The Award is established to suitably recognize executives who have significantly contributed to the Industrial Engineering profession by creating a climate within their operating units, which permits Industrial Engineering techniques to be perfected and used with outstanding results. Such executives shall normally be the President, Vice President, Chairman, Vice Chairman, Chief Executive with the line responsibilities an industrial government or educational enterprise, who can be held accountable for the stimulation of such a climate.
| Year | Winners |
| 2000-2001: | Shri M B Puranik, Chairman, IIIE Hyderabad Chapter |
| 2001-2002: | Shri G R Sethi, Management Consultant, New Delhi |
| 2002-2003: | Col. B B Sharma, New Delhi |
| 2003-2004: | Dr. Verghese Mathew, Director, GIM, Coimbatore |
| 2004-2005: | Dr. K. Selvaraju, Secretary General, SIMA, Coimbatore |
| 2005-2006: | Dr. Rajen Mehrotra, Mumbai |
| 2006-2007: | Shri TA Krishnamoorthy, Managing Director, KSIDC, Trivandrum |
| 2007-2008: | Shri S V Natarajan |
| 2008-2009 | Shri Ashok H Ippa, MD, Ashok Consultancy, Pune |
| 2009-2010: | Dr. K G Nair, Professor of Business Admn, College of Engineering, Trivandrum |
| 2010-2011: | Cdr. B M Bhandarkar, Chairman, IIIE |
| 2011-2012: | Dr. S G Deshmukh, Director-ABV-Indian Institute of Infn Tech. & Mgmnt, Gwalior |
| 2012-2013: | Shri P. Chandrakanth Sharma, Hyderabad |
| Shri P.B. Jeevan Rao , Chennai | |
| 2013-2014: | Dr. (Mrs.) Karuna Jain, Mumbai |
| Dr. George Sleeba, Kerala | |
| 2014-2015: | Shri Shrikant Athavale |
| Prof. RAD Pillai | |
| 2015-2016: | Shri T.G.Bhaskar |
| Dr.B.E.Narkhede | |
| 2016-2017: | Cdr.K.Y.Narayana (Retd.) |