The Daniel C. Drucker medal was instituted in 1997 by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Drucker Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the fields of

applied mechanics Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

and

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

. The award is given in honor of

Daniel C. Drucker Daniel Charles Drucker (June 3, 1918 – September 1, 2001) was American civil and mechanical engineer and academic, who served as president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now Society for Experimental Mechanics) in 1960–1961, ...

, who was internationally known for contributions to the theory of plasticity and its application to analysis and design in metal structures. The recipient is given a medal and an

honorarium An honorarium is an ''ex gratia'' payment, i.e., a payment made, without the giver recognizing themselves as having any liability or legal obligation, to a person for his or her services in a volunteer capacity or for services for which fees are no ...

Nomination procedure

The Drucker Medal Committee consists of the five recent Drucker Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the

ASME 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 ...

International

Applied Mechanics Division The Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 mem ...

(AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Drucker Medal Committee. See the list of curren
members of the Committee

Recipients

Source
ASME
*1998

*1999

Ascher H. Shapiro Ascher Herman Shapiro (May 20, 1916 – November 26, 2004) was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He grew up in New York City. Early life and education Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish Lithuanian immigrant ...

*2000 Philip G. Hodge, Jr. *2001 Bruno A. Boley *2002 George J. Dvorak *2003 Leon M. Keer *2004 Frank A. McClintock *2005 Robert L. Taylor *2006

Alan Needleman Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944) is a professor of materials science & engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to 2009, he was Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Pro ...

*2007 Albert S. Kobayashi *2008 Thomas C.T. Ting *2009 James R. Barber *2010 Rohan Abeyaratne *2011 John W. Rudnicki *2012 James W. Dally *2013

Yonggang Huang Yonggang Huang (; born 1962) is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Huang was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, a member of National Academy of Sciences an ...

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, USA. *2014

Lallit Anand Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on solid mechanics and large deformation flow plasticity theory , plasticity theory. H ...

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

*2015 Krishnaswami Ravi-Chandar,

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

*2016 Kyung-Suk Kim *2017 David M. Parks *2018 David M. Barnett *2019 John L. Bassani *2020 Glaucio H. Paulino *2021 Markus J. Buehler

References

Information for nominationDrucker Medal web page at ASME site
{{ASME Awards established in 1997 Mechanical engineering awards American awards ASME Medals

Nomination procedure

Recipients

See also

References