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Eringen Medal

American award in engineering science

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ14847932 ↗
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The A. C. Eringen Medal or Eringen Medal is an award given annually by the Society of Engineering Science (SES) to an individual "in recognition of sustained outstanding achievements in Engineering Science". This award was established in 1976. The actual award consists of a medal and an honorarium.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eringen Medal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.