By Michelle Fredrickson, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture
PULLMAN, Wash. – Professor Hussein Zbib, honored with Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture’s Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher Award, will give the accompanying lecture at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in Goertzen Hall. Light refreshments will be provided.
An award nominator said the true value of Zbib’s research lies in the resulting contributions to the betterment of the human condition. Zbib works to find greater insights into the deformation of materials in order to process stronger, cleaner and safer products. He develops models and theories used by scientists and engineers around the world to predict properties for materials under extreme loading and environmental conditions.
In “Multiscale Mechanics and Materials Research for Energy Efficiency and Extreme Environments,” he will give an overview of his research.
The award was created by the advisory board for Washington State University’s Voiland College, along with friends and alumni, to honor Bose for his service as dean. To acknowledge his support of faculty scholarship and internationally renowned reputation for research, the award annually recognizes and rewards the top faculty researcher in the college.
A member of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering since 1988, Zbib is recognized around the world for contributions in plasticity. He is considered a world leader in “strain gradient plasticity,” an active area of research in the mechanics and materials communities.
His awards include: fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science; fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; executive member of the Lebanese Academy of Science; and winner of the 2010 Khan International Award for outstanding contribution to the field of plasticity.
He has published over 250 technical articles (including 20 journal publications in 2014), edited 12 books and presented many invited talks. He has supervised and mentored over 30 masters and doctoral students, six postdoctoral fellows, 11 visiting scholars and 15 undergraduate research assistants.