This page is dedicated to honoring all who have contributed their valuable expertise, time, and effort,
helping to make the Machinery’s Handbook the best it can be.
We at Industrial Press thank you and applaud you.
Corbin Anliker, KSI, Cisna Park, Illinois
Rod Bennett, Bitten, Australia
Jake Burress, Quality Manager, Atlas Technologies, Port Townsend, Washington
Christophe Caron-Garant, Waterloo, Québec, Canada
Leonard Carson, Carson Tool & Machine, Virginia Beach, Virginia
William G. Coon, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland
Sariel R. Coronado, Coronado Industrial, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada
Benjamin Côté, Cegep de Sherbrooke University, Canada
Emily Craig, Weld Reality
Patrick Curry, Fullerton Tool Company, Saginaw, Michigan
Ethan Dias, , Orthofix, Lewisville, Texas
Terry Edwards, Engineer, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Ivette Estevez, Manager, Standards IPR, ASME
Duane Evans, Machine Designer, USNR, Painesville, Ohio
Jessica Franklin, California
Sean Galligar, Lead Engineer, Bradley Machining, Addison, Illinois
Sanjay Garg, Engineer (laser cutting expert), Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire
Jonathan Gustafson, Mars Hill, North Carolina
James Halfmann, ADP Subsytem Design & Material Review Board Engineer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Gerry J. Hall, Engineer and Tradesman (retired), Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Brien Hawkes, Screen Innovations
Ray Henderson, Automation Engineer, Vestil Manufacturing, Angola, Indiana
Jim Hoeksema, Co-Chair of Applied Technology Division, Professor of Industrial Technology, William Penn University
Forrest Hoover, Apprentice Tool & Die Maker, Hendersonville, North Carolina
Jerry Hunt, Instructor, Machining Technology, Guilford Technical Community College, Greensboro, North Carolina
Muhammed Hussain, Administrative Engineer, NYC Department of Sanitation, Queens, New York
Aaron Ireland, Engineer, TAIT
Kyle Jankowski, Design Engineer, North American Clutch & Driveline
Victor Joyal, Instructor in Mechanical Engineering Technology,
with students Mathis Bergeron and Alexandre Bernard, Cégep de Sorel-Tracy, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
Jeff Kendall, CAD Department, HM Manufacturing, Wauconda Illinois
Dennis Kilian, Managing Director, Strategic Alliances, ASME
Max George Knight, Chief Design Engineer, AB Dev. Ltd., Verwood, United Kingdom
Robert Kolb, Director of Engineering, Special Metals, New Hartford, New York
Claudia Lapierre, Mechanical Engineering Instructor, Cégep de Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
Greg Lucas, Imagineered Solutions
Dmitry Lukashevich, Mechanical Engineer, Schlumberger (SLB), Tyumen, Russia
Boris Mayer-St-Onge, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Michael Merker, former Associate Executive Director, Standards and Certification (retired), ASME
Patrick Mulhern, Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Advanced Instruments, Norwood, Massachusetts
Benjamin Musselwhite, Mechanical Systems Engineering, Wind Turbine Engineering & Support, Vestas
Christopher Norville, Designer, TAIT
Reymundo Ortega, Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Thomson, Mexico
Joshua Pendergast
Christopher Penge
Christopher A. Perhala, P.E., Chief Engineer, Alliance Edge Engineering
John Peters, Engineer (plasma cutting expert), Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire
Sylvain Pineault, Vidéotron, Canada
Christopher Pyle, Lifelong Learner, Windsor, Colorado
Craig A. Rose, Design Engineer, North America Clutch & Driveline, Rockford, Illinois
Thomas Sant, P.E., Mechanical & Thermal Engineering, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Mike Shipulski, Engineer and Director of Advanced Development, Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire
Eric J. Sorosiak, Engineering Team Leader, Technology & Innovation, thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, Inc., Hamilton, Ohio
Bryce Towsley, author of Gunsmithing Modern Firearms: A Gun Guy’s Guide to Making Good Guns Even Better (Skyhorse, 2019), North Clarendon, Vermont
Nathan Towsley, CNC Machinist and Engineering Student, Rice, Minnesota
Steve Unwin, Mechanical Engineer, San Diego, California
Kyle Vols, Chesterfield, Missouri
Christopher Weil, Mechanical Design Engineer, Composite Motors/Composite Modules
Robert Wheeler, Director Publishing Technologies, ASME
Jason Williams, Elite Tool & Design, Columbia, South Carolina
Ken Woods, Principal Engineer (laser cutting expert), Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire
Please note that the above credentials, companies, and locations are based on our last contact with the Hall of Famers listed. This list certainly is not complete, and we will be revising and adding to it on an ongoing basis. If you have corrections, updates, or otherwise can provide additional information to clarify or enhance a listing, or if we have neglected to credit a contribution by an individual or company, please send the MH Team a detailed email with the subject line “MH Hall of Fame” to MHT@industrialpress.com. We thank you.