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Poitiers, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, the
Universidad de Sevilla, and other institutions. He has worked
on algorithms for differential equations, especially boundary
value problems, with application to dynamical systems. He is
the original author of the software AUTO for the bifurcation
analysis of dynamical systems.
D’Alembert Award
Technical Committee on
Multibody Systems and Nonlinear
Dynamics
This award was established to
recognize lifelong contributions to the
field of multibody system dynamics.
Javier Garcia de Jalón
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Biographical Description: Professor Javier García de Jalón
was born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1949. He graduated in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Navarre at San
Sebastián (Spain) in 1971, and received his Ph.D. in September
1977 in Computational Mechanics. In 1977 he moved to the
School of Engineering of Bilbao, where he started his work in
kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems, becoming a full
professor on Mechanisms and Machines in 1980. In 1979 he
started the development of the so-called “natural coordinates”, a
system of generalized coordinates that bypasses the use of
angles to describe the configuration of a multibody system. These
coordinates seamlessly connect the kinematics and dynamics of
multibody systems with finite-element models and optical motioncapture
systems. Since their initial formulation, these coordinates
have found numerous applications, including to the study of
flexible bodies and biomechanics. In 1981 Prof. García de Jalón
returned to San Sebastián and until 2000 he worked in the
Applied Mechanics Department of the University of Navarre and
CEIT (Centre of Technical and Research Studies of Gipuzkoa),
where he served as Professor, senior Researcher, and Head of
the Department. In 2000 he moved to the Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, where he is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the
Mechanical Engineering School. He also works for INSIA
(University Institute for Automobile Research), where he develops
methods and software for real time simulation, design, and
parameter identification of vehicles. Prof. García de Jalón has
authored over 80 papers in international Journal and
Conferences. In 1994 he co-authored with Prof. Bayo the book
“Kinematic and Dynamic Simulation of Multibody Systems -The
Real Time Challenge-”, that mostly summarizes the theory on
natural coordinates and penalty methods as a way to enforce
kinematic constraints. He has supervised 19 doctoral
dissertations, among them seven university professors. In a 1987
talk at the VIIth IFTóMM World Congress on the Theory of
Machines and Mechanisms, in Seville (Spain), he presented a
multibody kinematic and dynamic program that ran interactively
with realistic CAD models on one of the first 3-D graphic
workstations. This was the starting point for a large activity of
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research and consulting work for many institutions, including the
ESA (European Space Agency), Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., and
other Spanish and European institutions.
Earl H. Dowell
Duke University
AWARDS AND MEMORIAMS
Lyapunov Award
Technical Committee on Multibody
Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics
This award was established to
recognize lifelong contributions to
the field of nonlinear dynamics.
Biographical Description: Prof. Earl H. Dowell received his
B.S. degree from the University of Illinois and his S.M. and Sc.D.
degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before
coming to Duke as Dean of the School of Engineering, serving
from 1983-1999, he taught at M.I.T. and Princeton. He has also
worked with the Boeing Company. Currently he serves on
boards of visitors of Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Princeton University, University of Illinois and the
University of Rochester. He is a consultant to government,
industry and universities in science and technology policy and
engineering education as well as on the topics of his research.
Dr. Dowell is an elected member of the National Academy of
Engineering, an Honorary Fellow the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Mechanics and the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. He has also served as Vice President for
Publications and member of the Executive Committee of the
Board of Directors of the AIAA, as a member of the United
States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Air Force Studies
Board, the AGARD (NATO) advisory panel for aerospace
engineering, as President of the American Academy of
Mechanics, Chair of the US National Committee on Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics and as Chairman of the National
Council of Deans of Engineering. From the AIAA he has received
the Structure, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, the
Von Karman Lectureship and the Crichlow Prize; from the
ASME he has received the Spirit of St. Louis Medal and Den
Hartog Award; and he has also received the Guggenheim Medal
which is awarded jointly by the AIAA, ASME, AHS and SAE. Dr.
Dowell research ranges over the topics of aeroelasticity,
nonsteady aerodynamics and nonlinear dynamics. In addition
to being author of over two hundred research articles, Dr. Dowell
is the author or co-author of four books, “Aeroelasticity of Plates
and Shells”, “A Modern Course in Aeroelasticity”, “Studies in
Nonlinear Aeroelasticity” and “Dynamics of Very High
Dimensional Systems”. His teaching spans the disciplines of
acoustics, aerodynamics, and dynamics.