Awards
Beshears' List of Awards
- Six patents awarded and two patents pending.
- Recipient of National 2007 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer for The Hybrid Solar Lighting System
- Recipient of 2006 R & D 100 Award for The Hybrid Solar Lighting System.
- 2006 Southeast Region, Federal Laboratory Consortium Award, “Hybrid Solar Lighting”.
- Recipient of National 2007 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer for The Hybrid Solar Lighting System
- Recipient of 2000 ASME Tribute to Tennessee Technology Award for “Low-Cost Conversion of Static Scales to a Highly Accurate Weigh-in-Motion System”.
- Recipient of 1999 R& D 100 Award for R & D Magazine for one of the top 100 innovation of 1999 for Galvanneal Temperature Measurement System.
- Recipient of 1998 AMSE Technological Achievement Award for the Galvanneal Temperature Measurement System.
- 2007 National, Federal Laboratory Consortium Award, “Hybrid Solar Lighting”, Melissa Voss Lapsa, David L. Beshears, Art Clemons, Dr. Dennis D. Earl, John K. Jordan, Randall F. Lind, L. Curt Maxey, Jeffrey D. Muhs, Christina D. Ward, R. Wes Wysor, Larry Dickens, ORNL Commercialization Manager, John Morris, Sunlight Direct LLC; May, 2007
- 2006 Southeast Region, Federal Laboratory Consortium Award, “Hybrid Solar Lighting”, Melissa Voss Lapsa, David L. Beshears, Art Clemons, Dr. Dennis D. Earl, John K. Jordan, Randall F. Lind, L. Curt Maxey, Jeffrey D. Muhs, Christina D. Ward, R. Wes Wysor, Larry Dickens, ORNL Commercialization Manager, John Morris, Sunlight Direct LLC
- R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Award for the 100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of the Year for 2006, “Hybrid Solar Lighting System”, developed by Jeff Muhs, David Beshears, Duncan Earl, Curt Maxey, Melissa Lapsa, Wes Wysor, Christina Ward and Randall Lind of the Engineering Science and Technology Division, John Jordan of ORNL Creative Media and Sunlight Direct of Oak Ridge
- American Museum of Science and Energy Tribute to Tennessee Technology Award, “Low-Cost Conversion of Static Scales to a Highly Accurate Weigh-in-Motion System”, 2000
- R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Award for the 100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of the Year for 1999, “Galvanneal Temperature Measurement System”.
- American Museum of Science and Energy Tribute to Tennessee Technology Award, “Galvanneal Temperature Measurement System”, 1998.
Damiano's List of Awards
- U.S. DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award (2009) U.S. Patent # 5623579, "Automated Method for the Systematic Interpretation of Resonance Peaks in Spectral Data"
Haynes' List of Awards
- Federal Laboratory Consortium Award of Merit for Excellence in Technology Transfer (1995)
- ORNL Inventor of the Year (1998)
- Lockheed Martin Corporation NOVA Award (1998)