Thomas K. Caughey
Thomas Kirk Caughey (born October 22, 1927 in Scotland ) is a Scottish-American engineer.
Life
Caughey studied electrical engineering at the University of Glasgow with a bachelor's degree in 1948, worked as part of his military service as an engineer in industry ( Walter drives for submarines of the Royal Navy, including Howden in Glasgow), received a master's degree in 1952 Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and PhD in Engineering (on Nonlinear Mechanics) from Caltech in 1954 , where he has been an Instructor in Applied Mechanics since 1952. He then worked as an engineer at NAm Electronics. From 1955 he was Assistant Professor and from 1962 Professor of Applied Mechanics at Caltech, although the boundaries between different engineering disciplines were fluid at that time at Caltech under the direction of Frederick C. Lindvall .
He advised at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (from 1969) and at Tetratech (from 1970) , among others .
He dealt with theoretical and practical work, including in the areas of non-linear dynamics (especially non-linear stochastic dynamics), vibrations, electronics, acoustics, applied mathematics and classical physics. At Caltech he was under George Housner and Donald Hudson with Dino Morelli co-developer of a machine for simulating earthquakes.
In 2002 he received the Von Karman Medal . He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
In the early 1960s he and two other engineers also assisted Richard Feynman in his famous physics lecture for beginners, from which the Feynman lectures on physics emerged .
Caughey Award
The ASME Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award for nonlinear dynamics is named in his honor. It is endowed with 1000 dollars. Prize winners were:
- 2008 Ali Hasan Nayfeh
- 2009 Stephen H. Crandall
- 2010 Jerrold Marsden
- 2011 Philip Holmes
- 2013 Lothar Gaul
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Official website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caughey, Thomas K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caughey, Thomas Kirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scotland |