Symposium on Education in Mechanics

I consider it my special privilege to be given the unique opportunity to organize this Symposium for the 12th US National Congress of Applied Mechanics on behalf of the Committee on Mechanics Education of the American Academy of Mechanics. It gives me great pleasure to have invited a group of excellent speakers for the Symposium, whose papers on mechanics education are published in this volume of the Congress proceedings. In fact, it is exciting to realize that the Symposium is the first to be held at a mechanics congress in which mechanics education as well as research is reported and discussed.