Sia Nemat-Nasser Honored
at two-day symposium
"Modeling and Experiments in Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials"

November 14-15, 2007 - MAE Distinguished Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser was honored at ASME, November 14-15, by a symposium, "Modeling and Experiments in Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials – In Honor of Prof. Sia Nemat-Nasser and his Contributions in Constitutive Equations," as part of the 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Seattle Washington.

This was the fourth symposium in his honor. The first was a special two-day international symposium on "Deformation Characteristics and Modeling of Materials" in Sendai, Japan, 1996, the second, a three-day symposium on "Experiments and Modeling of Failure of Modern Materials" in San Diego as part of the MechMat2001 Conference, June 2001, and the third at the Society of Engineering Science 39th Annual Technical Meeting, October 2002, for receiving the Prager Medal.

Academic Connections
Summer Outreach Program

Summer, 2007 - CEAM MAE graduate students teach a mechanical engineering course as part of UCSD's 2007 Academic Connections summer outreach program to high-school students. Instructor Kristin Schaaf and teaching assistant Christian Nielsen taught a mechanical engineering course entitled 'Operating at the Interface between Science and Society: Mechanical Engineering'.... (continued)

June 5, 2007 - Sia Nemat-Nasser was awarded the 2007 B.J. Lazan Award from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, Inc. The award recognizes Sia for his outstanding original technical contributions to experimental-theoretical contributions to the characterization and multi-scale modeling of polymer-metal composites, geomaterials, ceramics, crystalline metals, and the creation of novel composites.