Alma mater is an allegorical Latin phrase used to identify a school,college or university that one formerly attended or graduated from.
The University of Bologna is a public research university in Bologna,Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (studiorum),it is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world,and the first degree-awarding institution of higher learning. At its foundation,the word universitas was first coined. With over 90,000 students,it is the second largest university in Italy after La Sapienza in Rome.
Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short,when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and executed,general mechanics becomes applied mechanics. It is this stark difference that makes applied mechanics an essential understanding for practical everyday life. It has numerous applications in a wide variety of fields and disciplines,including but not limited to structural engineering,astronomy,oceanography,meteorology,hydraulics,mechanical engineering,aerospace engineering,nanotechnology,structural design,earthquake engineering,fluid dynamics,planetary sciences,and other life sciences. Connecting research between numerous disciplines,applied mechanics plays an important role in both science and engineering.
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz was a British academic of Polish descent,mathematician,and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham,England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since his first paper in 1947 dealing with numerical approximation to the stress analysis of dams,he published nearly 600 papers and wrote or edited more than 25 books.
Federico Zeri was an Italian art historian specialised in Italian Renaissance painting. He wrote for the Italian newspaper La Stampa,and was a well known television-personality in Italy.
Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at the Oden Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Hughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge,Thomson Scientific Company.
Satya Atluri is an American engineer,educator,researcher and scientist in aerospace engineering,mechanical engineering and computational sciences,who is currently the Presidential Chair &University Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. Since 1966,he made fundamental contributions to the development of finite element methods,boundary element methods,Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) methods,Fragile Points Methods (FPM),Local Variational Iteration Methods,for general problems of engineering,solid mechanics,fluid dynamics,heat transfer,flexoelectricity,ferromagnetics,gradient and nonlocal theories,nonlinear dynamics,shell theories,micromechanics of materials,structural integrity and damage tolerance,Orbital mechanics,Astrodynamics,etc.
Junuthula N. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor,Regent's Professor,and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University,College Station,Texas,USA.[1] He is an authoritative figure in the broad area of mechanics and one of the researchers responsible for the development of the Finite Element Method (FEM). He has made significant seminal contributions in the areas of finite element method,plate theory,solid mechanics,variational methods,mechanics of composites,functionally graded materials,fracture mechanics,plasticity,biomechanics,classical and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics,and applied functional analysis. Reddy has over 620 journal papers and 20 books and has given numerous national and international talks. He served as a member of the International Advisory Committee at ICTACEM,in 2001 and keynote addressing in 2014.[2][3]
Epoka University (EU) is a private university founded in 2007 in Tirana,Albania. The university received accreditation by the Quality Assurance Agency of Higher Education in 2011. It offers Bachelor,Master of Science,Professional Master and PhD degrees. There are six PhD programs that are administered solely by Epoka staff in:Architecture,Civil Engineering,Computer Engineering,Economics,Political Science and International Relations and Business Administration. It offers a joint degree with Leeds Metropolitan University.
Marco Amabili is a professor who holds the Canada Research Chair in Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interaction,Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University,Montreal,Québec,Canada.
Bologna Business School is the business school of the University of Bologna.
Renéde Borst is a Dutch civil engineer who is known for his work on computational mechanics and fracture mechanics. Since January 2016 he is the Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
Fondazione Bologna University Press (BUP) is an associate publisher of the University of Bologna (Italy).
Tarun Kant,an institute chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai since December 2009,was born on 1 July 1946 in Ballia,Uttar Pradesh,India. He received a BSc degree from Allahabad University in 1962,a B.Tech (Hons.) degree in civil engineering from IIT Bombay in 1967 and an M.Tech in civil engineering,specializing in structural engineering,from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1969. Kant spent about 18 months at a consulting engineering firm in Mumbai before becoming a lecturer at IIT Bombay in January 1971. He received a PhD degree in 1977. Kant became an assistant professor in 1978 and a professor in 1986. At IIT Bombay,he has been a department head (2000–2002),dean of planning (2001–2003) and chair of the Joint Entrance Examination (1998) and the Central Library (1995–1999).
Isaac Elishakoff is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department in the Florida Atlantic University,Boca Raton,Florida. He is an authoritative figure in the broad area of mechanics. He has made several contributions in the areas of random vibrations,solid mechanics of composite material,semi-inverse problems of vibrations and stability,functionally graded material structures,and nanotechnology.
Alberto Quadrio Curzio is an Italian economist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at UniversitàCattolica del Sacro Cuore,Milan,President Emeritus of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and President of the International Balzan Foundation "Prize".
Romano Volta is an Italian businessman who is the executive chairman and founder of Datalogic,an Italian company manufacturing barcode readers,mobile computers,radio-frequency identification,sensors for detection,and other electronic equipment.
The European Society for Structural Integrity (ESIS) is an international non-profit engineering scientific society. Its purpose is to create and expand knowledge about all aspects of structural integrity and the dissemination of that knowledge. The goal is to improve the safety and performance of structures and components.
Jean-François Molinari is a French-Swiss engineer and scientist specialised in the numerical modeling of the mechanics of materials and structures. He is a full professor and the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Giovanni Molari is an Italian engineer and academic,whose research has focused on mechanised agriculture and livestock machinery. He has served as rector of the University of Bologna since 1 November 2021.
