As a member society of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) , the objective of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM) is the advancement of the science and profession of mechanics.
The scope of AAM includes all of the disciplines involved in the modeling and study of the response of inanimate and animate matter to forces and environmental effects.
The Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), administers 5 awards. The 2007 recipients are
Assad Oberai wins the 2007 Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics. The Award will be presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner, during the ASME Congress, 11-15 November 2007, in Seattle.
A message from Woody Ju. It is with deepest sadness and sorrow that I inform you that Professor T.H. Lin, our kindest role model and gentleman, passed away on June 18, 2007; he was 96 years old. Prof. Lin worked until last Friday.
He is survived by his sons (Prof. Robert Lin of UC Berkeley, Prof. Jim Lin of UCSD) and his daughter (Rita).
Professor Graeme Milton will be awarded the 2007 Prager medal from the Society of Engineering Science for his work on solid mechanics. The medal will be handed out at the 44th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2007) to be held between October 21 and 24, 2007 at College Station, Texas.
The report about the iMechanica get-together with the McMat 2007 is definitely exciting, because we have found a community beyond the usual professional conferences we are familiar with. Besides, we may have more, if not less, common interests and languages through this coordinated and yet diversified group with thousands of members in different places of this world. It is indeed exciting to meet as friends you make from the Internet, except it is professionally:-)
Subra Suresh , the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is named the next dean of the School of Engineering, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more.
The 2007 Maurice A. Biot Medal for Poromechanics has been awarded during the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference held at Virginia Tech last Tuesday.
The 2007 Biot Medal winner is Dr. James R. Rice of Harvard University.
If you are interested in further information, such as citation of Dr. Rice's work, and photos, you can check this page:
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