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Horacio Espinosa delivered a keynote presentation entitled "Direct Quantification of Mechanical Properties and Electromechanical Coupling in Semiconducting Nanowires." and received the SEM Fellow award

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Recent Recognition

Jan D. Achenbach - first recipient of the Mindlin Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (2009); plenary opening lecture at the annual meeting of the Korean Society of Non-Destructive Testing (2009); Annual Distinguished Lecture of the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Construction and Land Use (2009); World Class Universities Fellow of the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2009)

L. Catherine Brinson - novel work on functionalized graphene nanocomposites published in Nature Nanotechnology (2008)

Jian Cao - elected secretary of the SME North American Manufacturing Research Institute (2009).

Wei Chen - elected to the executive committee of the ASME Design division (2009).

Isaac M. Daniel - elected a member of two European academies, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the European Academy of Sciences (2009).

Kornel F. Ehmann - 2008 SME Gold Medal Award

Horacio Dante Espinosa - delivered a keynote presentation at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) annual conference (2009); SEM Fellow award (2009).

Liz Gerber -Searle Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010

Mitra Hartmann - Article in Nature, "Sensing features with robotic whiskers", featured in the popular press; NSF CAREER award (2008)

Walter Herbst-Faculty of the Year for the MPD program (2009);

Dean Ho - 2008 Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award in Translational Research; 2008 SME John G. Bollinger Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award; NSF CAREER award (2008)

Yonggang Huang - honorary professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China (2009); Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2008); Work on stretchable, foldable and twistable electronics published in Science and in PNAS (cover feature article) (2008); Work on electronic-eye camera published in Nature (cover feature article) (2008); Work on flexible silicon solar cell published in Nature Materials (cover feature article) (2008)

Leon Keer - Mayo D. Hersey Award from ASME (2008)

Elmer Lewis - gave the opening plenary lecture at the 2009 International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods and Reactor Physics

Wing Kam Liu - proposed and developed the ASME 1st Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2010); Appointed as the newly developed ASME Chair of the Nanotechnology Council (2008).

Kevin M. Lynch - gave the Minta Martin Distinguished Lecture in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland in April (2009); distinguished lecturer in nonlinear science at UCSD in January (2009).

Ann McKenna - ecognized as a best paper finalist in the Design in Engineering Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education in June (2009); program director in the Undergraduate Engineering Education division at NSF for 2009-10

Todd Murphey- Searle Faculty Fellow for 2009-10

John Rudnicki - keynote lecturer at GEOPROC 2008, 3rd Intnl Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C processes in Geo-Systems in Lille, France (2008); Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (2008)

Faculty Honors

Members of National Academy of Engineering

Jan D. Achenbach
Ted Belytschko
Herbert S. Cheng (emeritus)
Stephen H. Davis
Leon M. Keer
Julio M. Ottino

Members of National Academy of Science

Jan D. Achenbach
Stephen H. Davis

Members of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Jan D. Achenbach
Ted Belytschko
Stephen H. Davis
Julio M. Ottino

Society Fellows

17 faculty members are fellows of at least one society

Journal Senior Editors/Editors-in-Chief

Jan D. Achenbach, Wave Motion (Editor-in-Chief)
Ted Belytschko, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Editor-in-Chief)
Ed Colgate, IEEE Transactions on Haptics (Editor-in-Chief)
Kornel F. Ehmann, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science & Engineering (Editor-in-Chief)
Horacio Dante Espinosa, Experimental Mechanics (Editor-in-Chief)
Wing Kam Liu, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (US Editor)
Kevin Lynch, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (Senior Editor)

Seven (7) other faculty members are associate editors of at least one journal.

Selected Society Medals and Major Achievement Awards

Jan D. Achenbach, 2005 U.S. National Medal of Science; 2003 U.S. National Medal of Technology; SPIE-NDE Lifetime Achievement Award (2005); William Prager Medal, SES (2001); Timoshenko Medal ASME (1992)

José Andrade, Zienkiewicz Medal and Prize (2006)

Ted Belytschko, Applied Mechanics Award renamed Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award (2008); Gauss Newton Medal, IACM (2002); Timoshenko Medal, ASME (2001); John von Neumann Medal, USACM (2001); Theodore Von Karman Medal, ASCE (1999);; Honorary Doctorates: University of Lyons (2006), Ecole Normale (2004), University of Liege (1997).

Wei Chen, Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, ASME (1998).

J. Edward Colgate, Leonardo Da Vinci Award, ASME, Design Engineering (2003).

Isaac M. Daniel, , SEM P. S. Theocaris Award of the (2007); Elected Honorary Member of SEM (2007); SEM M. M. Frocht Award (2006); Society for Experimental Mechanics William M. Murray Medal (1998); SEM B.J. Lazan Award (1996);

Stephen H. Davis, SES G.I. Taylor Medal (2001); Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (1994);

Horacio Dante Espinosa, SEM Lazan Award (2008); SEM Hetenyi (2005); Junior Award from the American Academy of Mechanics (2002); Junior Award from the American Academy of Mechanics (2002)

Kori Ehmann,  SME Gold Medal (2008)

Leon M. Keer, ASME Drucker Medal (2003)

Yonggang Huang, Research Award for US Scientists and Scholars, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award and Melville Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; International Journal of Plasticity Medal; Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Elmer E. Lewis, Arthur Holly Compton Award, American Nuclear Society (1992)

Wing Kam Liu, USACM John von Neumann Medal (2007); Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Computational Mechanics Award (2004); International Association for Computational Mechanics “Computational Mechanics Award” (2002); U. S. Association for Computational Mechanics “Computational Structural Mechanics Award” (2001); ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (1995); ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal (1985)

Kevin M. Lynch, IEEE Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation (2001)

Julio M. Ottino, William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2001).

John W. Rudnicki, ASCE Maurice A. Biot Medal (2006).

NSF CAREER & other Young Investigator Awards

L. Catherine Brinson, NSF CAREER award (1995), ASME Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators, Applied Mechanics (2003).

Jian Cao, ASME Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators, Applied Mechanics (2006); SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award  (2002); NSF CAREER award (1997),

Wei Chen, NSF CAREER award (1996-2001)

Horacio Dante Espinosa, SES Young Investigator Medal (2007); SES Young Investigator Medal, (2007); ONR Young Investigator Award (1997); NSF CAREER award (1996);

Mitra Hartmann, CAREER award (2008)

Dean Ho, NSF CAREER award (2008)

Yonggang Huang, Young Investigator Medal, SES (2006)

Richard M. Lueptow, Whitaker Foundation Award (1990)

Kevin M. Lynch, NSF CAREER award (1998)

Neelesh A. Patankar, NSF CAREER award (2002)

Michael Peshkin, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988); Whitaker Foundation Award (1994).

Qian (Jane) Wang, NSF CAREER award (1997).

Seth Lichter, ONR Young Investigator Award (1986)

Innovation Awards

J. Edward Colgate, ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award (2003).

J. Edward Colgate & Michael Peshkin, Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation (1997).

Richard M. Lueptow, Space Act Award from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board for Rotating Reverse Osmosis (2004).

Walter Herbst, Gold Medal, Business Week / Industrial Design Excellence Award (2005).