He was a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and founder of the Laboratory for Experimental Stress Analysis.
Max Mark Frocht had moved from Congress Poland to the United States in 1912, settling in Detroit where he worked as a machinist and tool maker.
as an instructor and returned to the Carnegie Institute of Technology as a professor in 1931 after completing his Ph.D.[4] Frocht served on the mechanical engineering faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1946 to 1960 and then directed the university's Laboratory for Experimental Stress Analysis.
[9] Since 1975, in the extremenly rare case that a new Honorary Member is named who is not already a Fellow that automatically also receive that title.
The Society for Experimental Mechanics initiated the M.M Frocht Award in his honor in 1967 to recognize outstanding achievement as an educator in the field of experimental mechanics, with Frocht being the inaugural recipient in 1968.