Highlights
Two University of Delaware
faculty members were honored at the American
Society for Composites (ASC) Thirteenth Technical
Conference, held in Baltimore in September 1998.
Dr. Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the
ASC Distinguished Research Award, and Dr. Jack
R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of
Mechanical Engineering, received the Technomic
Award for outstanding contributions in service,
applied research, and education. Prof. C. T. Sun of Purdue
University was elected as an ASC Fellow. The
awards were presented by Mike Hyer of Virginia
Tech.
1998
Technomic Award Winner Jack R. Vinson and ASC
Award Winner Tsu-Wei Chou flank newly elected ASC
Fellow C. T. Sun. The three were honored at the
13th Technical Conference.
Established in 1988, the
ASC Award has been won by a number of prominent
researchers in the field of composites. The
Technomic Award was established in 1995 and is
given by the Society in conjunction with
Technomic Publishing Company, a leading publisher
of composites-related books, journals, and
proceedings.
Chou and Vinson have both
been active in composites research and education
at the University of Delaware for almost three
decades. Vinson, founder of the University's
world-renowned Center for Composite Materials and
its first director, taught the first course in
composite material structures at Delaware in the
fall of 1969. The following semester, Chou
initiated a course on composites with an emphasis
on the material aspects of the topic.
This is the second year in
a row that the recipients of the two awards were
from the same university. In 1997, Stanford
University's Stephen Tsai and George Springer,
both well-known and oft-cited researchers in the
field, received the Technomic and ASC awards,
respectively.
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