Technical University of Catalonia

Rolando Chacón Flores got the degree of Civil Engineer in 2002 from the Universidad de los Andes (VE) and his PhD in in 2009 from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)....

Associate Professor

NOVA University

Rodrigo Gonçalves is an Associate Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon. His research interests lie in the field of ...

Associate Principal

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Robert Warke joined WJE in 2017 as an Associate Principal and was co-founder of WJE’s first-ever metallurgical engineering practice. He has 35 years of diverse experience in the analysis, diagnosis, prediction and prevention of weld-related failure, combining in-depth knowledge of weld metallurgy and failure mechanisms with hands-on field and laboratory investigation....

Chief Executive Officer

LPI, Inc.

Dr. Vecchio has been with LPI since 1985, currently as CEO, where he specializes in the fitness-for-service, probabilistic, and risk-based assessment of structures and systems.  In addition to day-to-day company management, his responsibilities include remaining life and degradation assessment, fracture mechanics, fatigue, stress corrosion cracking, creep, structural, and root cause failure analyses, as well as oversight of mechanical behavior testing and engineering computer software development and application.  Dr....

Chief Technology Officer

Thornton Tomasetti

Robert K. Otani, PE LEED AP is Chief Technology Officer at Thornton-Tomasetti, Inc., a 1400+ person multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm, and founded CORE studio, an applications development, advanced computational modeling, and R&D group at his firm.  Robert leads Thornton Tomasetti’s firm-wide Research and Development initiative called CORE Lab and serves on the Board of Directors for TTWiiN Inc., an independent entity created by Thornton Tomasetti focused on driving innovation to commercialization of products.  He has extensive structural design and project management experience involving commercial, infrastructure, institutional, cultural and residential structures on projects totaling over $2 billion USD of construction.  His professional and academic interests focus on informed architecture relating to optimized structural typologies, high performance structures, and structural sustainability.  He has served as President of the Structural Engineers Association of New York in 2007 and has been an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation....

Hatch and Associates

Rampart, LLC

Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the S-BRITE Center

Purdue University

Robert J. Connor is the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor of Civil Engineering and is Director of the S-BRITE Center, at Purdue University. Dr. Connor has been working in the area of fatigue, fracture, and other performance and durability issues related to steel bridges for over 25 years....

Fabrication Information Systems

Lehigh University