sented at a variety of national and international meetings research have been published in numerous scholarly articles and pre- Engineers and the American Society for Composites.The results of his and the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award from Wayne State University.He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award from the University of Idaho, the Distinguished Faculty Fellowship Award,the Devlieg Professorship, secretary.He has been the recipient of the Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper of the Year from the Society for Experimental Mechanics,the College ment of Material and Process Engineering.He has served the American Society for Composites as its president,vice-president,and membership Society for Composites,the American Society for Testing and Materials, the Society for Experimental Mechanics,and the Society for the Advance- including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,the American Langley Research Center. Dr.Gibson is an active member of numerous professional societies, and Michigan State University.He has been a development engineer for Union Carbide Corporation and a summer faculty fellow at the NASA visiting faculty positions at Stanford University,the University of Florida, sity of Minnesota.He has held full-time faculty positions at Iowa State University,the University of Idaho,and Wayne State University,and from the University of Florida,his M.S.in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee,and his Ph.D.in mechanics from the Univer- of the Advanced Composites Research Laboratory at Wayne State Uni- versity.Dr.Gibson received his B.S.degree in mechanical engineering Ronald F.Gibson is a professor of mechanical engineering and director About the author