Horstemeyer recognized by alma mater

Dr. Mark Horstemeyer recently was honored with the Thomas A. French Award for alumni achievement from Ohio State University.

The award is administered by the OSU Mechanical Engineering Department.

Horstemeyer, a professor in MSU's Mechanical Egineering Department, also is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and holds a chair position for the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems in computational solid mechanics.

A baccalaureate graduate of West Virginia University, Horstemeyer earned a master's degree at OSU and a doctorate at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Horstemeyer has published more than 275 journal articles, conference papers, books, and technical reports on multiscale materials modeling and experiments, and is on the editorial boards of three international journals.

He has won several previous awardsm including MSU's Ralph Powe Award for top researcher, R&D 100 Award, AFS Best Paper Award, and several Sandia Awards for Excellence. He consulted for the Columbia (space shuttle) Accident Investigation Board and worked for Sandia National Labs for 15 years before coming to MSU.

He has been the student advisor for the MSU chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers, guiding efforts in FSAE formula car design and DOE ChallengeX design teams. In research, Horstemeyer has garnered international acclaim for being the first to develop a multi-scale modeling methodology to optimize structural designs; the first to calculate atomic scale fatigue behavior in metals; and the first to quantify length scale effects in plasticity arising from dislocation nucleation when no strain gradients were present.