Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award

The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor the Institute bestows upon a graduate, and is in recognition of "a particular achievement of noteworthy value, a series of such achievements, or a career of noteworthy accomplishment." Selections are made by a faculty and alumni committee and confirmed by the Board of Trustees. Since the award's inception in 1966 Caltech has recognized a total of 221 alumni as standouts in science, engineering, business and the arts.

Here's a distinguished alumnus chosen randomly:

Max L. Williams

Dean emeritus of the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Max L. Williams, Jr. retired from the University in 1990 as Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering, Emeritus. He had previously served as Professor of Aeronautics on Caltechżs faculty in the 1950s. The founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Fracture, he concentrated his research and industrial consulting activities in the field of general materials behavior and structural mechanics and design, with a specific interest in both cohesive and adhesive fracture.

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