Zandman Award

In May, 1989 the SEM Executive Board formally established the Felix Zandman Award. The award honors Dr. Zandman for his extensive work with photoelastic coatings and his support of SEM. The recipient receives an award plaque. Also, a donation is given in the recipient's name to the SEM Education Foundation.

The award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of measurements or applications utilizing photoelastic coatings. The selection will be based upon the best paper published by SEM or any other recognized journal which publishes photoelastic coatings papers. Alternatively, a person who may not have published an outstanding paper, but has distinguished him or herself in other ways in the use of photoelastic coatings may also be nominated. The first recipient to be recognized in 1990 was Alex S. Redner.

Award Guidelines

Past Recipients are:

2012	Krishnamurthi Ramesh
2011	Emmanuel Gdoutos
2010	Philippe Brailly
2009	Terry Yuan-Fang Chen
2008	Michel Taroni
2007	Baruch (Bob) Ziv
2006	John Curtis
2005	Jon Lesniak
2004	E.A. Patterson
2003	I.J. Jones
2001	N. Plouzennec
2000	Loic M. Dejardin
1999	T.W. Corby, Jr.
1998	J.L.F. Freire
1997	S.C. Gambrell, Jr.
1996	R. Slaminko
1994	S.C. Gambrell, Jr.
1993	J. Stupnecki
1992	E.W. O'Brien
1991	W.E. Nickola
1990	A.S. Redner

2012 F. Zandman Award: Krishnamurthi Ramesh

In recognition of his significant contributions through measurements and applications utilizing photoelastic coatings.

K. Ramesh is currently a Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras; as its Chairman during (2005-2009) and formerly a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He received his undergraduate degree from the Regional Engineering College, Trichy (now NIT, Trichy), Postgraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Doctoral Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has made significant contributions to the advancement of Digital Photoelasticity. This has resulted in a Monograph on Digital Photoelasticity- advanced Techniques and Applications, Springer and a chapter on Photoelasticity in the Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics. Organizations such as ARDB, ISRO, DST, and NSF have funded his research. He has pioneered a new paradigm in Engineering Education by writing innovative e-Books on Engineering Fracture Mechanics and Experimental Stress Analysis published by IIT Madras. These books are first of their kind in the world and can be truly called as e-Teachers. He has over 120 publications to date of which two have been reproduced in the Milestone Series of SPIE, co-authored a book on Mechanical Sciences, Narosa Publishing House, India and has contributed a chapter on Experimental Stress Analysis – An Overview, in the book on Optical Methods for Solid Mechanics, Wiley-VCH Verlag. He has also given Video lectures of 40 hrs. each on Experimental Stress Analysis and Engineering Fracture Mechanics as part of the National Program for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), India. He has received several recognitions: Distinguished Alumnus Award of NIT, Trichy (2008), Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2006), President of India Cash Prize (1984). Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journals: Strain (since 2001), Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design (2009-10), Optics and Lasers in Engineering, and Steering committee member of ASEM

For details see : http://apm.iitm.ac.in/smlab/kramesh/index.html