Education: University of Technical Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1924-30; Diploma in Civil Engineering, 1931; Graduate work with H.M. Westerguard, Univ. of Illinois, 1934-35 and with S.P. Timoshenko, Univ. of Michigan, 1935-36; PhD in Eng. Mechanics, 1936.

Publications: Author of over 70 scientific papers on analytical and experimental mechanics and on the theory of structures; Beams on Elastic Foundations, Univ. of Michigan, 1946; Coeditor of Proc. of the Tenth International Congress on Applied Mechanics, Springer Ed., 1969.

Contributions to SEM: 1 of 4 founders, 1943; Vice President, 1943-44; 2nd President, 1944-45; Editor, Handbook of Experimental Stress Analysis, 1950.

General Contributions: Development and Application of Three-Dimensional Photoelasticity; Development of a "Reduction Method" for the Analysis of Continuous Frames; Development of a "Method of Initial Parameters" for the Analysis of beams, beam-grillages, and beams in elastic foundations; Solution for Axi-Symmetrical Deformation of Spherical Shells and Related Structures.

Past Recipients are:

 

2007 M. Hetényi Award: W.N. Everett, P. Shih and J.D. Humphrey

W.N. Everett, P. Shih, and J.D. Humphrey, “A Bi-plane Video-based System for Studying the Mechanics of Arterial Bifurcations”,

Experimental Mechanics, 2005, 45: 377-382.

Neil Everett received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and he worked as a research scientist for one year at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University within the Materials Science and Engineering Program. His research interests include colloid and interface science, measuring weak specific and non-specific protein-protein interactions, and colloidal synthesis and functionalization for self-assembly.

 

Patrick Shih received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2000. He subsequently earned a Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 2004. He went on to complete a general surgery internship at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York in 2005. Dr. Shih is currently in his neurosurgery residency at Northwestern University in Chicago and is expected to finish in 2011.

 

Jay D. Humphrey is Regents Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. degree from Virginia Tech and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech, all in Engineering Science and Mechanics, and he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Research at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are in continuum biomechanics, with particular interest in cardiovascular applications. He has authored two books on biomechanics, chapters in 16 other books, and over 100 journal articles. He is currently co-Editor in Chief of the journal Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.