[4] Eringen was born in Kayseri, Turkey and studied at the Technical University of Istanbul and graduated with a diploma degree in 1943 and then worked for the Turkish Aircraft Co. until 1944.
He continued his studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in New York City where he received his doctorate in applied mechanics in 1948[1] under the supervision of Nicholas J.
He became professor of continuum mechanics in the departments of civil and geological engineering and the program in applied and computational mathematics[6] at Princeton University.
He retired in 1991 as the dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University and died in 2009.
In 1973 he received the Distinguished Service Award and the 1976 as named in his honor A. C. Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, whose president he was in 1963 to 1973.