Ahmet Cemal Eringen (February 15, 1921 – December 7, 2009) was a Turkish engineering scientist. He was a professor at

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and the founder of the Society of Engineering Science.''Ahmed Cemal Eringen'' was elected a fellow of the Society of Engineering Science
together with Harold Liebowitz and Warren Perry Mason in 1975. The Eringen Medal is named in his honor.

Education

Eringen was born in

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, Turkey and studied at the

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and graduated with a

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degree in 1943 and then worked for the Turkish Aircraft Co. until 1944. In 1944–1945, he was a trainee at the

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and in 1945 was group leader at the Turkish Air League Company. He continued his studies at the

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where he received his doctorate in

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in 1948 under the supervision of

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Academic life

He became assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1948, associate professor in 1953 and professor in 1955 at

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. He was appointed as professor of

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and

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in 1966. He became professor of

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in the departments of '' civil and geological engineering'' and ''the program in applied and

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. He retired in 1991 as the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at

and died in 2009. Eringen had been married since 1949 and had four children.

Research areas

His work deals with

, electrodynamics of continua and material theories.

Awards

In 1981 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow (D.Sc.). In 1973 he received the Distinguished Service Award and the 1976 as named in his honor A. C. Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, whose president he was in 1963 to 1973.A. Cemal Erigen - Society of Engineering Science (SES)
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Writings

Nonlocal Continuum Field Theories, Springer Verlag, 2002

Microcontinuum Field Theories, volume 1, Springer Verlag, 1999

Microcontinuum Field Theories II Fluent Media 1st Edition, Springer 2001
* with Erhan Kıral
Constitutive Equations of Nonlinear Electromagnetic-Elastic Crystals, Springer Verlag, 1990
* with Gérard A. Maugin
Electrodynamics of Continua, 2 volumes, Springer Verlag, 1989

Continuum Physics (Editor): Continuum Physics, 4 volumes, Academic Press, 1974-1976
* with Erdoğan S. Suhubi
Elastodynamics, volume 1, Academic Press, 1974-1975
* with Erdoğan S. Suhubi
Elastodynamics: Linear Theory volume 2, Academic Press, 1974-1975

Foundations of Micropolar Thermoelasticity: Course held at the Department for Mechanics of Deformable Bodies July 1970 (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences) 1970th Edition

Theory of Micropolar Elasticity
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Microcontinuum Field Theories, Springer Verlag, 1970

Mechanics of Continua, Wiley, 1967

Nonlinear Theory of Continuous Media, McGraw Hill, 1962
* with Roy C. Dixon
A dynamical theory of polar elastic dielectrics, 1964

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eringen, Ahmed Cemal Istanbul Technical University alumni Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni Purdue University faculty Illinois Institute of Technology faculty Princeton University faculty Engineering academics Mechanical engineers 1921 births 2009 deaths Turkish materials scientists American materials scientists American academics of Turkish descent Turkish emigrants to the United States