SES oversees several awards and honors to members and eminent scholars of the field. A total of six medals are offered on an annual basis as well as election to Fellow grade of the Society
The prize is in the form of a medal, the Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal, and an award of $1000. The prize is awarded to a promising early-career researcher whose work has already had an impact in his/her field within the engineering sciences. Eligible candidates must have received their PhD or equivalent degree in the last 10 years at the time of the nomination deadline. Exceptions, at the discretion of the SES board of directors and on a case-by-case basis, may be made for researchers who have encountered a significant career disruption. In 2024, the SES Young Investigator Medal was renamed the Huajian Gao Young Investigator Medal.
The deadline for submitting nominations is September 1st.
For outstanding contributions in understanding the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous and architected materials using a combined experimental and theoretical approach, leading to new design insights for structural applications.
Grace X. Gu
Yuheng Hu
Baoxing Xu
Arend van der Zande
Ximin He
Cunjiang Yu
Arezoo Adrekani
Grace Zhang
Jia-Liang Le
Sinan Keten
Yihui Zhang
Oscar Lopez-Pamies
Xuanhe Zhao
Teng Li
Liping Liu
Ting Zhu
Markus Buehler
Julia Greer
Xi Chen
Ioannis Chasiotis
Mihri Ozkan
Horacio Espinoza
Yonggang Huang
Huajian Gao
Kaushik Bhattacharya
L. Mahadevan
Yuheng Hu
Baoxing Xu
Arend van der Zande
Ximin He
Cunjiang Yu
Arezoo Adrekani
Grace Zhang
Jia-Liang Le
Sinan Keten
Yihui Zhang
Oscar Lopez-Pamies
Xuanhe Zhao
Teng Li
Liping Liu
Ting Zhu
Markus Buehler
Julia Greer
Xi Chen
Ioannis Chasiotis
Mihri Ozkan
Horacio Espinoza
Yonggang Huang
Huajian Gao
Kaushik Bhattacharya
L. Mahadevan