Prof. Neil Stephen is honoured for his outstanding engineering research paper

Neil Stephen, Professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Southampton and editorial board member of the International Journal of Solids and Structures has received the first Doak Prize for an outstanding journal paper On Energy Harvesting from Ambient Vibration (JSV, 293,1/2, pp 409-425).

Elsevier, publisher of the Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV), has established the prestigious award to mark the life of Philip Doak, the journal's founding editor in 1964. He was Professor of Acoustics at Southampton and died in 2011. To read more, go to http://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/news/2012/06/06_doak_prize.page