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EVENTS - PITTSBURGH

Homecoming 2008

Homecoming: Engineering Alumni Academy and Benedum Hall Construction Tours

Friday, October 24, 2008
Noon to 4 p.m.
Concordia Club, Main Dining Room

Fee: $10 per person
Call 412-624-2344 for reservations
RSVP by Friday, October 10

All alumni are welcome to enjoy lunch at the Concordia Club, Main Dining Room with U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering Gerald D. Holder from Noon to 1 p.m. Tours of the construction that is currently taking place at Benedum Hall will be provided from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Finally, join us at 3 p.m. for the 2008 Westinghouse Distinguished Lecture titled, Computational Methods for Failure Analysis at the Nanoscale and Macroscale, presented by Ted Belytschko, Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics, Northwestern University.


About the Speaker

 Ted Belytschko has developed new mesh-free methods and the extended finite element method for modeling arbitrary crack growth without remeshing and applied them to a variety of crack growth problems, both static and dynamic. He is also using molecular mechanics to study the fracture and behavior of nanotubes and developing methods for coupling heterogeneous subdomains, such as molecular and continuum models.
Belytschko is member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including the Timoshenko Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Gauss-Newton Medal from the International Association for Computational Mechanics, the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the von Karman medal from American Society of Civil Engineers. He has also received honorary Doctorates from the University of Liege, the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, and the Ecole Centrale-Paris. He received his PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

HOMECOMING: CELEBRATION 2008

Friday, October 24
6 to 9 p.m.
The Patio at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall
FREE PARKING at Soldiers and Sailors
(bring your ticket to registration)
Fee: $35 per person - Advanced Reservations Required
FREE admission for children 16 and under
Call 412-624-2344 for reservations
RSVP by Friday, October 17

All School of Engineering alumni and their families are invited to this unique Homecoming celebration hosted by Dean Holder and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. Casual attire is a must—especially if it is blue and gold. The evening is fun for all families and alumni! Additional activities include balloon and airbrush art, and an appearance by Roc, the Pitt Panther!

The evening's festivities will include a reception, Pittsburgh-infused buffet, Pitt merchandise raffles, a formal recognition of attendees from reunion classes, and several other activities for all ages. The event will conclude with a spectacular laser light and fireworks display launched from the Cathedral of Learning.

Invitations are mailed to all alumni celebrating their 10th, 25th, 40th, and 50th reunion years. Additionally, all alumni within a 300-mile radius of Pittsburgh will receive an invitation in the mail. Please call 412-624-2344 to make reservations.

 

Pitt vs. Rutgers

Saturday, October 25
Heinz Field
Kickoff TBD

Homecoming Football Tickets
$20 per person - please review ticket policy
Call 412-624-2458 to order tickets
Ticket Deadline: Friday, October 10


     

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