Principal Mechanical Engineer Mark Messner was recently honored with the Doug Scarth Early Career Leadership Award for Outstanding Service to the Pressure Vessels & Piping (PVP) Division as an Early Career Engineer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) PVP Division.

The award was given at the Honors & Awards Gala at the 2023 PVP Conference on Wednesday, July 19, in Atlanta, Georgia.

The PVP Conference provides an international forum for re-energizing the pressure vessels and piping industry. It allows attendees the opportunity to keep up with new technologies, network and interact with experts, practitioners and peers.

Messner has been an active participant in organizing the conference since 2019. First serving as a technical program representative, he helped organize the technical program and the conference papers for the materials and fabrication track. Messner later served on the honors and awards committee, and now serves as an officer on the topic committee. Messner also chairs a working group and serves on the High Temperature Reactors subgroup within the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code committees.