The Daniel C. Drucker medal was instituted in 1997 by the Applied Mechanics Division of 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 edu ...

. The Drucker Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the fields of applied mechanics and

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

. The award is given in honor of

Daniel C. Drucker Daniel Charles Drucker (June 3, 1918 – September 1, 2001) was an American civil and mechanical engineer and academic, who served as president of the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (now Society for Experimental Mechanics) in 1960–19 ...

, who was internationally known for contributions to the theory of

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and its application to analysis and design in metal structures. The recipient is given a medal and an

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Nomination procedure

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

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International

Applied Mechanics Division 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 me ...

(AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. 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 Drucker Medal Committee. See the list of curren
members of the Committee

Recipients

Source
ASME
*1998

*1999 Ascher H. Shapiro *2000

Philip G. Hodge, Jr. Philip Gibson Hodge Jr. (November 9, 1920 – November 11, 2014) 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 deve ...

*2001 Bruno A. Boley *2002

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*2003

Leon M. Keer Leon Morris Keer (September 13, 1934 – January 12, 2021) was an American researcher and professor in the fields of engineering and tribology. He served as Walter P. Murphy Professor in the McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University. ...

*2004

Frank A. McClintock Frank A. McClintock (January 2, 1921 – February 20, 2011)
Frank McClintock, professor emeritus, alumnus, dies ...

*2005 Robert L. Taylor *2006

Alan Needleman Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944) is a professor of materials science & engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to 2009, he was Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Prov ...

*2007 Albert S. Kobayashi *2008 Thomas C.T. Ting *2009 James R. Barber *2010 Rohan Abeyaratne *2011

John W. Rudnicki John W. Rudnicki (born August 12, 1951, in Huntington, West Virginia) is an American engineering professor. Education Rudnicki studied at Brown University Mechanics from 1969 with a bachelor's degree in 1973, a master's degree in 1974, and a do ...

*2012 James W. Dally *2013

Yonggang Huang Yonggang Huang (; born 1962) is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Huang was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, a member of National Academy of Sciences a ...

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

, USA. *2014

Lallit Anand Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on solid mechanics and large deformation flow plasticity theory , plasticity theory. ...

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*2015 Krishnaswami Ravi-Chandar,

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*2016 Kyung-Suk Kim *2017 David M. Parks *2018 David M. Barnett *2019 John L. Bassani *2020 Glaucio H. Paulino *2021 Markus J. Buehler *2022 Horacio D. Espinosa,

References

Information for nominationDrucker Medal web page at ASME site
{{ASME Awards established in 1997 Mechanical engineering awards American science and technology awards ASME Medals

Nomination procedure

Recipients

See also

References