Daniel Post

Daniel Post (April 1929 – January 25, 2026) was an American engineer and was a professor at the Virginia Tech.

Education Post studied at the Pratt Institute of New York from 1947 to 1948, completing his BS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1950. He developed a unique production method for foil-tyle strain gauges in 1963. Throughout his career he consulted to government and industry. He was a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1978 to 1991 when he retired and became professor emeritus. In 1979 he invented a white light Moire interferometry technique Post was active in the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (SESA) (later the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)) and was named the eighteenth Honorary Member of the society in 1999.

Awards and recognition Society for Experimental Mechanics Murray Lecture and Award (1971) Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1977) Society for Experimental Mechanics Frocht Award (1988) Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Alumni Research Award (1989) Society for Experimental Mechanics Taylor (2006)