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.
| Year | Lecturer | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Gerard M. Faeth | University of Michigan | Optical and reactive properties of soot in flame environment |
| 2003 | James F. Driscoll | University of Michigan | Premixed turbulent combustion — Current knowledge and new challenges |
| 2004 | Charles E. Baukal, Jr. | The John Zink Company | Applied combustion research in industry |
| 2006 | William E. Harrison III | U.S. Department of Energy | The Clean Fuel Initiative |
| 2008 | Andre L. Boehman | Pennsylvania State University | Biofuels for transportation: Challenges and opportunities |
| 2010 | Dennis McDonald | The Babcock & Wilcox Company | Oxy-combustion for the boiler industry |
| 2012 | Robert Brown | Iowa State University | Why are we producing biofuels? |
| 2014 | Thomas M. Korb | The John Zink Company | Challenges in industrial combustion R&D |
| 2016 | Kenneth Brezinsky | University of Illinois at Chicago | UIC single pulse shock tube studies of fuels and the unanswered questions they raise |
| 2018 | Scott Davis | GexCon US | Can vapor clouds more easily transition from deflagration to detonation at large scales? |
| 2020 | Plenary lecture cancelled because of COVID-19 pandemic | ||
| 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 |
| 2024 | Carlos Fernandez- Pello | University of California, Berkeley | Wildland fire spot ignition and subsequent growth |