Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award

The Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award was first introduced as the Engineering Excellence Award by the Optical Society in 1989 and was awarded individually, or shared among individuals. In 2007 it was named in honor of Paul F. Forman. This award recognizes technical achievements in optical engineering as well as contributions to society such as engineering education. It award is sponsored by Zygo Corporation, Canon Inc, Optical Solutions Group at Synopsys, Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, and several individual contributors.

List of winners
Source: The Optical Society
 * 2020 2-Photon Optical Clock Collaboration
 * 2019 Headwall Photonics, Inc., Special Projects Team
 * 2018 Adaptive Optics Facility on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory
 * 2017 Guide Star Alliance
 * 2016 Advanced LIGO Engineering Team
 * 2015 Logic Analysis Tool Team (LAT Team)
 * 2014 	Intel® Silicon Photonics Solutions Group
 * 2013 	ZygoLOT Automotive Precision Optical Team
 * 2012 	Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Lidar Team
 * 2011 	Tomasz S. Tkaczyk
 * 2010 	Alan E. Willner
 * 2009 	Stephen A. Boppart
 * 2008 	Michael J. Bechtold
 * 2007 	Ming C. Wu
 * 2006 	Jean-Claude Diels
 * 2005 	René-Jean Essiambre
 * 2005 Michael G. Littman
 * 2004 	Shun-Lien Chuang, S. Chandrasekhar
 * 2003 	L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan, Paul R. Dumas, Mark E. Lowry, Alan H. Gnauck
 * 2002 	Tim Day, Christopher R. Doerr, David W. Peckham
 * 2001 	Henry A. Blauvelt, Michael A. Klug, David G. Mehuys, Dale E. Morton
 * 2000 	 	  	J. W. Anello, Jr., A. Erstling, A. C. Tam, R. L. Hartman, L. J. P. Ketelsen, J. A. Grenko, W-T. Tzang
 * 1999 	 	  	Denis Barbier, Valentin Gapontsev, Igor Koltchanov, Olaf Lenzmann, Herman Reedy
 * 1998 	 	  	Lee R. Shiozawa, Kenneth L. Walker
 * 1997 	 	  	Donald M. Combs, John J. Mader, Jeffrey W. Roblee, Edward A. Yobaccio, Paul R. Yoder, Jr.
 * 1996 	 	  	Gary Blough, Teddi C. Laurin
 * 1995 	 	  	Francisco J. Duarte, John D. Gonglewski, Gary Guenther, Melvyn H. Kreitzer, Frank Luecke, David G. Voelz
 * 1994 	 	  	Peter P. Clark, Dale E. Crane, Jay M. Eastman, John Michael Guerra, Jon Van Tassell
 * 1993 	 	  	J. H. Adams, L. G. Cook, G. Duplain, Y. P. Khimich, S. V. Lubarsky, F. R. Nash, P. Parayanthal, D. A. Roberts
 * 1992 	 	  	Bertrand H. Johnson, Louis A. Koszi, Anthony R. Phillips, Jr.
 * 1991 	 	  	Leroy D. Dickson, J. Tendra S. Goela, Un-Chul Paek, Michael A. Pickering, Raymond L. Taylor
 * 1990 	 	  	Lawrence Lin, Eric Rawson
 * 1989 	 	  	Stanley W. Haskell, Robert A. Jones, David Smithgall, Gary Starkweather, Laurence S. Watkins