Ahmet Cemal Eringen
(February 15, 1921 – December 7, 2009
) was a Turkish engineering scientist. He was a professor at
Princeton University
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and the founder of the Society of Engineering Science.
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together with Harold Liebowitz and Warren Perry Mason in 1975. The
Eringen Medal is named in his honor.
Education
Eringen was born in
Kayseri
Kayseri () is a large List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. Historically known as Caesarea (Mazaca), Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since anc ...
, Turkey and studied at the
Technical University of Istanbul
Istanbul Technical University, also known as Technical University of Istanbul (, commonly referred to as İTÜ), is an public technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university dedicated to engin ...
and graduated with a
diploma
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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
Glenn L. Martin Company
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and in 1945 was group leader at the Turkish Air League Company. He continued his studies at the
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
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in
New York City
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where he received his doctorate in
applied mechanics in 1948
under the supervision of
Nicholas J. Hoff.
Academic life
He became assistant professor at the
Illinois Institute of Technology
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in 1948, associate professor in 1953 and professor in 1955 at
Purdue University
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. He was appointed as professor of
aerospace
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and
mechanical engineering
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at
Princeton University
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in 1966. He became professor of
continuum mechanics
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in the departments of ''
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and
geological engineering'' and ''the program in
applied and
computational mathematics
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. He retired in 1991 as the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University
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and died in 2009. Eringen had been married since 1949 and had four children.
Research areas
His work deals with continuum mechanics
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Continuum mec ...
, electrodynamics
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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)](_blank)
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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
i
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
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1921 births
2009 deaths
Istanbul Technical University alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Purdue University faculty
Illinois Institute of Technology faculty
Princeton University faculty
Engineering academics
Turkish mechanical engineers
Turkish materials scientists
American materials scientists
American academics of Turkish descent
Turkish emigrants to the United States