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Remembering UC San Diego engineering professor Siavouche Nemat-Nasser

January 13, 2021: University of California San Diego engineering professor emeritus Siavouche "Sia" Nemat-Nasser passed away on January 4, 2021 due to complications of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He was 84 years old. 

Professor Nemat-Nasser was a Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He officially retired from UC San Diego in 2019 but remained active as a researcher through his Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM). 

He was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the US in 1958 to complete his undergraduate degree at Sacramento State College (now University). He earned his MS and PhD degrees from UC Berkeley in 1961 and 1964, respectively.

He joined the UC San Diego faculty twice, first from 1966 to 1970. He went on to a brilliant 15-year career at Northwestern University. He then returned to the UC San Diego faculty in 1985 where he served as the Director of CEAM until his retirement.

Upon his return to UC San Diego, he set out to create a materials science program, which included helping to recruit a series of young and talented scholars. He went on to serve as the Founding Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, which remains an integrated campus-wide graduate degree program that has achieved global recognition. Nemat-Nasser also initiated a program on the mechanical behavior of materials. Both programs became magnets for researchers globally, and recognition by the community followed, along with support from the National Science Foundation which funded the Institute for Mec

Celebration of Life in Memory of Dr. Sia Nemat-Nasser

On Saturday, April 30, 2022, UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Dean Cristina Della Coletta and Department of Music Professor Shahrokh Yadegari organized a weekend of celebration of the artistic life of Siavouche “Sia” Nemat-Nasser who passed away on January 4, 2021.

A Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCSD, Sia became close to the School of Arts and Humanities in 2016 when he and his wife Éva generously established the Roghieh Chehre-Azad Distinguished Professorship to foster new projects and future works exploring the music, art, literature, and history of Persian culture at UCSD.

At the time, Sia said the gift served to honor his mother Chehre-Azad, a well-known actor in Iran who pursued her passion of acting at great personal risk when women performing on stage in Iran was taboo.

Sia’s love for the arts and Persian culture continues to have a profound and long-lasting impact on the Arts and Humanities program and our regional community at large. His sharp mind, wisdom, equanimity, and wit will be remembered. As well as being a highly accomplished and acclaimed scientist, Sia was also a poet and a drawing artist. Sia and Éva translated the poetry of the Shahnameh and the work of Siavash Kasrai for “The Scarlet Stone” production.

The celebration of life took place at UCSD’s Atkinson’s Hall. The first part of the program consisted of speeches by family members and colleagues and music performance. In the second part, the video of “The Scarlet Stone” was shown. The celebration continued the next day with a concert by Master Ali Akbar Moradi Ensemble at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at the Conrad Prebys Music Center on the UCSD campus.

Book Signing

On the afternoon of Thursday, May 26, 2022, the second-grade students of Stella Maris Academy attended a book signing ceremony at the Perry Gallery in La Jolla Shores to celebrate their n

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... He officially retired in 2019 but remained active as a researcher through his Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials. Sia was born April 14, 1936, in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States in 1958 to complete his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Sacramento State College (now University)

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... Renowned as both a strong theoretician and innovative experimentalist, he examined a broad range of materials: ceramics, ceramic composites, high-strength alloys and superalloys, rocks and geo­materials, and advanced metallic and polymeric com­posites with electro­ magnetic, self-healing, and self-sensing functionality; ionic polymer-metal composites as soft a­ctuators/­ sensors; and shape-memory alloys. His work enabled the design of more resistant, useful, and safer ­materials for a variety of applications, from civil infrastructure to space stations (to withstand meteorite impacts)

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... In 2015 he received the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for his highly effective teaching of undergraduate students, using an approach that integrated inventive and alternative teaching methods. Among his numerous honors, Sia was elected to the NAE (2001)

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... In 2016 he and his wife Éva established the Roghieh ChehreAzad Distinguished Professorship in the UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities to foster new projects and future works exploring the music, art, literature, and history of Persian culture. In establishing the gift, Sia explained that it honored his mother, Chehre-Azad, a well-known actor in Iran who pursued her passion of acting at great personal risk when it was taboo in that country for women to perform on stage.

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Each year, the ASME Honors and Awards Program recognizes individuals and organizations for a variety of engineering achievements and contributions to the profession. This year, the Society will honor 10 individuals for their accomplishments at the 2013 ASME Honors Assembly to be held on Nov. 18, during the 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in San Diego, Calif.

One of the evening's honorees, ASME Honorary Member and Fellow Sia Nemat-Nasser, Ph.D., will receive the Society's ASME Medal, which is the highest award that the Society can bestow. The ASME Medal, established in 1920, is awarded for eminently distinguished achievement.

Dr. Nemat-Nasser , a resident of La Jolla, Calif., is a distinguished professor of mechanics and materials, and director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials at the University of California, San Diego. He is being recognized for creating micro-architectured composites to mitigate shock-wave induced traumatic brain injury; metamaterials to redirect, attenuate and manage stress waves; and original comprehensive models of deformation and failure of metallic structures with application to metal forming and failure prevention. The award also pays tribute to Nemat-Nasser's outstanding contributions in promoting ASME's Materials Division. 

Nemat-Nasser is a leading scholar in the field of mechanics and has made seminal contributions to a broad range of topics including constitutive response and liquefaction in granular media; brittle crack growth and bifurcation in compressive loading; plasticity at large strains; elastic-plastic crack tip fields; failure of ductile metals under shock wave conditions; overall properties of composites; thermodynamics of deformation; ionic polymer metal composites; and metamaterials with novel electromagnetic or acoustic properties.

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