Email: lfg@psu.edu

Education:

1977 Ph. D., Civil Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University 

1970 M.S., Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

1967 B.S., Building Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Professional affiliations: ASCE: Committee on Design of Steel Building Structures, Chairman; AE Division ABET 2000 Program Criteria Coordinator; Committee on Load and Resistance Factor Design; Tension Membrane Structures Standards Committee; American Institute of Steel Construction: Specification Committee; Task Committee 10 (Stability); Ad Hoc Committee on the Unified Specification; Technical Activities Committee, American Society for Engineering Education.

Research Areas: design of steel buildings, drift control, semi-rigid connections, leaning columns, nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of steel framed buildings, fabric structures, nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of tension structures, masonry, shear transfer in composite masonry walls, computer applications, computer aided design, fire resistance of steel structures

Teaching: includes the full range of lower and upper division courses in the areas of structural analysis and design for buildings; including basic and advanced steel design, basic and advanced concrete design, indeterminate structural analysis, analysis of special structures, Computer applications to structures. Additional responsibilities include: Undergraduate Program Officer, Structural Consultant for the 5th Year Thesis Program, MEng, M.S. and Ph.D. advising in Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering. Recipient of six Outstanding Teaching, Advising and Service Awards, National and Local
 

Honors and Awards

• T.R.Higgins Lectureship Award, American Institute of Steel Construction, national award 2000
• Penn State Engineering Society Faculty Service Award, College-Wide Award, 1993.
• Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Advising Award, College-Wide Award, 1991.
• AT&T Foundation Award for Excellence, Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, 1987.
• Penn State Engineering Society Premier Teaching Award, College-Wide Award, 1988.
• Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching Award, College-Wide Award, 1986.
• AMOCO Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, a University-Wide Award, 1986.

Nanni, Antonio, Geschwindner, Louis F., and Pardo, Jorge, "PERFORMANCE OF A CONCRETE MASONRY SLAB SYSTEM - PRELIMINARY RESULTS", Proceedings, Fifth North American Masonry Conference, Vol 3, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., June 3-6, 1990, pp. 1029-1039. 

Geschwindner, Louis F. and Ostag, William P., "POST-TENSIONED SINGLE WYTHE CONCRETE MASONRY WALLS", Proceedings, Fifth North American Masonry Conference, Vol 3., Urbana-Champaign, Ill., June, 1990, pp. 1123-1134.

Nanni, Antonio and Geschwindner, Louis F., "DESIGN AND TESTING OF MASONRY SLAB SYSTEM", The Masonry Society Journal, The Masonry Society, Vol. 9, No. 2, February, 1991, pp.36-46.

Geschwindner, Louis F., "A SIMPLIFIED LOOK AT PARTIALLY RESTRAINED BEAMS", Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction, Vol. 28, No. 2, Second Quarter, 1991, pp. 73-78.

Ikwut-Ukwa, Uche, Sanvido, Victor E., and Geschwindner, Louis F., "A PRACTICE BASED STRUCTURAL DESIGN INFORMATION MODEL (SDIM)", Journal of Management in Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 7, No. 4, October, 1991, pp 390-411.

Geschwindner, L.F., "The Leaning Column in ASD and LRFD," Proceedings, National Steel Construction Conference, Orlando, March 1993, AISC, pp. 19.1-19.17.

Carter, Charles J., and Geschwindner, L. F., "The Economic Impact of Overspecifying Simple Connections," Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction, Vol. 30, No. 1, First Quarter, 1993, pp. 34-36.

Geschwindner, L.F., "A Practical Approach to the Leaning Column", Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fourth Quarter, 1994, pp. 141- 149.

Geschwindner, L.F., "Practical Design of Unbraced Moment Frames with Leaning Columns", Proceedings of the Structures Congress 13, Boston, Mass., April 2-5, 1995, ASCE, pp 527-542.

Geschwindner, L. F., "Penn State Architectural Engineering", Journal of Architectural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 1, No.3, September 1995, pp. 133-139.

Geschwindner, L.F., "Architectural Engineering - Engineering Education for the 21st. Century," Proceedings of the Construction Congress, San Diego, October, 1995, pp. 314-321.

Khudada, A. E., Geschwindner, L. F., "Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Steel Frames by Modal Superposition," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.123, No. 11, November, 1997, pp. 1519-1527.

Geschwindner, L. F., "A Practical Look at Frame Analysis, Stability, and Leaning Columns," Proceedings of the North American Steel Construction Conference, Las Vegas, February 23-25, 2000, AISC, pp. 1.1-1.29.

Books:

Geschwindner, Louis F., "Special Structures", Section 4, Structural Steel Designer's Handbook, 3rd Edition, Frederick S. Merritt and Roger Brockenbrough, Editors, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1999, pp. 4.1-4.61.

Geschwindner, L.F., "Torsion," Chapter 4, Steel Design Handbook - LRFD Method, A. R. Tamboli, Editor, McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1997, pp. 4.1-4.31.

Air-Supported Structures, ASCE Standard 17-96, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, 1997. Responsible for authoring document.

Geschwindner, Louis F., "Special Structures", Section 4, Structural Steel Designer's Handbook, Ed. Frederick S. Merritt and Roger Brockenbrough, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.

Geschwindner, L.F., Disque, R.O., and Bjorhovde, R., "LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES", Prentice Hall, 1993.

"GUIDELINES FOR DESIGN OF LOW-RISE BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO LATERAL FORCES," Ajaya Kumar Gupta and Peter James Moss, Editors, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla. 1993, Contributor to Chapter 5.

West, H.H., "FUNDAMENTALS OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS", Supporting Computer Programs by L.F. Geschwindner, Wiley, 1993.