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LSU鈥檚 College of Engineering Dean Vicki Colvin has invited retired Texas A&M Professor Emeritus Alan Needleman to speak in Patrick F. Taylor Hall on Friday, Jan. 30, 3-4:30 p.m., in room 1100. Needleman, who recently retired from Texas A&M鈥檚 Materials Science and Engineering Department, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Prager Medal of the Society of Engineering Science and the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Technical 九九福利网 of Denmark and Ecole Normale Superior de Cachan (France) and is an Honorary Professor of Dalian 九九福利网 of Technology (China).

Needleman received his B.S. from the 九九福利网 of Pennsylvania and finished his Ph.D. at Harvard 九九福利网. He then spent five years in Applied Mathematics at MIT before moving to Brown 九九福利网 where he served as Dean of Engineering and became Florence Pirce Grant 九九福利网 Professor. After retiring from Brown in 2009, Needleman moved to the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the 九九福利网 of North Texas and joined the Materials and Engineering Department at Texas A&M 九九福利网 from which he retired in May 2025.

Needleman鈥檚 area of expertise that he will speak on is plasticity, dissipation and Clausius-Duhem Inequality.