Dr. Somnath Ghosh Receives Distinguished Scholar Award

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Mechanical engineering Professor Somnath Ghosh has been honored with the 2007 Distinguished Scholar Award from The Ohio State University (OSU). An international leader in the field of multiple-scale computational modeling of behavior and the failure of heterogeneous materials, Dr. Ghosh specializes in computational mechanics and finite element methods, multi-scale modeling of composite and polycrystalline materials, nano-scale modeling, metal forming and biomaterials, and failure and reliability of aerospace and automotive materials.

Many of Dr. Ghosh's contributions to finite element methods are seminal, including the development of the Voronoi Cell finite element method, which represents a groundbreaking contribution to the analysis of heterogeneous materials. Professor Ghosh is also credited with pioneering work on adaptive multi-scale modeling techniques that have had a wide-ranging impact in the automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing industries, as well as in the design of prosthetic implants.

The OSU Distinguished Scholar Award, established in 1978, recognizes exceptional scholarly accomplishments by senior professors who have compiled a substantial body of research, as well as the work of younger faculty members who have demonstrated great scholarly potential. Recipients are nominated by their departments and chosen by a committee of senior faculty, including several past recipients of the award. Distinguished Scholars receive a $3,000 honorarium and a research grant of $20,000 to be used over the next three years.

Dr. Ghosh's excellence as an educator has been recognized by a number of other honors, including OSU's Lumley Research Award and the Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. He serves on the editorial board of six journals related to computational mechanics, and he is a member of the executive council of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the American Society for Metals International (ASMI).

The Mechanical Engineering Department congratulates Dr. Ghosh for his excellence as an educator, his outstanding achievements in the field of computational mechanics, and for being chosen as the recipient of this year's Distinguished Scholar Award.

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