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directs and which has become a state- of-art laboratory for quality control in structural mechanics, with a profound impact on the aircraft industry, partic- ularly the monitoring of aging aircraft.
Achenbach was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1982, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. In 1999 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. He is also an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a fellow of several organizations includ- ing the Acoustical Society of America. His awards include the Timoshenko Medal and the William Prager Medal.
Photos of the awards ceremony can be found at www.nation- almedals.org/current.htm.
Andrea Prosperetti and Adnan Akay receive American Society of Mechanical Engineers awards
ASA Fellows Andrea Prosperetti and Adnan Akay each received awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2005.
Andrea Prosperetti, Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Johns
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach awarded National Medal of Technology
Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Distinguished McCormick School Professor of the Departments of Mechanical Engineer-ing and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, has been awarded the 2003 National Medal of Technology. This award is the nation’s highest honor for technological innova- tion, and it was awarded to Professor Achenbach at a White House ceremony on March 14, 2005.
The National Medal of Technology recognizes men and women who embody the spirit of American innova- tion and have advanced the nation’s global competitiveness. The award, which was established in 1980 by an Act of Congress, is administered by the Department of Commerce.
Jan Achenbach was honored for seminal contributions to engineering research and education and for pio- neering ultrasonic methods for the detection of cracks and corrosion in aircraft, leading to improved safety for aircraft structures.
In 1985, Achenbach established the Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention, which he still
Adnan Akay
Hopkins University and Berkhoff Professor of Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, The Netherlands, received the 2005 Fluids Engineering Award “for sus- tained excellence in research on multi- phase flow problems of major engineer- ing significance, including averaged- equations modeling, bubble dynamics, cavitation damage and noise, underwater acoustics, natural mechanisms of oceanic sound and air entrainment in liquid flows; and for leadership in the multi- phase flow research community.”
Adnan Akay, Lord Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, received the 2005 Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics “for significant contributions to acoustics and vibration as a scientist, in the areas of friction-gen- erated noise and fluid-layer damping; as an educator, for outstanding mentoring; and as an engineering leader within the ASME, for co-founding the Noise Control and Acoustics Division.”
New editor of National Council of Acoustical Consultants newsletter
Neil T. Shade was named the new editor of the National Council of Acoustics Consultants (NCAC) news- letter in February 2005. He succeeds William J. Cavanaugh and Peter Allen,
Andrea Prosperetti
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