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Texas A&M engineer Reddy elected AIAA Fellow

Texas A&M mechanical engineer Reddy named AIAA Fellow

Texas A&M mechanical engineer Reddy named AIAA Fellow

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor Dr. J.N. Reddy has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Reddy holds the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering and has joint appointments in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Civil Engineering. Reddy also serves as the coordinator of the Mechanics and Materials (MEMA) interdisciplinary program between the departments of aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering.

Reddy's research focuses on the analysis of laminated composite plates and shells; health-monitoring of composite structures with damage; thermo-mechanical analysis of functionally graded materials plates and shells using shear deformation theories; multi-scale analysis of carbon nanotube-reinforced composite materials and formulation and numerical simulation of biomedical problems; numerical modeling of surface damage in polymers; and the development of robust and efficient computational technology for the solution of problems of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and solid and structural mechanics.

Reddy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Aeronautical Society of India (ASI), the American Society of Composites (ASC), the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM), the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Reddy's honors include serving as editor-in-chief for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, the International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, and the International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. He is series editor for Computational Mechanics and Applied Mathematics.

Among his honors are the 2004 ASC Distinguished Research Award, the 2004 Dow Chemical Best Paper Award, the 2003 USACM Computational Solid Mechanics Award, the 2001 Award for Excellence in Education and Research from the Telugu Association of North America (TANA), the 1998 ASME Nathan M. Newmark Medal, the 1995 ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award and the 1992 ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal. He also received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from ASEE in 1997, the Technical Achievement Award of the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE in 1983.

His Texas A&M honors include winning the Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Research Award in 2003 and the Lockheed Martin Fort Worth Company Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002, the Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award in 2002 and the Distinguished Achievement in Research Award in 2000 from the Association of Former Students.

Reddy has authored over 320 journal papers and 14 books on the finite element method, composite materials, plates and shells, and variational methods. He received his bachelor of engineering from Osmania University (India) and his master's degree from Oklahoma State University, both in mechanical engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in engineering mechanics.

The AIAA will spotlight Reddy and other new Fellows at the Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala May 11 in Washington, D.C. AIAA and its board of directors bestows the honor of Fellow to members who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

For more information, contact

Source: Dr. J.N. Reddy
jnreddy@shakti.tamu.edu

Reporter: Bonnie L. Shortner
teeswriter1@tamu.edu

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