Honors, Awards and Service
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Honors and Awards
- Editor, Acta Mechanica (1985-2020)
- Editor-in-Chief, ASME Journal
of Engineering Materials and Technology (1992-97)
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (elected 1990)
- Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics (elected 1997)
- Honorary Life Member, Society of Engineering Science (conferred 2013)
- William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Science, for "his outstanding research contributions in theoretical solid mechanics" (2013)
- Prager Medal Symposium in honor of George Weng.
https://www.brown.edu/Conference/ses2013/
a 3-day, 55-paper symposium at the Joint SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME Applied Mechanics Summer Conference, Brown University, July 28-31, 2013
- Special issue of Acta Mechanica for the Weng symposium, Vol. 225, Issue 4-5, Apr l, pp. 965-1502, 2014
- Biography of the Prager Medalist: Professor George Weng.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00707-013-1044-6
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Prager Medal Lecture: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00707-013-1042-8 on "Micromechanics and Some Aspects of Phase Fields in Ferroelectric Crystals"
- Opening Lecture, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mechanics and Materials Conference, Sapporo, Japan, Sept. 2-5, 1992
- Plenary Lecture, the 3rd International Conference on Mechanics and Materials in Design, Orlando, FL, May 29-31, 2000
- Plenary Lecture, the 3rd International Conference on Integrity, Reliability and Failure, Porto, Portugal, July 20-24, 2009
- University of Hong Kong Visiting Research Professor Scheme 2010-2013 (one of only two international scholars appointed after a university-wide open nomination across all disciplines)
- Wikipedia biography for George J. Weng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George J. Weng
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ASME Leadership and University Service
- ASME Chairman of the Executive Committee, Materials Division (Member of the Executive Committee 1989-94; Division then had 12,000 primary and secondary members out of the total 120,000 ASME memberships)
- ASME Chairman, Materials Division Program Committee, Winter Annual
Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 25-30, 1990
- ASME Co-Chairman, Joint Applied Mechanics and Materials Divisions Summer Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, April 28-May 1, 1992
- ASME Chairman, Materials Division 75th Anniversary Lectures, IMECE, San
Francisco, CA, November 12-17, 1995
- ASME Chairman, Constitutive Equations Committee (1989-91)
- ASME National Nominating Board (1992-94)
- ASME Materials and Structures Technical Group Operating Board
(1993-96)
- ASME Board of Editors (1992-97)
- Rutgers University Committee on Standard and Priorities of Academic Development (CSPAD), Rutgers (1994-97)
- Rutgers University Strategic Plan Implementation Committee, Engineering (1995-1997)
- Rutgers University Middle States Accreditation Steering Committee, Rutgers (1996-98)