the top of the U.S. News & World Report rankings of undergraduate engineering programs whose highest degree is a Bachelor's or Master's. He also became President of the Association of Independent Technological Universities, Chairman of the Second World Congress on Biomaterials, and Chairman of the 3rd International Symposium on Ceramics in Medicine, and founded the Society for Biomaterials. Awards 1973 Clemson Special Award 1996 Indiana Health Industry Forum Lifetime Achievement Award 1998 Ernst & Young Supporter of Entrepreneurship Award 1998 C. Williams Award from the Society of Biomaterials 1999 George Winters Award from the European Society for Biomaterials 2001 Founders Award from the Society for Biomaterials Hulbert was a member of the Indiana Academy, the International Academy of Ceramics, a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a fellow of biomaterials science and engineering from the World Biomaterials Congress. Family Hulbert married Joy E. Husband 1960; they have three children: Greg (b. 1961); Samantha (b. 1962); Jeff (b. 1968) and ten grandchildren. References External links Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology History of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane World Biomaterials Congress Society for Biomaterials News Article on Sam Hulbert Heads of universities and colleges in the United States American bioengineers 1936 births 2016 deaths Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Presidents of Society for Biomaterials