The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Shaofan Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2026 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.
The ASME AMD Division sponsors the Applied Mechanics Division Student Competition in Track 7 and Track 12, generously funded by the Haythornthwaite Foundation. Full-time students working on a project, thesis, or dissertation that is at a readiness for presentation at IMECE are encouraged to apply.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Diego Misseroni, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, as the recipient of the 2024 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Xue Feng, Changjiang Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, as the recipient of the 2024 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. This award, which includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the 2024 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2024), to be held during November 17 – 21, 2024, at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR.
The Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal was established in 2022 by the Applied Mechanics Division and recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of mechanics through research, practice, teaching and/or outstanding leadership. For details, please go to: Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Vikram Deshpande, Professor of Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge, as the recipient of the 2022 Warner T. Koiter Medal.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Horacio Espinosa, James and Nancy Farley Professor of Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, as the recipient of the 2022 Daniel C. Drucker Medal.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Michael A.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Professor of Biomechanics and head of the Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology in Austria, as the recipient of the 2021 Warner T. Koiter Medal.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Markus Buehler, Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering, MIT, as the recipient of the 2021 Daniel C.