Professor Emeritus (University Akron – UA, Aug. 2020) Erol Sancaktar (Ph.D.; Eng. Mechanics, Virginia Tech) is Fellow of ASME, served as ASME Technical Committee Chair for Reliability Stress Analysis, Failure Prevention (1997-2008; 2013-), Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Modern Polymer Chemistry and Materials (2021-), Associate Editor for ASME J. Mech. Design (1995-2006) and Medical Devices (2006-2013) and organized 30 Conferences. He taught at the Mechanical Eng. Dept., Clarkson University during 1978 to 1996 before joining UA in 1996 as Professor of Polymer Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (starting 2009). He edited 25 books, authored 119 journal articles and 30 book chapters. He delivered 249 technical presentations and has 4 patents. Dr. Sancaktar served in 15 different Federal Government review panels and had over 18 consulting assignments with government agencies (i.e., NASA, U.S. Army), as well as industrial establishments (Kendall Co., Chrysler Corp.). Prof. Sancaktar and co-workers obtained ~ $4M Research and Grant support with 56 projects (8 NSF awards) during 1980-2022.