Jan D. Achenbach#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2844 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Jan D. Achenbach passed away August 22, 2020.
Positions Held
- since 1992 Distinguished McCormick School Professor Northwestern University
- 1985 - 2006 Director, Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention, Northwestern University
- since 1981 Walter P. Murphy Professor, Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics
- 1970 - 1971 Visiting Professor, Technische Hogeschool, Delft
- 1969 - 1981 Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University
- 1969 Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, La Jolla
- 1966 - 1969 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Northwestern University
- 1963 - 1966 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Northwestern University
- 1962 - 1963 Preceptor, Columbia University
Fields of Scholarship
- Waves in solids
- Ultrasonics
- Quantitative non-destructive evaluation
- Mechanics of solids
- Structural health monitoring
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Fellow Society of Engineering Science
- 1998 Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1998 Fellow Acoustical Society of America
- 1979 Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1973 Fellow American Academy of Mechanics
- 1994 Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1975 ASEE Cunis W. McGraw Research Award, ASEE
- 1982 Member US National Academy of Engineering
- 1988 Fellow Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 1992 Member US National Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 1996 McDonnell-Douglas Model of Excellence Award
- 1997 American Academy of Mechanics Distinguished Service Award
- 1999 Corresponding Member Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001 William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Science
- 2002 Honorary Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2002 Outstanding Paper Award, Materials Evaluation (American Society for Nondestructive Testing)
- 2003 U.S. National Medal of Technology
- 2003 ICCES Medal, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences
- 2004 Tutorial Citation Award, American Society for Nondestructive Testing
- 2005 U.S. National Medal of Science
- 2005 SPIE-NDE Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2006 Best Paper Award, SPlE’s International Symposium on NDE
- 2008 Member at Large of the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)
- 2009 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2009 "Fellow World Class Universities Program, National Research Foundation of Korea
- 2010 Theodore von Karman Medal
