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MechSE Distinguished Seminars: Fall 2007
The Aisinjioro-Soo Lecture
The Influence of Mechanical and Biologic Stimuli on Bone Formation, Repair and Regeneration
Thursday, October 11 (4:00pm) in room 100 Material Science and Engineering Building
Professor Steve Goldstein
(University of Michigan)
Professor Goldstein, the University of Michigan Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for contributions to the understanding of bone micromechanical and remodeling behaviors and their translations into gene therapies and fracture fixations. The author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, he has received the Excellence in Orthopaedic Research Award from Kappa Delta, the Y. C. Fung Young Investigator Award and H. R. Lissner Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Marshall Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research from the Orthopaedic Research Society. Professor Goldstein has served as chair of the Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and as chair-elect of the College of Fellows of the Association Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University in 1976, and completed M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in bioengineering at the University of Michigan, in 1
Alwin Schaller Distinguished Lectureship
Mechanical Engineering Education at MIT: Some Recent Experiments
Thursday, November 8 (4:00pm) 100 Material Science and Engineering Building
Professor Rohan Abeyaratne
(MIT)
Rohan Abeyaratne is the Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. A fellow of ASME and the American Academy of Mechanics, his contributions to education have been recognized by MIT's Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award and a MacVicar Fellowship. He has served on the editorial boards of the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal for Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, and the International Journal for Mechanical Engineering Education, and on numerous national and international academic advisory boards that include those for the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University, the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Science in Leipzig. He is current President of the American Academy of Mechanics, and his primary research interest is in nonlinear phenomena in mechanics. He is co-author of the book, Evolution of Phase Transitions (Cambridge University Press), and the ebook, Lecture Notes on the Mechanics of Elastic Solids: Volume 1 – A Brief Review of Some Mathematical Preliminarie.