Lambros Named ASME Fellow

Prof. John Lambros makes the third AE faculty member this year to have achieved the status of Fellow within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Fellowship status in the 129-year-old organization is conferred upon veteran members who have contributed significant engineering achievements. Earlier this year, Profs. Philippe Geubelle and Eric Loth were honored with the distinction.

Lambros has distinguished himself both nationally and internationally in research, teaching and service. He has led research projects funded by many branches of government and industry, and has made lasting contributions to the understanding of dynamic failure of advanced materials through multi-scale experimentation.

Over his 15-year professional career, Lambros’s research interests have included dynamic and quasi-static crack initiation, growth and arrest in multiphase systems; quasi-static and dynamic fracture of Functionally Graded Materials; dynamic fracture, failure and wave propagation in composite materials; dynamic constitutive response of traditional and advanced materials; thermomechanical effects and adiabatic shear banding; experimental micromechanics and multiscale experimentation; and thermomechanical fatigue of metals and ceramics.

Lambros’s honors include the 2007 University of Illinois College of Engineering Xerox Research Award; the 2005 American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics UIUC Teacher of the Year Award; and a 1999 National Science Foundation Early Career Award. Lambros also was named to the 2005 Urbana campus Outstanding Advisors list, and served as Associate Technical Editor forExperimental Mechanics from 1999 to 2005.

He currently is involved in two research centers and serves on the Executive Board of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Lambros has supervised the research of 21 graduate and 21 undergraduate students, and has instructed over 1,000 undergraduates.

He has been a member of the AE faculty since 2000, after being on faculty five years in the University of Delaware Mechanical Engineering Department. From 1994 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology.

Lambros earned a bachelor’s in aeronautical engineering in 1988 from the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London. He earned his master’s and PhD in aeronautics from Caltech, in 1989 and 1994, respectively.

Founded in 1880, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that promotes the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences throughout the world. The core values of ASME are rooted in its mission to better enable mechanical engineering practitioners to contribute to the well-being of humankind.