The Theodore von Karman Medal is an award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recognizing achievement in engineering mechanics applicable to any branch of civil engineering. The bronze medal is normally awarded annually, although it may be omitted in some years. It was established and endowed in 1960 by the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division, now the Engineering Mechanics Institute, with gifts from friends and admirers of Theodore von Kármán. The medal has been described as the highest national award in engineering mechanics.
Recipients The recipients are as follows:
Year Recipient 1960 William Prager 1961 Raymond D. Mindlin 1962 Nathan M. Newmark 1963 Hunter Rouse 1964 Eric Reissner 1965 Warner T. Koiter 1966 Daniel C. Drucker 1967 Maurice A. Biot 1968 Lloyd H. Donnell 1969 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor 1970 Wilhelm Flügge 1971 Alfred M. Freudenthal 1972 Nicholas J. Hoff 1973 Hans H. Bleich 1974 George W. Housner 1975 John H. Argyris 1976 Yuan-Cheng Fung 1977 George Francis Carrier 1978 Rodney Hill 1979 Henry L. Langhaar 1980 George Herrmann 1981 Chia-Shun Yih 1982 Bernard Budiansky 1983 Albert E. Green 1984 Stephen H. Crandall 1985 Philip G. Hodge 1986 Stanley Corrsin 1987 Richard Skalak 1988 Tung-Hua Lin 1989 Egor P. Popov 1990 John Dundurs 1991 Bruno A. Boley 1992 John Tinsley Oden 1993 Ronald S. Rivlin 1994 Masanobu Shinozuka 1995 Ray W. Clough 1996 Clifford A. Truesdell 1998 Y. K. Lin 1999 Ted Belytschko 2000 Robert H. Scanlan 2001 Anestis S. Veletsos 2002 Thomas K. Caughey 2003 Pol D. Spanos 2004 Theodore Yao-Tsu Wu 2005 Zdeněk P. Bažant 2006 George J. Dvorak 2007 Chiang C. Mei 2008 Siavouche Nemat-Nassar 2009 Thomas J. R. Hughes 2010 Jan D. Achenbach 2012 Franz-Josef Ulm 2013 Wilfred D. Iwan 2014 James R. Rice 2015 Ahsan Kareem 2016 Ares J. Rosakis 2017 Huajian Gao 2018 J. N. Reddy 2019 Yonggang Huang 2020 Katepalli R. Sreenivasan 2021 Fabrizio Vestroni 2022 Roger Ghanem 2023 Firdaus E. Udwadia 2024 George Z. Voyiadjis 2025 Somnath Ghosh 2026 Glaucio H. Paulino
See also List of engineering awards List of prizes named after people
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