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