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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION LEON M. KEER CITIZENSHIP U.S.A. EDUCATION 1952-58 California Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering 1959-62 University of Minnesota, Aeronautics and Engineering Mechanics DEGREES B.S. 1956 California Institute of Technology, Engineering, academic honor M.S. 1958 California Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. 1962 University of Minnesota (Dissertation with L.E. Goodman, “The Contact Stress Problem for Elastically Identical Spheres) ACADEMIC CAREER 1959-62 Research Fellow, University of Minnesota 1962-63 NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne,England 1963-64 Preceptor, Columbia University, New York 1964-66 Assistant Professor of Civil Eng., Northwestern University 1966-70 Associate Professor of Civil Eng., Northwestern University 1970-85 Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University 1972-73 Guggenheim Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Scotland 1985–92 Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Study, Northwestern University 1992- Professor and Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University 1994- Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering HONORS AND AWARDS 1962-63 NATO Postdoctoral Fellow 1972-73 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow 1983 Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics 1984 Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1986 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan 1988 Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers 1994- Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering 1997 Elected to National Academy of Engineering Selected as 1st Chau Wai-yin Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Innovative Research Award, Tribology Division, ASME Fellow, Acoustical Society of America ASME Daniel C. Drucker Medal VISITING POSITIONS (Short Term) 1968 Member of International Research Seminar on Continuum Mechanics and Related Numerical Anal