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SIA NEMAT-NASSER
Pages 270-275

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... He officially retired in 2019 but remained active as a researcher through his Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials. Sia was born April 14, 1936, in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States in 1958 to complete his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Sacramento State College (now University)
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... Renowned as both a strong theoretician and innovative experimentalist, he examined a broad range of materials: ceramics, ceramic composites, high-strength alloys and superalloys, rocks and geo­materials, and advanced metallic and polymeric com­posites with electro­ magnetic, self-healing, and self-sensing functionality; ionic polymer-metal composites as soft a­ctuators/­ sensors; and shape-memory alloys. His work enabled the design of more resistant, useful, and safer ­materials for a variety of applications, from civil infrastructure to space stations (to withstand meteorite impacts)
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... In 2015 he received the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for his highly effective teaching of undergraduate students, using an approach that integrated inventive and alternative teaching methods. Among his numerous honors, Sia was elected to the NAE (2001)
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... In 2016 he and his wife Éva established the Roghieh ChehreAzad Distinguished Professorship in the UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities to foster new projects and future works exploring the music, art, literature, and history of Persian culture. In establishing the gift, Sia explained that it honored his mother, Chehre-Azad, a well-known actor in Iran who pursued her passion of acting at great personal risk when it was taboo in that country for women to perform on stage.
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