| Professor
T. Kundu received his bachelor degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Kharagpur in 1979. He was the winner of the
President of India Gold Medal (PGM)
for ranking first among all engineering graduates
(close to 300) from all disciplines in IIT Kharagpur
in 1979. He joined UCLA as a recipient of the University
of California Regents' Fellowship in 1979.
His MS and PhD were from the Department of Mechanics
and Structures at the University of California, Los
Angeles in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He received
the UCLA Engineering Alumni Award
in 1981 for his outstanding performance as a graduate
student. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics of the University of Arizona
as an Assistant Professor in August 1983 and was promoted
to full professor in 1994. He received the Humboldt
Research Prize (also known as the Senior
Scientist Award) in 2003 and Humboldt
Fellowship in 1989 and 1996 from Germany.
He received the 2015 Research Award for Sustained
Excellence from ASNT (The American Society
for Nondestructive Testing) Research Council in recognition
of his outstanding and sustained research contributions
in NDE/NDT, he also received the 2015 SHM
Life Time Achievement Award from the SHM
commnuity at the IWSHM (International Workshop on
Structural Health Monitoring) at Stanford University,
in 2012 he was chosen as the winner of the NDE
Lifetime Achievement Award given by the International
Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), in 2012 he
was also recognized as the Engineering Faculty
Fellow of the University of Arizona (Similar
to Chair Professorship at some other universities).
In 2008 he received the SHM Person of the
Year Award given by the Structural Health
Monitoring journal. In 2009 he received the
Outstanding Faculty award for teaching chosen
by the undergraduate students of the Civil Engineering
Department.
Dr. Kundu is:
Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Fellow of ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Fellow of SPIE (the International Society
for Optics and Photonics)
Fellow, ASA (Acoustical Society of America)
Fellow, ASNT (American Society for Nondestructive Testing)
Life Member of AvHAA (Alexander von Humboldt Association of America )
Member, AAM (American Academy of Mechanics)
Life Member of IACMAG (International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics)
last updated
on Sept. 25, 2015 |
