Structural Engineering Faculty:

Oguzhan Bayrak, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., M.S., University of Toronto, B.S., Middle East Technical University) Prestressed concrete, reinforced concrete, structural repair.

John E. Breen, Nasser I. Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering (Ph.D., University of Texas, M.S., University of Missouri, B.S., Marquette University) Structural concrete ; structural systems.

Michael D. Engelhardt, Dewitt C. Greer Centennial Professor in Engineering (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, M.S. and B.S., University of Illinois) Steel structures; earthquake-resistant design.

Kevin J. Folliard, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., M.S., University of California at Berkeley, B.S., Florida Institute of Technology) Portland Cement concrete, concrete durability, high-performance concrete, controlled low-strength materials.

David W. Fowler, Joe J. King Chair of Engineering, No. 2 (Ph.D., University of Colorado, M.S. and B.S., University of Texas) Structures; concrete-polymer materials; cable roof systems; housing systems.

Karl H. Frank, Warren S. Bellows Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering (Ph.D. and M.S., Lehigh University, B.S., University of California at Davis) Structural steel; fatigue; brittle fracture; welding; non-destructive inspection; bolted connections; composite plate girders.

Wassim Ghounnam, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., M.S., University of Toronto, B.S., Middle East Technical University) Prestressed concrete, reinforced concrete, structural repair

Todd Helwig, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., M.S., B.S., University of Texas at Austin) Design and behavior of steel buildings and bridges, Structural stability.

James O. Jirsa, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering (Ph.D. and M.S., University of Illinois, B.S., University of Nebraska) Reinforced concrete structures; earthquake engineering.

Maria Juenger, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., Northwestern, B.S., Duke University) Materials science, concrete materials, cement chemistry

Loukas F. Kallivokas, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D. and M.S., Carnegie Mellon University, B.S., National Technical University of Athens). Computational mechanics; wave propagation and structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; inverse problems in engineering; acoustics; numerical methods; large-scale computational modeling and visualization.

Richard E. Klingner, L. P. Gilvin Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering (Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., University of California at Berkeley) Response of masonry and reinforced concrete structures to dynamic loads; earthquake engineering.

Lance Manuel, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., Stanford University, M.S., University of Virginia, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology). Structural reliability; structural dynamics and random vibrations; probabilistic methods; analysis of fixed and floating offshore structures to random loading; probabilistic seismic hazard and risk analyses for structures and lifelines.

John L. Tassoulas, Phil M. Ferguson Professor in Civil Engineering (Ph.D. and M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Yale) Structural mechanics; constitutive equations of materials; wave propagation; numerical analysis.

Dan L. Wheat, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Carl Ernest and Mattie Ann Muldrow Reistle, Jr. Centennial Fellowship. (Ph.D., Colorado State University, M.S., University of Denver, B.S., University of Colorado at Boulder) Mathematical modeling of wood and wood structural systems; design of wood structures.

Eric B. Williamson, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D. and M.S., University of Illinois, B.S., University of Texas) Dynamic response of structures; structural analysis; static and dynamic stability; progressive collapse; response of structures to blast loads; development of nonlinear analytical models.

Sharon L. Wood, Robert L. Parker, Sr. Centennial Professor in Engineering (Ph.D. and M.S., University of Illinois, B.S., University of Virginia) Reinforced concrete, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, sensor development.

Jingying Zhu, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (Ph.D., MS., University of Toronto, B.S., Middle East Technical University) Prestressed concrete, reinforced concrete, structural repair