Accomplishments
Allen Receives THH PIAN Medal
David Allen, dean of the
College of Engineering,
received the 2008 THH
PIAN Medal from the
International Conference on
Computational and Experimental Engineering
& Sciences. The award, named for Theodore
Pian, a professor at MIT for nearly 50 years, is in
honor of Allen's distinguished contributions to
computational mechanics of inelastic materials at
various length scales. The medal was awarded at
the 2008 conference in Honolulu in March 2008.