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| Vol. 18, No. 6 | Oct. 8, 1998 |
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| Vol. 18, No. 6 | Oct. 8, 1998 |
Two faculty members were honored Sept. 23 at the American Society for Composites (ASC) at its 13th Technical Conference in Baltimore.
Tsu-Wei Chou, Jerzy L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the ASC Distinguished Research Award, and Jack R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the Technomic Award for outstanding contributions in service, applied research and education.
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 Co., a leading publisher of composites-related books, journals and proceedings.
Chou and Vinson both have been active in composites research and education at the University for almost three decades. Vinson, founder of the Center for Composite Materials and the center's first director, taught the first course in composite material structures at UD in the fall of 1969. The following semester, Chou initiated a course on composites with an emphasis on the material aspects of the topic.
"It is fitting that they were recognized together for their long-term contributions to the field by ASC and Technomic," Andras Szeri, interim dean of engineering, said. "They have helped make the University of Delaware one of the world's foremost composites research centers."
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.
"It was a proud moment for me to be present at the banquet and the awards ceremony where faculty from our department were being recognized for their efforts with a standing ovation," Suresh Advani, interim chairperson of mechanical engineering, said.
-Diane Kukich
