Popular Mechanics Announces Winners of 2002 Design & Engineering Awards

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.