Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement

Awarded by
WPI Alumni Association

Named in honor of Robert Hutchings Goddard, Class of 1908, pioneer in the field of modern rocketry. Recipients will have demonstrated exceptional professional achievement in his or her chosen field. Qualifications include, but are not limited to, outstanding leadership skills, business acumen, innovative approaches to technical challenges, pre-eminence in teaching or research, and/or entrepreneurship.

In 1926, Dr. Goddard's first liquid fuel rocket was launched in Auburn, Mass. Larger scale experiments and a skeptical local government made it necessary for Dr. Goddard, who was to become recognized as the father of the United States space program, to move to New Mexico in 1930. There, he carried on a major series of tests until 1942 at which time he was called to Washington as Chief of Navy Research on jet-propelled planes.

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Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type
2010 Mark O'Neil '80 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 Edward Cheung '85 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2010 Paul Chodak III '85 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2009 Arthur T. Katsaros '69 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2009 Glenn Yee '74 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Alfred A. Molinari Jr. '63 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Scott W. Ramsay '68 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Maryann Bagdis Goebel '73 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Robert A. Brown III '78 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 Stephan A. Mezak '78 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2008 James M. Welch '83 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Earnest S. Hayeck '47 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 William W. Rawstron '57 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni
2007 Domenico Grasso '77 Robert H. Goddard Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement WPI Alumni Association Alumni