Frequency
- The awards are intended to be presented during the USACM National Congress on
Computational Mechanics and shall be made once every two years.
Eligibility
- Awards are open to all nominees, with the exception of the age limitation
for the Gallagher Award.
Nominations
- An Honors and Awards Chair, appointed by the President, shall form appropriate
award subcommittees and solicit nominations for the Association's Honors and Awards.
Approximately six months
before the Congress the USACM President will request the Honors and Awards Chair
to conduct the award selection process in accordance with USACM Award Procedures.
The Honors and Awards Chair
will report to the President on the progress of the selection procedure at least
once before the ballots for selection are sent out. When the selection process
is complete, the Honors and Awards Chair will report the results to the President
and the President will approve of the results.
Description
of Honors and Awards
John
von Neumann Medal
The John von Neumann Medal
is the highest award given by USACM. It honors individuals who have made outstanding,
sustained contributions in the field of computational mechanics generally over
periods representing substantial portions of their professional careers.
Computational
Structural Mechanics Award
The USACM Computational
Structural Mechanics Award is given in recognition of outstanding and sustained
contributions to the broad field of Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM).
These contributions shall generally be in the form of important research results
which significantly advance the understanding of theories and methods impacting
CSM, but special individual contributions in leadership and administration, industrial
applications, and engineering analysis that advance CSM shall also represent accomplishments
worthy of recognition.
Computational
Fluid Dynamics Award
The USACM Computational
Fluid Dynamics Award is given in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions
to the broad field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). These contributions
shall generally be in the form of important research results which significantly
advance the understanding of theories and methods impacting CFD, but special individual
contributions in leadership and administration, industrial applications, and engineering
analysis that advance CFD shall also represent accomplishments worthy of recognition.
Computational
and Applied Sciences Award
The Computational and Applied
Sciences Award is established to recognize contributions to computational mechanics
that fall outside the specific areas of CSM and CFD. For example, the Computational
and Applied Sciences Award may be given in recognition of accomplishments in software
development, scientific computing, research contributions in computational electromagnetics,
semiconductor simulation, biomechanics or other areas not traditionally embraced
by CSM or CFD, but which have general applicability to computational mechanics.
The
Gallagher Young Investigator Award
The Gallagher Young Investigator
Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments, particularly outstanding published
papers, by researchers of 40 years or younger. The award consists of a silver
medal and a $1500 honorarium, both donated by John Wiley & Sons, Publisher
of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, in honor of
Richard H. Gallagher, co-founder of the Journal.
Fellow
Award
The Fellow Award recognizes
individuals with a distinguished record of research, accomplishment and publication
in areas of computational mechanics and demonstrated support of USACM through
membership and participation in the Association, its meetings and activities.
Honors
and Awards Committee
The Honors & Awards
Committee will be chaired by a past-president of USACM, appointed by the USACM
President. The Honors & Awards Committee will include all current Officers
of USACM, and sufficient additional appointees selected by the Chair, to staff
the subcommittees as described below.
From the membership of the
Honors & Awards Committee, a subcommittee for each Honor and Award shall be
established. Each award subcommittee shall invite the last two recipients of the
award to participate. For the von Neumann Medal, all previous recipients shall
be invited to participate on the subcommittee.
The members of the Honors
& Awards Committee are not eligible for any USACM award, except the Fellow
Award.
Nomination
Procedures
The award nomination process
begins with the Honors and Awards Chair soliciting nominations for the various
awards from the membership. A call for nominations will be prepared by the Chair
that describes the awards, procedure for making a nomination, due date for nominations,
and any applicable special circumstances.
Nomination
guidelines:
Award
Selection Procedures
The Chair of the Honors
and Awards Committee will appoint a chair of each subcommittee, and forward the
nominations and supporting information to the chair of each subcommittee.
The Chair of each subcommittee
will prepare a ballot for the award, and it will contain the names of the nominees,
nominator(s) of each nominee, and one-page resume of each nominee. At least two
weeks duration from the date of the mailing the ballots is allowed for the return
of the ballots to the Chair. The vote may also be cast by e-mail.
Each award subcommittee
shall select an award recipient from the eligible nominations; the subcommittee
shall verify the recipient's eligibility for the award. Each subcommittee's recommendation
of a recipient, along with an appropriate award citation, will be reported to
the Honors and Awards Chair. The Chair will collect the selections and report
the recommendations to the USACM President. The President will approve, or reject
with reason, the Honors and Awards Committee recommendations.
Award
Notification and Presentation Procedures
After the award selections
are approved by the USACM President, the Honors and Award Chair will coordinate
the award notification and presentations. The presentations shall be made jointly
by the USACM President and the Awards and Honors Chair. A suitable announcement
of the Honors and Awards and recipients shall be prepared by the Chair for inclusion
in the Congress Program. The Chair shall notify the membership of the award recipients,
as appropriate, and see that the corresponding entries are made on the USACM Honors
and Awards web pages.
Notification
Letters
The President will send
letters to the recipients informing them of their selection and requesting their
presence at the Congress Honors and Awards presentation.
Certificates for the Fellow
Award should be prepared and presented in a suitable folder. The USACM President
shall sign the certificates before the presentation.
The
R. H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award
The R. H. Gallagher Young
Investigator Award is sponsored by John Wiley Publishers and requires special
handling. In addition to the above-mentioned plaque, this award includes a medal
and honorarium provided by Wiley.
A letter should be sent
to the Wiley representative with a notification of the award recipient and planned
date of the award presentation.
Jan de
Landtsheer
John Wiley & Sons
The Atrium, Southern Gate
Chichester PO19 8SQ
Phone 44 1243 770 147 |
Wiley will prepare the medal
with the name of recipient and year of award. Wiley will also provide a 1500 US
Dollars check which represents the honorarium.
Mrs. Terry Gallagher, or
a Gallagher family member, should be notified of the award recipient, and be provided
with the resume of recipient and the time and place of award presentation.
Mrs. Terry
Gallagher
6735 N. Camino Padro Isidoro
Tucson, AZ 85718
Phone: 520-544-4099
Fax: 520-544-5542 |
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