South Wales (Australia) before joining George Washington University. He has edited seven books and authored numerous papers in the field of computational mechanics. Currently, he is Chairman of the Committee on Computing in Applied Mechanics, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Satya N. Atluri is Regents' Professor and Director of the Computational Mechanics Center. He earned a Doctor of Science (Sc. D.) degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He has edited/authored 14 books and authored numerous papers in diverse areas of computational mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, a Member of AIAA, and received the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Distinguished Professor Award from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986.