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Noboru Kikuchi

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Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Roger L. McCarthy Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

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Email: kikuchi@umich.edu

Degrees

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas-Austin, 1977
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas-Austin, 1975
B.E., Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1974

Research Interests

Computational mechanics including mechanics of composite materials, structural design optimization, analysis of material processing; development of computational methods for composite mechanics using the homogenization method; topology and shape optimization of elastic structures; development of adaptive remesh methods for simulation of metal forming processes.

Honors & Awards

  • Doctor honoris causa of Universite de Liege, 2008
  • Vehicle Design Committee Best Paper Award (with Associate Research Scientist Zheng Dong Ma and Christophe Pierre, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2003
  • Design and System Engineering Achievement Award, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2002
  • Computational Mechanics Achievements Award, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999
  • Excellence in Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 1994
  • The Best Paper Award, ASME Design & Automation Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993
  • Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 1993
  • Excellence in Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 1992
  • Distinguished Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 1991
  • Distinguished Service Award, Class of 1983, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1984
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 1982
  • ARCO Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, ARCO Oil & Gas Company, 1981
  • Incentive Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineering, 1981

Faculty Type

Emeritus

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Kikuchi Receives Computational Structural Mechanics Award
06/24/2011
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