Prof. K. Bhaskar has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, since 1992. As part of the Structures Group, he teaches courses related to solid mechanics and elasticity. He has published more than fifty, primarily related to theoretical modelling of thick laminated structures, in several national and international journals.   Prof. T. K. Varadan was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for about thirty-five years before retiring in 2001. Besides teaching a wide variety of courses related to structural mechanics and design, he has made significant research contributions in the areas of nonlinear vibrations and composite structures, with more than one hundred refereed publications.