Applied Mechanics Reviews
Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal, published by the American Society for Mechanical Engineering, ASME. The journal serves as a premier venue for dissemination of material across all sub-disciplines of applied mechanics and engineering science, including fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration, and applications. AMR provides an archival repository for state-of-the-art and retrospective survey articles and reviews of research areas and curricular developments. The journal invites commentary on research and education policy in different countries. The journal also invites original tutorial and educational material in applied mechanics targeting non-specialist audiences, including undergraduate and K-12 students.
AMR was founded in 1948 under the editorship of Lloyd Hamilton Donnell. I served as the seventh Editor-in-Chief of the journal between 2012 and 2022. I reported in this capacity to the ASME Technical Committee on Publications and Communications and the Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. In this role, I worked closely with the AMR editorial board to attract high-quality contributions to the journal that would add lasting value to the applied mechanics literature. I also produced the Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Series with full-length, edited audio interviews with leading contributors to applied mechanics and engineering science research, education, and policy.
AMR is a highly ranked journal in the field of applied mechanics. The 2022 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2023) for AMR based on data from 2022 and earlier showed a total of 5,243 citations in 2022. In 2022, the journal's two-year impact factor was 14.3 (up from 11.345 in 2021). Its five-year impact factor was 12.6, up from 10.838 in 2021.
Scopus journal metrics for 2021 show continued improvements in CiteScore (the ratio of the number of citations in the present year to items published in the previous three years, divided by the number of papers published in the previous three years) from 11.2 in 2019 and 12.0 in 2020 to 16.1 in 2021, resulting in an overall twelfth-place ranking of the journal in the category of Mechanical Engineering (out of 601 total sources).
In honor of the trailblazers of the early years of the journal, the biennial Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the applied mechanics archival literature, published in AMR during the preceding two‐year period. In 2022, the award was given to Wang, Y.-F., ang, Y.-Z., Wu, B., Chen, W., and Wang, Y.-S., "Tunable and Active Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials," Applied Mechanics Reviews 72(4), 2020 and Sha, Z., Lin, W., Poh, L.H., Xing, G., Liu, Z., Wang, T., Gao, H., "Fatigue of Metallic Glasses," Applied Mechanics Reviews 72(5), 2020.
Recent initiatives included collaborative issues with the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics and the ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage.
Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational and Research Exchange
The Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational and Research Exchange (INSPIRE) was a strategic academic partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and three leading universities in Stockholm, Sweden, namely, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm University (SU), and Karolinska Institutet (KI). The partnership aimed to develop exchange and collaboration between well-matched, peer institutions across the research, education, and public service pillars by leveraging complementary expertise, access, and opportunity across multiple disciplines.
As co-initiator of this partnership with Anna Stenport and Tim Barnes, I helped co-organize two major research symposia in 2010 (in Urbana, IL) and 2011 (in Stockholm, Sweden) with several hundred participating faculty, including from the Colleges of Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts, Law, and Business, as well as the Beckman Institute, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Institute for Genomic Biology. I also co-organized a presidential summit in 2012 (in Urbana, IL) including the top leadership from all four institutions and with participation by government representatives and civic organizations in Illinois and Sweden and contributed to extensive local and institutional media coverage and marketing to internal and external stakeholders, including by maintaining the INSPIRE website.
My engagement on behalf of the partnership with KTH resulted in a robust study abroad program for undergraduate mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, aerospace engineering, and computer science students from UIUC and the establishment of a collaborative master's program in railway engineering. In 2016, the INSPIRE project was the recipient of the Andrew Heiskell Best International Partnership Award from the Institute for International Education.
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ASME Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics
The purpose of the ASME Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (TC-MSND) is to promote research, application, and education in experimental, symbolic, computational, and analytical activities pertaining to multibody systems and nonlinear dynamics and related technical areas. The committee organizes the biennial ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC) and fosters effective and high-impact dissemination of technical advances to the broader community through the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND).
I was a member of TC-MSND between 2005 and 2017. I contributed directly to the proposal that resulted in the founding of JCND, and served as Associate Editor of the journal between 2005 and 2011. I served as Recording Secretary of the committee between 2009 and 2011, as Vice-chair between 2011 and 2013, and as Chair between 2013 and 2015. I was a leading member of the group that took initiative to the Dynamics for Design (DFD) conference and related activities, jointly sponsored between TC-MSND and the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound, and served as its Program Co-Chair in 2012. I also served as Program Chair for the MSNDC conference in 2011.
Related service to the ASME Design Engineering Division includes my service as Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2009 and 2011 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information Engineering Conference in San Diego, CA, and Washington, DC, respectively, and as General Conference Co-Chair for the 2013 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information Engineering Conference, in Portland, OR.
