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Teaching (University of Pennsylvania), the 1997 Freudenstein
Award for significant accomplishments in mechanisms and
robotics, the 2012 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award,
the 2012 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished
Service Award, a 2012 World Technology Network Award, a
2014 Engelberger Robotics Award, and the 2017 IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society George Saridis Leadership
Award in Robotics and Automation.
HONORING SYMPOSIA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 9:45am–11:30am;
1:45pm–3:30pm; 3:45pm–5:30pm, Room 324
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Topic 10-60 Symposium in Honor of Prof. Frank Kreith
This Symposium is organized in honor and memory of the late
Professor Frank Krieth, NAE, ASME Honorary Member, ASME
Medal and to celebrate his life, legacy, and the many years of
service and contributions in heat transfer, solar energy,
alternative energy, and sustainability, which have bridged
research in mechanical engineering with applications in most
other engineering disciplines.
HONORING SYMPOSIA
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
1:45pm–5:30pm, Room 326 the areas of sandwich structures and multilayered composites
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Topic 9-8 Kirti (Karman) Ghia Celebration of Life
Symposium
Over the past five decades, Professor Kirti (Karman) Ghia
made significant contributions to ASME, AIAA, and APS fluids
activities through his research publications, conference and
session organization, and committee administration. Karman
was an effective teacher and researcher of Computational
Fluid Dynamics and has published extensively on a number
of topics. We as a community were saddened to learn of
Karman’s passing on June 13, 2017, following a sudden
illness. This symposium has been organized to celebrate his
life as a distinguished member of our fluids community.
HONORING SYMPOSIA
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
3:45pm–5:30pm, Room 318
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Topic 7-9 Pre-College (K-12) STEM, RET – University,
School and Industry Alliance (In Honor of Late Professor
Devdas Pai)
This topic welcomes K-12 outreach efforts by universities and
their industry partners. Modules of research and principles of
engineering presented to the middle and high school students
and teachers will be particularly beneficial to the audience.
Similarly, outreach to high school students in the form of
innovative engineering activities on college campuses can also
be presented to the peers attending the sessions. Research
Experiences for Teachers would be appropriate under this
topic.
HONORING SYMPOSIA
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
8:55am–12:35pm, Room 306
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Topic 3-6 Lightweight Sandwich Composites and Layered
Structures – (In Honor of Prof. Frostig)
This symposium will bring together prominent investigators in
honoring the outstanding contribution of Professor Yehoshua
(Shuki) Frostig from the Technion – Israel Institute of
Technology to applied mechanics in general, and particularly,
to higher-order theories of sandwich structures. Theoretical
models developed by Professor Frostig provide an accurate
analytical tool to characterize the global and local response
of sandwich structures, accounting for realistic deformations
in the core. These contributions have been verified and
universally accepted for the characterization of the response
of sandwich structures to both global and local loads. The
colleagues of Professor Frostig will present their original work
pertinent to the areas of his research in acknowledgement of
his original and valuable studies that have a lasting and
prominent effect in our field of mechanics.
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