This report will appear in the 2010 Newsletter of the Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Mary Boyce called one day, in late 2004, asking if I would serve on the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD). I said yes. She told me that she would seek the consensus from other members of the Committee, and that meanwhile I should think the matter over. I did not have much to think about, but she did come back to me. On 1 July 2005, I replaced her as a new member of the Committee. Five years flies by, and I am now writing to you as the 2009-2010 Chair of the Division. The AMD is run by its members, volunteers like you and me. You have many ways to participate in shaping the Division and our field. I will highlight some of these ways in this report.

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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.

At the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2009)

November 13-19,  2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Track 12: Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids

Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Material Structures in Advanced and Emerging Technologies

Deadline for abstract submission: March 2, 2009.