Hussein M. Zbib
Hussein
M. Zbib earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1981, an
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1983 and a PhD in Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics in 1987 all from Michigan
Tech. In 1988 he was hired as an Assistant Professor in the
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington
State University. He was promoted to Professor in 1998. Currently
he is Interim Director and Professor of the School of Mechanical
and Materials Engineering at Washington State University (WSU)
Pullman, WA. While at Michigan Tech he taught for seven years
as a graduate student, Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor.
He is also the Director of the Computational Mechanics and
Materials Laboratories at WSU.
In 2003 he received the 2003 Computational Mechanics Achievement
Award from the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers for
his distinguished achievements in the field of computational
mechanics. He was named a Fellow of ASME in 2001 which recognizes
exceptional engineering achievement and contributions to the
engineering profession. Other awards include the 1994 Research
Excellence Award from the College of Engineering at WSU, the
1994 and 2000 Research Award from the School of Mechanical
and Materials Engineering at WSU, two Japanese Fellowships,
the NSF Research Initiation Award, and a NATO Fellowship.
He is very active professionally and serves on a number of
national and international committees. He was selected as
the Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials
and Technology in 1997. He is a member of the Advisory Board
of the International Journal of Plasticity, Member of the
Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
A, in 2000, Member of the International Advisory Board: Materials
Science Research International in Japan 2001, Review Committee
Member of the “Revue de Mecanique Appliquee et Theorique,
Morocco Society of Mechanics Science.” He is the chair
of the joint ASME MD-AMD Committee on Constitutive Equations.
His publication record includes six edited books and over
160 technical articles. He and wife, Marcia, reside in Pullman,
WA.
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