Leslie Earl Robertson was an American engineer. He was the lead structural engineer of the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center in New York City, and served as structural engineer on numerous other projects, including the U.S. Steel Tower in Pittsburgh, Shanghai World Financial Center, and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is a public university in Socorro, New Mexico. It offers over 30 bachelor of science degrees in technology, the sciences, engineering, management, and technical communication, as well as graduate degrees at the masters and doctoral levels.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. Its constitution was based on the older Boston Society of Civil Engineers from 1848.
Hans Albert Einstein was a Swiss-American engineer and educator, the second child and first son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. Hans A. Einstein was a long-time professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bruce Russell Ellingwood is an American civil engineer and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Colorado State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a two-time recipient of the Norman Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to the Engineering Science. Ellingwood also received the Walter P. Moore Jr. Award by the ASCE. He is a pioneer in the field of structural reliability.
Iraj Zandi is Emeritus Professor of Systems & National Center Professor of Resource Management & Technology in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. National Center Chair is housed jointly in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School of Business. Zandi joined the faculty at Penn in 1966 as an Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering. In 1971 he was the founding chair of the graduate Ph.D. program on Energy Management and Power at the University of Pennsylvania He has advised 22 Ph.D. dissertations and numerous MS thesis. In July, 1998 he relinquished his tenured position on behalf of his former student, Professor Barry Silverman, although, he continued teaching up to age of 77 (2008) with no tenure.
Thomas Denis O’Rourke is an American educator, engineer and serves as the Thomas R. Biggs Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering, Cornell University. Professor O’Rourke took his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering at Cornell's engineering college in 1970 and his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975.
Dan Mircea Frangopol is an American civil engineer and the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Priscilla Nelson was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey from May 2005 to November 2008. She is currently the Department Head and Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines.
Ken P. Chong is a Research Professor at The George Washington University and a former associate at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST). He was the Engineering Advisor, Interim Division Director and program director of Mechanics and Materials at various times for 21 years at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He has published over 200 refereed papers, and is the author or coauthor of twelve books including "Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics", "Intelligent Structures", "Modeling and Simulation-Based Life Cycle Engineering", "Mechanics of Oil Shale", and "Materials for the New Millennium". He has taught at the University of Wyoming, University of Hong Kong, University of Houston, and George Washington University [www.gwu.edu/] and had been visiting professor at MIT and University of Washington.
Vistasp Karbhari is an Indian-American Parsi civil engineer and university administrator. Karbhari was the eighth president of the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to that, he was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is known for his research in composite materials and structural engineering.
Donald Van Norman Roberts was a civil, geotechnical and environmental engineer from the United States, and advocate for sustainability developments in engineering.
The Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW) is a MediaWiki-based website dedicated to the history of technology. It consists of articles, first-hand accounts, oral histories, landmarks and milestones and started operating in 2015.
William W-G. Yeh is a Taiwanese-American civil engineer and the Richard G. Newman AECOM Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, a Chair position that he was given in 2010. His research work has involved the development of computer models for optimal operations of large-scale hydropower and water supply systems. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Elected Fellow and Elected Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering and also Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also given the Julian Hinds Award, for his outstanding work, and also the Lifetime Achievement Award, both by the ASCE. In 2008, a symposium at UCLA honored Yeh's work. He was the Editor of the ASCE's Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management from 1988 to 1993. He has authored 10 books and then also authored and co-authored 141 published papers in journals. In total, his original research has been cited more than 10,000 times.
Kara M. Kockelman, Ph.D., P.E. is an American civil and transportation engineer, who is currently the Dewitt Greer Centennial Professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, previously the Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Civil Engineering, and a published author. Kockelman’s work focuses on transportation, and includes planning for future implementation of shared and autonomous vehicle systems, and policies like credit-based congestion pricing and urban growth boundaries.
Ahsan Kareem is the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame. He is Director of the Nathaz Modeling Laboratory and served as the past Chair at the Department of CEEES at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as the President of the International Association for Wind Engineering. He was also the former President of the American Association for Wind Engineering. His fundamental contributions to aerodynamics and aeroelasticity has led to advances in the analysis, design and performance assessment of tall buildings and long span bridges. He has conducted from wind tunnel modeling to stochastic and CFD based simulations and finally to the full-scale monitoring of some of the signature buildings around the world including more recently Burj Khalifa. It utilizes a novel “SmartSync” system featuring “Internet-of-Things” (IoT) concept with built in layers of intelligence for data management and analysis. He has advanced models for damping in tall buildings and motion mitigation devices like tuned liquid dampers from design, prototype testing to post installation monitoring in buildings in the US and in the Pacific-rim. His contributions towards database assisted design through a web-portal recommended in ASCE 7 is used worldwide for designing tall buildings. More recently, his group has embarked on shape optimization of tall buildings based on CFD with embedded topology optimization to configure efficient and optimal structural system for super tall buildings and long span bridges.
Venkatesh Kumar R Kodur, born in Kodur village in Karnataka India, received his bachelor's degree in Civil engineering from the University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, in 1984. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen’s University, Canada, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Following a brief stint as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, he joined the National Research Council (Canada), where as senior scientist, he carried out extensive research in structural fire safety field. In 2005, he joined the faculty of Michigan State University (MSU), where he is currently a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Kodur has established unique fire test facilities and highly acclaimed research program in structural fire engineering area at MSU and is the founding director of the Center on Structural Fire Safety and Diagnostics.
Andrew Stuart Whittaker is an American structural engineer who is currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Kumares C. Sinha is an Indian-American engineer, researcher and educator known for contributions to transportation systems analysis, transportation infrastructure economics and management, transportation safety, and the use of emerging technologies in transportation. He has served as Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. since 1998.
Reginald DesRoches is a civil engineer and, as of July 1, 2020, serves as the Howard Hughes Provost at Rice University. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering at the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice. From 2012 to 2017, he served as the Karen and John Huff Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
