Profile of Subra Suresh

摘要

During his long and distinguished career, Subra Suresh has made crucial contributions to the field of engineering. While finishing up high school in India in the 1970s, however, Suresh was not even sure of going to college, let alone becoming an engineer. Nonetheless, Suresh decided to take a shot at the entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. “A month before my exam, I bought a book to prepare and worked through some practice questions and just thought, go try it,” Suresh says. “To my surprise, I got in.” His degree in mechanical engineering from Indian Institutes of Technology Madras would turn out to be the starting point of a wide-ranging research career.