Mar 21, 2006 - Claremont, Calif. -

Professor of Engineering Clive L. Dym has been selected to receive the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award by the Mechanics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

The award recognizes his exceptional contributions to mechanics education and will be presented to him at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago June 18-21, 2006. The award citation states:

For distinguished and outstanding contributions to mechanics education through the authorship of five books on mechanics and structures. The texts on variational methods and stability theory represent some of the first to introduce general energy principles and methods in the continuum context. Professor Dym's texts are known for their clarity of explanation. They cover a wide range of topics and, some being in print for more than three decades, have stood the test of time.

Dym was recognized in 2004 with the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). That award cited his exceptional contributions to design education through widely cited authorship on engineering design, through sponsorship of workshops and conference panels, and through enthusiastic mentoring of engineering students in the art and science of design.

Dym is the creator and organizer of the biennial Mudd Design Workshops, which are the principal activity of HMC's Center for Design Education in the Department of Engineering. Prior to joining HMC, Dym was already internationally known as a scholar in applied mechanics and acoustics, and a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence to the modeling of engineering design tasks. A Fellow of ASME, Dym has published more than 100 archival journal articles, conference proceeding papers and technical reports, and has lectured widely. He has written ten books and has served on the editorial boards of several journals.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at Cooper Union (New York, N.Y.) in 1962, Dym earned his master's in applied mechanics at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1964. In 1967, he earned his doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University (Calif.). Dym is a registered professional engineer in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.