| Year | Name | Contributions |
| 2022 | Huijun Gao | For contributions to the advanced control for mechatronic systems |
| Yunwei Ryan Li | For contribution to the PWM, control and converter topology of medium voltage high power industrial drives |
| Burak Ozpineci | For low cost, high efficiency, compact electric motor drives for more electrified transportation systems |
| Maryam Saeedifard | For contributions to highly-efficient, power-dense and fault-tolerant multilevel converter-based medium-voltage drives |
| Akio Yamamoto | For pioneering research and development on theoretical models and applied systems for electrostatic film actuators |
| 2021 | Tobias Geyer | For research in and industrial productization of predictive control methods maximizing the power and efficiency of electrical drives |
| Leila Parsa | For multi-phase permanent magnet motors, design, analysis, and control |
| Ronghai Qu | For flux modulation machines – theory, topologies, and applications |
| Akshay Kumar Rathore | For optimal extremely low switching frequency control of medium voltage high power industrial motor drives |
| Jun Ueda | For cellular actuators inspired by biological muscles and their human assistive applications |
| 2020 | Yasuhisa Hirata | For development of motion control technology for passive robot using servo brake actuators for high safety and low power consumption |
| Alireza Khaligh | For pioneering research and development on design and control of high-efficiency and high-power-density electric-motor-integrated wide bandgap power electronics |
| Shihua Li | For contributions to the nonlinear modeling, analysis and multi-disturbance rejection control solution for precise motion control systems |
| Annette Muetze | For increasing the reliability, efficiency, and utilization of variable speed drive systems |
| Jin Wang | For leading-edge research and development of wide bandgap power device based electric machine drives |
| 2019 | Radu Bojoi | For contributions to electrical drives control |
| Ayman M. EL-Refaie | For contributions to high speed permanent magnet machines |
| Mohammad S. Islam | For contributions to electric motors and electromagnetic actuators |
| Jianxin Shen | For contributions to permanent magnet electrical machines |
| Bram Vanderborght | For contributions to self-healing actuators with applications in health and manufacturing
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| 2018 | Jose Alfonso Antonino Daviu | For contributions to advanced fault diagnostic techniques for reliable conditioning of electric motors
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| Jun-ichi Itoh | For contributions to the development of technology for adjustable speed drive system |
| Seiichiro Katsura | For contributions to integrated design and application of motion control |
| Hiroshi Toshiyoshi | For contributions to industrial applications of MEMS actuators |
| Bin Yao [6] | For contributions to adaptive robust control of high performance mechatronic systems |
| 2017 | Takashi Abe | For contributions to the development of a variable field flux motor |
| Satomi Hattori | For contributions to the development of high efficiency low vibration motors |
| Makoto Iwasaki | For contributions to the development of high precision and position techniques for mechatronic systems |
| Masaharu Komori | For contributions to rotation transmission mechanism |
| Minh C. Ta | For contributions to control techniques for improved performance and efficiency of electric motor drives |
| Masatsugu Takemoto | For contributions to high performance and high functionality motors |
| Kanokvate Tungpimolrut | For contributions to motor drive system development |
| 2016 | Jumpei Arata | For contributions to embedded elasticity mechanism and applications to medicine and industry |
| Elena Andreevna Lomonova | For contributions to advanced multi-degrees permanent magnet actuation and vibration isolation |
| Tomoaki Mashimo | For contributions to micro ultrasonic motors |
| Taketsune Nakamura | For contributions to high-temperature superconducting induction synchronous motors |
| Atsushi Nishikawa | For contributions to the design of medical actuator and endoscopic robot for minimally invasive surgery |
| 2015 | Wolfgang Gruber | For contributions to design, optimization and manufacturing of bearingless slice motor topologies |
| Yasuhisa Hasegawa | For contributions to clinical applications of upper limb support for disabled patients |
| Chun-Yu Hsiao | For contributions to design of high performance permanent magnet synchronous motors |
| Takeshi Morita | For contributions to basic driving principles of piezoelectric actuators |
| Omar Scaglione | For contributions to iron hysteresis and enhanced Kalman filter for synchronous motors |
