Dominick J. Demichele
Scholarship AWARD
Dick DeMichele worked very hard to make the International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC) accessible to everyone. He understood the importance of the discussion and sharing of new ideas in a conference setting. He felt it was especially important to get students in the experimental mechanics field involved in IMAC.
The purpose of this award is to honor and memorialize the generous spirit of Dick DeMichele by providing financial assistance to students traveling to present papers at an IMAC.
THE AWARD CONSISTS OF:
(1) Reimbursement of all (student-rate) IMAC conference fees paid by the recipient(s).
(2) Reimbursement of all reasonable travel expenses incurred by the recipient(s) in attending the IMAC conference where the presentation is made.
(3) Recognition of the recipient(s) through presentation of a framed certificate at the Conference Luncheon and Awards Ceremonies conducted in conjunction with the IMAC at which the presentation is made.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION:
(1) TThe recipient shall be a student in good standing at a recognized college or university.
T(2) The recipient shall be the designated presenter of a paper that has been accepted for presentation at a forthcoming IMAC.
(3) TThe recipient shall preferably be a first-time presenter at an IMAC.
Nominations for the Award: Nominations of potential recipients should be made to the IMAC Program Planning Committee by SEM Members and/or the student’s major professor. The nomination shall consist of a letter; a brief resume of the student; a short discussion of the relevance of the paper topic to the IMAC conference; and a statement detailing why the nominator believes that the nominee should receive the award. Send nominations to IMAC Program Planning Committee, c/o Tom Proulx, Managing Director, SEM, 7 School Street, Bethel, CT 06801, (203) 790-6373, fax: (203) 790-4472, email: director@sem1.com.
Donations to Scholarship fund
Recipients of the award:
| 2007 |
H. Sezer Atamturktur |
| 2006 |
Francesco Massi, Diego Giraldo, Erik H. Clayton |
| 2005 |
Kelly A. Salyards |
| 2004 |
Nadine Conza |
| 2003 |
Prasenjit Mohanty |
2007 Recipient of the Dominick
J. DeMichele Scholarship Award: H. Sezer Atamturktur
H. Sezer Atamturktur received simultaneous undergraduate degrees in Architecture and Civil Engineering METU Technical University, Turkey, in 2002. After working for two years in industry as an architectural engineer, in 2004 she was privileged to join the Architectural Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University to work with her academic advisor, Thomas E. Boothby. She was awarded two years fulltime graduate assist-antship to pursue an MS degree.
Her MS research comprised analytical modeling and nondestructive testing of Guastavino tile domed structures. During her MS studies, she was involved in field testing several masonry monuments in North America and Europe. Besides her research responsibilities, she assisted and sub-stitute taught several sophomore and junior level structural engineering courses. In 2006, she completed her MS on the assessment of historic Guastavino tile domes. She is currently working on publishing the results of her MS thesis in academic journals.
Upon her graduation, she decided to continue her studies toward the PhD at the same institution. Her current research interests are in the nonlinear model validation against nonlinear dynamic testing for the structural assessment of historic masonry monuments. She will be an exchange student at the University of Sheffield in spring 2007. She holds membership in the Architectural Engineering Institute, the Masonry Society and the Society for Experimental Mechanics. She is looking forward to her first presentation at the 25th IMAC.
