The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

(ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of

applied mechanics Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...

." The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as the highest international award in the field of

, was established in 1957 in honor of

Stephen Timoshenko Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko (russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, p=sʲtʲɪˈpan prɐˈkofʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tʲɪmɐˈʂɛnkə; uk, Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko; ...

, world-renowned authority in the field. The Medal "commemorates his contributions as author and teacher." The actual award is a bronze medal and honorarium. The first award was given in 1957 to Stephen Prokofyevich Timoshenko.

Nomination procedure

The Timoshenko Medal Committee consists of the five recent Timoshenko Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the

ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via " continuing ...

International Applied Mechanics Division (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. See the list of curren
members of the Committee
Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Timoshenko Medal Committee.

Acceptance speech

Every year, at the Applied Mechanics Dinner at the ASME winter annual meeting, the Timoshenko Medalist of the year delivers a lecture. Taken as a whole, these lectures provide a long perspective of the field of

, as well as capsules of the lives of extraordinary individuals. A project has been initiated to post all Timoshenko Medal Lectures online.

Timoshenko Medal recipients

*2022 – Michael A. Sutton, University of South Carolina, USA. *2021 – Huajian Gao,

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various in ...

, Singapore. *2020 –

Mary Cunningham Boyce Mary Cunningham Boyce is a professor of engineering at Columbia University. She has been provost of Columbia University since July 2021. Previously, she was dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2013 to 2021. He ...

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

, USA. *2019 – J. N. Reddy,

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

, USA. *2018 –

Ares J. Rosakis Ares J. Rosakis, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He was also the fifth Director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, known as (GALCIT), and fo ...

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

, USA. *2017 – Viggo Tvergaard,

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's fir ...

*2016 –

Raymond Ogden Raymond William Ogden (born 19 September 1943) is a British applied mathematician. He is the George Sinclair Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow. Education Ogden earned his B ...

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, Scotland, UK. *2015 – Michael Ortiz,

, USA. *2014 – Robert McMeeking, UC Santa Barbara, USA. *2013 – Richard M. Christensen, Stanford University, USA. *2012 – Subra Suresh, National Science Foundation (NSF) *2011 – Alan Needleman,

The University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School," ...

(United States) *2010 – Wolfgang Knauss,

Caltech The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

(United States) *2009 – Zdenek P. Bazant,

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Chart ...

(United States) *2008 – Sia Nemat-Nasser, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

(United States) *2007 –

Thomas J. R. Hughes Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes (born 1943) 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. Hughe ...

, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,

The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Te ...

(United States) *2006 –

Kenneth L. Johnson Kenneth Langstreth Johnson FRS FREng (19 March 1925 – 21 September 2015) was a British engineer, Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1977 to 1992 and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Most of his research was in t ...

, The University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) *2005 – Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt, Department of Mathematics,

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

(United States) *2004 – Morton E. Gurtin, Department of Mathematical Sciences,

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

(United States) *2003 – L. Ben Freund Brown University (United States) *2002 –

John W. Hutchinson John W. Hutchinson (born April 10, 1939) is the Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He works in the field of solid mechanics concerned with a broad ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

(United States) *2001 – Ted Belytschko,

*2000 – Rodney J. Clifton *1999 – Anatol Roshko *1998 – Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz,

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a ...

, Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the

University of Wales The University of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ''Prifysgol Cymru'') is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff � ...

(United Kingdom) *1997 –

John R. Willis John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

*1996 –

J. Tinsley Oden J. Tinsley Oden (born December 25, 1936 in Alexandria, Louisiana) is the Associate Vice President for Research, the Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering #2, the Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Computing Systems, a Professor of ...

, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,

(United States) *1995 –

Daniel D. Joseph Daniel Donald Joseph (March 26, 1929 – May 24, 2011) was an American mechanical engineer. He was the Regents Professor Emeritus and Russell J. Penrose Professor Emeritus of Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of M ...

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

(United States) *1994 –

James R. Rice James Robert Rice (born December 3, 1940) is an American engineer, scientist, geophysicist,''Who's who in Frontier Science and Technology.'' Vol. 1. 1984. p 608 and Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at the Harvard Joh ...

(United States) *1993 – John L. Lumley,

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

(United States) *1992 –

Jan D. Achenbach Jan Drewes Achenbach (20 August 1935 – 22 August 2020) was a professor emeritus (Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor) at Northwestern University. Achenbach was born in the northern region of the Netherlands, ...

(United States) *1991 –

Yuan-Cheng Fung Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung (September 15, 1919 – December 15, 2019) was a Chinese-American bioengineer and writer. He is regarded as a founding figure of bioengineering, tissue engineering, and the "Founder of Modern Biomechanics". Biography Fun ...

, Department of Bioengineering,

(United States) *1990 – Stephen H. Crandall,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...

(United States) *1989 –

Bernard Budiansky Bernard Budiansky (8 March 1925 – 23 January 1999) 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 ...

(United States) *1988 – George K. Batchelor *1987 –

Ronald S. Rivlin Ronald Samuel Rivlin (6 May 1915 in London – 4 October 2005) was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber.''New York Times'' November 25, 2005 "Ronald Rivlin, 90, Expert on Properties of Rubber, ...

*1986 – George Rankine Irwin *1985 –

Eli Sternberg Eli Sternberg (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death. He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois In ...

*1984 – Joseph B. Keller *1983 – Daniel C. Drucker *1982 –

John W. Miles John Wilder Miles (December 1, 1920 – October 20, 2008) was a research professor emeritus of applied mechanics and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He was well regarded for his pioneering w ...

*1981 –

John H. Argyris Johann Hadji Argyris FRS (Greek: Ιωάννης Χατζι Αργύρης; 19 August 1913 – 2 April 2004) was a Greek pioneer of computer applications in science and engineering,Hughes TJR, Oden JT, and Papadrakakis M (2011) ''John H Argyris'' ...

(UK),

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart (german: Universität Stuttgart) is a leading research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany wi ...

(Germany) *1980 –

Paul M. Naghdi Paul Mansour Naghdi (March 29, 1924 – July 9, 1994) was a professor of mechanical engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Paul Naghdi was born in Tehran on March 29, 1924. In 1943, in order to pursue his ...

*1979 –

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*1978 – George F. Carrier,

(United States) *1977 –

John D. Eshelby John Douglas Eshelby FRS (21 December 1916 – 10 December 1981) was a scientist in micromechanics. His work has shaped the fields of defect mechanics and micromechanics of inhomogeneous solids for fifty years and provided the basis for the q ...

*1976 – Erastus H. Lee *1975 – Chia-Chiao Lin *1974 – Albert E. Green *1973 – Eric Reissner *1972 – Jacob P. Den Hartog *1971 –

Howard W. Emmons Howard Wilson Emmons (1912–1998) was an American professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. During his career he conducted original research on fluid mechanics, combustion and fire safety. Today he is most wi ...

(United States) *1970 –

James J. Stoker James Johnston Stoker (March 2, 1905 – October 19, 1992) was an American applied mathematician and engineer. He was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and is considered one of the founders of the institute, Courant ...

*1969 – Jakob Ackeret *1968 – Warner T. Koiter *1967 – Hillel Poritsky *1966 – William Prager *1965 – Sydney Goldstein *1964 – Raymond D. Mindlin,

(United States) *1963 –

Michael James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence. Biograph ...

*1962 – Maurice A. Biot *1961 –

James N. Goodier James Norman Goodier (October 17, 1905 – November 5, 1969) was professor of applied mechanics at Stanford University known for his work in elasticity and plastic deformation.Obituary (1970) ''Mechanical Engineering'' 92, 111. He was born in P ...

*1960 – Cornelius B. Biezeno *: – Richard Grammel *1959 – Sir Richard Southwell,

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(UK) *1958 – Arpad L. Nadai *: – Sir Geoffrey Taylor *: – Theodore von Karman *1957 –

Stephen P. Timoshenko Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko (russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, p=sʲtʲɪˈpan prɐˈkofʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tʲɪmɐˈʂɛnkə; uk, Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, Stepan Prokopovych Tymoshenko; ...

Footnotes

Timoshenko Lectures
A project has started to make the Timoshenko Medalist Lectures available on-line

External links

Information for nominationHonors & Awards - Timoshenko Medal

official page, where forms for nomination can be obtained.
Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division
{{ASME Mechanical engineering awards Awards established in 1957

Nomination procedure

Acceptance speech

Timoshenko Medal recipients

See also

Footnotes

External links