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Professor James C. Newman, Jr

See:
http://ae.msstate.edu/pages/newmanjr.php
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-227083

Department of Aerospace Engineering
Mississippi State University

Biography:
Jim Newman received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1974 and worked for the NASA Langley Research Center for 37 years. He joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty in the fall of 2001.

Honors and Awards:
Chi Epsilon
Tau Beta Pi
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 1981
NASA Medal for Exceptional Engineering Achievement, 1990
NASA Superstars in Aeronautics Award, 1998
American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM), George R. Irwin Medal, 1981
ASTM Fellow, 1986
Boeing, Silver Eagle Award, 2001
U.S. Air Force, John W. Lincoln Medal, 2001
NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, 2002

Professional Memberships:
American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)

Areas of Teaching:
Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Elasticity, Plasticity, Aircraft Structures

Courses Taught:
EM 3213 Mechanics of Materials
ASE 3223 Aircraft Structures II

Areas of Research:
Fatigue and fracture, Materials, Aircraft Structures

Funding Agencies:
Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Naval Research, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alcoa, S & K Technologies, Inc.

Books/Book Chapter:
Newman, J. C., Jr., "Numerical Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth" Chapter in Comprehensive Structural Integrity, Vol. 4, R. O. Ritchie and Y. Murakami, eds., Elsevier, June 2003.

Selected Publications: see the download "pdf" file.

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