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Ellen Marie Arruda is an American mechanical engineer known for her research on the mechanical properties of and on tissue engineering, with applications including the design of improved , artificial tooth enamel that can withstand high-shock and high-vibration environments, and nanolayered composite materials that are lightweight, as strong as steel, and transparent. The Arruda–Boyce model for the behavior of rubber-like polymers is named for her and her doctoral advisor Mary Cunningham Boyce, with whom she published it in 1993. She is Maria Comninou Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Tim Manganello / Borg Warner Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.
She joined the University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in 1992, became a full professor in 2005, and added an affiliation as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2009. In 2018, she was named the new chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
She was the 2018 winner of the James R. Rice Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, "for substantial contributions to the mechanics of engineering polymers and biological materials, with both fundamental and applied impact", the 2019 winner of the Nadai Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
She was elected to the 2022 Class of AIMBE College of Fellows, consisting of prominent medical and biological engineers across the country. She was selected for her Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding of Soft Issue and Biomechanics including novel tissue engineered constructs for ligament and tendon replacement. 2023 winner of the American Society of Biomechanics Borelli award which recognizes outstanding career accomplishment.
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