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- ↑ "Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science | News | Professor Ortiz Receives the Timoshenko Medal".
- ↑ "Michael Ortiz - Caltech". www.ortiz.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Timoshenko Medal". www.asme.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ↑ "Honors and Awards". www.usacm.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
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