David Allen, a 1972 graduate of Texas A&M University in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, served as the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas - Pan American. He is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of viscoelastic and nonlinear material modeling with over 100 major archival publications. His textbook "Introduction to Aerospace Structural Analysis," John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1985, was widely adopted by and used in aerospace engineering departments for teaching undergraduate structure courses.