Established in 1983, the ASME Board of Governors created the ASME Dedicated Service Award (DSA) to honor unusual dedicated voluntary service to the Society marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness.

This year’s awardee was Marcelo Dapino, who was recognized for his extensive record of service to the ASME Division on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems. This record includes many leadership positions he has held over the years within the Division and for the ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference, as well as serving as the primary nominator of ASME Fellows for the Division.

The award was formally presented at the ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference held in Austin, Texas on September 11-13, 2023.

Yitong Zhou, Marcelo Dapino, and Leon Headings were awarded Honorable Mention for the paper, “Modeling of Soft Robotic Grippers Integrated With Fluidic Prestressed Composite Actuators,” published in ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics.

The Best Paper Award is selected by the JMR Editor and Editorial Board recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of mechanisms and robotics. The paper was one of three publications selected by the Journal for recognition among 275 articles they published in 2022.

Yitong received both a Master of Applied Statistics and a Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering in December 2020. She is currently an assistant professor in the Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering at South China University of Technology. Congratulations Yitong!

Announcing the 2022 Best Paper Award and Honorable Mentions

Last week, Anthony successfully defended his master’s thesis titled, “Characterization of the delta-E effect in Metglas with application to stiffness tunable diaphragm pumps” in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Anthony joined SMSL in September 2021. We wish Anthony all the best in his new career path.

Well done, Anthony!

Gowtham Venkatraman’s paper was selected as Editor’s Choice Article in MDPI Crystals, as featured on Twitter. Gowtham is a recent PhD graduate and former member of the Smart Materials and Structures Lab.

“Editor’s Choice articles are based on recommendations by the scientific editors of MDPI journals from around the world. Editors select a small number of articles recently published in the journal that they believe will be particularly interesting to readers, or important in the respective research area. The aim is to provide a snapshot of some of the most exciting work published in the various research areas of the journal.”

The paper can be downloaded here:  https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12121696