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:

Dear all,

It is my great pleasure to announce that the Third K.J. Bathe Award, made every two years, will be awarded in 2012. This award is named to recognize the outstanding contributions made by Professor K.J. Bathe over many years to the field of computational engineering.  

The 2012 Award will be given to an author of the best paper published in Computers & Structures in the years 2010 and 2011. The K.J. Bathe Award includes a certificate and 2,000 euros donated by the publishers of Computers & Structures, Elsevier Ltd. The author should be under the age of 40 on 1 January 2012.

For the details, please look at:

http://www.bhvt.org.uk/batheaward2012/

Best regards,

Jung W. Hong

You can download a pdf file of this announcement.

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, Tayfun Tezduyar (tezduyar@gmail.com) by 5 November 2010. This deadline is firm. Nominations submitted after this deadline will be considered for the subsequent award year.

You can download a pdf file of this announcement.

The Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, seeks nominations for the awards listed below. All the awards are international.  Neither the nominee nor the nominator need be a member of the ASME.  Further descriptions of the awards are given at http://divisions.asme.org/amd/Honors_Awards.cfm.

The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & REsearch (A*STAR), the National Unviersity of Singaproe (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). PhD training will be carried out in English at your chosen lab at A*STAR Research Institutes, NUS or NTU. Students will be supervised by distinguished and world-renowned researchers in these labs. Upon successful completion, students will be conferred a PhD degree by either NUS or NTU.

Applications

To apply, please go to https://www.singa.a-star.edu.sg/ to access the SINGA application form, and note the application deadlines.

At the 2007 ASME Congress, in Seattle, Professor Wing Kam Liu won the 2007 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award.  Wing Kam was a past chair of the Applied Mechanics Division, and has made seminal contributions in the field of computational mechanics.

2007 Announcement (deadline: September  22, 2007).

Previous awardees and winning essays

About AAM 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a recent award to help increase graduate student participation at the Tenth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM X).  These awards will be made in the form of mini-travel grants ($500 - $1,000) for exceptionally qualified students to participate in PACAM X January 7-11, 2008, in beautiful Cancun, Mexico.

If you know of deserving Masters-level or Doctorate-level students, please encourage these individuals to apply for this opportunity to present their research to an international forum.  Applications may be downloaded at

The Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), administers 5 awards.  The 2007 recipients are

• Young Investigator Award:  Assad Oberai
• Applied Mechanics Award:  Oscar W. Dillon
• Daniel C. Drucker Medal:  Albert S. Kobayashi
• Warner T. Koiter Medal:  Chin-Teh Sun
• Timoshenko Medal:  Thomas J. R. Hughes

June 1st  2007, Materialise announced the winners of the Mimics Innovation Awards 2007 at the International Mimics User Group Meeting in Washington, D.C. 

We congratulate:

2007 Alan T. Waterman Award Winner

Peidong Yang

From Robert M. McMeeking (UC Santa Barbara).

The American Academy of Mechanics calls for nominations for two awards from its members:

The 2006 American Academy of Mechanics Outstanding Service Award

Preliminary nominations should consist of a one-page letter describing the outstanding service of the nominee to the Academy as well as to the profession, along with a one-page biographical sketch of the nominee, together with the names of at least three people willing to write letters of support in the event that the Awards Committee requests them.

The 2006 American Academy of Mechanics Junior Award