SEM FELLOW

In 1975, the Honors Committee recommended a bylaws change which would enable a Fellow grade of membership to be established. The recommendation, which was approved, changed Article IV, Section 3 to read: "A Fellow shall be an individual who has distinguished himself/herself in some field in which the Society has interest, who has been a member of the Society for at least ten consecutive years, and whose contributions to the Society and the technical community have justified this honor. The number and manner of election of Fellows shall be as specified by the Executive Committee."

For more details on the Fellow Grade of Membership, Nomination Requirements, or the schedule followed by the Committee of Fellows, please select one of the items below.

• Fellow Grade of Membership
• Nomination Fact Sheet
• Calendar, Committee of Fellows

The Fellows Committee has prepared a nomination form which details all pertinent information required to have someone's name placed for nomination. Copies of the appropriate form are available from this site (see below) or may be obtained from:

Kenneth Liechti

Permanent Secretary, SEM Committee of Fellows

University of Texas at Austin

210 E. 24th St., WRW 110C

1 University Station, C0600

Department of Aerospace Eng. and Eng. Mechanics

Austin, TX 7871
kml@mail.utexas.edu

The Fellows Committee meets at the SEM Annual Conference to elect a slate of nominees for presentation at the following SEM Annual Conference. 

	PDF File to print and mail in.	Word Template Right click and "save target as" to save on your computer. You may then fill out and email to kml@mail.utexas.edu.
SEM Fellows Nomination Form Indicates background of candidate and why they should be named a Fellow.	Fellow Nomination Form	SEMFellowNominationForm.dot
Reference Form Two (2) completed reference forms are required to support each nomination.	Reference Form	SEMFellowReferenceForm.dot

Members who have been selected for Fellow grade since its inception follow.

2007 Fellow Awards: Eann Patterson, and Max Yen

Eann Patterson joined the Royal Navy before going to the University of Sheffield where he obtained his BEng(Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering.  Subsequently, he left the Royal Navy and returned to Sheffield and completed his PhD in 1985.  After a short period as a post-doc at the University of Calgary, he returned to the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and was promoted to Professor in 1997.  During this period he worked on novel techniques in digital photoelasticity and later in thermoelasticity supported by funds from the EU and UK governments and from the aerospace industry.  He also pursued research in computational biomechanics developing a fluid-solid interaction model of the human aortic valve.  In 1993 he became Director of Graduate Student Affairs for Engineering and Physical Sciences and in 2001 Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  In 2004, he moved to Michigan State University as Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  He has graduated 18 PhD students and together with them published more than 100 journal papers.  He is editor of the Journal of Strain Analysis and was editor of the International Journal, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures from 2001 to 2006.

S.C. "Max" Yen is a Professor and Director of the Materials Technology Center at Southern Illinois University.