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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.
Dick's Eulogy
Dick's Obituary |
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Past Recipients are:
| 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 |
2010 D.J. DeMichele Award:
François M. Hemez
 Dr. François M. Hemez has been Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1997. He was a member of the Weapon Response group for seven years; served as its Validation Methods team leader for one year; and is currently with X-Division. He manages the code verification project of the Advanced Scientific Computing program and contributes to the development and application of Verification and Validation (V&V), uncertainty quantification, and decision-making for engineering, nuclear energy, and weapon physics projects. Before joining Los Alamos, Dr. Hemez was a research associate of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working in the area of test-analysis correlation and finite element model updating. Dr. Hemez chaired the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Technical Division on model validation and uncertainty quantification from 2005-2009; has served on the advisory board of the SEM International Modal Analysis Conference since 2006; and served on the SEM Executive Board from 2007-2009. He co-developed a short course on V&V and taught the first-ever V&V graduate course offered in a U.S. University (University of California San Diego, spring 2006). François Hemez received the Junior Research Award of the European Association of Structural Dynamics (2005); and two U.S. Department of Energy Defense Program Awards of Excellence for applying V&V to programmatic work at Los Alamos (2006). Dr. Hemez has authored over 270 publications and reports (including 21 peer-reviewed papers) since 1994.
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