The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Jian Cao, Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, as the recipient of the 2023 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. This award, which includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the 2023 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2023), to be held during October 29 – November 2, 2023, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA.
The Applied Mechanics Award was established in 1988 and renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008. This Award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education.
Professor Cao is being recognized for her technical contributions in advancing engineering mechanics for energy-efficiency manufacturing through novel characterization and modeling methods and for her leadership in converging research that bridges mechanics, materials, manufacturing and data science communities.
Taher Saif
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Arif Masud, John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2022 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award. This award, which includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the 2022 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, the dates and location of which will be announced by ASME in due course.
The Applied Mechanics Award was established in 1988 and renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008. This Award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education.
Professor Masud is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the theory of Stabilized and Variational Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics.
Pradeep Guduru
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Narayana R. Aluru, Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as recipient of the 2020 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award. This award includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.
The Applied Mechanics Award was established in 1988 and renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008. This Award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education.
Professor Aluru is being recognized for outstanding contributions to nanomechanics by developing advanced computational techniques and multiscale approaches, revealing novel mechanics at small scales, and providing leadership to the computational mechanics community.
Yonggang Huang
Chair, ASME Applied Mechanics Division