 Professor G. Ravichandran, the John E. Goode, Jr. Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and Director of GALCIT has been elected to the grade of FELLOW in the Society of Experimental Mechanics. Designation as an SEM Fellow is reserved to a select group of individuals that have made notable contributions to the Society and to the field of Experimental Mechanics. The formal presentation of the 2009 Fellow Award will take place at the All-Society Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, June 9, during the 2010 SEM Annual Conference that is scheduled to be held 7-9 June 2010 in Indianapolis, Indiana. 06.17.09
Congratulations to our GALCIT Graduates!
The Aeronautics Ph.D. Candidates for 2009 are: Daniel Chung, Richard Kramer, Sharlotte Kramer, Bo Li, Xiao Lu, Benny Poon, Julian Rimoli. 06-15-09
Congratulations to this year's Aerospace Award winners. Click for details...
Professor G. Ravichandran accepts appointment as Director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories.
 Caltech Faculty Members and Board Chair Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Caltech professors Marianne Bronner-Fraser and Ares Rosakis, as well as Chairman of the Board Kent Kresa, are among the 210 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year. They join an assembly that was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholars to provide practical solutions to pressing issues. Click for details... 4-21-09
 On February 3, 2009 the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced the 2009 recipients of its most prestigious awards. I am proud to say that one the recipients is Professor Anatol Roshko, Emeritus, who will be receiving the AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award. This award is presented to honor notable achievement in the field of aeronautical science and engineering, honoring Dr. Sylvanus A. Reed, an aeronautical engineer, designer, and founding member of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences.
Presentation of the awards will take place on May 13, 2009 at the AIAA Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, in Washington, D.C. This annual black-tie event recognizes the most influential and inspiring individuals in aerospace, whose outstanding contributions merit the highest accolades. Read More... 04.21.09
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 GALCIT celebrated its 80th Birthday from September 25 - 26, 2008. Festivities included an alumni symposium, banquet, and the Re-Opening of Guggenheim and the dedication of new labs. Photos and videos are now available!
Faculty Position Available We are seeking highly qualified candidates who are committed to a career in research and teaching with a research focus in solid, structural and computational mechanics, and a preference in space applications. Click for details...
 Subra Suresh, Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, will give a Kliegel Lecture on Friday, February 27, 3pm, Lees Kubota Lecture Hall. His topic is Studies of Human Diseases at the Intersections of Engineering, Life Sciences and Medicine, and his lecture will provide an overview of our recent work in the study of human diseases with particular emphasis on nanoscale mechanobiology at the cell and molecular levels. 02-26-09
 Chiara Daraio, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Physics, has received an NSF CAREER award entitled "Experimental Investigation of Highly Nonlinear Granular Crystals for the Development of New Mechanical Systems and Acoustic Metamaterials". 02-11-09
Ares Rosakis, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and Hiroo Kanamori, John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, with their students and colleagues were featured in the documentary How the Earth Was Made (History Channel on February 10, 2009). The segment concerns the San Andreas fault and features a part which was filmed in the Solid Dynamics Lab at GALCIT. It also features an interview on supershear earthquake ruptures with Rosakis and Kanamori. 02-09-09
 The paper "Computation of Partially Inflated Shapes of Stratospheric Balloon Structures" by Professor Sergio Pellegrino and co-author Xiaowei Deng has been selected as the best paper by the ASME Aerospace Structures and Materials Technical Committee. The award will be presented at the 50th AIAA SDSM
conference. 12-08-08
 Anne Campbell, Director Systems Engineering and Management at the Industrial Relations Center at Caltech, has received recognition from Northrop Grumman Corporation for outstanding leadership, energy, and collaboration on providing innovative educational opportunities for the aerospace industry. The award was presented by Frank Flores, Vice President, Engineering and Programs, Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems on November 7, 2008. 12-08-08
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The research at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) has