Tod Laursen
From Duke Wiki
| Tod Laursen | |
|---|---|
| Senior Associate Dean for Education Pratt School of Engineering | |
 | |
| Organization: | Duke University |
| Position: | Sr. Associate Dean |
| Education: | B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University M.S. & Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University |
Contents |
[edit] Introduction (From [1])
Tod Laursen received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1992. His earlier degrees were an M.S. from Stanford in 1989 and a B.S. from Oregon State University in 1986. Before joining the Duke faculty in 1992, Dr. Laursen worked as a solid mechanics analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1986 to 1992. He had obtained previous structural analysis experience while working for Boeing in 1985.
At Duke, Dr. Laursen teaches undergraduate courses in engineering computing and engineering science and teaches graduate courses in continuum mechanics, engineering analysis, finite element methods, and the use of finite element methods for the solution of nonlinear problems. His research activities fall largely under these same categories, with a special interest in the modeling of physical systems exhibiting contact and friction phenomena in the presence of large deformations, inelasticity, and other sources of nonlinearity. Applications for this work are to be found in such diverse settings as crashworthiness evaluation for automobiles, wear characterization, metal forming applications, and the geophysical description of slip propagation in fault zones.
Dr. Laursen's published work appears in such journals as the Journal of Applied Mechanics, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal of Materials Research, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Computers and Structures, and Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering.
[edit] Distinctions (IBID)
- Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Endowed Chair, 1999-2003
- Membership in the Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 1999-present
- Oregon State University Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers Award, 1998
- Hunt Faculty Scholar, Duke University School of Engineering, 1997-1998
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1997
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1997
- The Earl I. Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award, Duke University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997
- National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993
- IBM Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1988-89
- Most Outstanding Senior Award, Oregon State University Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1986
