José E. Andrade

José E. Andrade (born November 30, 1979) is a professor of civil and mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he holds the George W. Housner professorship and a Cecil and Sally Drinkward Leadership Chair.[1] In January 2016, he became the Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering.[2]

José E. Andrade received his B.S. in civil engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology in 2001. He moved to Stanford University for his graduate studies, receiving an M.S. in 2003 and a PhD in 2006, under the supervision of Ronaldo I. Borja. His doctoral thesis was titled "Meso-scale finite element simulation of deformation banding in fluid-saturated sands."

In 2017, he received the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award[3] The following year, he was awarded the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.[4]

References
  1. Building a Legacy in Engineering, Breakthrough -- The Caltech Campaign, January 24, 2018. California Institute of Technology
  2. "Faculty, Executive Officer: José E. Andrade". Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech.
  3. Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Accessed March 22, 2018
  4. "2018 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize-Professor Jose Andrade". Computational Geomechanics at Caltech.
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