Suvranu De, the head of the department of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer, has been named the recipient of the 2019 U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics J. Tinsley Oden Medal. He receives this award for "pioneering contributions to meshfree methods, multiscale modeling and real time computing."   

De was presented with the award at a ceremony during the 15th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics in Austin, Texas.