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Shamik Basu, a PhD graduate student working under Dr. Amine Benzerga in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the Best Poster award at the ASME-IMECE 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition held in Houston on November 9-15, 2012. Basu’s area of research is to experimentally study the effect of strain history, stress states and anisotrophy on ductile fracture in various structural metals and alloys.

Dr. Kristi Shryock, Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs and Outreach and Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, Dr. Arun Srinivasa, a professor in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Jeffrey Froyd, a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station research professor in Engineering Student Services and Academic Programs at Texas A&M University won the Benjamin Dasher Best Paper Award that was submitted at the 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference.

A recent research article coauthored by Dimitris Lagoudas and Darren Hartl was recently featured as the cover article in the journal "Smart Materials and Structures," which is the leading journal for the active materials and adaptive structures community. Lagoudas holds the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering, while Hartl is a TEES Assistant Research Professor with the department. Together they lead the Texas Institute for Intelligent Materials and Structures (TiiMs), a TEES research center. Stephen Oehler, a recent masters graduate and current structures analyst for Boeing Research and Technology, was lead author.