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THE WORCESTER REED WARNER MEDAL was established in 1; ; 0 and is awarded
for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering. Contributions
may be single papers; treatises or books; or a series of papers.
ISAAC ELISHAKO; ; ; Ph.D.; distinguished research professor; department of ocean
and mechanical engineering; ; lorida Atlantic - niversity; ; oca Raton; and visiting
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Dr. Elishakoff has been a member of the tenured
faculty at ; lorida Atlantic - niversity ;; A- ;; ; oca
Raton; since 1; ; 1. Currently he is distinguished
research professor in the department of ocean and
mechanical engineering. He is also a visiting distinguished
professor in the faculty of civil engineering at
Technion–Israel Institute of Technology; Haifa.
Previously Elishakoff was a professor of aeronautical
engineering ;1; ; ; –; ; ; at Technion; where he was a
faculty member since 1; ; 2. He was the inaugural
holder of the ; rank M. ; reimann chair professorship of
aerospace and mechanical engineering ;1; ; ; –; ; ; and
the Henry ;. Massman ;r. chair professorship of civil
engineering ;1; ; ; –; ; ; at the - niversity of Notre Dame
;South ; end; Ind.;; a visiting Castigliano distinguished
professor at the - niversity of Palermo; Italy ;1; ; 2;; the
inaugural holder of the W.T. Koiter chair professorship at the Delft - niversity of Technology;
the Netherlands ;2000;; where he also was previously an associate professor
;1; ; ; –; 0; and a visiting professor ;1; ; 0;1; ; 1;; an eminent scholar at the ; ei;ing
- niversity of Aeronautics and Astronautics ;200; ; and at Hunan - niversity; China
;201; ;; and a Royal Academy of Engineering distinguished visiting fellow at the
- niversity of Southampton; - .K. ;201; ;.
Elishakoff is the author; co-author or editor; co-editor of 2; books published by
prestigious publishing houses including Cambridge - niversity Press; Oxford - niversity
Press and Imperial College Press. He has also published more than ; ; 0 ;ournal
articles covering both fundamental and applied contributions in stochastic mechanics;
elastic stability; deterministic and random vibrations; non-probabilistic modeling of
uncertainty; structural reliability and semi-inverse problems.
Since 1; ; ; Elishakoff has been general advisory editor for publications on vibration;
stability and reliability for the series “Studies in Applied Mechanics; and “Developments
in Civil Engineering; ;Elsevier Science Publishers; - .K.;. He serves on the
advisory editorial board for the Springer book series “Risk Engineering; and is scientific
editor of the series “Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics; ;ISTE-Wiley
Publishers; London;.
Elishakoff has given over 200 lectures; including ; ; invited and 20 keynote; plenary
lectures; at national and international meetings and seminars. He has organized
international conferences; and coordinated several special courses at CISM–the
International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in - dine; Italy.
An ASME ; ellow; Elishakoff organized several symposiums; served as associate
editor of the !::l3/. ! /-2an3-!!/!3/A!; and published three books with ASME Press.
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