Srinivasa awarded ASME Warner Medal
Published Sep 09, 2019
Dr. Arun Srinivasa has been named recipient of the 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Worcester Reed Warner Medal.
The medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering through single papers, treatises or books, or a series of papers. The contributions “should be progressive ideas relating to engineering, scientific and industrial research associated with mechanical engineering; the design and operation of mechanical and associated equipment; industrial engineering or management, organization, operation, and the concomitants of each; or other subjects closely associated with those mentioned,” according to the ASME.
Srinivasa is a professor in the Texas A&M at Qatar Mechanical Engineering Program and holds the Holdredge/Paul Professorship in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He will accept the award on 12 Nov. during the 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA).
Srinivasa earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. His research interests are in the simulation and optimization of materials processing, impact and dynamics of continua, nonlocal and cosserat theories, biomechanics and the foundations of continuum thermodynamics. He has been author or co-author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been co-author of three books, as well as several articles on engineering education. Several of his students are faculty in various colleges around the world.
He teaches a wide range of courses in mechanics and design, both at the undergraduate level and the graduate level, as well as freshman engineering. His educational interests include the incorporation of technology into education and the development of quantitative design and decision-making activities as the foundation of engineering education. He has won the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching both at the college and university levels; the BP award for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M; the Halliburton Professorship for scholarly excellence and contributions to engineering; the outstanding graduate teaching award; the William Keeler Faculty Fellowship; and the Benjamin Dasher award for Best Paper at the annual American Society for Engineering Education Frontiers in Education Conference.
The ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal was established in 1930 by Worcester Reed Warner, ASME charter member and president.