Dr. J.N. Reddy is the winner of the 2020 SEC Faculty Achievement Award for Texas A&M University.
SEC achievement award recipients must hold the rank of full professor, have a record of extraordinary teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level, and have a record of research that is recognized nationally or internationally. University winners receive a $5,000 honorarium from the SEC and become their campus nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award.
Reddy, professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and holds the titles of Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor. He also serves as a foreign fellow of the Indian, Canadian, Brazilian, Chinese and Spanish National Academies of Engineering.
Reddy is the author of 21 textbooks, nearly 700 journal papers and has been a leader in the applied mechanics field for more than 45 years. He is internationally known for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics through the authorship of widely used textbooks on the linear and nonlinear finite element analysis, variational methods, composite materials and structures, and continuum mechanics and elasticity.
He has been recognized as the most highly cited researcher in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M and number six worldwide among engineers, according to a study conducted by Stanford University.
“Not only is Dr. Reddy a superb researcher and teacher, but in some respects, he is a research celebrity, recognizable around the world, and he is also a very caring colleague, especially for our junior faculty,” said Dr. Andreas Polycarpou, mechanical engineering department head.