Teaching and Mentoring Activities
Courses Offered
- Civil Engineering Systems
- Probability, Statistics and Decision for Civil Engineers
- Structural Analysis
- Structural Design I
- Matrix Structural Analysis
- Inelastic Theory of Structures
- Structural Reliability
- Advanced Structural Reliability
- Structural Failure
- Structural Optimization
- Structural Reliability of Components and Systems
- Life-Cycle of Structural Systems
- Structural Safety and Risk
Selected Short Courses Offered
- Maintenance, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Civil Engineering Infrastructure (University of Paris Est, France), 2011
- Life-Cycle Design of Civil Engineering Infrastructure (Johannesburg and Cape Town, Organized by University of Cape Town, South Africa), 2011
- Structural Risk and Reliability: Issues to be Resolved (Colloquium, University of Stellembosh, Stellembosh, South Africa), 2010
- Industrial Short Course on the Applications of Reliability Engineering (National University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan), 2010
- Natural and Man Made Induced Hazards (LLP/Erasmus Short Course, University of Florence, Florence, Italy), 2009
- Life-Cycle Design of Bridges (Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Milan, Italy), 2008 and 2009
- Reliability, Optimization and Life-Cycle of Civil Engineering Systems (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011
- Optimal Maintenance of Bridges Based on Risk and Reliability (Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Toluca, Mexico), 2008
- Integration of Structural Health Monitoring with Risk-Based Performance (University of Surrey, Guildford, England), 2008
- Arch Bridges (Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Milan, Italy), 2007
- Cable-Stayed and Suspension Bridges (Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Milan, Italy), 2006
- Condition, Safety and Cost of Deteriorating Bridges (Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Milan, Italy), 2005
- Optimization of Bridge Maintenance Strategies (University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal), 2004
- Reliability, Maintenance and Life-Cycle Cost Procedures for Bridges (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy), 2004
- Methodological Aspects in Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Bridges (Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Milan, Italy), 2004
- Time-Variant Reliability of Deteriorating Structures (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany), 2000
- Lifetime - Oriented Analysis and Design of Deteriorating Structures (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), 2000
- Safety of Existing Bridges (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland), 1998
- Structural Reliability (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain), 1998
- Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (University of Trento, Trento, Italy), 1995
- System Reliability (National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan), 1989
- Reliability Concepts and Techniques in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland), 1989
- Structural Failure (University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado), 1986
Graduate Students Supervised as Research Advisor
37 PhD students supervised as dissertation advisor, from which many are university professors and several are prominent in professional practice and research laboratories.
- Saydam, Duygu, 2013
- Decò, Alberto, 2013
- Kim, Sunyong, 2011
- Kwon, Kihyon, 2011
- Okasha, Nader, 2010
- Messervey, Thomas, 2009
- Hoffman, Simon, 2008 (Co-advisor)
- Liu, Ming, 2006
- Neves, Luis, 2005
- Petcherdchoo, Aruz, 2004
- Akgul , Ferhat, 2002
- Yang, Seung-Ie, 2002
- Kong, Jung, 2001
- Gharaibeh, Emhaidy, 1999
- Kepler, William, 1999
- Imai, Kiyohiro, 1999
- Enright, Michael, 1998
- De Almeida, Adelino, 1998
- Estes, Allen, 1997
- Lin, Kai, 1995
- Diniz, Sofia, 1994
- Lee-Yong, Hak, 1993
- Hendawi Samer, 1993
- Al-Harthy, Ali, 1992
- Iizuka, Minoru, 1991
- Banafa, Ahmed, 1991
- Napitupulu, Heinrych, 1990
- Trautner, Janice, 1989
- Nakib, Rachid, 1988
- Hong, Kappyo, 1987
50 MS students supervised as thesis or report advisor (33 graduated with a thesis and 16 with a report).
Zou, Yingjun, 2011, M.S. Thesis; Zhang, Chao, 2009, M.S. Thesis; Marsh, Phillip, 2006, M.S. Thesis; Bradley, Chamberlin, 2006, M.S. Report; Buckmaster, Sonia, 2006, M.S. Report; Deco, Alberto, 2005, Tesi di Laurea; Maldonaldo-Gonzales, Rene, 2005, M.S. Report; Saele, Thomas, 2005, M.S. Thesis; Matsumoto, Masato, 2005, M.S. Thesis; Goode, Jonathan, 2004, M.S. Thesis; Subbarayan, Sundara, 2004, M.S. Thesis; Miller, Aaron, 2004, M.S. Thesis; Omachi, Yoshiaki, 2002, M.S. Thesis; Kawakami, Yoriko, 2002, M.S. Thesis; Noh, Jinil, 2001, M.S. Thesis; Hanai, Taku, 1999, M.S. Thesis; Miyake, Masaru, 1999, M.S. Thesis; Frank, Dean, 1999, M.S. Thesis; Chen, Hung-Wei, 1997, M.S. Report; Nichols, Matthew, 1997, M.S. Report; Genz, Daryl, 1997, M.S. Thesis; Milner, David, 1996, M.S. Thesis; Durmus, Korhan, 1996, M.S. Thesis; Lunke, Anne, 1996, M.S. Report; Iwaki, Ichiro, 1996, M.S. Thesis; Stehler, Donald, 1995, M.S. Thesis; Johansson, Ola, 1995, M.S. Report; Ide, Yutaka, May 1995, M.S. Thesis; Steine, Gert, 1995, M.S. Report; Wilshusen, Brec, 1995, M.S. Report; Pranet, Woravit, 1994, M.S. Report; Khandaker, Lutfur, 1994, M.S. Thesis; Pytte, Erik, 1994, M.S. Thesis; Kang, Hong, 1992, M.S. Report; Chakravorty, Milanendu, 1991, M.S. Report; Burgess, Christopher, 1991, M.S. Thesis; Yoshida, Keito, 1990, M.S. Thesis; Teigen, Jan, 1990, M.S. Thesis; Tan, Nurhan, 1990, M.S. Thesis; Robson, Bradley, 1990, M.S. Thesis; Gupta, Rishi, 1989, M.S. Thesis; Abuasaad, Assad, 1988, M.S. Report; Scholfield, Mark, 1988, M.S. Report; Yen, Tzong, 1987, M.S. Report; Curley, James, 1986, M.S. Thesis; Trautner, Janice, 1986, M.S. Thesis; Aburayyan, Naim, 1986, M.S. Report; Hiestand, Gregory, 1986, M.S. Thesis; Nakib, Rachid, 1985, M.S. Thesis.
PhD students currently under supervision:
Dong, You; Haraji, Ali; Liu, Jie; Mondoro, Alysson; Sabatino, Samantha; Soliman, Mohamed; Zhu, Benjin
M.S. students currently under supervision:
Peiffer, R. B. (Bryan)