- July 17, 2025
- Durham, N.C.
The International Society of Automation (ISA) — the leading professional society for automation — has announced the 2025 ISA Celebrating Excellence award recipients. With this honors and awards program, ISA has an opportunity to formally showcase and celebrate the remarkable achievements and contributions of its members, partners and other automation professionals.
The Celebrating Excellence awards program was created to stimulate, enhance, encourage, acknowledge and reward outstanding contributions to the Society and the automation profession. It provides an avenue for individuals to compete for recognition within established categories.
Congratulations to our 2025 awardees on their outstanding achievements and this well-deserved recognition.
2025 Celebrating Excellence Honorees
Best-Selling Book
• Calibration: A Technician’s Guide by Mike Cable
Enduring Society Service
• Carlos Mandolesi
Excellence in Corporate Technical Innovation
• Sagacity Allstream Fabrication Engineering
Excellence in Education
• Edson da Costa Bortoni
Excellence in Mentoring
• Hector Puyosa
Excellence in Standards
• Sarah Fluchs
Excellence in Technical Achievement
• Xiaowei Yue
Section Excellence
• Bangalore Section
• Nigeria Section
• Spain Section
Student Volunteers of the Year
• Atharva Joshi
• Julia Feijoo
• Lucia Freire
Volunteers of the Year
• Greg Potter
• Jane Buchanan
• Jose Bielza
• Olawale Akande
• Vaibhav Subhash Narkar
This year’s award recipients will be honored at the ISA Honors and Awards Gala as part of the Automation Summit and Expo to be held 5-7 October 2025 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. For more information, visit ase.isa.org.