Mohammed A. Zikry

Mohammed A. Zikry is an American mechanical engineer and academic. He is the Zan Prevost Smith Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, where his research focuses on the mechanics of materials, computational and multiscale modeling, and the failure behavior of crystalline and heterogeneous materials. He is best known as the recipient of the 2017 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Education Zikry received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1983, a Master of Science in mechanical engineering with a specialization in solid mechanics from Johns Hopkins University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the University of California, San Diego in 1990.