Roger T. Fenner, now retired, was Professor of Engineering Computation in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College London, where his teaching included Mechanics of Solids. Much of his research was focused on computational stress analysis, especially using boundary element and finite element methods.

J. N. Reddy, the O'Donnell Foundation Chair IV Professor in J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is a highly-cited researcher, author of 25 textbooks and over 800 journal papers, recipient of many honors and awards, and a leader in the applied mechanics field for more than 50 years. He is well-known worldwide for his significant contributions to the field of applied and computational mechanics through the authorship of widely used textbooks on mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics, linear and nonlinear finite element analyses, variational methods, numerical methods, and composite materials and structures.

Arun Srinivasa is the holder of the J. N. Reddy Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and Associate Dean for Student Success. He teaches courses in mechanics both at graduate and undergraduate levels. He was awarded the Ben Sparks Medal from the ASME and the Archi Higdon Medal from the ASEE in recognition of his teaching.