This year the Annual ASME Applied Mechanics Division Honors and Awards Banquet was held on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 in Denver Colorado. I had the pleasure of presiding over the evening and distributing the AMD Division awards, AMD Student Paper Competition awards, and AMD-Haythornthwaite Foundation Travel Awards.  Below is a list of all the award recipients and I have attached a PDF with pictures of the awardees that evening. 

AMD Division Awards:

The Applied Mechanics Division encourages the involvement of graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division.  One of the ways is the sponsorship of the annual Student Paper Contest.  The recipients of this prize are chosen from the Haythornthwaite Student Travel contest award pool sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation.  

The Applied Mechanics Division, Executive Committee continues to seek ways to involve and encourage younger members and particularly graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division.  

This year the Applied Mechanics Division, through the generosity the Haythornthwaite Foundation, presented a new divisional award, the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant.  This new grant targets university faculty that are at the beginning of their academic careers engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics.  This year there were three recipients of the 2011 awards.

Christian Franck, Brown University

The Applied Mechanics Division seeks nominations for the awards listed below. All awards are international. Each nomination should include a nomination form and 4-5 letters of support, as described at http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/SocietyAwards/Nominate.cfm. Each nomination should be emailed as a single PDF file to the Chair of the Applied Mechanics Division, Ares Rosakis (arosakis@caltech.edu) by 5 November 2011. This deadline is firm. Nominations submitted after this deadline will be considered for the subsequent award year.