RAYLEIGH LECTURE
Monday, November 9, 5:15pm – 6:15pm | Room 109
Guoliang Huang
Xin'ao Chair Professor
Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science
Peking University, Beijing, China
RALPH COATS ROE MEDAL
For distinguished contributions and leadership in advancing the public appreciation of engineering, fostering critical dialogue on its societal impact through compelling writings, lectures, and international engagement.
Tuesday, November 10, 8:00am – 8:45am | Room 213
Guru Madhavan, Ph.D.
National Academy of Engineering
KOITER LECTURE
For sustained and fundamental contributions to solid mechanics in the areas of surface elasticity, finite elasticity theory, and the rigorous and consistent derivation of Koiter’s shell theory from 3D elasticity theory.
Tuesday, November 10, 5:30pm – 6:30pm | Room 109
David Steigmann, Ph.D.
University of California Berkeley
PER BRUEL GOLD MEDAL FOR NOISE CONTROL AND ACOUSTICS
For groundbreaking discoveries enabling control of carbon-free-fueled thermoacoustic instabilities; and for inventing transformative actively passive noise control methods and computational tools that yield quieter, cleaner aerospace and energy technologies.
Wednesday, November 11, 5:00pm – 6:00pm | Room 215/216
Dan Zhao Ph.D.
University of Canterbury
Materials Division Awards Reception/Lecture
Wednesday, November 11, 2:00pm – 5:00pm Room 224
NADAI MEDAL
For pioneering material models at the mesoscopic scale that incorporate detailed microstructure description, characteristic lengths in crystalline solids, physical viscoplasticity, and damage mechanisms in engineering metallic alloys, with a view to lifetime prediction and full field experimental validation.
Wednesday, November 11, 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Samuel Forest, Ph.D.
Mines Paris PSL University
SIA NEMAT-NASSER EARLY CAREER AWARD
For foundational advances in the mechanical characterization and multiscale description of biomaterials, uniting analytical theory, computational methods, and experiments; and for sustained leadership in the mechanics and materials communities.
Anna Tarakanova, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
Material Division Mid-Career Award: Cunjiang Yu, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Orr Early Career Award: Shaoting Lin, Michigan State University
ASME Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy Best Paper Award: "Computational Simulation of the Hemodynamics in an Anatomic Carotid Artery Model: A Biphasic Blood Model", Mariana Ferreira, Violeta Carvalho, Diana Pinho, Rui Lima, Senhorinha Teixeira, and Armando A. Soares
AYYUB-WIECHEL RISK ANALYSIS AWARD
For pioneering contributions to risk, reliability, and safety engineering through foundational advances in probabilistic risk analysis; and for outstanding leadership translating research into practice by building global institutions that strengthen the safety of offshore, process, and emerging energy systems
Thursday, November 12, 8:00am – 8:45am | Room 122
Faisal Khan, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
THURSTON LECTURE
Lecture Topic: Harnessing Nanomaterials for Health Innovation
Thursday, November 12, 8am - 8:45am | Room 201
Guy M. Genin, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Thursday, November 12, 8am - 8:45am | Room 201
Lecture Title: The Mechanics of Living Interfaces
Biography: Guy M. Genin studies the mechanics of living interfaces: how tissues attach, how cells read the forces around them, and how that mechanics can be engineered into treatments. He is the Harold and Kathleen Faught Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, with appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Neurological Surgery, and Surgery. His work on the tendon-to-bone attachment established the modern understanding of how nature joins dissimilar materials and led to new surgical repair strategies; his work on cell-matrix mechanics showed that cells respond to the anisotropy and history of the stresses they carry, with consequences for fibrosis and wound healing; and his work on device-tissue mechanics underlies catheter technologies licensed to two companies he co-founded, Caeli Vascular (Chief Engineer) and Vascorra (CTO). Genin co-founded and co-directs the NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering MechanoBiology, a $50M center, one of 14 NSF STCs across all fields, that has helped establish engineering mechanobiology as a discipline. He also co-directs the NIH CardioVascular Research Innovation in Surgery and Engineering Center and its T32 training program. He is Past Chair of the ASME Bioengineering Division, an elected Member-at-Large of the World Council of Biomechanics, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science, the steering committee of the U.S. Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group, and as chair of NIH study sections. He is a Fellow of ASME, AIMBE, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineers, and the National Academy of Inventors. His honors include the ASME Savio L.-Y. Woo Medal for Translational Biomechanics, the ASME Richard Skalak Award, an NIH Research Career Award for work on the mechanics of fibrosis, and the James B. Eads Award of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. Genin earned his Ph.D. in applied mechanics at Harvard under John Hutchinson and completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge and Brown.