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In Memoriam: George Munn Jr.
George Munn Jr., a member of the Mechanical
Engineering Advisory Board, died Jan. 21.
George received his BSME from Virginia Tech. He
served in the U.S. Army Reserves for 11 years, and
was the vice president of Georgia-Pacific Corpora-
tion Dixie Manufacturing Operations.
George was a supporter of the United Way of
Greater Atlanta, and the National Society of Black
Engineers, as well as an avid traveler.
George's full obituary can be found here.
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Behkam, Nain in Pennsylvania, Toronto
Associate Professor Bahareh
Behkam gave invited seminars
to the mechanical engineering
department of Carnegie Mellon
University in December, and she
provided the Mechanical and
Behkam
Industrial Engineering Distin-
guished Seminar at the University of Toronto
in January.
Batra in India
Romesh Batra,
the Clifton C.
Garvin Professor
in Biomedical
Engineering and
Mechanics and an
affiliate professor
in mechanical engineering, spent two weeks
in India as a Fulbright Specialist to Amrita
University.
Batra receives grants, publications
Romesh Batra received two grants recently,
totaling more than $900,000.
"Modeling Impact Performance of Compos-
ite Laminates with Ceramic Back Plates" is a
US Army grant worth more than $781,000;
and "Material Models for Fiber-Reinforced
Structures" is a private company grant of
$134,000.
Batra was listed as an author on the follow-
ing publications in 2018:
"An immersed boundary formulation for
simulating high-speed compressible viscous
flows with moving solids" Journal of Compu-
tational Physics 354 (2018).
"Analytical solution for cylindrical bending
of two-layered corrugated and webcore
sandwich panels" Thin-Walled Structures 123
(2018).
"Characterizing fracture performance and
the interaction of propagating cracks with
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