Two aerospace engineering professors, Dr. Ivo M. Babuska and Dr. Thomas J. Hughes, will receive honorary doctorates from international universities this year.
Babuska will receive an honorary doctorate from Czech Technical University in Prague for his world-renowned scientific work in numerical mathematics. Babuska graduated from Czech Technical University in 1949 with a civil engineering degree and in 1951 with a doctorate in technical sciences. At The University of Texas at Austin he holds the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering.
Hughes will receive honorary doctorates in civil engineering from the University of Padua and the University of Pavia, both in Italy. Pavia commends Hughes for his "his fundamental work in solid, structural and fluid mechanics, with special emphasis on recent work in turbulent flows, stabilized and multiscale methods, and isogeometric analyses." Padua will also bestow an honorary doctorate in civil engineering later this year. At the University of Texas at Austin Hughes holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III.
