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Outside Committees and Boards (Current)

Member, Scientific Committee, 7th International Congress of the Croatian Society of Mechanics (7th ICCSM) to be held from May 22 – 25, 2012 in Zadar, Croatia.
Member, PESP – Predictive Engineering Science Panel, Sandia National Laboratories, 2011.
Member, National Academy of Engineering, Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications, 2009-2012.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Third International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM III) in conjunction with the Second Symposium on Computational Structural Engineering (CSE II) Taipei, Taiwan during 5 – 7 December 2011.
Member, International Advisory Board of the 19^th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics (CMM 2011), Warsaw Poland, May 9-12, 2011.
Member, Executive Committee, Second International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Biomedical Engineering, George Mason University, in Washington, DC March 30 – April 1, 2011.
Member, International Advisory Committee for the Second African Conference on Computational Mechanics (AriCOMP), Cape Town, South Africa, in January 5-8, 2011.
Member. International Advisory Board of ICCM 2010, the 3rd International Conference on Computational Methods, Zhangjiajie, a top tourist resort in Hunan Province, China, November 2010.
Member, NSF Task Force on Cyberscience, Grand Challenge Communities, and Virtual Communities, June 2009-Present.
Chair, NSF Task Force on Grand Challenge Communities, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, May 2009-Present.
Member, International Advisory Board of ECCM 2010, Fourth European Conference on Computational Mechanics (Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering), Paris, France, May 16-21, 2010.
Member, Executive Committee, National Science Foundation Committee on Simulation-Based Engineering Science (SBES)
Member, Applied Scientific Computing Research (ASCR Panel on Applied Mathematics of the Department of Energy)
Member of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics (IUTAM) Working Party 5 on Computational Mechanics, 2003- Present
Awards Committee Chair, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics
Executive Council, International Association for Computational Mechanics
Executive Committee, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics
Member, General Assembly International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Member, Congress Committee, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Cyber-Infrastructure (ACCI) 2006-Present
Member, Board of Directors, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST)
Member, TAMEST Capital Campaign Team, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas
Member, Board of Mathematical Sciences with Applications (BMSWA) of the U.S. National Research Council

Various Past Committees, Boards, Offices (Selected)

Vice-President, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), 2009-2010.
Member, Strategic Planning Committee (TAMEST), 2008-2009.
Member, TAMEST Endowment Investment Advisory Committee, 2009.
Chair, National Science Foundation Committee on Simulation-Based Engineering Science, 2008-2009.
Member Scientific Advisory Board, APCOM 07 and Third Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Kyoto, Japan December 3-6, 2007.
Member, National Academies National Research Council Panel on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the U.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2006-2007.
Member, International Scientific Committee, 16th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, June 14-17, 2005, Czestochowa, Poland.
Chair, American Academy of Mechanics Awards Committee. 2004.
Member, Steering Committee for the Summit on Computational-Based Engineering, jointly organized by Sandia and NSF, and the National Academies, 2008.
Member, American Academy of Mechanics Awards Committee, 2003-2005.
Member, International Advisory Committee, International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-04), IIT-Kanpur India 9-12 December 2004.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Sixth World Congress on Computational Mechanics in conjunction with the Second Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Beijing, China on September 5, 2004.
Member, IUTAM Standing Committee on Computational Mechanics. 2002-2003.
Member, International Scientific Committee of the 15 International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, CMM-2003, 3-6 June, 2003, Gliwice/Szczyrk, Poland.
Executive Council, International Association for Computational Mechanics.
U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, National Research Council.
Head, U. S. Delegation to the International Council on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics representing the National Academy of Sciences, Kyoto, Japan, 1996.
Editor-in-Chief, Computational Mechanics Advances.
Editor, Letters Section and Member, Editorial Board, Journal for Computational and Applied Mathematics.
Chair, U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, National Research Council, 1992-94.
Chair and Member, Advisory Board, Engineering Mechanics Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1991 – 93.
Chair, Executive Committee, Engineering Mechanics Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990-91.
Advisory Board, Sir George Cayley Institute, Central Polytechnic of London, 1987.
Advisory Committee, Institute for Computational Methods in Propulsion, NASA Lewis Research Center and Case Western Reserve University, 1987.
Member, National Academy of Engineering Committee on Computational Mechanics, 1981 -84.
Chair, Subcommittee on Definitions of the Field, Committee on Computational Mechanics, National Academy of Engineering, 1981 – 84.
Vice-President, Society of Engineering Science, 1977-78, life-member.
Member, Board of Directors, Society of Engineering Science, 1977 –81.
Editor, Texas Tracts in Computational Mechanics, “Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, 1974 -81.
Chair, Steering Committee, U.S.-Japan Seminar on Computational Methods in Continuum Mechanics, 1974-77.
Member, Steering Committee, U.S. Japan Seminar on Matrix Methods in Structural Analysis and Design, National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1971 -72.

Presidential Offices

President, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), 2008-2009.
President, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics.
President, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 1990-1994.
President, Executive Board Member, U. S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 1994.
President, American Academy of Mechanics, 1984-85.
President, Society of Engineering Science, 1979-80.

Editorial Boards (Current)

Contributing Editor, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics
Editor, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Honorary Editor, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Honorary Editor, International Journal of Computational Methods (IJCM)
Honorary Editor, International Journal of Computational Engineering Science (IJCES)
Honorary Editor, International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering and Mechanics.
Honorary Editor, International Journal of Engineering Analysis and Design
Member Editorial Board, American Mathematics Letters
Member Editorial Board, Applied Mathematical Letters
Member Editorial Board, Computers and Structures
Member Editorial Board, Computers and Mathematics with Applications
Member Editorial Board, Engineering Computations
Member Editorial Board, International Journal of Engineering Science
Member Editorial Board, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Member Editorial Board, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Member, Editorial Board, Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics: an International Journal.
Member Editorial Boards, Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing
Member Editorial Boards, Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization
Member Editorial Board, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations: An International Journal
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics.
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Thermal Stresses
Member Editorial Board, Journal of Variational Methods
Member Editorial Board, SIAM Monographs in Science and Engineering
Member Editorial Advisory Board, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
Member Editorial Advisory Board, Computer-Aided Civil & Infrastructure Engineering
Member Editorial Advisory Board, Engineering Computations, International Journal for Computer-Aided Engineering and Software
Scientific Advisor, Russian Journal of Computational Mechanics
Senior Advisor, International Journal of Computation, Civil and Structural Engineering

Conferences Organized/Chaired (Selected)

Member, Organizing Committee, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Methods Committee of ECCOMAS CFD 2006, Netherlands, September 5-9, 2006.
Member, Organizing Committee, Mechanics & Materials Conference, a joint ASCE-ASME-SES mechanics conference, Baton Rouge in 2005.
Co-Organizer, with Erwin Stein, of the ICTAM Prenominated Session P26: Computational Strategies for Multiscale Phenomena in Mechanics, ICTAM 2000 Conference in Chicago, IL, August 27–September 2, 2000.
Member, Scientific Committee, FEM3 Conference on Finite Element Methods: Three-dimensional Problems, Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 27 to July 1, 2000.
Co-Organizer, with G.F. Carey, of the Finite Elements in Flow Problems 2000 International, The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, April 30 – May 4, 2000.
Co-Organizer, with G.F. Carey, of the Spring 2000 Finite Element Circus/Rodeo, held at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, February 25-26, 2000.
Chairman, Advisory Panel for Engineering Code Development supporting Nuclear Weapons Complex, Department of Energy, Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI).
Organizer, AMS Special Session 948-65: Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, at the American Mathematical Society Conference, held at The University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, TX, October 8-10, 1999.
Member, Organizing Committee, Third World Congress on Computational Mechanics, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 1994.
Member, Organizing Committee, VIII International Conference on Finite Elements in Fluids, 1993.
Member, Organizing Committee, Second Workshop on Reliability in Computational Mechanics, 1991.
Member, Organizing Committee, Second World Congress on Computational Mechanics, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 1990.
Chairman, Organizing Committee, First World Congress on Computational Mechanics, International Association of Computational Mechanics, 1986.
Member, Organizing Committee, 5th International Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, 1984.
Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on Accuracy Estimates and Adaptive Refinements in Finite Element Computations, 1984.
Member, Organizing Committee, Symposium on Advances and Trends in Structural Dynamics, 1984.
Member, Organizing Committee, 4th International Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, 1982.
Member, Organizing Committee, Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, 1982.
Member, Organizing Committee Finite Element Circus, University of Texas at Austin, 1981.
Member, Organizing Committee, Symposium on Computational Methods in Nonlinear Solid and Structural Mechanics, George Washington University and NASA-Langley Research Center, 1980, 1982.
Member, Organizing Committee, U.E.-European Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Nonlinear Structural Mechanics, 1979-81.
Member, Organizing Committee, Second International Conference on Finite Element Methods in Fluid Dynamics, 1976.
Member, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Society for Engineering Science, 1975.
Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Conference in Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics, 1974.

Reviewing Activities (Selected):

AROD, National Academy of Science and Engineering
Applied Mechanics Reviews, ASME
Computers and Mathematics with Applications
Computers and Fluids
International Journal of Mathematical Modeling
International Journal of Engineering Science
International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics
International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering
International Journal of Solids and Structures
International Journal of Structural Mechanics
John Wiley & Sons Book Company
Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME
Journal of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
Journal of Approximation Theory
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computers and Structures
Journal of Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Journal of Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization
Journal of Ship Research
Journal of the Structural Division, ASCE
Journal of Thermal Stresses
McGraw-Hill Book Company
National Science Foundation, Research Proposals in Mechanics, Mathematics, and Computer Science
Prentice-Hall Publishing Company
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis
SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis
SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing
Shock and Vibration Digest
Zentralblatt für Mathematik

Current University Committees

Chairman, Chair Search Committee for Computational and Applied Mathematics Program, 1996-Present
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 1993-Present
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Aerospace Engineering/Engineering Mechanics, 1974-Present
Chairman, J. T. Oden, Visiting Faculty Fellowship Program Committee
Member, Area C Examination Subcommittee, CAM Program
Member, Qualifying Examination Committee, ASE-EM
Chairman, Awards Committee, ASE-EM

Current Administrative Assignments

Director, Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences and Peter O’Donnell, Jr. Chair in Computer Systems, the University of Texas at Austin, 3/03 – present.
Associate Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 3/03 – present.