Jasiuk named SES Fellow

Professor Iwona M. Jasuik

The rank of SES Fellow recognizes a member who is distinguished in a field in which the society has interest, and who has made significant and notable contributions to the society and the technical community.

Jasiuk, a member of the faculty at UIUC since 2006, is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and an affiliate of the Department of Bioengineering. Previously, she was a professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a bachelor’s in Structural Engineering (1980) and a master’s in Structural Mechanics (1982) from the University of Chicago, and then a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1986) from Northwestern University.

Her research is in developing research-based models to explain the structure and behavior of man-made and biological materials. Her work with biological materials focuses on bone, with projects involving a study of the underlying mechanism that causes osteoporotic bone to break, a study on limb regeneration in frogs, and a study on the effects of solid and fluid phases of bone-on-bone remodeling.

Jasiuk’s other honors and awards include: Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, listing in MARQUIS’ Who’s Who in both Science and Engineering, and American Education, and a Murphy Fellowship. She is currently a member of the Orthopedic Research Society, the Society of Women Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and was President of the SES in 2006.