Stephen Harry Crandall is professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

 at MIT. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1946 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials until his retirement in 1991 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/jun12/24775.html. He was a prolific author of texts in solid mechanics

Solid mechanics

Solid mechanics is the branch of mechanics, physics, and mathematics that concerns the behavior of solid matter under external actions . It is part of a broader study known as continuum mechanics. One of the most common practical applications of solid mechanics is the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation...

, numerical methods, and random vibration

Random vibration

In mechanical engineering, random vibration is motion which is non-deterministic, meaning that future behavior cannot be precisely predicted. The randomness is a characteristic of the excitation or input, not the mode shapes or natural frequencies...

. His mentor at MIT was J. P. Den Hartog

J. P. Den Hartog

Jacob Pieter Den Hartog was professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He enrolled at TU Delft in 1919 and received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1924...

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He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal

Timoshenko Medal

The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to an individual"in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics."...

http://www.imechanica.org/node/183 in 1990 "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DE163BF931A35756C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all.

Publications

Crandall, Stephen H., Dahl, Norman C. -Editors, An Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1959)

Crandall, Stephen H., Engineering Analysis. A Survey of Numerical Procedures, ISBN 9780070134300 ISBN 0070134308, (1956)

Crandall, Stephen H., Random Vibration, MIT PRESS, ISBN 9781124069777, ISBN 112406977 (1959)

External links

• Acceptance speech for Timoshenko medal