Professor Madhujit Mukhopadhyay is Ex-Dean (Faculty and Planning) and Professor Emeritus of Structural Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He obtained the B.E. degree from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. and the D.Sc. degrees from IIT, Kharagpur. His field of research interest lies in the application of various numerical methods for the analysis of plates and shells, bare of stiffened, isotropic or orthotropic. He has received several awards for his research. A widely traveled person, Professor Madhujit Mukhopadhyay published a large number of papers in international journals in aerospace, civil, mechanical and ocean engineering and is the author of four textbooks.