Society for Experimental Mechanics

Brewer Award

		In memory of Given A. Brewer, Teledyne Engineering Services, Waltham, Massachuetts, established the Brewer Teledyne Award in 1989 (now called Brewer Award).
Mr. Brewer created Brewer Engineering Laboratories. As its director, Mr. Brewer carried out over 700 projects using experimental and theoretical techniques. His business was later sold to Teledyne and he became a consultant to the company. Mr. Brewer was a valued member of SEM and was active in both leadership and technical activities. The annual award will consist of an award plaque in the recipient's name. The criteria for the award stipulates that it be given to "an outstanding practicing experimental stress analyst" chosen by the Honors Committee. The award is intended as recognition of skill in the practical application of experimental mechanics techniques. A person whose primary affiliation is with a university would be eligible if substantial amounts of consulting work involved hands-on experimental analysis. The first Brewer-Teledyne award was presented in June, 1989 to (Mrs.) Heidi Brewer in her husband's memory.
Past Recipients are:
2008	E. O'Brien		1998	R.C. Schwarz
2006	R. Burguete		1997	D.W. Windstein
2005	R. Slaminko		1996	J.S. Epstein
2004	J.L. Turner		1995	G.E. Maddux
2003	K.G. McConnell		1994	A.U. Kutsay
2002	A. Voloshin		1993	S. Wnuk
2001	B. Han		1992	J. Cernosek
2000	B.R. Boyce		1991	F.B. Stern
1999	S. K. Foss		1990	B.C. Dykes
			1989	H. Brewer

2008 Brewer Award: Eddie O'Brien Dr. Eddie O'Brien is a career Stress Analyst – he formed the Experimental Mechanics Group in Airbus in the 80’s. He retired from Airbus in 2005 and established Aircraft Technical Solutions Ltd. to work in a consultant capacity on the giant A380 and future generation aircraft. His industrial life has included work on the Folland "Gnat" aircraft flown by the RAF "Red Arrows" aerobatic display team and many years on the Concorde design team. More recently pioneered Structural Health Monitoring for metallic aircraft. He has been awarded a number of world patents and has published over 40 technical papers on Experimental Mechanics. Dr. O'Brien received the Zandman Award in 1992 from SEM and has been Chairman of the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM). He served on the SEM Executive Board from 1999 -2001 and was SEM President in 2005. Dr. O'Brien earned his PhD from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Charted Physicist and elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the Institute of Physics.