The Draper Prize
One of the world's preeminent awards for engineering achievement, The Charles Stark Draper Prize was established by the National Academy of Engineering and endowed by Draper Laboratory in 1988 to recognize innovative engineering achievements and their reduction to practice in ways that have led to important benefits and significant improvement in the well-being and freedom of humanity.
The Prize recognizes achievement in all engineering disciplines, and engineers worldwide are eligible to receive it. The Prize is awarded annually during National Engineers Week in Washington, D.C.
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NAE Honors LCD Inventors with 2012 Draper Prize
James Shields, Draper president; Irwin Jacobs, chairman of the NAE Council; Martin Schadt; George H. Heilmeier; Wolfgang Helfrich; Sarah Brody Webb; and Charles Vest, NAE president. (Photo credit: Event Digital Photography)
