The Industrial Gas Turbine Award recognizes sustained personal creative scientific or technological contributions unique to electric power or mechanical drive industrial gas turbine technology. Eligible areas of accomplishment are gas turbine design, application, operations/maintenance, and research/development/deployment, performed in an industrial, academic or research laboratory environment in one or more of the following fields:
- Combustion, Fuels, & Emissions Abatement
- Controls
- Diagnostics
- Electric Power Plant Integration
- Fluid Dynamics & Thermal Sciences
- Operation, Maintenance, & Life Cycle Cost
- Manufacturing, Materials, & Metallurgy
- Structures & Dynamics
- Thermodynamic Cycles
- Turbomachinery
The award is made to a single individual.