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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Researcher from <strong>PKU</strong> COE Wins 2009<br />

ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career<br />

Award<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2009--11—26<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=259290206<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Nov. 26, 2009: On November 18th, the American Society <strong>of</strong><br />

Mechanical Engineering (ASME) held its annual International Mechanical<br />

Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) at Orlando, FL, US. At this meeting,<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> researcher Duan Huiling won the Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award<br />

conferred to her by the Head <strong>of</strong> the Judging Panel, M.A. Zikry.<br />

Researcher Duan Huiling is now a pr<strong>of</strong>essor at the Department <strong>of</strong> Aerospace and<br />

Mechanical Engineering <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Engineering (COE), <strong>PKU</strong>. She graduated<br />

from COE in 2005 with Ph.D. degree. She has been entitled to many honors<br />

including England‘s Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and Alexander von<br />

Humboldt Fellowship in 2006. Her thesis was included in 2007 National 100<br />

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations collection and she won England‘s Oxford<br />

Fellowship in 2008.<br />

Researcher Duan specializes in micro- and nano-mechanics, meso-mechanics,<br />

semiconducting material, etc. She published over 50 articles on various academic<br />

periodicals around the world which have been cited over 200 times. She was invited<br />

to a number <strong>of</strong> prestigious colloquiums including the IUTAM Symposium.<br />

The Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award was established by ASME in honor <strong>of</strong> Dr.<br />

Sia Nemat-Nasser, Director <strong>of</strong> the Center <strong>of</strong> Excellence for Advanced Materials at<br />

UC San Diego and Distinguished Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Mechanics and Materials, in 2008.<br />

This award was designed to recognize research in experimental, computational, and<br />

theoretical mechanics and materials by young researchers.<br />

Edited By : Cai Ying<br />

Translated By : Jiang An<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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