Lallit AnandLallit Anand is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Fellow in the ASME. Professor Anand has had more than thirty years of experience working in industry, academia, and government. He began his career in he Mechanical Sciences Division of the Fundamental Research Laboratory (Bain Laboratory) of U.S. Steel Corporation, and he served successively as Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist until he joined the MIT faculty. Among his many contributions and honors are his service as the Program Director for the Mechanics and Materials Program, as well as the Manufacturing Processes Program, in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He was awarded the Eric Reissner Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of mechanics of materials from the International Society for Computational Engineering and Sciences and the Khan International Medal from the International Journal of Plasticity for outstanding lifelong contributions to the field of plasticity. Anand was also Southwest Mechanics Series Lecturer (1992); Schmiedeshoff Lecturer in Mechanics of Materials, RPI (1992); and Clark B. Millikan Visiting Professor at Caltech (2004). Anand is the author of numerous archival publications of his research in mechanics and materials, specifically solid mechanics, materials science, computational mechanics, plasticity, and fracture. Read More Read Less