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During the last 35 years, Satya Atluri has taught and conducted research at several universities: University of California, Irvine (Theodore von Karman Chair in Aerospace Engineering); UCLA(Distinguished Professor); Georgia Tech (Institute Professor, Hightower Chair in Engineering, and Regents’ Professor of Engineering), MIT (Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics), and others. He is also an honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China; Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea.

During his 35 years he has mentored more than 225 doctoral and post doctoral researchers, who currently occupy very senior positions in academia, industry, and government, in various parts of the world. Several of his former students have organized events in honor of his 60th birthday, in Japan and in India, in 2005. Some of his former students have instituted the “Satya N. Atluri Chair in Aerospace Engineering”, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

In 2000, the Science Citation Index( ISI) identified him as one of the 100 most highly cited researchers in all branches of engineering, and continues to list him  in that category ( www.isihighlycited.com).

In 2005 , his research  on the Meshless MLPG Method has been cited as a “ Fast Moving Front”,  in the Category of  Computer Science, by the Institute of Scientific Information (http://www.esi-topics.com/fmf/january2005.html). This list of Fast Moving Fronts was generated by a comparison of data in the periods January 1, 1999 to June 30, 2004 and January 1, 1999 to August 31, 2004.

In 2004 , his  research on meshless & MLPG methods has been Ranked 3 out of 108  ((sorted by citations) in   RESEARCH FRONTS RANKINGS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, in a 11 year period ending 31 December2003

http://www.in-cites.com/analysis/03-sixth-com.html#Highly%20Cited%20Papers

Some awards which he received, include: Distinguished Alumnus, Indian Institute of Science; The HILBERT MEDAL;  the Excellence in Aviation Award, from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; President’s National Medal of Technology Distinguished Service Award, from the US Secretary of Commerce; Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, from AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics); Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials(SDM) Medal from the AIAA; The SDM Lecture Award, from the AIAA; Honorary Technical Editor, Aeronautics & Astronautics,  Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO; The Cemal Eringen Medal in Engineering Science from the Society of Engineering Science; Technical Achievement Award, from the US National Academy of Engineering; The Aerospace Structures & Materials Medal, from the American Society of Civil Engineers; “Excellence in Computational Mechanics” Medals from Greece and Japan; Fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science; The ICES Gold Medal; Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) degrees from the National University of Ireland, and the Slovak Academy of Sciences; Sustained Research Award from the Society of Sigma-Xi; Distinguished Professor Award of 1986 , from Georgia Tech; Outstanding Researcher Award from Georgia Tech, 1986 & 1990; Midwestern Mechanics Lecturer; Southwestern Mechanics Lecturer; and others. 

During the last 35 years, he has organized and chaired several symposia. He has served the engineering profession in various ways: 1. He was a Member, and then the Chair of the US President’s National Medal of Technology Selection Committee (1992-1998), and received a commendation from the US Secretary of Commerce, for his distinguished service on this committee; 2. He was a Member of the FAA advisory Committee on Aviation Safety( 1994-1998), and he received the “ Excellence in Aviation Award” from the FAA in 1998, for his work on assuring the structural integrity of aging aircraft; 3. He organized several workshops to promote research at the interfaces of engineering & the sciences, involving ( and on behalf of ) the USA National Academy of Engineering, the White House Office of  Science & Technology Policy, FAA, NASA, and the Office of the President of the University of California. Some of the most recent initiatives include: i. Preserving the US Superiority in Civil Aviation (Beckman Center of the National Academies, Oct 2004); ii. Mechanics & Chemistry of Biosystems (Beckman Center, March 2004); and, iii. Nanotechnology in Materials by Design (Beckman Center, March 2005); 4. He was Chair of the Computational Mechanics Committee of the ASME, during 1983-85; and 5. He Chaired the Peer-review Committees for selecting the Members of the National Academy of Engineering, and served on several NRC panels pertaining to US national policies in engineering.

He has founded 5 journals in the frontier disciplines of engineering, especially at the interfaces of science & engineering. He has served on the boards of 20 other journals. The journals that he founded include: Computational Mechanics; Computer Modeling in Engineering & the Sciences; Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics; Structural Integrity & Health Monitoring; and Computers, Materials & Continua. All these journals have received world-wide acclaim.

Professor Atluri is a Fellow of the American Acdemy of Mechanics(1980); Fellow of ASME(1986); Fellow of AIAA(1991); Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture(1993); Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India(1991); Fellow of the US Association for Computational Mechanics(1993); Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics(1998); Honorary Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2002); Member of the National Academy of Engineering(USA)(1995): Foreign Fellow of the India National Academy of Engineering(1996); Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences(2002); and Fellow of the Third-World Academy of Sciences, Trieste(2003).

Professor Atluri has authored or edited 45 monographs, and has published more than 750 archival papers in the general discipline of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

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