Robert Maxwell McMeeking

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http://english.imr.cas.cn/news/upcomingevents/201412/P020141209414255391117.doc Robert M. McMeeking earned a B.Sc. (with 1st Class Honours) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 1972, finishing first in his class of mechanical engineers. In 1976 he completed his Ph.D. in solid mechanics at Brown University under the supervision of Professor James R. Rice. He was at Stanford University for 2 years as a post-doctoral associate, and then was appointed assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department. McMeeking moved to UCSB in 1985 as Professor of Materials and of Mechanical Engineering. He was Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB in 1992-1995 and again during 1999-2003. He has published over 230 scientific papers on such subjects as plasticity, fracture mechanics, computational methods, glaciology, tough ceramics, composite materials, materials processing, powder consolidation and sintering, ferroelectrics, structural evolution, nanotribology, actuating structures, blast and fragment protection of structures, fluid structure interactions arising from underwater blast waves, and the mechanics of the cell and its cytoskeleton. In 1998 he was advanced to Fellow grade in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and in 2002 was recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as a Highly Cited Researcher in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. McMeeking was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005, and given the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal by Brown University in 2007. He is currently Editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics for the term 2002-2012. In addition to his appointment at UCSB, Dr. McMeeking is Sixth Century Professor of Engineering Materials (Part-time) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Visiting Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of the Saarland, Germany, and External Member of the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbruecken.
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