The C. E. Taylor Award

The C.E. Taylor Award shall be bestowed upon an SEM member who demonstrates both technical excellence in optical stress analysis and good citizenship within SEM. Guidelines for the award are as follows: No individual shall receive the award more than once; the award shall be given biannually, provided that a suitable candidate is identified; Technical excellence in optical stress analysis is intended to be all encompassing, where optical analysis is to be taken in its broadest sense. 

Technical excellence in optical stress analysis shall be demonstrated by meritorious technical accomplishments in one or more aspects of optical analysis. Optical analysis includes but is not limited to the (a) development of optical techniques for applications and (b) application of optical techniques for measurement of stress, strain, displacement or other physical phenomenon (e.g., corrosion, temperature, flaw detection). 

Good Citizenship shall be defined as the demonstrated commitment of an individual to the betterment of the Society for Experimental Mechanics and the field of experimental mechanics in general. Since there are many ways that an individual can contribute to the betterment of SEM and the field of experimental mechanics, the award will consider all SEM members, regardless of position held within the Society, and will ensure that these candidates are supportive of SEM and its philosophy.

Award Guidelines

Recipients of the C.E. Taylor Award

2012 A. Shukla

2010 C.W. Smith

2008 M.A. Sutton 
2006 D. Post 
2004 M.E. Fourney 
2002 J.W. Dally 
2000 C.E.Taylor

 
2012 C.E. Taylor Award: Arun Shukla

Arun Shukla received his B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently the Simon Ostrach Professor at the University of Rhode Island. He has also served as the Clark B. Millikan Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur. Dr. Shukla is a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), American Academy of Mechanics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has received the M.M. Frocht Award, B .J. Lazan Award and the Murray Medal from SEM. In 2003, Dr. Shukla served as the President of SEM of which he has been a member since 1977.  He has served as the Technical Editor of the journal “Experimental Mechanics” and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of several key engineering journals. He has also served the National Research Council, on the United States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Dr. Shukla received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT, Kanpur in 2009. Along with his many graduate students and post docs, he has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and proceedings. Dr. Shukla has authored and edited 5 books, and has delivered numerous plenary and keynote lectures.