COE Awards

B.J. Fries Award of Merit

Bill Abramson College of Fellows Award

Top Gun

Top Gun is a competition for all  engineers and designers to test their skills at designing the most accurate and correctly-structured three dimensional model, in the least amount of time at the COE Annual Conference & TechniFair. The user friendly challenge involves designing a detailed part of a common item that will be revealed when you sign up at the conference.

2025 Award Winners:

1st Ryan Longwell (NIAR, Wichita State)
 
2nd Gavin Heimerman (NIAR, Wichita State)
 
3rd Samuel Eshelman (Stanley Black and Decker)
 

2024 Award Winners:

1st Jeremy Sitz (WSU)

2nd  Samuel Eshelman (Stanley Black and Decker)

3rd Hunter Robertson (WSU)

2023 Award Winners:

1st Matthew Rogers (Tesla)
 
2nd Dane Moorhead (NIAR, Wichita State)
 
3rd Jeff Gamon (Sierra Nevada)
 

2022 Award Winners:

(Max time of 45 minutes)

1st Place – Doug Snell, PCC Aerostructures – Perfect Score – 39 min, 22 sec

2nd Place – Jeff Gamon, Sierra Nevada – Perfect Score – 42 min, 48 sec

3rd Place – Jorge Gudino – Lockheed Martin – Perfect Score – 44min, 52 sec

2016 Award Winners

First Place: Steve Roemish, Janicki Industries - Perfect Score
Second Place: Eric Neuville
Third Place: Ben Lucia 

Previous Top Gun Winners

2015 - Chris Rempe, Wichita State University
2014 - Samuel Perse, Sharp Tooling Solutions
2013 - Eric Neuville, Pratt & Whitney Canada
2012 - Andrew Kramar, Arnold Engineering
2011 - Josh Jarvis, The Boeing Company
2010 - Kevin Waugh - Lionheart Solutions
2009 (V5) - Daniel Morin, BPR
2008 (V5) - Kevin Morgan, ANXeBuiness Corp.
2007 (V5) - Brian Brown, WichitaState Univesity
2006 (V5) - Nathan Shipley, WichtaState Unversity
2005 (V5) - Roger Joyal, Airbus
Fall 2003 (V4) - Chris Sameck, Freihtliner
Fall 2003 (V5) - DJ Ninagawa, INCS
Spring 2003 (V4) - Changsoo Suh, Hyundai Motors
Spring 2003 (V5) - Janelle Beczak, Cessna Arcraft
Fall 2002 (V4) - Dave Baldwin, Northwest CA Sevies
Fall 2002 (V5) - Ralph Templin, Delphi Autoote
Spring 2002 (V4) - Junya Uramoto, INCS
Spring 2002 (V5) - Jim Strawn, Cessna Aircraft
Fall 2001(V5) - Jang Ju Hyun, Korea Aerospace
Spring 2001 (V4) - Roger Joyal, The Boeing Cmpay
Spring 2001 (V5) - Rick Van Wetten, Siemensanaa
Fall 2000 - Dave Baldwin, Northwest CAD Serce
Fall 2000 - Gary Fisher, Black & Decker
Spring 2000 - Jeff Roark, Johnson Controls
Fall 1999 - Roger Joyal, Boeing MilitaryDiviin
Fall 1999 - Rob Dunn, Bombardier deHaviland
Spring 1999 - Matthew Hillyer, TaylorMahines
Fall 1998 - Jim Strawn, Cessna ircrat
Spring 1998 - Ivan Kaszycki, Ber Ciate Systems, Inc.
Fall 1997 - Todd Doyle, AlliedSgna
Spring 1997 - Andrew Ray, DECS
Fall 1996 - Douglas Vargo, Autoliv

3DDerby: Design. Print. Race.

2019 Winners:

Fastest Car: Dan Galgozy
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Coolest Car: Tim Ramos

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Past Winners:

2018: 

Kyle Haythaler - First Place in Speed

Ryan Hetzer - First Place in Style

Dr. David M. Aber Scholarship Competition

2023 Recipients:

1st Place: Lauren Paulson, Georgia Tech

2nd Place: Yuwei He, Purdue University

 

2019 Recipients:

Graduate Level:

1st Place: Lance Frazer, University of Kansas

2nd Place: Patrick Walgren, Texas A&M University
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Undergrad Level:

1st Place: Atif Saeed, Ryan Tang Dan, Chamathke Perera, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
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2nd Place: Shawan Ejaz, The City College of New York
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Past Scholarship Recipients:

2018: Katherine Unfried, Joseph Maini, and Chelsea Swell 

Best Annual Conference Presentations

2019 Winners

Product Definition: 3DEXPERIENCE Fasteners App - A Designer Investigation and Perspective

Manufacturing: (MAN) CATIA Composer Automatic Updating - Timothy Foster 

Engineering Analysis & Simulation: (EAS) Digital Twin - Its Role and Structure Within a Modern Systems Engineering Approach - Frank Popielas, Edward Ladzinski

Infrastructure, Develop, Deploy & (Knowledge): VR and AR in AEC: MJTA! (More Than Just Acronyms!) - Philippine Graveline, Emil Dobrescu 

Infrastructure, (Develop, Deploy) & Knowledge: What's New in 3DEXPERIENCE Knowledge Dictionary - Mike Berry 

Information Management: 3DEXPEREINCE Implementation Phase 1: Headaches and Heart Emojis - Rolando Garza 

COE University: Hands-On with POWER'BY - Scott Pokriefa, Tyler Stapleton 

COE PLM Enterprise of the Year Award

The PLM Enterprise of the Year award acknowledges COE member companies that have achieved significant business results through their organizations' adoption of product lifecycle management. It recognizes successful PLM implementations and serves as a model for fellow COE Members and IBM and Dassault Systèmes customers seeking to increase profitability by expanding their markets centered on new, innovative products, while reducing costs.

Past Enterprise of the Year Winners

  • 2018 - Textron Aviation

    Textron Aviation
     
  • 2014 - Parker Hannifin Corporation (Small/Medium Enterprise Award)
  • 2013 - Viking Range (Small/Medium Enterpise Award)
  • 2005 - Loewen (Small/Medium Enterprise Award)
  • 2005 - Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (Large Enterprise Award)

Community of Experts Contributor Award

Members of the COE Forum were asked to nominate their favorite Community of Experts Contributor.

2019 Winners:

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Eric Neuville

Roman Bolshakov AKA “Little Cthulhu"

Past Community of Experts Contributor Award Recipients

2018: Timothy Suhr
2017: Dave Frank & Jack Knapp
2016: Mike Berry & David Summerscales
2009: Mark Chitjian (Solve Issue Winner)
2009: Phil Barna (Best Overall Contributor)
2008: Dave Frank (Best Overall Contributor)