The Section designates one plenary lecture at each biennial Spring Technical Meeting to honor the memory of Prof. James E. Peters, who was serving as Section Chair at the time of his death in 2000. The first Peters lecture was at the 2002 Spring Technical Meeting in Knoxville.
| Year | Lecturer | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Carlos Fernandez- Pello | University of California, Berkeley | Wildland fire spot ignition and subsequent growth |
| 2022 | Kuo-Cheng (Steven) Lin | Air Force Research Laboratory | Exploration of liquid sprays relevant to high-speed air-breathing propulsion systems using X-ray diagnostics |
| 2020 | Plenary lecture cancelled because of COVID-19 pandemic | ||
| 2018 | Scott Davis | GexCon US | Can vapor clouds more easily transition from deflagration to detonation at large scales? |
| 2016 | Kenneth Brezinsky | University of Illinois at Chicago | UIC single pulse shock tube studies of fuels and the unanswered questions they raise |
| 2014 | Thomas M. Korb | The John Zink Company | Challenges in industrial combustion R&D |
| 2012 | Robert Brown | Iowa State University | Why are we producing biofuels? |
| 2010 | Dennis McDonald | The Babcock & Wilcox Company | Oxy-combustion for the boiler industry |
| 2008 | Andre L. Boehman | Pennsylvania State University | Biofuels for transportation: Challenges and opportunities |
| 2006 | William E. Harrison III | U.S. Department of Energy | The Clean Fuel Initiative |
| 2004 | Charles E. Baukal, Jr. | The John Zink Company | Applied combustion research in industry |
| 2003 | James F. Driscoll | University of Michigan | Premixed turbulent combustion — Current knowledge and new challenges |
| 2002 | Gerard M. Faeth | University of Michigan | Optical and reactive properties of soot in flame environment |