A little info about me:

I've been a faculty member in the CEE Department at PSU for over 13 years now, having spent the 2008-2009 academic year on sabbatical at the School of Engineering at Tecnun,  the Technological Campus of the University of Navarra in San Sebastian, Spain.

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia in August of 1999.  My dissertation was entitled "Studies of a Full-Scale Horizontally Curved Steel I-Girder Bridge System Under Self-Weight."  My advisors were Dr. Roberto T. Leon and Dr. Abdul-Hamid Zureick.

I received my M.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech in December of 1995.

My BSCE was obtained from THE Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in December of 1990.

I have two main research focus areas: bridge engineering and force protection/structural hardening. However, I have been fortunate enough to have been involved with research in other areas, most significantly laboratory testing and structural health monitoring. Check my Research/Publications page for more specifics.

I teach courses related to steel structures, bridges, structural analysis and structural health monitoring. See my Teaching page for class titles.

I am married with two daughters - I love the ladies in my life!  See my Personal page for info on my family and what else I like to do.  Picture to the left shows us earlier this fall in front of the MOST famous reinforced concrete structure in the Big 10  - OSU's football stadium.

I would not still be around as a faculty member if it wasn't for my current and former graduate and undergraduate honors students (the other "Family").  For info on my current students and links to their pages see my Students - UG & Grad page.  I am also attempting to keep track of my former graduate advisees on the same page.

Any questions?? FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME.

LATEST NEWS (Spring/Summer 2011-12)

DoS project work continues and another year of funding has been received!! CONGRATS to Shane Murphy for completing his MS defense and for Eddie O'Hare for passing his PhD candidacy exam!! Our work on a Phase II Army SBIR project is winding down while a project for PSUs Applied Research Lab and industry R&D projects are firing up. Recent publications include two on curved and skewed bridges in Engineering Structures, one on integral abutment bridges in association with an ACI Symposium honoring Andy Scanlon and one in the ASCE Bridge Journal on curved bridges. See the Research/Publications page for more info!!