Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials

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Two grad students examine data on a laptop in the Structural Engineering and Materials Lab with a shattered cinder block wall in the background.

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Find out what kind of courses you can take and learn more about the expertise of our faculty:

Our program’s academic and research activities have earned an international reputation for excellence — a reputation strengthened by an environment that fosters learning, discovery and creativity.

That world renown comes from our work in: creative use of advanced structural materials and composite systems to improve infrastructure; earthquake engineering; cladding effects on, and hybrid control of, the response of tall buildings to earthquakes and wind; steel connection design and behavior; and structural reliability and risk assessment.

Our students learn about — and conduct advance research on — structural analysis and design, the behavior of structural systems, earthquake engineering, engineering science and mechanics, high-performance materials, computer-aided engineering, risk and reliability, and intelligent engineering learning environments.

They are encouraged to form partnerships with each other and our faculty members to develop their skills and advance our profession. And we foster a multidisciplinary environment where we’re developing solutions to engineering problems of national and international importance.

Facilities

Our School is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and instruments for all aspects of modern structural engineering and structural mechanics and materials research. This includes:

An 18,000-square-foot Structures and Materials Laboratory with an 8,000-square-foot strong floor, an L-shaped reaction wall with capacities of 100-300 kips, and two 30-ton-capacity cranes. More… (Learn about construction of this facility in STRUCTUREmag.)
A broad range of universal testing machines, with capacity to 400 kips.
Specialized facilities for mechanical testing with infrared thermography and photoelastic stress/strain analysis.
A nondestructive evaluation/optics laboratory.
A laser scanning confocal microscope.
Numerous high-performance workstations equipped with state-of-the-art software in structural engineering and mechanics.

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Nelson C. Baker Dean, Professional Education & Professor	Corliss L. Barham Administrative Professional III	Reginald DesRoches External Adjunct Professor
Bruce R. Ellingwood Professor Emeritus	T. Russell Gentry Internal Adjunct Associate Professor	Barry Goodno Professor Emeritus
Laurence J. Jacobs Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor	Lawrence F. Kahn Professor Emeritus	Jin Yeon Kim Senior Research Engineer
Aditya Kumar Assistant Professor (Starting Fall 2022)	Kimberly E. Kurtis Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship & Professor	Jamia Luckett Administrative Professional, Sr.
Karl F. "Fred" Meyer Professor of the Practice	Rafi L. Muhanna Associate Professor	Glaucio H. Paulino Raymond Allen Jones Chair & External Adjunct Professor
David W. Scott External Adjunct Associate Professor	Ryan J. Sherman Assistant Professor	Lauren Stewart Williams Family Early-Career Professor, Director of the Structural...
Phanish Suryanarayana Associate Professor	Iris Tien Williams Family Associate Professor	Yang Wang Professor & Group Coordinator; Adjunct Professor (ECE)
Gerald Wempner Professor Emeritus	Donald W. White Professor	Kenneth M. Will Associate Professor Emeritus
Chuang-Sheng (Walter) Yang, P.E. Research Engineer II & Instructor	Arash Yavari Professor	Abdul-Hamid Zureick Professor

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