Rohan Abeyaratne
Rohan Abeyaratne ( Sinhala රොහාන් අබේරත්න ; born October 7, 1952 in Sri Lanka ) is an American engineer for hydrodynamics and aerodynamics . He is Professor of Mechanics ( Quentin Berg Professor ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The son of a senior civil servant in Sri Lanka (LB Abeyaratne), he attended the Royal College in Colombo and graduated from the University of Ceylon with a bachelor's degree in 1975, receiving the university's EOE Pereira Gold Medal. He then continued his studies at Caltech with a master’s degree in 1976 and a doctorate in 1979. He is a professor at MIT. From 2001 to 2008 he headed the Mechanical Engineering department and from 2009 he was director of the SMART Center , the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology , a cooperation between MIT and universities in Singapore .
He dealt with continuum mechanics, especially the non-equilibrium behavior of solids, instabilities and stress-induced phase transformations. He has received several awards as an educator (Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award 1995, MacVicar Fellow of MIT 2000). In 2010 he received the Daniel C. Drucker Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Academy of Mechanics , of which he was President from 2007–2008.
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- with James K. Knowles Evolution of phase transitions: a continuum theory , Cambridge University Press 2006
- Editor with James Casey: Finite Thermoelasticity , ASME 1999
- Lecture Notes on the Mechanics of Elastic Solids, MIT, Part 1, pdf , Part 2, pdf
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abeyaratne, Rohan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abeyaratne, Rohan Chandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sri Lanka |