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.
This year’s winners are:
1st Place prize: Baptiste Coudrillier - Johns Hopkins University
Effect of the Scleral Collagen Structure on the Mechanical Response of the Optic Nerve Head
2nd Place prize: Qiming Wang - Duke University
Creasing to Cratering Instability in Polymers under Electric Fields
3rd Place prize: Shuodao Wang - Northwestern University
Mechanics of Curvilinear Electronics