Orval Leroy Lewis (July 27, 1916 – October 20, 1988)[1] was an American mechanical and chemical engineer, and business executive, who served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in the year 1978–79.
[2][3][4] Lewis had graduated from Texas Tech University with a BSc in mechanical engineering in 1939,[5] and joined the ASME the same year.
After World War II in 1946 Lewis was project engineer the Jones ft Laughlin Supply Co, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
[5] In 1963 was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,[8] and served as its president in the year 1978–79.
In 1978 he was named a Distinguished Engineer by Texas Tech University,[9] and in the new millennium the Texas Tech University initiated the Lewis the Orval Leroy Lewis Award, a Staff Award, in his honour.