Eric M Taleff Editor & Author

Roy R. Craig, Jr., is the John J. McKetta Energy Professor Emeritus in Engineering in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and his MS and PhD degrees in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1961 until 2001 he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Craig received numerous teaching awards and faculty leadership awards, and he is the author of one other textbook, Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics.

Eric M. Taleff is the Charlotte Maer Patton Centennial Fellow in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Materials Science from Rice University, an MS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has been on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin since 1995. He is a fellow of ASM International and a Brimacombe Medalist of The Minerals, Metals&Materials Society. He received the Champion H. Mathewson Medal Award from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. He holds a Most Valuable Colleague Award, associated with the John M. Campbell Award, from General Motors.