Dr. Kishor Mehta receives the distinction of Emeritus Faculty.

Dr. Mehta at the 50th anniversary of the National Wind Institute (2022)

 

This past week, Dr. Kishor Mehta was introduced as Texas Tech University’s newest Emeritus Faculty member by TTU President, Dr. Lawrence Schovanec, to the Board of Regents.  

At Texas Tech, a faculty member may be appointed to Emeritus status after long (at least 10 years) and distinguished service to the university.  
 
Mehta has accomplished the unthinkable during his TTU tenure. A few of his many accomplishments include developing criteria for above-ground tornado shelters, developing wind load standards for building design, and establishing the Wind Science and Engineering doctoral program. The first and only multidisciplinary program in the country that students are educated across multiple disciplines such as engineering, atmospheric science, wind energy, and economics.  
 
One of his most well-known accomplishments was leading the development of the EF-scale used to assess tornado intensity (and adopted by the National Weather Service in 2007). 
 

Mehta (center) and colleagues surveying damage after the 1970 Lubbock F5 tornado. 

In his 60-year tenure, Mehta has impacted the education of countless students and has positively changed many different disciplines in the scientific community.