Professors Jerry Qi and Ting Zhu were both recently named American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellows.

The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by ASME members and Fellows, an ASME member has to have 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of active corporate membership in ASME. ASME honors its members by elevating them to the grade of Fellow, thereby ensuring ASME's commitment to its vision "to be the essential resource for mechanical engineers and other technical professionals throughout the world for solutions that benefit humankind." The Fellow grade is truly a distinction among over 113,000 ASME members.

Qi joined Tech in January 2014 as an associate professor. Prior, he was an associate professor at University of Colorado Boulder and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Qi’s research falls in the general area of finite deformation multiphsyics modeling of soft active materials. The material systems include: shape memory polymers, shape memory elastomeric composites, light activated polymers, covalent adaptive network polymers, arterial tissues.

Zhu began at Tech in 2005 as an Assistant Professor. Prior he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Zhu's research focuses on the modeling and simulation of mechanical behavior of materials at the nano- to macroscale. Some of the scientific questions he is working to answer include understanding how materials fail due to the combined mechanical and chemical effects.