The Applied Mechanics Award is an award given annually by the Applied Mechanics Division of

American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

(ASME) "to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education." The Award is presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner at the ASME Congress. In 2008, the Award was renamed to the

Ted Belytschko Ted Bohdan Belytschko (January 13, 1943 – September 15, 2014) was an American mechanical engineer. He was Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He worked in the field of comput ...

Applied Mechanics Award.

Nomination procedure

A letter of nomination and several letters of support, along with any other supporting materials, should be sent by email to the chair of the executive committee of the Applied Mechanics Division. See the list of current members of the committee.

Recipients

*2021 – Ellen Kuhl *2020 – Narayana R. Aluru *2019 – Somnath Ghosh *2018 –

Tayfun Tezduyar Tayfun E. Tezduyar is a mechanical engineer. He is known for his studies on the techniques of stabilizing the finite element methods. Tezduyar obtained his master's degree and doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1982, re ...

*2017 – Jiun-Shyan Chen *2016 – Andrea Prosperetti *2015 – James R. Barber *2014 – Glaucio Paulino *2013 – Guirong Liu *2012 – David J. Benson *2011 –

Ken P. Chong Ken P. Chong ( is a Research Professor at The George Washington University and a former associate at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST). He was the Engineering Advisor, Interim Division Director and program director of Mechanics ...

, David K. Gartling *2010 – Yoichiro Matsumoto *2009 – Eugenio Oñate *2008 –

Shih Choon Fong Shih Choon Fong (; born 1945) is a Singaporean college administrator and fracture mechanics expert who served as the founding president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) between 2008 and 2013. Prior joining KAUST ...

*2007 – Oscar W. Dillon *2006 – Lewis Wheeler *2005 –

Carl Herakovich Carl T. "Rocky" Herakovich (born August 6, 1937) is an American retired engineering professor, college football player, coach and official. He served as the head football coach at Rose Polytechnic Institute—now known as Rose-Hulman Institute of ...

*2004 –

Arthur Leissa Arthur W. Leissa is an American scientist specializing in the vibrations and dynamics of continuous systems fields. Education Arthur Leissa went to the Ohio State University as an undergraduate, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanica ...

*2003 – John O. Hallquist *2002 – David E. Newland *2001 –

Dan Mote Clayton Daniel Mote Jr. (born February 5, 1937) is the President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as the president of the NAE from July 2013 to June 2019. He also served as President of the University of Maryland, Coll ...

*2000 – Dick MacNeal *1999 – Karl Pister *1998 –

John A. Swanson John A. Swanson is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Swanson is the founder of ANSYS, Inc., a John Fritz Medal winner, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is internationally regarded as an authority and ...

*1997 –

Richard Skalak Richard Skalak (February 5, 1923 – August 17, 1997) was an American pioneer in biomedical engineering. He is known for his groundbreaking work in the mechanics of blood flow, bone growth, white blood cell response to infections, and biologic ...

*1996 – Sheila Widnall *1995 – Harry Armen *1994 –

Siegfried S. Hecker Siegfried S. Hecker (born October 2, 1943) is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University, where he is research prof ...

*1993 – David Hibbit *1992 – William G. Gottengerg *1991 – George Abrahamson *1990 – Owen Richmond *1989 –

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*1988 –

H. Norman Abramson Hyman Norman Abramson (March 4, 1926 – December 19, 2022) was an American engineer and scientist. He was the Executive Vice President of the Southwest Research Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and the manager and principal inves ...

References

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External links

Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division
Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Nomination procedure

Recipients

See also

References

External links