Ahmed Cemal Eringen | |
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Born |
Kayseri, Turkey |
15 February 1921
Died | 7 December 2009 | (aged 88)
Citizenship |
Turkish American Turkey, U.S. |
Nationality | Turkish |
Fields | Applied mechanics |
Institutions |
Princeton University Purdue University Illinois Institute of Technology Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York City |
Alma mater | Technical University of Istanbul, İstanbul-Turkey |
Doctoral advisor | Nicholas J. Hoff |
Known for | |
Influences | |
Influenced | , Erdoğan S. Suhubi, , Erhan Kıral, Erhan Çınlar, Ahmet Nihat Berker, Attila Aşkar |
Notable awards | Eringen Medal (1977) |
Ahmed Cemal Eringen (born February 15, 1921, in Kayseri, Turkey - December 7, 2009) was a Turkish- American engineering scientist. He was a professor at Princeton University and the founder of the Society of Engineering Science. The Eringen Medal is named in his honor.
Eringen studied at the Technical University of Istanbul and graduated with a diploma degree in 1943 and then worked for the Turkish Aircraft Co. until 1944. In 1944/45, he was a trainee at the Glenn L. Martin Company and in 1945 was group leader at the Turkish Air League Company. He continued his studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in New York City where he received his doctorate in applied mechanics in 1948 under the supervision of Nicholas J. Hoff.
He became assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1948, associate professor in 1953 and professor in 1955 at Purdue University. He was appointed as professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at Princeton University in 1966. He became professor of continuum mechanics in the departments of civil and geological engineering and the program in applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University. He retired in 1991 as the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University and died in 2009. Eringen had been married since 1949 and had four children.