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SHM Lifetime Achievement Award

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An individual in the SHM community who has championed SHM over their career by advancing the state-of-the-art through their meritorious accomplishments in research, technology transfer (commercialization), education, and/or service to the SHM community will be selected to receive the prestigious SHM Lifetime Achievement Award by a committee of researchers, educators and practicing scientists and engineers. The award, criteria, nomination packet requirements, and awards committee are outlined below.

I. Eligibility

Any individual is eligible to receive the award; however, it is anticipated that only the most distinguished members of the SHM community will possess the rich history of achievement that this prestigious award is intended to recognize.

II. Nomination Procedure

The current open period for nominations is from March 24th to October 1st of 2021. The nomination package should include a) a narrative (maximum three 8.5 x 11 single-sided pages, 12 pt. font, single-spaced, one-inch margins) describing the contributions and their impact, which should include all figures, references, graphs, citations, etc. and b) Nominee’s CV, up to three letters of support. Self-nominations are not permitted.

III. Award Committee

All previous recipients of this award, faculty members from academic institutions, industrialists with a broad view of technology, researchers with an ability to assess commercial impacts of scholarly research, and knowledge of SHM and its unique mission.

IV. Selection Procedure

In an effort to recognize an assortment of outstanding achievements in SHM by an individual, the evaluation criteria focus on the impact of the individual’s contributions. Nominees who have made the most impact during their careers in the form of, for example, “citation classic” papers, a fundamental technical advance or invention that has had substantial scientific and/or commercial ramifications, a record of supporting research and developments by establishing strong research or industrial programs, educational programs and mentoring of young people within the community, etc. will be highly considered.

V. Award presentation

During the Workshop, a plaque accompanied by a check will be presented by the Chairman of the Award Committee. The Chairman of the Award Committee and the Chairman of the Workshop are in charge of organizing the Award presentation ceremony.

 

Chairman of the Award Committee: Chuck Farrar E-mail: farrar@lanl.gov 

Please send your nomination packages to Chuck Farrar (farrar@lanl.gov) as soon as possible.

List of past recipients

2003: Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2004: Fu-Kuo Chang, Stanford University
2007: Peter Cawley, Imperial College
2009: Dan Inman, Univ. of Michigan
            Christian Boller, Fraunhofer Inst. of NDT
2011: Alfredo Guemes, Univ Politecnica de Madrid
2013: Keith Worden, The University of Sheffield
2015: Tribikram Kundu, The University of Arizona
2017: Anne Kiremidjian​, Stanford University
2019: Wieslaw Ostachowicz, Polish Academy of Sciences