Award Recipients

The United States Association for Computational Mechanics wishes to congratulate the following award recipients for their contributions.

             The John von Neumann Award

2007	Wing Kam Liu
2005	G. Strang
	"For his contributions to the mathematical foundations of the finite element method."
2003	E. L. Wilson
	"For his pioneering contributions to the finite element method and the development of the SAP codes that were disseminated throughout the world, providing hundreds of institutions with their first finite element software."
2001	T.B. Belytschko
	"For his numerous seminal contributions in nonlinear computational mechanics, including explicit time integration methods widely used in crash analysis and metal forming simulations, and his latest contributions in meshless methods."
1999	R.L Taylor
	"For the development of innovative computational methods in solid and structural mechanics and constitutive theory and for the development and wide dissemination of computer programs embodying these procedures."
1997	T.J.R. Hughes
	"For pioneering contributions to broad fields of computational mechanics and particularly for his work on stabilized methods for computational fluid dynamics." (text of acceptance remarks) (Also in USACM Bulletin Volume 10, Number 2, November 1997)
1995	R.H. Gallagher
	(text of acceptance remarks) (Also in USACM Bulletin, Volume 8, Number 2, June 1995).
1995	I. Babuska
	(text of acceptance remarks) (Also in USACM Bulletin, Volume 8, Number 2, June 1995)
1993	J.T. Oden
	"In recognition of outstanding contributions and eminent achievement in the field of computational mechanics, including, but not limited to research, development, teaching and significant achievement of the state of the art." (text of acceptance remarks) (Also in USACM Bulletin, Volume 6, Number 3, September 1993)

Computational Structural Mechanics "in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of Computational Structural Mechanics"              

2007	Michael Ortiz
2005	Jacob Fish
	"For his contributions to multiscale computational methods."
2003	J. N. Reddy
	"For significant and lasting contributions to education, research, and professional service to computational mechanics through the publication of well-received textbooks and archival research papers on computational methods and applied mechanics."
2001	Wing-Kam Liu
	"For his wide and fundamental contributions in computational mechanics for the analysis of structures and fluid-structure systems, and his latest contributions in meshless methods."
1999	Richard MacNeal
1997	Ted Belytschko

Computational Fluid Dynamics "in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of Computational Fluid Dynamics"

2007	George Em Karniadakis
2005	Antony Jameson
	"For his contributions to computational fluid dynamics and its applications in aircraft design."
2003	Mary F. Wheeler
	"For sustained and seminal contributions in the development of innovative theory and computational methods for oil reservoir simulation and for the study of flow in porous medium."
2001	David Gartling
	"For his significant contributions in computational heat transfer and fluid dynamics and their impact on the analysis of practical ering problems."
1999	Mohamed Hafez
1997	Tayfun Tezduyar

Computational and Applied Sciences Award "for seminal contributions to computational aeroelasticity, ocean acoustics, and high performance and parallel computing."

2007	Stanley Osher
2005	Thomas (Yizhao) Hou
	"For his outstanding contributions in developing innovative multiscale analysis and computational methods, and their applications to flows in porous media and turbulence."
2003	Joseph E. Flaherty
	"For pioneering work on adaptive methods including a posteriori error estimation, strategies for time dependent problems, order variation and refinement, and parallel computation with dynamic load balancing."
2001	Charbel Farhat
1999	Carlos A. Felippa
1997	Mark Shephard

Gallagher Young Investigator Award. The Gallagher medal and cash award are supported by John Wiley & Sons in recognition of Richard H. Gallagher, the founding editor of the "International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering" in recognition of outstanding accomplishments to the field of Computational Mechanics."

2007	Narayan Aluru
2005	John E. Dolbow
	"For his groundbreaking developments in meshfree and extended finite element methods for solid mechanics applications."
2003	Charles A. Taylor
	" For groundbreaking contributions to cardiovascular modeling, simulation and surgical planning."
2001	K. E. Jansen
	"For pioneering stabilized finite element methods in turbulence based on Reynolds averaged and multiscale models for large eddy simulation."
1999	Leopoldo P. Franca
1997	Charbal Farhat

The USACM Fellows Award. "in recognition of contributions to the field of Computational Mechanics."

2007	Ken Chong, Leopoldo Franca, Rogher Ghanem, Somnath Ghosh, J. Woody Ju
2005	D. Benson, J. S. Chen, L.E. Schwer
2003	T. Bickel, R. B. Haber
2001	A. J. Baker, J. Fish, Charbel Farhat, Stein Sture, Leszek Demkowicz
1999	Joseph E. Flaherty, Tayfun Tezduyar, Edward L. Wilson
1997	Harry Armen, Ivo Babuska, Tom Cruse, Michael Ortiz, Bob Taylor
1995	S.N. Atluri, K. Jurgen Bathe, Ted Belytschko, C.S. Desai, Peter R. Eiseman, Carlos A. Felippa, R.H. Gallagher, T.J.R. Hughes, Noboru  Kikuchi, Alan Kushner, Harold Liebowitz, Wing Kam Liu, Ahmed K. Noor, J. Tinsley Oden, T.H.H. Pian, Allan Pifko, J.N. Reddy, Mark S. Shephard, Juan C. Simo, Barna A. Szabo, K. Willam

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