Satya N. Atluri
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Satya Atluri, born in India and a citizen of the USA, is UCI Distinguished Professor, in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI
. His research focuses upon the areas of aerospace
and mechanics
. His professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering. His teaching and research interests at UCI lie in the disciplinary areas of: computational mathematics; theoretical, applied, and computational mechanics of solids and fluids at various length and time scales; computer modeling in engineering and sciences; meshless and other novel computational methods; structural longevity, failure prevention, and health management.
He received Doctor of Science degrees from MIT
( earned, 1969), National University of Ireland
(1988, honoris causa), Slovak Academy of Sciences
(2005, honoris causa), University of Patras, Greece (2007, honoris causa), and University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2009, honoris causa).
He is Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of science, Bangalore.
He previously taught at: UCLA
(Distinguished Professor); Georgia Tech
(Institute Professor, Regents’ Professor of Engineering, and Hightower Chair in Engineering); MIT
(JC Hunsaker Professor); and University of Washington
(Assistant Professor).
He is Tsing Hua Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University
in Taiwan, an Honorary Professor at the University of Patras, Greece, and a World Class University (WCU) Program Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University
, Korea. Previously he was an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University
, Beijing, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
.
He is Fellow of American Academy of Mechanics; Fellow of AIAA
; Fellow of ASME
; Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture, Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India
; Fellow of the Chinese Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, and several other international academic and professional societies.
He was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Engineering
(1996); the India National Academy of Engineering (1997); Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2003, Trieste), Member, European Academy of Sciences
(2002), and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2008).
He served as a Member on, as well as the Chair of the US President’s Committee for National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1992–1998); as a Member of the Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
(1994–1998); Vice-Chair, Peer Review Committee, Aerospace Section, National Academy of Engineering
(1998–2000); Chair, Peer review Committee, Aerospace Section, National Academy of Engineering
, (2000–2002); Member, Committee on Membership, National Academy of Engineering
(2002–2005). He also served on the NRC Panels of the NAS
/NAE
, and Decadal Surveys of Aeronautics for NASA.
Some notable recognitions he received include those from AIAA
( the Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Medal; the Pendray Aerospace Literature Medal and the SDM Lecture Award); from the Federal Aviation Administration
( “Excellence in Aviation Award”); from the ASCE
( the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award); from the Society of Engineering Science ( The Eringen Medal); from ICCES ( the "Hilbert Medal" and the "ICCES Gold Medal"); from JSME, Japan ( the Computational Mechanics Medal); from the Greek National Association of Computational Mechanics( The Computational Mechanics Medal); from JSPS, Japan ( JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo)); from the United States Secretary of Commerce
( Distinguished Service Award, the President’s National Medal of Technology Committee); from Georgia Tech (the second annual Distinguished Professor Award in 1986; and twice the annual Outstanding Researcher Awards, in 1991 and 1993). From Sigma Xi
(the Sustained Research Award); from the Science Citation Index
(one of 100 most highly cited researchers in engineering, 1980–2000); from the National Academy of Engineering
(Technical Achievement Award, 1995). He has been a Midwestern Mechanics Lecturer (1989), as well as a Southwestern Mechanics Lecturer (1987).
He founded and was/is the Editor-in-Chief of many journals: Computational Mechanics (1986–2000); CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, CMC: Computers, Materials & Continua; MCB: Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics; SDHM: Structural Durability & Health Monitoring; SL: Structural Longevity; ACM: Advances in Computational Mechanics. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of many journals, including the AIAA Journal; the Tsinghua Journal of Science & Technology, Taiwan’s Marine Science & Technology, etc.
In 1986, Professor Atluri founded a scientific association, "ICCES: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering & Sciences". ICCES held annual meetings of scientists from various countries in general, and Asia in particular: Tokyo (1986); Atlanta (1988); Melbourne, Australia (1991); Hong Kong (1992); Hawaii (1995); Costa Rica 91997); Atlanta (1998); Los Angeles (2000); Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2001); Reno, Nevada (2002); Corfu, Greece (2003); Madeira, Portugal (2004); Chennai, India (2005); Miami (2007); Hawaii (2008), and Phuket, Thailand (2009). Las Vegas (2010), Nanjing, China(2011).
ICCES has established the Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal
in honor of its Founder. The Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal
was awarded to Subra Suresh of MIT in 2009, to Dr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons of Mumbai in 2010, and to Dr. Guangjing Cao, President, Three Gorges Dam
Groups, China, in 2011.
He is the Founder & Chairman of FSL: A Global Forum on Structural Longevity (Health Management, Failure Prevention, & Infrastructure Rehabilitation).
Over the past 40 years, Professor Atluri has mentored more than 350 doctoral students, post-doctoral scholars, visiting scholars, and visiting professors, from all across the world. All of these occupy important positions (such as university presidents, deans, professors, government agency directors, corporate owners and officers) in governments, industries, and universities around the world.
He has authored or edited 45 monographs, and has published more than 750 archival papers in the general discipline of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
For the past 40 years, his research has been supported by: NSF, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The Army Research Office, The Army Research Labs, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, The Department of Energy, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Edwards Air Force Base, The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and many others.
Further details of his CV may be found at the database of highly cited researchers maintained by ISI.
University of California, Irvine
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. His research focuses upon the areas of aerospace
Aerospace
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and mechanics
Mechanics
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. His professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering. His teaching and research interests at UCI lie in the disciplinary areas of: computational mathematics; theoretical, applied, and computational mechanics of solids and fluids at various length and time scales; computer modeling in engineering and sciences; meshless and other novel computational methods; structural longevity, failure prevention, and health management.
He received Doctor of Science degrees from MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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( earned, 1969), National University of Ireland
National University of Ireland
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(1988, honoris causa), Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovak Academy of Sciences
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(2005, honoris causa), University of Patras, Greece (2007, honoris causa), and University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2009, honoris causa).
He is Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of science, Bangalore.
He previously taught at: UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
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(Distinguished Professor); Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
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(Institute Professor, Regents’ Professor of Engineering, and Hightower Chair in Engineering); MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
(JC Hunsaker Professor); and University of Washington
University of Washington
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(Assistant Professor).
He is Tsing Hua Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University
National Tsing Hua University
National Tsing Hua University is one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan. The university has a strong reputation in the studies of science and engineering. Times Higher Education - World University Rankings is107in the world. Engineering and Science are the best in Taiwan...
in Taiwan, an Honorary Professor at the University of Patras, Greece, and a World Class University (WCU) Program Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University
Pusan National University
Pusan National University is one of ten flagship Korean national universities and a leading university in South Korea...
, Korea. Previously he was an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
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, Beijing, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
KAIST
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, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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.
He is Fellow of American Academy of Mechanics; Fellow of AIAA
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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; Fellow of ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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; Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture, Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India
Aeronautical Society of India
Aeronautical Society of India is the principal Society in India serving the professions in areas of aeronautics, aerospace and aviation. Its stated primary purpose is to "advance the sciences, engineering, technology and management of aerospace, aeronautics and aviation and to foster and promote...
; Fellow of the Chinese Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, and several other international academic and professional societies.
He was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
(1996); the India National Academy of Engineering (1997); Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2003, Trieste), Member, European Academy of Sciences
European Academy of Sciences
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(2002), and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2008).
He served as a Member on, as well as the Chair of the US President’s Committee for National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1992–1998); as a Member of the Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Aviation Administration
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(1994–1998); Vice-Chair, Peer Review Committee, Aerospace Section, National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
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(1998–2000); Chair, Peer review Committee, Aerospace Section, National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
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, (2000–2002); Member, Committee on Membership, National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
(2002–2005). He also served on the NRC Panels of the NAS
United States National Academy of Sciences
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/NAE
National Academy of Engineering
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, and Decadal Surveys of Aeronautics for NASA.
Some notable recognitions he received include those from AIAA
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society , founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society , and the Institute...
( the Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Medal; the Pendray Aerospace Literature Medal and the SDM Lecture Award); from the Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Aviation Administration
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( “Excellence in Aviation Award”); from the ASCE
American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. ASCE's vision is to have engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward...
( the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award); from the Society of Engineering Science ( The Eringen Medal); from ICCES ( the "Hilbert Medal" and the "ICCES Gold Medal"); from JSME, Japan ( the Computational Mechanics Medal); from the Greek National Association of Computational Mechanics( The Computational Mechanics Medal); from JSPS, Japan ( JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo)); from the United States Secretary of Commerce
United States Secretary of Commerce
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( Distinguished Service Award, the President’s National Medal of Technology Committee); from Georgia Tech (the second annual Distinguished Professor Award in 1986; and twice the annual Outstanding Researcher Awards, in 1991 and 1993). From Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi
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(the Sustained Research Award); from the Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index
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(one of 100 most highly cited researchers in engineering, 1980–2000); from the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
(Technical Achievement Award, 1995). He has been a Midwestern Mechanics Lecturer (1989), as well as a Southwestern Mechanics Lecturer (1987).
He founded and was/is the Editor-in-Chief of many journals: Computational Mechanics (1986–2000); CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, CMC: Computers, Materials & Continua; MCB: Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics; SDHM: Structural Durability & Health Monitoring; SL: Structural Longevity; ACM: Advances in Computational Mechanics. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of many journals, including the AIAA Journal; the Tsinghua Journal of Science & Technology, Taiwan’s Marine Science & Technology, etc.
In 1986, Professor Atluri founded a scientific association, "ICCES: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering & Sciences". ICCES held annual meetings of scientists from various countries in general, and Asia in particular: Tokyo (1986); Atlanta (1988); Melbourne, Australia (1991); Hong Kong (1992); Hawaii (1995); Costa Rica 91997); Atlanta (1998); Los Angeles (2000); Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2001); Reno, Nevada (2002); Corfu, Greece (2003); Madeira, Portugal (2004); Chennai, India (2005); Miami (2007); Hawaii (2008), and Phuket, Thailand (2009). Las Vegas (2010), Nanjing, China(2011).
ICCES has established the Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal
Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal
Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal is a Medal awarded annually by and to an individual who has had a significant impact on the world of engineering, the sciences, and commerce, and the well-being of the society at large as a result. This Medal is presented at the Awards Banquet of...
in honor of its Founder. The Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal
Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal
Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal is a Medal awarded annually by and to an individual who has had a significant impact on the world of engineering, the sciences, and commerce, and the well-being of the society at large as a result. This Medal is presented at the Awards Banquet of...
was awarded to Subra Suresh of MIT in 2009, to Dr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons of Mumbai in 2010, and to Dr. Guangjing Cao, President, Three Gorges Dam
Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China...
Groups, China, in 2011.
He is the Founder & Chairman of FSL: A Global Forum on Structural Longevity (Health Management, Failure Prevention, & Infrastructure Rehabilitation).
Over the past 40 years, Professor Atluri has mentored more than 350 doctoral students, post-doctoral scholars, visiting scholars, and visiting professors, from all across the world. All of these occupy important positions (such as university presidents, deans, professors, government agency directors, corporate owners and officers) in governments, industries, and universities around the world.
He has authored or edited 45 monographs, and has published more than 750 archival papers in the general discipline of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
For the past 40 years, his research has been supported by: NSF, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The Army Research Office, The Army Research Labs, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, The Department of Energy, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Edwards Air Force Base, The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and many others.
Further details of his CV may be found at the database of highly cited researchers maintained by ISI.
Selected publications
- Atluri, S.N.: Methods of Computer Modeling in Engineering & the Sciences-, Tech Science Press, (2005) ISBN 0-9657001-9-4 http://www.techscience.com/books/mcmes_vol1.html
- Atluri, S.N.: The Meshless Method(MLPG) for Domain & BIE Discretizations, Tech Science Press, (2004) ISBN 0-9657001-8-6 http://www.techscience.com/books/mlpg_atluri.html
- Atluri, S.N., and Zhu, T.L.: A New Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Approach in Computational Mechanics , Computational Mechanics, Vol.22, pp. 117–127, 1998", http://care.eng.uci.edu/pdf/(98.4).pdf
Selected Honors & Awards
- Excellence in Aviation Award (FAAFederal Aviation AdministrationThe Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...
), 1998 - the Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Medal, (AIAA) , 1988
- the Pendray Aerospace Literature Medal, (AIAA), (AIAA) , 1998
- the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award (ASCEAmerican Society of Civil EngineersThe American Society of Civil Engineers is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. ASCE's vision is to have engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward...
), 1986 - Hilbert Medal (ICCES http://www.icces.org), 2003
- Eringen Medal (Society of Engineering Science), 1995
External links
- Profile at UCI
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- Distinguished Alumni of Indian Institute of Science
- Editor-in-Chief of the journal CMES
- Founding & Honorary Editor of the journal CMC
- Founder & Chairman of FSL: A Global Forum on Structural Longevity (Health Management, Failure Prevention, & Infrastructure Rehabilitation)
- ISI highly cited researchers
- Satya N. Atluri's Selected Archival Publications
- Satya N. Atluri ICCES MedalSatya N. Atluri ICCES MedalSatya N. Atluri ICCES Medal is a Medal awarded annually by and to an individual who has had a significant impact on the world of engineering, the sciences, and commerce, and the well-being of the society at large as a result. This Medal is presented at the Awards Banquet of...