Mechanical Engineering

Past Speakers

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      Name Institution Topic  

1967

-

68


 

 

 

 

S. H. Crandall

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vibrations

 

 

 

 

L. H. Donnell

Illinois Institute of Technology

Shells

 

 

 

 

D. C. Drucker

Brown University

Plasticity

 

 

 

 

M. Gurtin

Carnegie Mellon University

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

P. M. Naghdi

University of California, Berkeley

Shells

 

 

 

 

Eli Sternberg

California Institute of Technology

Nonlinear Elasticity

 

1968

-

69


 

 

 

 

A. J. Durelli

University of Maryland

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

George Herrmann

Stanford University

Structures

 

 

 

 

R. E. Kalaba

Rand Corporation

Applied Mathematics

 

 

 

 

S. J. Kline

Stanford University

Thermodynamics

 

 

 

 

Walter Noll

Carnegie Mellon University

Thermodynamics

 

 

 

 

R. T. Shield

University of Illinois

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

C. E. Taylor

University of Illinois

Experimental Mechanics/Photoelasticity

 

1969

-

70


 

 

 

 

T. K. Caughey

California Institute of Technology

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

J. W. Dally

University of Maryland

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Y. C. Fung

University of California, San Diego

Biomechanics

 

 

 

 

Richard Gallagher

Cornell University

FEM

 

 

 

 

James Knowles

California Institute of Technology

Elasticity

 

 

 

 

Max Williams

University of Utah

Fracture Mechanics

 

1970

-

71


 

 

 

 

J. D. Achenbach

Northwestern University

Wave Propagation.

 

 

 

 

George Carrier

Harvard University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Ray Clough

University of California, Berkeley

FEM

 

 

 

 

John Gilman

Allied Chemical

Dislocations

 

 

 

 

L. Malvern

University of Florida

Wave Propagation

 

 

 

 

R. S. Rivlin

Lehigh University

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Roger Tanner

Brown University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

William Thomson

University of California, Santa Barbara

Vibrations

 

1971

-

72


 

 

 

 

J. L. Ericksen

Johns Hopkins University

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Walter Herrmann

Sandia National Laboratories

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

H. Markovitz

Carnegie Mellon University

Fluids

 

 

 

 

Robert Plunkett

University of Minnesota

Vibrations

 

 

 

 

Ascher Shapiro

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fluids

 

 

 

 

Richard Skalak

Columbia University

Fluids

 

1972

-

73


 

 

 

 

Rutherford Aris

University of Minnesota

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

G. R. Cokelet

Montana State University

Rheology of Blood

 

 

 

 

J. P. Den Hartog

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vibrations

 

 

 

 

Philip Hodge

University of Minnesota

Plasticity

 

 

 

 

Herbert Kolsky

Brown University

Wave Propagation

 

 

 

 

J. Tinsley Oden

The University of Alabama in Huntsville

FEM

 

 

 

 

Frank Richart

University of Illinois

Seismic Engineering

 

 

 

 

Anatol Roshko

California Institute of Technology

Fluids

 

1973

-

74


 

 

 

 

Charles Babcock

California Institute of Technology

Buckling

 

 

 

 

Howard Brenner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fluids

 

 

 

 

Donald Carlson

University of Illinois

Elasticity

 

 

 

 

Ettore Infante

Brown University

Applied Mathematics

 

 

 

 

Robert Melosh

Duke University

FEM

 

 

 

 

Cesar Sciammarella

Illinois Institute of Technology

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Theodore Wu

California Institute of Technology

Fluid Mechanics

 

1974

-

75


 

 

 

 

Reginald Hardy

Pennsylvania State University

Rock Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Thomas Kane

Stanford University

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Payne

University of Maryland

Applied Mathematics

 

 

 

 

James Rice

Harvard University

Fracture. Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Albert Schultz

University of Illinois, Chicago

Biomechanics

 

 

 

 

George Sih

Lehigh University

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Marvin Stippes

University of Illinois

Elasticity

 

1975

-

76


 

 

 

 

R. L. Fosdick

University of Minnesota

Solid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Y. C. Fung

University of California, San Diego

Biomechanics.

 

 

 

 

L. S. Jacobsen

Stanford University

Vibrations

 

 

 

 

J. L. Lumley

Pennsylvania State University

Fluids

 

 

 

 

P. C. Paris

Lehigh University

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

A. C. Pipkin

Brown University

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Eric Reissner

University of California, San Diego

Plates & Shells

 

 

 

 

M. F. Rubinstein

University of California, Los Angeles

Structural Analysis

 

 

 

 

James Serrin

University of Minnesota

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

C. R. Steele

Stanford University

Shells

 

1976

-

77


 

 

 

 

Ted Belytschko

University of Illinois, Chicago

FEM

 

 

 

 

J. L. Bogdanoff

Purdue University

Probabilistic Mechanics

 

 

 

 

B. A. Boley

Northwestern University

Thermal Stresses

 

 

 

 

Stanley Corrsin

Johns Hopkins University

Fluids

 

 

 

 

G. W. Housner

California Institute of Technology

Seismic Engineering

 

 

 

 

H. W. Liepmann

California Institute of Technology

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Ali H. Nayfeh

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Perturbation Methods

 

 

 

 

S. Nemat-Nasser

University of California, San Diego

Nonlinear Elasticity

 

 

 

 

Jace Nunziato

Sandia National Laboratories

Wave Propagation

 

1977

-

78


 

 

 

 

D. B. Bogy

University of California, Berkeley

Solid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

J. E. Cermak

Colorado State University

Wind Engineering

 

 

 

 

R. H. Gallagher

The University of Arizona, Tucson

FEM

 

 

 

 

R. J. Goldstein

University of Minnesota

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

C. S. Hsu

University of California, Berkeley

Nonlinear Dynamics

 

 

 

 

J. B. Keller

Stanford University

Applied Mathematics

 

 

 

 

J. K. Knowles

California Institute of Technology

Nonlinear Elasticity

 

 

 

 

T. Sarpkaya

Naval Postgraduate School

Fluids

 

 

 

 

R. Skalak

Columbia University

Bio Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

D. N. Wormley

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dynamics

 

1978

-

79


 

 

 

 

R. W. Clough

University of California, Berkeley

Structures

 

 

 

 

S. H. Crandall

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vibrations

 

 

 

 

L. B. Freund

Brown University

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

A. S. Kobayashi

University of Washington

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

P. B. S. Lissaman

Aerovironment, Inc.

Low Speed Flight

 

 

 

 

P. R. Paslay

Consultant

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

E. M. Sparrow

University of Minnesota

Heat Transfer

 

 

 

 

E. L. Wilson

University of California, Berkeley

FEM

 

1979

-

80


 

 

 

 

0. J. Burchett

Sandia National Laboratories

NDE

 

 

 

 

R. M. Christensen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Viscoelasticity

 

 

 

 

F. Erdogan

Lehigh University

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

D. E. Hudson

California Institute of Technology

Seismic Engineering

 

 

 

 

T. J. R. Hughes

California Institute of Technology

FEM

 

 

 

 

D. D. Joseph

University of Minnesota

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

L. Meirovitch

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Vibrations

 

 

 

 

S. Ostrach

Case Western Reserve University

Thermal Fluid

 

1980

-

81


 

 

 

 

A. E. Bryson

Stanford University

Control Systems

 

 

 

 

A. G. Evans

University of California, Santa Barbara

Fracture

 

 

 

 

M. E. Fourney

University of California, Los Angeles

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. E. Green

Johns Hopkins University

NDE

 

 

 

 

Peter Griffith

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fluid/Thermal Transients

 

 

 

 

M. P. Paidoussis

McGill University

Stability of Fluid/Structures

 

 

 

 

E. P. Popov

University of California, Berkeley

Structures

 

 

 

 

R. P. Wei

Lehigh University

Fracture

 

 

 

 

W. W. Willmarth

University of Michigan

Fluid Mechanics

 

1981

-

82


 

 

 

 

S. B. Batdorf

University of California, Los Angeles

Materials

 

 

 

 

R. D. Blevins

General Atomics

Fluid/Structures

 

 

 

 

M. M. Carroll

University of California, Berkeley

PoroñSolid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

B. T. Chao

University of Illinois

Thermal

 

 

 

 

W. D. Iwan

California Institute of Technology

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

W. G. Knauss

California Institute of Technology

Solid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

A. S. Lodge

University of Wisconsin

Rheology

 

 

 

 

T. Nicholas

Wright Patterson AFB

Materials

 

 

 

 

A. K. Oppenheim

University of California, Berkeley

Thermol Fluid, Combustion

 

1982

-

83


 

 

 

 

A. Acrivos

Stanford University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

H. Ashley

Stanford University

Systems

 

 

 

 

R. J. Clifton

Brown University

Dynamic Plasticity

 

 

 

 

E. M. Greitzer

University of Washington

Thermal

 

 

 

 

J. W. Hutchinson

Harvard University

Solid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

F. P. Incropera

Purdue University

Thermal

 

 

 

 

J. T. Jenkins

Cornell University

Granular Mechanics

 

 

 

 

G. Leitmann

University of California, Berkeley

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

W. Pilkey

University of Virginia

Applied Mathematics

 

1983

-

84


 

 

 

 

J. F. Bell

Johns Hopkins University

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

B. Budiansky

Harvard University

Geomechanics

 

 

 

 

M. Van Dyke

Stanford University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

C. L. Dym

University of Massachusetts

Structures

 

 

 

 

J. L. Katz

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Biomechanics

 

 

 

 

F. A. Kulacki

University of Delaware

Thermal

 

 

 

 

F. A. Leckie

University of Illinois

Creep

 

 

 

 

S. V. Patankar

University of Minnesota

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

K. L. Reifsnider

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Composites

 

1984

-

85


 

 

 

 

A. Bejan

Duke University

Thermal

 

 

 

 

E. H. Dowell

Duke University

Aeroelasticity

 

 

 

 

L. B. Freund

Brown University

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Y. K. Lin

University of Illinois

Probabilistic Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. W. MacCormack

University of Washington

CFD

 

 

 

 

F. C. Moon

Cornell University

Chaotic Dynamics

 

 

 

 

C. F. Shih

Brown University

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

L. D. Smoot

University of Utah

Combustion

 

1985

-

86


 

 

 

 

T. L. Geers

University of Colorado

Structural Dynamics

 

 

 

 

C. M. Ho

University of Southern California

Fluids

 

 

 

 

C. K. Law

University of California, Davis

Combustion

 

 

 

 

A. Miller

Stanford University

Materials Science

 

 

 

 

R. Pond

Johns Hopkins University

Materials

 

 

 

 

A. Seireg

University of Wisconsin

Design

 

 

 

 

G. C. Sih

Lehigh University

Continuum Mechanics/Fracture

 

1986

-

87


 

 

 

 

M. J. Balas

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Control of Distributed Systems

 

 

 

 

C. Crowe

Washington State University

Multiphase Flow

 

 

 

 

G. M. Faeth

University of Michigan

Combustion

 

 

 

 

E. Kempl

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Mathematics Behavior

 

 

 

 

K. L. Reifsnider

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Composites

 

 

 

 

R. Rivlin

Lehigh University

Continuum Mechanics

 

 

 

 

F. Rizzo

University of Kentucky

Numerical Methods

 

1987

-

88


 

 

 

 

S. N. Atluri

Georgia Institute of Technology

Large Space Structures

 

 

 

 

R. C. Benson

University of Rochester

Large Deflections of  Structures

 

 

 

 

D. M. Bushnell

NASA Langley Research Center

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. A. Caulk

General Motors Research Laboratories

Fluids

 

 

 

 

G. F. Pinder

Princeton University

Applied Mathematics

 

 

 

 

S. S. Wang

University of Illinois

Composites

 

1988

-

89


 

 

 

 

A. G. Erdman

University of Minnesota

Design

 

 

 

 

H. T. Hahn

Pennsylvania State University

Composites

 

 

 

 

R. McMeeking

University of California, Santa Barbara

Materials

 

 

 

 

A. R. Parkinson

Brigham Young University

Design

 

 

 

 

D. M. Parks

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

J. Shang

Wright Patterson AFB

CFD

 

1989

-

90


 

 

 

 

S. A. Berger

University of California, Berkeley

Biofluid Dynamics

 

 

 

 

D. J. Inman

SUNY Buffalo

Dynamics and Vibration

 

 

 

 

S. L. Phoenix

Cornell University

Composite Fracture

 

 

 

 

J. Sobieski

NASA Langley Research Center

Interdisciplinary  Optimization

 

 

 

 

K R. Sreenivasan

Yale University

Fluids/Chaos

 

 

 

 

A. S. D. Wang

Drexel University

Composite Mechanics

 

1990

-

91


 

 

 

 

A. G. Davenport

University of Western Ontario

Boundary Layer

 

 

 

 

R. Lahey

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

TwoñPhase Flow

 

 

 

 

J. N. Reddy

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Composite Laminate Analysis

 

 

 

 

R. H. Scanlan

Johns Hopkins University

Wind Engineering

 

 

 

 

G. S. Springer

Stanford University

Composites Manufacturing

 

1991

-

92


 

 

 

 

J. D. Buckmaster

University of Illinois

Reactive Fluids

 

 

 

 

G. P. Cherepanov

Florida International university

Fracture Mechanics

 

 

 

 

J. M. Dealy

McGill University

Rheology of Plastics

 

 

 

 

G. J. Dvorak

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Composite Mechanics

 

 

 

 

C. A. Rogers

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Smart Structures

 

 

 

 

C. R. Steele

Stanford University

Mechanics of Hearing/Computational Methods

 

1992

-

93


 

 

 

 

L. Anand

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Constitutive Modelling

 

 

 

 

T. W. Chou

University of Delaware

Composites

 

 

 

 

J. F. Doyle

Purdue University

Experimental Mechanics

 

 

 

 

J. H. FerziGer

Stanford University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. L. Taylor

University of California, Berkeley

Structures

 

1993

-

94


 

 

 

 

Z_ P. Bazant

Northwestern University

Concrete Modelling

 

 

 

 

P. J. Holmes

Cornell University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

E. Kausel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Structures

 

 

 

 

R. J. Moffat

Stanford University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. M. Nerem

Georgia Institute of Technology

Biofluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

B. R. Simon

The University of Arizona, Tucson

Bone Mechanics

 

 

 

 

C. T. Sun

Purdue University

Composites

 

1994

-

95


 

 

 

 

J. Achenbach

Northwestern University

Solid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

A. J. Baker

University of Tennessee

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. Blackwelder

University of Southern California

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

R. Brach

University of Notre Dame

Dynamics

 

 

 

 

D. Davy

Case Western Reserve University

Biomechanics

 

 

 

 

D. Joseph

University of Minnesota

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

B. Wada

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Structures

 

 

 

 

J. Wagner

Johns Hopkins University

Solid Mechanics

 

1995

-

96


 

 

 

 

S. C. Cowin

City College of New York

 

 

 

 

 

C. Crowe

Washington State University

 

 

 

 

 

D. Krajcinovic

Arizona State University

 

 

 

 

 

A. Needleman

Brown University

 

 

 

 

 

J. W. Rudnicki

Northwestern University

 

 

 

 

 

B. F. Spencer, Jr.

University of Notre Dame

 

 

 

 

 

A. G. Ulsoy

University of Michigan

 

 

1996

-

97


 

 

 

 

J. T. Jenkins

Cornell University

 

 

 

 

 

J. N. Juang

NASA Langley Research Center

 

 

 

 

 

A. Ortega

The University of Arizona, Tucson

 

 

 

 

 

S. Suresh

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

1997

-

98


 

 

 

 

D. R. Carter

Stanford University

 

 

 

 

 

M. Gharib

California Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

F. Incropera

Purdue University

 

 

 

 

 

M. Ortiz

California Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

R. O. Ritchie

University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

 

 

M. Tomizuka

University of California, Berkeley

 

 

1998

-

99


 

 

 

 

D. L. Bartel

Cornell University

 

 

 

 

 

J. W. Hutchinson

Harvard University

 

 

 

 

 

W. G. Knauss

California Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

N. S. Nemachchivaya

University of Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

R. Stelton

University of California, San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

R. Viskanta

Purdue University

 

 

1999

-

00


 

 

 

 

A. S. Argon

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

F. Erdogan

Lehigh University

 

 

 

 

 

R. Horowitz

University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

 

 

M. Kaviany

University of Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

V. C. Mow

Columbia University

 

 

 

 

 

S. Nemat-Nasser

University of California, San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

W. N. Sharpe, Jr.

Johns Hopkins University

 

 

 

 

 

R. Shoureshi

Colorado School of Mines

 

 

2000

-

01


 

 

 

 

R. C. Batra

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

 

 

 

 

 

M. Gad-El-Hak

University of Notre Dame

 

 

 

 

 

G. Ravichandran

California Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

R. L. Spilker

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

 

 

 

 

M. W. Spong

University of Illinois

 

 

2001

-

02


 

 

 

 

Costas P. Grigoropoulos

University of California, Berkeley

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Roger D. Kamm

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bioengineering

 

 

 

 

Ali H. Nayfeh

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Dynamics & Control

 

 

 

 

K. T. Ramesh

Johns Hopkins University

Composite Materials

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

David E. Stock

Washington State University

Fluid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Nick Triantafyllidis

University of Michigan

Solid Mechanics

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

John R. Willis

University of Cambridge

Solid Mechanics

ABSTRACT

2002

-

03


 

 

 

 

Jeffrey Fredberg

Harvard University

Biological

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Ronald J. Adrian

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thermal/Fluids

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Arun Majumdar

University of California at Berkeley

Thermal/Fluids

 

 

 

 

Rohan Abeyaratne

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Solid Mechanics

 

 

 

 

Robert H. Dodds, Jr.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Solid Mechanics

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Roger Brockett

Harvard University

Dynamic Control

ABSTRACT

2003

-

04


 

 

 

 

Timothy Wright

Cornell University

BioEngineering

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Leon M. Keer

Northwestern University

Solid Mechanics

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Miroslav Krstic

University of California,
San Diego

Dynamics and Control

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Kyung-Suk Kim

Brown University

Nanomechanics

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Anthony G. Evans

University of California at Santa Barbara

Solid Mechanics

ABSTRACT

 

 

 

Joel Burdick

California Institute of Technology

Robotics

ABSTRACT