Carl E. and Jessie W. Menneken Faculty Award Honorees - Dudley Knox Library
This award is presented annually to an NPS faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding effort and achievement in research in science or engineering. The award recognizes meritorious research having identifiable impact on Navy or other Department of Defense technology. First presented in 1975 under the present name in order to honor the memory of Distinguished Professor Carl E. Menneken, Dean of Research.
In 2015, NPS Dean of Research Jeff Paduan, announced the creation of two Menneken Awards, one for a senior faculty member that has exhibited ‘significant and sustained contributions’ and another for a more junior faculty member for ‘highly meritorious research'.
Read more about the award in NPS archive: Calhoun
| SENIOR FACULTY Significant and Sustained Contribution |
JUNIOR FACULTY Highly Meritorious Research |
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| 2025 | |||
| 2024 | Frank Giraldo | Douglas Van Bossuyt | |
| 2023 | Giovanna Orit | Emre Gunduz | |
| 2022 | Timour Radko | Paul Lester | |
| 2021 |
Marcello Romano |
Di Zhang | |
| 2020 | Wieslaw Maslowski & Qing Wang | Mike Atkinson | |
| 2019 | Susan Sanchez & Thomas Lucas | Jeremy Kozdon | |
| 2018 | Brij N. Agrawal | Bradley Jay Strawser | |
| 2017 | Young Kwon | Eric Hendricks | |
| 2016 | Peter Denning & Gerald G. Brown | Lucas Wilcox | |
| 2015 | Clay Moltz | Nicholas Drew & Timothy Chung | |
| 2014 |
Erik Dahl; Yu-Chu Shen; David Alderson; Claudia Luhrs |
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| 2013 | Joseph P. Hooper | ||
| 2012 | Luke Brewer | ||
| 2011 | Hong Zhou | ||
| 2010 | Johannes O. Royset | ||
| 2009 | Jamie MacMahan | ||
| 2008 | Christopher M. Brophy | ||
| 2007 | Frank Giraldo | ||
| 2006 | Marcello Romano | ||
| 2005 | John McEachen | ||
| 2004 | Qing Wang | ||
| 2003 | Wei Kang | ||
| 2002 | Douglas J. Fouts | ||
| 2001 | Michael Ross | ||
| 2000 | Mark E. Nissen | ||
| 1999 | Isaac I. Kaminer | ||
| 1998 | Hemant K. Bhargava | ||
| 1997 | |||
| 1996 | Thomas H.C. Herbers | ||
| 1995 | Young Kwon | ||
| 1994 | Michael P. Balley | ||
| 1993 | James H. Miller | ||
| 1992 | Ching-Sang Chiu | ||
| 1991 | William Gragg | ||
| 1990 | Phillip Ligrani | ||
| 1989 | Phillip Durkee | ||
| 1988 | Steven Garret | ||
| 1987 | John Powers | ||
| 1986 | Don E. Harrison | ||
| 1985 | Russell Elsberry | ||
| 1984 | Donald P. Gaver, Jr. | ||
| 1983 | Paul Marto | ||
| 1982 | Gerald G. Brown | ||
| 1981 | Sheldon R. Tieszen/ Kenneth L. Davidson | ||
| 1980 | Chih-Pei Chang | ||
| 1979 | Mark A. Dablain | ||
| 1978 | Robert F. Henrick | ||
| 1977 | Sydney R. Parker | ||
| 1976 | George Rodenbush | ||
| 1975 | MENNEKEN AWARD ESTABLISHED |