The honour is bestowed on those who have distinguished themselves by contributions to the welfare of making in the field of Industrial Engineering as a Trainer Consultant and Researcher and are normally above fifty years of age.
| Year | Winners |
| 2000-2001: | Dr. J M Mahajan, IIT, New Delhi |
| 2001-2002: | Prof. A S Sastry, Management Consultant, Hyderabad |
| 2002-2003: | Dr. S R Gollapudi, Professor, GITAM, Visakhapatnam |
| 2003-2004: | NIL |
| 2004-2005: | Dr. K K Padmanabhan, Principal, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore |
| 2005-2006: | Shri K Patel, General Manager I/c (P&A), Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai |
| 2006-2007: | Dr. K. Selvaraju, Secretary General, SIMA, Coimbatore |
| 2007-2008: | Dr. Verghese Mathew, Director, GIM, Coimbatore |
| 2008-2009 | Prof. Ashok K Pundir, Dean (Placement), NITIE, Mumbai |
| 2009-2010: | Shri Ashok H Ippa, Pune & Prof. M V Narayanan, Mumbai |
| 2010-2011: | Prof. Damodar Acharya, Director of IIT, Kharagpur |
| 2011-2012: | Cdr. B M Bhandarkar, Chairman, IIIE |
| 2012-2013: | Shri R L Tayalia, Udaipur |
| Dr. K Gopalakrishnan Nair, Trivandrum | |
| 2013-2014: | Dr. S.G. Deshmukh, New Delhi |
| 2014-2015: | Brig. PSP Sarma |
| 2015-2016: | Shri R.S.Misra |
| 2016-2017: | NIL |