The Nadai Medal Committee consists of ten members. Three past medalists, each serving no more than three-years; the three most recent past chairs of the MD Executive Committee, each serving a three year term; the current Executive Committee Chair; Vice Chair; and Honors & Awards Committee Chair, each serving a three-year term; one Technical Committee Chair determined by rotation, serving no more than one year in a nine year cycle. The planned order of rotation shall be as follows: Polymers, AMD-MD Joint Committee on Constitutive Equations, Composites and Heterogeneous Materials, Electronic Materials, Materials Processing, Multifunctional Materials, Nanomaterials for Energy, and Nanomaterials for Medicine and Biology.
The current Executive Committee Chair will serve as the Nadai Medal Committee Chair.
MD Chair
Vikas Prakash, Ph.D. (2008-2012) Case Western Reserve University Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 616 B Glennan Building Cleveland, OH 44106-7222 Tel: (216) 368-6440 Fax: (216) 368-3007 Email: vikas.prakash@case.edu
MD Vice-Chair Julie Chen, Ph.D. (2009-2013) University of Massachusetts/Lowell Mechanical Engineering Department Lowell, MA 01854 Tel: (978) 934-2992 Fax: (978) 934-3048 Email: Julie_Chen@uml.edu
MD Honors & Awards Karl I. Jacob, Ph.D. (2010-2014) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0295 Tel: (404) 894-2541 Fax: (404) 894-9766 Email: karl.jacob@ptfe.gatech.edu
Technical committee on Multifunctional Materials Bingqing Wei, Ph.D (2012-2013) Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of Delaware 130 Academy Street, Spencer Lab Newark, DE 19716 Tel: (302) 831-6438 Fax: (302) 831-3619 Email: weib@udel.edu
Past Medalists
2009 Medalist Lambert Ben Freund, Ph.D. (2010-2013) Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering 1304 W. Green St., Office 302C University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 Tel: (401) 252-9625 Fax: (217) 333-2736 Email: lbf@illinois.edu
2010 Medalist Albert S. Kobayashi, Ph.D. (2011-2014) 15420 62nd Place N.E. Kenmore, WA 98028-4312 Tel: (425) 488-1869 Fax: (425) 685-8047 Email: ask@u.washington.edu
2011 Medalist Subra Suresh, Ph.D. (2012-2015) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: (617) 253-3320 Fax: (617) 253-8549 Email: ssuresh@mit.edu
Past Chairs Dennis A. Siginer, Ph.D. (2010-2013) Centro de Investigacion en Creatividad y Education Superior Alameda 3363 Universidad de Santiago de Chile Santiago, Chile Tel: 567180131/32/33/39 Mobile: (316) 371-7601 Email: dennis.siginer@usach.cl
Arunachalam M. Rajendran, Ph.D. (2011-2014) Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering 201-B Carrier Hall University of Mississippi University, MS 38677 Tel: 662 915 5770 Fax: 662 915 1640 Email: raj@olemiss.edu
Mohammed Zikry, Ph.D. (2012-2015) Professor of Mechanical and aerospace Engineering North Carolina State University P. O. Box 7910 Raleigh, NC 27695-0001 Tel: 919- 515-5237 Fax: 919- 515-7968 Email: zikry@eos.ncsu.edu |