Best Paper Award
| ASME Unit: | Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) |
| Date Established: | 1997 |
| Achievement: | Given to the author(s) of the most outstanding technical paper, presented at IMECE, related to Manufacturing Engineering. |
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| Form of Award: | Certificate |
| Frequency of Award: | Annual |
| Administrative: | Manufacturing Engineering Division |
| Level of Award: | Division |
| Selected By: | Executive Committee of MED |
| Selecting Process: | Recommendation to the Executive Committee |
| Funding: | MED Custodian Account |
| Date Created: | 11/8/2000 |
| Date Modified: | 3/15/2013 |
| Contact Name: | MSEC Technical Program Chair of MSEC for that year |
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Winners of the Best Paper Award
| 2020 | Md Ferdous Alam, Max Shtein, Kira Barton, David J. Hoelzle |
| 2020 | Yang Xu, Yizhen Zhu, Yifeng Sun, Jie Jin, Yong Chen |
| 2020 | Sai Kosaraju, Xin Zhao |
| 1997 | Jinwook Kim | 2006 | Ryota Ikeda | 2012 | Hui Wang |
| 1997 | Changebeom Park | 2007 | Rodolfo Haber | 2012 | Hai Nguyen |
| 1997 | Jongwon Kim | 2007 | Rodolfo Haber-Haber | 2012 | S. Jack Hu |
| 1997 | F.C. Park | 2007 | Angel Alique | 2012 | Albert Shih |
| 1999 | K.D. Bouzakis | 2007 | Agustin Jimenez | 2012 | Zhikun Liu |
| 1999 | S.Kombogiannis | 2008 | X. Brun, S. Melkote | 2012 | Gary J. Cheng |
| 1999 | A. Antoniadis | 2009 | Jie Feng | 2012 | Yuefeng Wang |
| 1999 | N. Vidakis | 2009 | Bongsuk Kim | 2012 | Yiliang Liao |
| 2000 | M. E. Bange | 2009 | Jun Ni | 2012 | Yayue Pan |
| 2000 | M. G. Stout | 2010 | Lei Ma Shreyes | 2012 | Chi Zhou |
| 2000 | S. K. MacEwen | 2010 | N. Melkote | 2012 | Yong Chen |
| 2001 | I. S. Kmecko | 2010 | John B Morehouse | 2013 | Lei Ma |
| 2001 | Z. Jandric | 2010 | James B. Castle | 2013 | Shreyes Melkote |
| 2001 | R. Kovacevic | 2010 | James W. Fonda | 2013 | James Castle |
| 2002 | John A. Malluck | 2011 | Hongtao Ding | 2014 | Xin Weng |
| 2002 | Shreyes N.Melkote | 2011 | Yung C. Shin | 2014 | Xiaoning Jin |
| 2006 | Hitomi Yamaguchi | 2012 | Bruce L. Tai | 2014 | Jun Ni |
| 2006 | Takeo Shinmura |