James K Knowles

Professor James K. Knowles is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Mechanics. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, D.Sc.h.c., National University of Ireland, and has received the following awards: Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching, MIT (1955), Award of the Associated Students of Caltech for Excellence in Teaching (1984, 1985), Award of the Caltech Graduate Student Council for Exceptional Teaching (1993); Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics; Fellow...See more

Professor James K. Knowles is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Mechanics. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, D.Sc.h.c., National University of Ireland, and has received the following awards: Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching, MIT (1955), Award of the Associated Students of Caltech for Excellence in Teaching (1984, 1985), Award of the Caltech Graduate Student Council for Exceptional Teaching (1993); Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics; Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; President of the American Academy of Mechanics, 1985-86; Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science (1991). He is the author of Linear Vector Spaces and Cartesian Tensors (1997) and numerous articles in refereed journals. See less