Dinesh Katti, professor and interim chair of civil and environmental engineering, was unanimously elected as a fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, known as EMI. He was notified of honor in an April 28 letter from Roberto Ballarini, president of the institute.

Katti will be recognized at an awards banquet scheduled for June 18 during the institute's 2015 conference at Stanford University, California.

The institute is a division of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Its mission is to serve the engineering community through journals, technical conferences, webinars, short courses and publications.

Katti joined the NDSU faculty in 1996. He earned his bachelor's degree at the National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India; master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; and his doctorate at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

His other honors include the John Booker Excellence Award from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, NDSU's Fred Waldron Research Award and the College of Engineering Researcher of the Year Award.

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