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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:
| 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 |
2012 D.J. DeMichele Award:
Raj Singhal
 Raj K. Singhal is Manager, Structural Qualification Facilities at the David Florida Laboratory of the Canadian Space Agency in Ottawa and formerly was also Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at both University of Ottawa and Carleton University. He received his BSc with Honours from Panjab University in India, MEng with Distinction from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has published widely on mechanical vibrations, including force limited vibrations, and modal analysis of aerospace structures, membranes, plates and cylindrical shells.
Dr. Singhal has long been a member of the IMAC organizing committee and is active in helping create the technical program. He is also a member of the Aerospace Testing Seminar’s (ATS) advisory board, the Technical Program Committees for Space Simulation Conference (SSC), the European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials & Environmental Testing (ECSSMET), and the International Workshop on Verification and Testing of Space Systems. He has chaired many technical sessions at IMAC, ATS, SSC, and ECSSMET.
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