Ken P. Chong
PhD, PE, F.ASME, Hon.M.ASCE
Research Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
The George Washington University
Thursday, November 13, 3pm
801 22nd Street NW, Phillips Hall 736
Washington, DC 20052
Hosted by: Dr. James Lee ([email protected])
Nano science and engineering is one of the frontiers in transformative and translational research. Led by NSF over the past decade, converging interdisciplinary areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) offer the potential of improving human lives as well as society well-being and productivity. Nanotechnology is a very efficient way in the creation of new
materials, devices and systems at the molecular level which requires simulation in the multi-scale mechanics. Smart materials, energy and sustainability on the other hand have also seen new advances. Mechanics is the common thread among these interdisciplinary areas. Research and challenges in nanotechnology, NBIC converging technologies, simulation-based engineering and sciences, multi-scale systems, energy,
smart materials and other related areas are to be presented.
Ken P. Chong, Ph.D.,P.E, was the former Interim Division Director, Engineering Advisor, and Program Director of Mechanics and Materials at the National Science Foundation (NSF), until 2009. Currently he is a Research Professor at George Washington University, and an associate at NIST. He earned a Ph.D in Mechanics from Princeton
University in 1969. He specializes in wave propagation, solid mechanics and materials, nano-mechanics, smart structures and structural mechanics. He has been the principal investigator of over 20 federally funded research projects (from NSF, DOD, DOE, DOI, etc). He was a senior research engineer with the National Steel Corp. for 5
years after graduation from Princeton. After that he has been a professor for 15 years at a state university. He has published 200 technical papers, authored 4 textbooks on mechanics and edited 10 books. He was the editor of the Elsevier Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, 1987-2013. He is co-editor of the UK journal of Smart and Nano Materials, a Spon book series on mechanics and structures as well as serving on several other editorial boards. Currently he is also assisting the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and University Grants Committee as an Engineering panelist. He has given over 50 keynote lectures, the Mindlin and Sadowsky Lectures, received awards including the fellow of ASME, AAM, SEM, Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award; Honorary Doctorate, Shanghai University; Honorary Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology;
Distinguished Member, ASCE; NSF highest Distinguished Service Award, AWU-DOE Outstanding Academic and Professional Achievement Award, and the ASME Belytschko Mechanics Award. He is the ASME Thurston Lecturer for 2014.