- Romesh Batra
Romesh Batra is a professor in the Department of
Engineering Science and Mechanics atVirginia Tech . He has made contributions toContinuum Mechanics and Nonlinear Elasticity and has published over 220 journal articles widely read and reputed referred journals.He was born in
India and completed his bachelors inMechanical Engineering from University of Punjab in 1968 where he won the "Gold Medal" for being first in three states. He went on to pursue higher studies inUniversity of Waterloo ,Canada . Batra earned his doctorate in 1972 fromJohns Hopkins University under the direction of J. L. Ericksen. His dissertation was titled "On Non-Classical Boundary Conditions".He worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Hopkins for a year, and also at
McMaster University , Canada for a year before joining the University of Missouri–Rolla as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Fall 1974. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1977 and to full Professor in 1982. In 1994, he joinedVirginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) as the Clifton C. Garvin Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, where he has written his own text book, "The Elements of Continuum Mechanics".External Sources
* [http://www.esm.vt.edu/~rbatra/ Virginia Tech Faculty]
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