IFToMM
International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science
Honors and awards: distinguished figures in IFToMM
by Marco Ceccarelli, IFToMM President 2008-2011 and 2016-19; Teun Koetsier, Secretary AW 2008-2011; prof Erwin Lovasz , Secretary AW 2016-2019
The honors and awards bestowed by IFToMM on its colleagues are an important and valuable method of showing appreciation for outstanding contributions madetoward increasing technical knowledge, improving understanding, or achieving a noteworthy scientific application.
IFToMM Honorary Membership
Honorary Membership within IFToMM hasbeen established as a part of the IFToMM
Constitution to recognize a lifetime ofaccomplishments in machine andmechanism science for engineers andscientists with international reputations
whom the Federation wishes to honor.

Living Honorary Members
1. Jorge Angeles (Canada)

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2. Bernard Roth (USA)
3. Emilio Bautista Paz (Spain)2

4. Hong Sen Yan (China-Taipei)
5. Enrique Chicurel-Uziel (Mexico) 3
6. Teun Koetsier (Netherlands)
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2011 IFToMM honorary memberswith the IFToMM President

IFToMM Dedicated Service Award
The IFToMM Dedicated Service Awards are presented by the Federation tohonor persons who have provided dedicated voluntary service marked by
outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged andcommitted service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness in the international
activities of IFToMM.

Recipients

Karl Wohlhart (Austria) 1999
Jozef Wojnaroski (Poland) 2018
P. A. Lebedev (Russia) 1999
Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli (Italy) 2018
Gerhard Bögelsack (Germany) 1999 Ce Zhan (China-Beijing) 2018
Ladislav Pust (Czech Rep.) 1999
Chitta Amarnath (India) 2018
Giovanni Bianchi (Italy) 2004
Elisabeth Filemon (Hungary) 2004
Jammi S. Rao (India), 2004
Terry E. Shoup (USA) 2007
Neville F. Rieger (USA) 2007
Tian Huang (China-Beijing) 2009
Alberto Rovetta (Italy) 2010
Manfred Husty (Austria) 2010
Ying Chien Tsai (China-Taipei) 20102010 IFToMM Dedicated Service Award
Hanfried Kerle (Germany) 2011
to professor Manfred Husty (Austria)
Ken Waldron (USA) 2012
Alexander Golovin (Russia) 2013
Carlos Lopez-Cajùn (Mexico) 2014
Andrés Kecskeméthy (Germany) 2015
Joseph Rooney (UK) 2015
Miroslav Václavík (Czech) 2015
Ion Vişa (Romania) 2015
Moshe Shoham (Israel) 20182018 IFToMM Dedicated Service Award
to professor Moshe Shoham (Israel)Shuo-Hung Chang (China-Taipei) 2018

IFToMM Award of Merit
The IFToMM Award of Merit recognizes
an exceptionally significant achievementin the science of machines andmechanisms as preferably linked toIFToMM activities.

Recipients

Shigeo Hirose (Japan) 2004
Teun Koetsier (Netherlands) 2004
Toshiro Higuchi (Japan) 2007
Justo Nieto Nieto (Spain) 2007
Florea Dudiţă (Romania) 2009
Atsuo Takanishi (Japan) 2010
Zhen Huang (China-Beijing) 2010
Rafael Aviles (Spain) 2010
Jean Pierre Merlet (France) 2011
Javier Garcia De Jalon (Spain) 2011
Faydor L. Litvin (USA) 2014
Clément Gosselin (Canada) 2018
Qiang Huang (China-Beijing) 20192010 IFToMM Award of Meritto professor Zhen Huang (China-Taipei)

Fellowship status

Started in 2018a recognition mainly of scientific merit in the fields of MMS
life-long recognition to active participants in IFToMM scientific activity
under responsibility of MOs to state link to MO/IFToMM