Alan Needleman, 2018 Honorary Member

Alan Needleman, 2018 Honorary Member Alan Needleman, 2018 Honorary Member Alan Needleman, 2018 Honorary Member Alan Needleman, Ph.D., a college recognized educator and a TEES (Texas AM Engineering Experiment Station) recognized research teacher in the division of materials science and designing at Texas AM University in College Station, is regarded for spearheading research in the fields of computational mechanics and computational materials science. Dr. Needleman earned his lone wolves degree in mechanical designing from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1966 and his lords qualification in building from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 1967. In the wake of finishing his Ph.D. in building at Harvard in 1970, he went through five years in applied science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Brown University in Providence, R.I. Following his retirement from Brown in June 2009, he moved to the materials science and designing division at the University of North Texas in Denton. In January 2015 he left UNT to join the Texas AM personnel. Dr. Needlemans commitments incorporate the improvement of a flexible break computational philosophy, the advancement of strong surface techniques for crack investigation and the production of a structure that empowers utilizing discrete separation versatility to tackle general limit esteem issues. An ASME Fellow, Dr. Needleman was an individual from the Applied Mechanics Divisions Executive Committee (1995-2000; seat 2000) and filled in as partner manager of the Journal of Applied Mechanics (1998-2004). He got the Societys Daniel C. Drucker Medal in 2006 and Timoshenko Medal in 2011. Dr. Needleman is an individual from the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his different distinctions, he got a Guggenheim association in 1977 and the Society of Engineering Sciences William Prager Medal in 2006. He additionally holds privileged doctorates from the Technical University of Denmark and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France, and he is a privileged educator of Dalian University of Technology in China. Video profile delivered and composed by Roger Torda and altered by Juan Yepes. The copyright of this program is claimed by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.