Dr. Akin holds a joint appointment between the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Akin received his B.S. from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. from Tennessee Technological University and his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Akin is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the U.S. Academy for Computation Mechanics and the editorial board of the journal Engineering Computations.
Research Areas
Adaptive finite element analysis, Computer Aided Design, Computational Mechanics
Education
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, 1964
M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, Tennessee Technological University, 1966
Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1968
Teaching Areas
Computer Aided Design, Computational Mechanics
Societies & Organizations
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
American Society of Civil Engineers, Member
Society of Petroleum Engineers, Member
U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, Member
Honors & Awards
Editorial Board, Engineering Computations, 1984 to 2015
Editorial Board, Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Modeling, Experiments and Design, 2016 to present
Elected Fellow American Society Mechanical Engineers, 1987