Course Name: An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

EDUCATION:

August 1976       Diploma of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (Master's degree)
June 1978           Diploma of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Civil Engineering in Paris.
May 1980            Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin.
September 1981      Doctorat es Sciences Mathématiques, Université of Paris VI.

 

CURRENT POSITIONS:
Professor, Department of Mechanics of the Ecole Polytechnique and president of Senate

Director of the Laboratory of Solid Mechanics at Ecole Polytechnique. 

Holder of the Chair André Citroën at Ecole Polytechnique

Scientific adviser at the French Atomic Commission (CEA). 

 

PUBLISHED BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
7 books and monographs

80 refereed papers for International Journals,

70 papers in Conference Proceedings,

24 additional research reports.

  

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

- Editor:                                                International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

- Member of the editorial board:    Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

                                                             Computer and Structures

        

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor of Mechanics, Applied Mathematics or Scientific Computing in France Engineering Schools (Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat), and in major Universities (University of Paris Dauphine, Université of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), University of Bordeaux, Tunis,  University of Wisconsin at Madison, Université of Rio de Janeiro (PUC), Wuhan University, …

Invited professor at Cornell, Stanford and Wuhan University, at University of Minneapolis, of Colorado, of Texas at Austin  and of Houston.

Past director of Paris Master Program in Nuclear Energy

28 Supervised Ph. D

 

RESEARCH:

Patrick LE TALLEC field of research is concerned with computational mechanics. A part of his career was devoted to Augmented Lagrangian and operator splitting methods in nonlinear mechanics, to the numerical analysis and simulation of  nonlinear elastic problems, to domain decomposition techniques and to fluid structure interaction problems. His current interests concern  the dynamics and control of nonlinear structures, the multiscale simulation of contact problems, and  the development of multiscale and multimaterial modelling for nonlinear structures.

 

HONORS & AWARDS:

President of SMAI (French Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics) (1999 – 2001)   

Prize Blaise Pascal of the French Academy of Sciences (1985).
CISI award in Scientific Computing (1991).

Chevalier de la légion d'honneur (2004).

Chevalier des Palmes Academiques (2010)

Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (2015)