September 26, 2013
Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes was selected as one of the first fellows of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), a relatively new institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers dedicated to serving the engineering community through the development and application of engineering mechanics.
The inaugural fellows included recipients of awards administered by EMI since its founding in 2007, and the members who served on the executive committee of the former Engineering Mechanics Division and on the board of governors of EMI.
Hughes was EMI’s 2009 Theodore von Karman Medalist.
He is professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, holder of the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III, and leader of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) Computational Mechanics Group.
His research interests are in computational mechanics, isogeometric analysis, stabilized and variational multiscale methods, phase-field modeling, cardiovascular bioengineering, complex fluids and turbulence.
Hughes is one of the most widely cited authors in scientific computing. He has received numerous national and international awards for his research. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Hughes has received honorary doctorates from the following universities: A Caruna, Louvain, Pavia, Padua, Trondheim, and Northwestern.
