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Tezduyar

Tayfun E. Tezduyar

 James F. Barbour Professor





 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, 1978

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, 1982

Contact Information

tezduyar@rice.edu 
Office: MEB MS 321 
713.348.6051
Fax 713.348.5423

Brief History:

6/82 -   1/83 Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
1/83 -   9/87 Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
9/87 -   9/91 Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
9/91 -   6/97 Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
1/94 - 10/98 Director, Army High Performance Computing Research Center
6/97 - 10/98 Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota
7/98 - James F. Barbour Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University
1/99 -   6/04 Chairman, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University
2/01 -   5/01 Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
4/04 -   7/04 Visiting Professor and Chair of International Cooperation, Tokyo Institute of Technology



Honors and Awards:

1986 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1994 Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1996 Best Paper in High Performance Computing Session, 20th Army Science Conference
1996 Commander's Educational Award for Excellence, US Army Soldier Systems Command
1997 Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota
1997 Computational Mechanics Award, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
1997 Computational Fluid Dynamics Award, US Association for Computational Mechanics
1998 Endowed Chair, James F. Barbour Professor, Rice University
1998 Computational Mechanics Award, International Association for Computational Mechanics
1998 Best Paper in High Performance Computing Session, 21st Army Science Conference
1999 Fellow, US Association for Computational Mechanics
2000 Visiting Fellowship, Science and Technology Agency, Japan
2001 Visiting Professorship, University of Tokyo, Japan
2001 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa), Slovak Republic
2002 Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics
2002 Corresponding Member, Executive Council, International Association for Computational Mechanics (2002-2010)
2004 Visiting Professorship and Chair of International Cooperation, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
2004 Editor, Computational Mechanics, Springer
2004 Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
2006 Member, Executive Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME (2006-2011)



National and International Committees:

Executive Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2006-2011.
Timoshenko Medal Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2006-2016.
Warner T. Koiter Medal Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2006-2016.
Daniel C. Drucker Medal Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2006-2016.
Applied Mechanics Award Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2006-2011.
Young Investigator Award Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2006-2011.
Executive Council (Corresponding Member), International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2002-2010.
Awards Committee, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2002-2010.



Editorial Boards:

Editor, Computational Mechanics, Springer, 2004- .
Managing Editor, Computational Mechanics, Springer, 1995-1999.
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 2000-2006.
Associate Editor, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, World Scientific, 2004- .
CFD Editor, Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE, 1993-1997.
Editorial Board, Computational Mechanics, Springer, 1989-1999.
Editorial Board, International Video Journal of Engineering Research, Wiley, 1990-1994.
Editorial Board, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley, 1992- .
Editorial Board, Visualization of Engineering Research, Wiley, 1995-1997.
Editorial Board, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Elsevier, 1997- .
Editorial Board, Journal of Visualization, IOS Press, 1998- .
Editorial Board, Parallel Computing, Elsevier, 2000- .
Editorial Board, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2003- .


Research:

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