Popular Mechanics Announces Winners of 2002 Design & Engineering Awards
NEW YORK--Oct. 18, 2001--The winners of the prestigious Popular Mechanics 2002 Design & Engineering Awards were announced by Editor-in-Chief Joe Oldham.The Awards honor innovation, invention, design and engineering in the five fields covered editorially: automotive, technology, home improvement, outdoors, and science. The sixteen winners will be featured in the December issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, on sale November 13.
This year's Design & Engineering Award winners run the gamut from a portable human organ-preservation system to a highly energy-efficient clothes washer/dryer; from a process that converts old car tires into fuel to the most powerful ATV on the market.
"Our Design & Engineering Award is the highest honor we can bestow. And our editors were particularly stingy this year, in that only sixteen recipients were chosen. The winners are truly the best of the best."
This year's honorees are as follows:
| - | 2002 Ford Thunderbird |
| - | 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche & Cadillac Escalade EXT |
| - | 2002 Jeep Liberty |
| - | 2002 Harley-Davidson VRSCA V-Rod |
| - | Yamaha WaveRunner FX140 |
| - | Brookhaven National Laboratory Non-Stoichiometric ABS Alloys |
| - | TransMedics Portable Organ Preservation System |
| - | Integrated Technology Group Tire to Oil Conversion Process |
| - | Kodak DX3900 Digital Camera |
| - | Kenwood Sovereign Entre |
| - | Microsoft Xbox |
| - | Schrade iQuip |
| - | Zenith 60-inch Plasma Display |
| - | Armstrong ArmaLock Laminate Flooring |
| - | John Deere SST Lawn Tractor |
| - | Whirlpool Duet HT Washer and Dryer |
The awards will be presented by Joe Oldham and Jay McGill, publisher of Popular Mechanics, to the winners at each company's corporate headquarters.
Popular Mechanics is a unit of The Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) and one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines, with a total of 16 U.S. titles and 107 international editions. Hearst's magazines are also read by more U.S. adult women than any other monthly magazine publisher. The company also publishes 17 magazines in the United Kingdom through its wholly owned subsidiary, the National Magazine Company Limited.
