Gano Dunn Award Winners

The Gano Dunn Award for professional achievement in engineering, industry, science or finance is presented annually to a graduate of The Albert Nerken School of Engineering. Established in 1955, the award is named for Gano Dunn, who devoted a quarter century of service to The Cooper Union as a Trustee, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and 15 years as President of The Cooper Union.  He was an Electrical Engineer who received one of the first degrees in electrical engineering granted in the United States.  He got that degree from Columbia University in 1889. He served as President of J.G. White Engineering Corporation.  He directed construction projects around the world including the US Oil Base at Pearl Harbor and the rebuilding of Haiti following a massive earthquake.  He is the recipient of both the Edison Medal and the Hoover Medal for his achievements in Engineering.   Read Gano Dunn’s biography here.

 

2024	Barry Rosenbaum ChE’63
2023	Irwin J. Gruverman ChE’54
2022	Donald Rapp ChE’55
2021	Stephen Welby ChE’87
2020	Dr. Eli Roshotko ME ‘50
2019	Marisa Lago Phy’77
2018	Richard Sarles CE’67
2017	Ronald Brookmeyer Math’75
2016	Jackie Ying, ChE’87
2015	Paul Strassmann CE’53
2014	Jay Moskowitz, PHY ’70
2013	Harold Goldberg, EE ’44
2012	Morton Lippmann ChE’54
2011	Charles Bliss ChE’39/PDE’48
2010	Naomi Harley SCE’59
2009	Peter Winokur PHY’68
2008	Ira Whitman CE’61
2007	Steven Silberstang CE’70
2006	Jack Gould ME’27 ** Kevin Burke EE’72
2005	Kenneth Bridbord ChE’64
2004	Elizabeth Simons ChE’50
2003	Barbara Schwartz ChE ’75
2002	Daniel Okun CE’37 ** Ivan Stern EE’62
2001	Benedict Itri EE’75 Joseph Zelvin AR ’65
2000	Dr. Richard Slember ME’55
1999	Robert Aquilina CE’78 William Vopat ME’31 **
1998	Stanley Lapidus EE’70
1997	Martin Trust ME’56
1996	Ronald Drucker CE’62
1995	Israel Kalish EE’53
1994	Russell Hulse PHY’70
1993	Alfred Schneider ChE’51
1992	Albert Burstein ME’59
1991	Richard Ehrlich EE’53
1990	Richard Schwartz ME’57
1989	Robert Spindel EE’65
1988	Robert Lenz CE’50
1987	Philip Auerbach ME’51 **
1986	Mischa Schwartz EE’47
1985	Albert Carnesale ME’57 William Deasy CE’58 Peter Kimm CE’58
1984	Eric Sumner ME’48 **
1983	John Harrington EE’40 **
1982	Charles Schaffner CE’41 **
1981	Evelyn Jetter Eng’50 ** C. Raymond Dahl ME’43 **
1980	Alexander Matiuk ME’38 **
1979	Saul Aronow EE’39
1978	Sidney Stark ME’40
1977	Irwin Chanin BSE’15 **
1976	Maurice Brooks ChE’47
1975	Myron Kayton ME’55
1974	Alvin Marks EE’32 **
1973	George Fox CE’40 **
1972	Walter Langbein Eng’31 **
1971	Nils O.Hoglund Eng’44 **
1970	Bernard Loughlin ChE’32 **
1969	Benjamin Lax ME’41
1968	Franklin Diederich ME’43 **
1967	Walter Dean ChE ’26 **
1966	Nicholas Molnar Eng’26 **
1965	Isidor Fankuchen Eng’26 ** Raymond Szymanowitz Eng’22 **
1964	Irving Rossi BSE’1909 **
1963	William Pfann Eng’40 **
1962	Daniel Maggin Eng’20 **
1961	Louis Cole EE’1911 **
1960	Erich Hausmann Eng’07 **
1959	Frederick Krug Eng’17 **
1958	Matthew Del Gaudio 1908 **
1957	Thomas Peterson Eng’23 **
1956	Morris Ketay Eng’26 **
1955	William Dubilier Eng’1909 **