The Greaves-Walker Lifetime Service Award honors a founding member and the first president of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE); currently, the newly formed Education and Professional Development Council (EPDC). It is presented to an individual who has rendered outstanding service to the ceramic engineering profession and who, by life and career, has exemplified the aims, ideals and purpose of EPDC. The award consists of a certificate and a commemorative glass piece. Presentation of the award is made at the ACerS Annual Meeting.
Nomination Process
- An individual or group may nominate one or more candidates who are members of EPDC at the time of nomination.
- Nominations must be returned electronically or by mail no later than January 15th of each year.
- The nominee must be 41 years old or older at the time the award is to be presented.
- Selection of an awardee will be based on the nomination and accompanying evidence of scientific contributions, such as a list of publications, selected abstracts, receipt of other awards or recognition.
- The selection committee may also search for candidates among members of EPDC regardless of nominations submitted.
- Nominations shall remain active for a period of five years.
- Nominations should be submitted using the nomination form found at the link below.
Contact
Erica Zimmerman
ezimmerman@ceramics.org
Award Winners
Dragan Damjanovic
Dragan Damjanovic is a professor emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He earned a BSc in Physics from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Sarajevo in 1980 and a PhD in Ceramics Science from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in 1987. From 1988 to 1991, he worked as a research associate at the Materials Research Laboratory at PSU on piezoelectric and related materials. In 1991, he joined the Ceramics Laboratory in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at EPFL. During his time there, he held the position of “professeur titulaire,” led the Group for Ferroelectrics and Functional Oxides at the Institute of Materials, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the structure and electrical properties of materials. He retired from EPFL in March 2022.
Damjanovic has received several awards for his scientific work, teaching, and service work, including the Wilhelm E. Buessem Award from the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, the Humboldt Research Award, the IEEE Robert E. Newnham Ferroelectrics Award, the IEEE Distinguished Service Award, and the best teacher award from EPFL for his lectures on the properties and applications of electroceramics. He is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and IEEE. He is a member of the Electronics Division of ACerS, from which he has twice received, together with his colleagues, the Edward C. Henry Best Paper Award.
Damjanovic’s research focuses on fundamental and applied investigations of the piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and dielectric properties of a wide range of materials, with a particular focus on emergent electromechanical phenomena in complex materials.