Professor Ahmet S. Cakmak, a specialist in Engineering Mechanics and
Earthquake Engineering, has had a successful career spanning forty years as
an engineer, educator and administrator. Strating with a B.S. in Engineering
from his home country, Turkey, he has undertaken graduate studies at
Princeton and Columbia Universities which led to a Ph.D. in 1962. Following
his Ph.D., Dr. Cakmak joined Princeton University in the Department of Civil
Engineering in 1963 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate
and Full Professorships respectively in 1969 and 1972. He has served the
Department as Chairman from 1971 to 1980 and 1994 to 1997, served the School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences as Associate Dean during the period 1981
to 1986, and retired in 2000. Dr. Cakmak now holds the title of Professor of
Civil Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
Dr. Cakmak's research is in the general area of Applied Mechanics and
includes work in thermal elasticity, viscoelasticity of thermo-rheological
solids, continuum mechanics, structural dynamics for both deterministic and
stochastic systems. Dr. Cakmak has also contributed as researcher, engineer,
educator and administrator, to the solution of practical problems in
his consulting work, in particular in the areas of structures and earthquake
phenomena.
Dr. Cakmak served as visiting professor at the California Institute of
Technology, Kyoto University (Japan), Southampton University (United
Kingdom), and Bogazici University (Turkey). Editor of 18 books on earthquake
engineering and author of over 130 technical papers, Professor Cakmak has
been a regular contributor to journals in his field, including the Journal
of Applied Mechanics, the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and
the International Journal of Engineering Science. He is also the founding
editor of the International Journal of Soil Dynamics and co-author of a
textbook, Computational and Applied Mathematics for Engineering Analysis.