Theodore von Karman Medal

The Theodore von Karman Medal in Engineering Mechanics is awarded annually to an individual in recognition of his distinguished achievement in engineering mechanics, applicable to any branch of civil engineering. This award was established and endowed in 1960 in honor of Theodore von Kármán by the Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

List of recipients
Source: ASCE • 1960 William Prager

• 1961 Raymond D. Mindlin

• 1962 Nathan M. Newmark

• 1963 Hunter Rouse

• 1964 Eric Reissner

• 1965 Warner T. Koiter

• 1966 Daniel C. Drucker

• 1967 Maurice A. Biot

• 1968 Lloyd H. Donnell

• 1969 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

• 1970 Wilhelm Flügge

• 1971 Alfred M. Freudenthal

• 1972 Nicholas J. Hoff

• 1973 Hans H. Bleich

• 1974 George W. Housner

• 1975 John H. Argyris

• 1976 Yuan-Cheng B. Fung

• 1977 George Francis Carrier

• 1978 Rodney Hill

• 1979 Henry L. Langhaar

• 1980 George Herrmann

• 1981 Chia-Shun Yih

• 1982 Bernard Budiansky

• 1983 Albert E. Green

• 1984 Stephen H. Crandall

• 1985 Philip G. Hodge

• 1986 Stanley Corrsin

• 1987 Richard Skalak

• 1988 Tung-Hua Lin

• 1989 Egor P. Popov

• 1990 John Dundurs

• 1991 Bruno A. Boley

• 1992 John Tinsley Oden

• 1993 Ronald S. Rivlin

• 1994 Masanobu Shinozuka

• 1995 Ray W. Clough

• 1996 Clifford A. Truesdell

• 1998 Y. K. Lin

• 1999 Ted Belytschko

• 2000 Robert H. Scanlan

• 2001 Anestis S. Veletsos

• 2002 Thomas K. Caughey

• 2003 Pol D. Spanos

• 2004 Theodore Yao-tsu Wu

• 2005 Zdenek P. Bazant

• 2006 George J. Dvorak

• 2007 Chiang C. Mei

• 2008 Siavouche Nemat-Nassar

• 2009 Thomas J. R. Hughes

• 2010 Jan D. Achenbach

• 2012 Franz-Josef Ulm

• 2013 Wilfred D. Iwan

• 2014 James R. Rice

• 2015 Ahsan Kareem

• 2016 Ares J. Rosakis

• 2017 Huajian Gao

• 2018 J. N. Reddy

• 2019 Yonggang Huang

• 2020 Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

• 2021 Fabrizio Vestroni

• 2022 Roger Ghanem

• 2023 Firdaus E. Udwadia