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D.J. DeMichele Award
This award, established in 1990 in honor of Dominick J. DeMichele (1916-2000), recognizes an individual who has demonstrated "exemplary service and support of promoting the science and educational aspects of modal analysis technology." This award is presented annually at the
International Modal Analysis Conference.
Dominick J. DeMichele was the past director of the International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC), having directed 13 annual
IMACs, and was founder and president of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Services. He held a
B.S.M.E. from Rensselaer and was also a graduate of the New York Diesel Institute. He joined the mechanical engineering department of the general engineering laboratory at the General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, in 1940 as a project engineer and retired from GE in 1979. He received the coveted Charles E. Coffin Award, the company's highest award to its employees, for his contribution in the field of solid mechanics (vibration, shock, stress-strain and acoustics). While at GE, Mr. DeMichele was awarded four patents: High Temperature Strain Gages; Strain Gages; Method for Making Resistance Strain Gages; and Strain Gage Pressure Transducer.
Mr. DeMichele was a 42-year member and a Fellow of SEM. He was chair of two national meetings, a member of the Executive Board, a member of the Technical Papers Committee, chair of the national technical session on high temperature strain gages, and organizer and first chairman of the New York-Hudson Local Section of the Society. He was a senior member of the Instrument Society of America and of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. He served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Instrumentation Committee for the American Association of Highway Officials Road Test. Mr. DeMichele was appointed a member of the National Commission on Technical Education of the National Science Foundation. He published numerous technical papers and in-house reports covering the development of high-temperature strain gages, special projects in strain gage applications, vibration, acoustics and other measurement programs. Click here for a You Tube video of Dick's life
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Recipients:
| 2013 |
C. Farrar |
| 2012 |
R. Singhal |
| 2011 |
M. Richardson |
| 2010 |
F.M. Hemez |
| 2009 |
D.E. Adams |
| 2008 |
A. Cunha |
| 2007 |
D.J. Inman |
| 2006 |
W.R. Shapton |
| 2005 |
J. Lally |
| 2004 |
P. Avitabile |
| 2003 |
C. Ventura |
| 2002 |
R. Craig |
| 2001 |
S. Ibrahim |
| 2000 |
T.G. Carne |
| 1999 |
A.L. Wicks |
| 1998 |
R. Allemang |
| 1997 |
K.G. McConnell |
| 1996 |
N. Okubo |
| 1995 |
L.D. Mitchell |
| 1994 |
T.C. Huang |
| 1993 |
D.J. Ewins |
| 1992 |
D.L. Brown |
| 1991 |
B. Piombo |
| 1990 |
D.J. DeMichele |
2013 D.J. DeMichele Award:
Chuck Farrar
 Chuck Farrar is currently the leader of The Engineering Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The early part of his LANL career focused on experimental and analytical structural dynamics studies for a wide variety of civilian and defense systems. Since 1992 his research has focused on integrated hardware and software solutions to structural health monitoring problems. In 2000 he founded the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School . Beginning in 2002 he developed a formal collaboration between LANL and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), which became the Engineering Institute with a research focus on integrating advanced predictive modeling with novel sensing systems and information technology. Additional professional activities include associate editor positions for the two refereed journals, and the development of an industry short course and a UCSD graduate course on structural health monitoring.
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