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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.
Past Recipients of the C.E. Taylor Award
2008 M.A. Sutton
2006 D. Post
2004 M.E. Fourney
2002 J.W. Dally
2000 C.E.Taylor
2008 C.E. Taylor Award:
Michael A. Sutton
Prof. Michael A. Sutton received his Ph.D. in 1981 in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois. Dr. Sutton joined the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina in 1982 and is now a Carolina Distinguished Professor.
Prof. Sutton, a Fellow and past President of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, has received numerous national and international honors for his contributions in the fields of experimental mechanics, computer vision and fracture mechanics. Prof. Sutton has published over one hundred and twenty five archival articles, co-authored four book chapters and given numerous international presentations.
Prof. Sutton is an active member in the Society for Experimental Mechanics, the American Society for Testing and Materials and the American Society for Mechanical Engineering. He is director of both the South Carolina Center for NDE and Fracture Mechanics and also the USC Division of the S.C. NASA Space Grant Consortium.
His current areas of research are experimental and analytical fracture mechanics, 2-D and 3-D computer vision, volumetric image analysis, numerical methods and mathematical modeling of problems. Prof. Sutton was married in 1973 to Elizabeth Ann Severns. They have two daughters, Michelle Mary Katherine Spigner (28) and Elizabeth Marie Rosalie Sutton (24).
