Honorary Member Award

The grade of Honorary Member is the highest honor the Society can bestow. Honorary Members are approved by the Executive Board in accordance with Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution which states, "An Honorary Member is an individual of widely recognized eminence in the field of experimental mechanics who is elected for life by unanimous secret ballot of the Executive Board upon written proposal by at least 25 Individual Members. Receipt of the proposal shall precede the election by at least 30 days. An Honorary Member shall have the same rights and privileges as an Individual Member. The number of living Honorary Members shall not exceed ten at any given time."

Each new honorary member is notified of this honor by letter from the President of the Society and publicly honored by presentation of a plaque at the next meeting of the Society.

 
The Society’s Honorary Members include:

 
2007 Honorary Member Award: Isaac M. Daniel

Isaac Daniel is a Walter P. Murphy Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; and Director of the Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites at Northwestern University. He obtained his degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Daniel’s research encompasses many areas of mechanics and materials with emphasis on experimental mechanics and composite materials.  In the latter, he has worked on all aspects of the area including processing, micromechanics, characterization, fracture and damage mechanics, nondestructive evaluation and life prediction.  He has pioneered test methods for characterization of polymer, ceramic, and metal matrix composites. In recent years he has been working on processing, characterization and modeling of nanocomposites. He has published over 350 papers including a widely used textbook on Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials, now in its second edition. He has received many awards, including the Hetenyi, Lazan, and Frocht awards and the William M. Murray Medal from the Society for Experimental Mechanics.