Proffered by SME, Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers Award honors recipients for their achievements in applications throughout manufacturing industry. Honorees in 2016 came from industry (David Blondheim Jr., Yujie Chen, Andy Henderson, Jaydeep Karandikar, and Christian Rath) and academia: Michael Cullinan, Emmanuel De Moor, David Hoelzle, Liangbing Hu, Xiaoning Jin, Chinedum E. Okwudire, Srikanth Pilla, Christopher Saldana, Rohan A. Shirwaiker, Sameh Tawfick, and Hao Wu.