2011 ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Annual Honors and Awards Banquet

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:

THOMAS J.R. HUGHES YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD: Markus Buehler (MIT) and Ioannis Chasiotis (UIUC) 

TED BELYTSCHKOAPPLIED MECHANICS AWARD: Ken P. Chong (NSF) and David K. Gartling (SNL) 

THOMAS K. CAUGHEY DYNAMICS AWARD:  Philip Holmes (Princeton) 

DANIEL C. DRUCKER MEDAL: John W. Rudnicki (Northwestern) 

WARNER T. KOITER MEDAL: James G. Simmonds (U. Virginia) 

TIMOSHENKO MEDAL: Alan Needleman (U. North Texas) 

AMD-Haythornthwaite Foundation Travel Awards: 

Baptiste Coudrillier - Johns Hopkins University

Qi (Kevin) Ge - University of  Zheng Jia - University of Maryland

Theresa M. Koys - Johns Hopkins

Shuodao Wang - Northwestern

Qiming Wang - Duke University 

AMD-Student Paper Competition Awards: 

1^st Place prize: Baptiste Coudrillier - Johns Hopkins University Effect of the Scleral Collagen Structure on the Mechanical Response of the Optic Nerve Head 

2^nd Place prize: Qiming Wang - Duke UniversityCreasing to Cratering Instability in Polymers under Electric Fields 

3^rd Place prize: Shuodao Wang - Northwestern UniversityMechanics of Curvilinear Electronics