| 2024 | Dr. Amar K. De | Thin-Slab Continuous Strip Processing Technology - Changing the Landscape of How We Make Greener and Leaner Advanced High-Strength Steels |
| 2023 | Dr. Keith A. Taylor | Practical Applications of Metallurgy to Industrial Steel Product Development |
| 2022 | Dr. Matthias Militzer | Interface-based Design - A New Frontier for Microstructure Engineering of High-Performance Steels |
| 2021 | Mr. Anil K. Sachdev | Iron: The Ubiquitous Element |
| 2020 | Dr. Nina M. Fonstein | Effects of Retained Austenite Stability and Microstructure Refinement on Properties of Advanced High Strength Sheet Steels |
| 2019 | Dr. Wolfgang Bleck | The Fascinating Variety of New Manganese Alloyed Steels |
| 2017 | Dr. Bruno Charles De Cooman | Mechanical Twinning in Formable Advanced Ultrahigh-Strength Steel |
| 2016 | Dr. David K. Matlock | Enhancing the Fatigue Performance of Steel: Have We Learned Anything From the Past? |
| 2015 | Dr. Harry Bhadeshia | A Complete Theory for Martensitic Transformations |
| 2014 | Mr. David V. Edmonds | The "Silicon Age" of Steel: How Alloying With Silicon Is Playing a Crucial Role in Modern Steel Development |
| 2013 | Dr. John J. Jonas, O.C. C.Q. FRSC, Ph.D | Widmanstätten Ferrite: Fat, Old Plates in Meteorites and Fresh, Skinny Plates in Rolled Steels. What do they have in common? |
| 2012 | Mr. Anthony J. DeArdo | The Microstructure of Steel, a Modern View of an Ancient Material |
| 2011 | Dr. Bruce L. Bramfitt | A Metallurgical Perspective of the Role of Rail Steel in the Growth of America |
| 2010 | Dr. George Krauss | Martensitic Microstructural Systems in Carbon-Steels and Susceptibility to Hydrogen Embrittlement |