson, Jr. (BSME 1946)
1989
Charles M. Harper (BSME 1949)
1988
Kenneth F. Iverson (MSME 1947)
1987
Elvie L. Smith (MSME 1949)
1986
Carl J. Schlemmer (BSME 1949)
1985
Richard J. Grosh (BSME 1950, MSME 1952, Ph.D. 1953)
1984
William T. Creson (BSME 1950)
1983
Gerald D. Hines (BSME 1948)
1982
Samuel B. Williams (BSME 1942)
Arcot Ramachandran (BSME 1947, Ph.D. 1949)
Douglass C. Harvey (BSME 1939)
1981
Maurice G. Knoy (BSME 1933)
1979
Richard M. Brumfield (BSME 1931)
Ralph E. Bailey (BSME 1949)
1977
Eugene P. Berg (BSME 1937)
Richard E. Adams (BSME 1942)
1975
Alfred J. McAllister (BSME 1924)
George A. Hawkins (BSME 1930, MSME 1932, Ph.D. 1935)
1974
Carl L. Sadler (BSME 1938)
1973
Richard W. Taylor (BSME 1942)
1971
D. Wayne Hallstein (BSME 1940)
1970
Maurice J. Zucrow (Ph.D. 1928)
1969
Richard L. Rouzie (BSME 1928)
B. William Bogan, Jr. (BSME 1931)
1966
Charles H. Terhune (BSME 1938)
1964
Robert F. Hurt (BSME 1938)
1962
Edwin D. Harrison (Ph.D. 1952)
1961
Richard E. LeBlond (BSME 1922)
1960
Bernhardt L. Dorman (BSME 1928)
1958
Donald C. Burnham (BSME 1936)
1956
Thomas C. Gray (BSME 1923, MSME 1927)
1953
Paul S. Dickey (BSME 1925, MSME 1935)
1951
Burl A. Dollens (BSME 1925)
Norris R. Crump (BSME 1929, MSME 1936)
1950
Elliott M. Gordon (BSME 1932)
Opie C. Chenoweth (BSME 1921)
1949
Robert M. Gates (BSME 1907)
Frederic A. Schaff (BSME 1907)
Percy H. Batten (BSME 1898)
William A. Atkins (BSME 1901)
1940
Hubert C. Blackwell (BSME 1902)
1937
William A. Hanley (BSME 1911)
1936
William H. Winterrowd (BSME 1907)
1935
Harley A. Johnson (BSME 1905)
1933
William L. Batt (BSME 1907)
1932
Lawrence W. Wallace (BSME 1912)
Samuel M. Kintner (BSME 1894)
1929
Harry T. Cory (BSME 1887)
1914
Clarence L. Cory (BSME 1889)