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.
Dr. Ramulu Mamidala is a mechanical engineering professor at University of Washington. Usually goes by the name 'Ram',or 'M.R.',he is recognized for his leadership and outstanding record in promoting collaborative education and research with industry. He is currently the director of Manufacturing Science and Technology Laboratory (MSTL) at Mechanical Engineering Department,University of Washington. He has designed and developed manufacturing methods for a wide range of systems,from the B2 bomber to the Boeing 787. Additionally,in collaboration with industry,he established and directed two interdisciplinary graduate educational programs in engineering and management and a certificate program in composites tooling and manufacturing. His exemplary collaborative efforts motivated working engineers to pursue doctoral studies and he is a leader in using emerging technologies in distance education to reach non-traditional students.
John Graham Ramsay was a British structural geologist who was a professor at Imperial College London,the University of Leeds and the University of Zurich.
Satya Atluri was an Indian American engineer,educator,researcher and scientist in aerospace engineering,mechanical engineering and computational sciences,who was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of California,Irvine. Since 1966,he made fundamental contributions to the development of finite element methods,boundary element methods,Messless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) methods,Fragile Points Methods,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,digital Twins of Aerospace Systems,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]
Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham is a British materials scientist. From 2012 to 2017 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society.
Anthony Glyn Evans was Alcoa Professor of Materials,professor of Mechanical Engineering,director of the Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures and co-director for the Center for Collaborative Engineering Research and Education at the University of California,Santa Barbara,United States.
Jan Drewes Achenbach was a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. Achenbach was born in the northern region of the Netherlands,in Leeuwarden. He studied aeronautics at Delft University of Technology,which he finished with a M.Sc. degree in 1959. Thereafter,he went to the United States,Stanford University,where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1962. After working for a year as a preceptor at Columbia University,he was then appointed as assistant professor at Northwestern University.
Frederick Michael Burdekin is a British civil engineer,and emeritus professor at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Manchester.
Ares J. Rosakis,Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He was also the fifth Director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,known as (GALCIT),and formerly known as Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory,and was the Otis Booth Leadership Chair,of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science.
Palle Rama Rao FREng is an Indian scientist noted for his contribution to the field of Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy. He has collaborated and conducted research activities for over dozen universities and associations all over India and abroad. He has been honoured with the titles of Padma Vibhushan in 2011 by president of India for his contributions to scientific community. He is acting as the chairman,Governing Council,International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy &New Materials (ARCI),Hyderabad.
The A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize was awarded annually from 1965 to 2021 by the Institute of Materials,Minerals and Mining in commemoration of Alan Arnold Griffith.
Dame Molly Morag Stevens is Professor of Biomedical Materials and regenerative medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.
Yonggang Huang is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University.
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.
Robert Oliver Ritchie is the H.T. and Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of California,Berkeley and senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is responsible for teaching and research in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London,occupying the City &Guilds Building at the South Kensington campus. The department has around 45 faculty members,600 undergraduates,and 250 postgraduate students. The department ranks 8th in the QS World University Rankings's 2018 table.
Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil &Systems Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He is the founding director of the JHU Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulation (CISMMS) and was the director of an Air Force Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM). Prior to his appointment at JHU,Ghosh was the John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science &Engineering at Ohio State University. He is a fellow of several professional societies,including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Daniele Dini FREng FIMechE CEng is an Italian/British Mechanical Engineer. He is a Professor of Tribology at Imperial College London,where he is Head of the Tribology Group. Tribology is the science and engineering of friction,lubrication and wear.
Robert Maxwell McMeeking is a Scottish-born engineer. He is currently Tony Evans Distinguished Professor of Structural Materials and of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California,Santa Barbara. McMeeking has been widely recognized for his contributions to applied mechanics for which was awarded the 2014 Timoshenko Medal. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,National Academy of Engineering and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
