1/31/2022
Professor Arif Masud is the 2022 recipient of the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Professor Arif Masud is the 2022 recipient of the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, given by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education. Masud is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the theory of Stabilized and Variational Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics.
“It is a great honor for me to be associated with Ted through this award that bears his name,” Masud said. “I knew Ted since my days as a graduate student at Stanford and have a fond memory in this picture that was taken at a conference in Palo Alto, California, in 1992”.
Belytschko, who died in 2014, was Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, and a world authority in the field of computational mechanics.
Masud is the John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor and the Robert H. Dodds Faculty Scholar. His research interests are highly cross disciplinary, with an emphasis on the development of new classes of stabilized and variational multiscale methods for a wide range of problems in fluid and solid/structural mechanics, biofluid dynamics, nonlinear material modeling in additive manufacturing and numerical methods for physics-constrained machine learning. He is President-Elect of the Society of Engineering Science 2023, and Vice-President of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE.