The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics."
Bernard Budiansky was an American scholar in the field of applied mechanics,and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He was a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal.
Raymond David Mindlin was an American mechanical engineer,Professor of Applied Science at Columbia University,and recipient of the 1946 Presidential Medal for Merit and many other awards and honours. He is known as mechanician,who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics,applied physics,and engineering sciences.
The Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The AMD was founded in 1927,with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000,out of about 90,000 members of the ASME. AMD is the largest of the six divisions in the ASME Basic Engineering Technical Group.
Paul Mansour Naghdi was a professor of mechanical engineering at University of California,Berkeley.
The Daniel C. Drucker medal was instituted in 1997 by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Drucker Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the fields of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering. The award is given in honor of Daniel C. Drucker,who was internationally known for contributions to the theory of plasticity and its application to analysis and design in metal structures. The recipient is given a medal and an honorarium.
Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at the Oden Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Hughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge,Thomson Scientific Company.
Daniel Charles Drucker was American civil and mechanical engineer and academic,who served as president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis in 1960–1961,as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1973–74,and as president of the American Academy of Mechanics in 1981–82.
James Robert Rice is an American engineer,scientist,geophysicist,and Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,.
Satya Atluri is an American engineer,educator,researcher and scientist in aerospace engineering,mechanical engineering and computational sciences,who is currently the Presidential Chair &University Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. Since 1966,he made fundamental contributions to the development of finite element methods,boundary element methods,Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) methods,Fragile Points Methods (FPM),Local Variational Iteration Methods,for general problems of engineering,solid mechanics,fluid dynamics,heat transfer,flexoelectricity,ferromagnetics,gradient and nonlocal theories,nonlinear dynamics,shell theories,micromechanics of materials,structural integrity and damage tolerance,Orbital mechanics,Astrodynamics,etc.
Junuthula N. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor,Regent's Professor,and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University,College Station,Texas,USA.[1] He is an authoritative figure in the broad area of mechanics and one of the researchers responsible for the development of the Finite Element Method (FEM). He has made significant seminal contributions in the areas of finite element method,plate theory,solid mechanics,variational methods,mechanics of composites,functionally graded materials,fracture mechanics,plasticity,biomechanics,classical and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics,and applied functional analysis. Reddy has over 620 journal papers and 20 books and has given numerous national and international talks. He served as a member of the International Advisory Committee at ICTACEM,in 2001 and keynote addressing in 2014.[2][3]
Morton E. Gurtin was a mechanical engineer who became a mathematician and mathematical physicist. He was an emeritus professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University,where for many years he held an endowed chair as the Alumni Professor of Mathematical Science. His main work is in materials science,in the form of the mathematical,rational mechanics of non-linear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics,in the style of Clifford Truesdell and Walter Noll,a field also known under the combined name of continuum thermomechanics. He has published over 250 papers,many among them in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis,as well as a number of books.
Rohan Abeyaratne is a Sri Lankan born American academic and engineer and the Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was the CEO &Director of the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology,and prior to that the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Hüseyin Şehitoğlu is a Turkish mechanical engineer who holds the John,Alice,and Sarah Nyquist Endowed Chair at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,United States. Hüseyin Şehitoğlu received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from City University London,in 1979,and a M.S.,and Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,in 1981 and 1983,respectively.
Yonggang Huang is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University.
Philip Gibson Hodge Jr. was an American engineer who specialized in mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials. His work resulted in significant advancements in plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics,limit-analysis,piecewise linear isotropic plasticity,and nonlinear programming applications. Hodge was the technical editor of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Applied Mechanics from 1971-1976. From 1984 to 2000 he was the secretary of the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics,its longest serving Secretary. In 1949 he became assistant professor of Mathematics at UCLA,then moved on to become associate professor of applied mechanics at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1953,Professor of Mechanics at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957,and professor of mechanics at the University of Minnesota in 1971,where he remained until he retired in 1991. After retirement he was professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and visiting professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Max Erich (Eric) Reissner was a German-American civil engineer and mathematician,and Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was recipient of the Theodore von Karman Medal in 1964,and the ASME Medal in 1988
Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil &Systems Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He is the founding director of the JHU Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulation (CISMMS) and was the director of an Air Force Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM). Prior to his appointment at JHU,Ghosh was the John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &Engineering at Ohio State University. He is a fellow of several professional societies,including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Albert Satoshi Kobayashi is an American engineer and scientist.
James William Dally is an American engineer and professor.
