Joseph Bramah Medal 2018 winner announced

The 2018 Jospeh Bramah Medal is awarded to Professor Kim Stelson, University of Minnesota.

The 2018 Joseph Bramah Medal was presented to Professor Kim Stelson by Mechatronics, Informatics and Control Group Board member Professor Andrew Plummer. 

The IMechE Joseph Bramah Fund, which was established in 1968 at the instigation of Mr Frank Towler, a Fellow of the Institution, commemorates Joseph Bramah, the inventor of the hydraulic press in 1795.  It is awarded for outstanding achievement tending to advance the science of mechanical engineering, particularly in the field of hydraulic engineering.
The presentation took place at the Awards Banquet as part of the ASME/Bath Fluid Power and Motion Control Conference, Sarasota, Florida, on 8 October.  

Professor Stelson founded and directed for eleven years (2006-2017) the multi-university Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, creating a renaissance in fluid power research and education in the USA. This Centre has attracted considerable support from the USA’s National Science Foundation and the hydraulics and pneumatics industry, and continues today to be the major organisation in the USA motivating scientific research in the field of hydraulics. Prof Stelson has degrees from Stanford and MIT, and has been in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota since 1981.