Society Awards and Honors
2006 Awards
Sriram Somasundaram Named 2006 Tri-Cities Engineer of the Year
As part of National Engineers Week, Sriram Somasundaram was named Tri-Cities Engineer of the Year at the Tri-Cities Feb. 24 Engineers' Week banquet. The award was presented by the Tri-Cities Chapter of the Washington Society of Professional Engineers.
Sriram joined Battelle 17 years ago and works in the areas of energy efficiency in HVAC equipment and commercial buildings, combined heat and power technologies, thermal energy storage, and distributed power generation technologies. He has been named a Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and has received the society's Dedicated Service Award. Sriram also received the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers Homer Addams Award and Distinguished Service Award.
He is the founding secretary of the India Association of Tri-Cities and active in the Hindu Society of Eastern Washington. (announced 3/1/2006)