MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSOR AT UH
RECOGNIZED FOR DEDICATED SERVICE
ASME Recognizes Lewis Wheeler in Applied Mechanics Division
HOUSTON, Feb. 25, 2005 – The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) has awarded Lewis Wheeler, a mechanical engineering
professor at the University of Houston, the Dedicated Service Award
for his leadership to the applied mechanics division.
Wheeler received this honor for his contribution to the Journal
of Applied Mechanics as its technical editor. This journal is the
flagship research publication of the ASME and also is the first
of the ASME transaction journals to be dedicated entirely to research.
“All of us in the Cullen College of Engineering congratulate
Dr. Wheeler for this prestigious recognition of his many efforts,”
said Matthew A. Franchek, a professor and chairman of the mechanical
engineering department at UH. “He has been active with ASME
for many years, provided significant leadership to the applied mechanics
division and has given generously of his time as a journal editor.”
Established in 1983 by the ASME Board of Governors, the award recognizes
“unusual dedicated voluntary service,” and recipients
must have at least 10 years of membership in Sections/Regions/Member
Affairs; Codes and Standards; Technical Affairs; Public Affairs;
Education; committees reporting to the Board of Governors; the ASME
Auxiliary; and the ASME Foundation.
An ASME fellow who is well respected in the engineering community,
Wheeler also was awarded the 2002 Dean Claude L. Wilson Award for
lifetime achievements of an outstanding engineering educator.
“He’s been the editor of two journals, which is a prestigious
accomplishment, and the journals were quite successful under his
leadership,” said Charles Dalton, a UH mechanical engineering
professor who also attended UH with Wheeler as an undergraduate.
“He is highly respected, and his peers have recognized his
service and dedication to applied mechanics.”
Wheeler graduated from UH with Bachelor of Science and Master of
Science degrees in mechanical engineering and received his doctorate
from the California Institute of Technology. He continues to serve
as editor-in-chief of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, a research
journal published by Sage Science Press. Since coming to UH in 1968,
Wheeler also has been active in the UH community, serving as the
mechanical engineering department’s interim chair for two
years and in the Faculty Senate, where he served as president in
2000.
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