Ahmet Şefik Çakmak, Ph.D.

Affiliations:	1957-1962	Department of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	1963-1972	Department of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	1972-1999	School of Engineering and Applied Science	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	1999-2000	Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Area:

Mechanics of dissipative media, analytic methods in structural dynamics, transient flows of liquids through inhomogeneous media, seismic wave scattering and earthquake engineering

Website:

https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/00/0522/p/emeritus.shtml

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Bio:

Ahmet Şefik Çakmak, the grandson of a Turkish field marshal Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak by his mother Nigar Çakmak, received his B.S. in civil engineering from Boğaziçi University, formerly known as Robert College in Istanbul in 1957.
He received his PhD in 1962 from what was then called the Department of Civil and Geological Engineering at Princeton University and became a lecturer there. Named assistant professor the next year, he was promoted to associate and full professor in 1969 and 1972. He was the dean of the school of Engineering and Applied Science during 1991-1999.
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