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Earthquake Engineering Professor Amr Elnashai

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wangjianping 发表于 2009-3-20 15:17:15 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
Professor Amr Elnashai is Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor at the Civil and Environmental
Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. He is Director of the National
Science Foundation (NSF) multi - institution multi - disciplinary Mid - America Earthquake Center. He is
also Director of the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility at Illinois.
Amr obtained his MSc and PhD from Imperial College, University of London, UK. Before joining the
University of Illinois in June 2001, Amr was Professor and Head of Section at Imperial College. He
has been Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey since 1997. Other visiting appointments include
the University of Tokyo, the University of Southern California and the European School for Advanced
Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, Italy, where he serves on the Board of Directors since its founding
in 2000. Amr is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom (UK -
equivalent of the NAE), Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the UK Institution of
Structural Engineers

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 楼主| wangjianping 发表于 2009-3-20 15:17:44 | 显示全部楼层
He is founder and co - editor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering , editorial board member of
several other journals, a member of the drafting panel of the European design code, and past senior
Vice - President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering. He is the winner of the Imperial
College Unwin Prize for the best PhD thesis in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (1984), the Oscar
Faber Medal for best paper in the Institution of Structural Engineering, and two best paper medals from
the International Association of Tall Buildings, Los Angeles. He is the administrative and technical
team builder and director of both the MAE Center and NEES@UIUC Simulation Laboratory, at
Illinois.
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 楼主| wangjianping 发表于 2009-3-20 15:18:09 | 显示全部楼层
Amr is President of the Asia - Pacifi c Network of Centers of Earthquake Engineering Research
(ANCER), a member of the FIB Seismic Design Commission Working Groups and two Applied Technology
Council (ATC, USA) technical committees. He founded the Japan – UK Seismic Risk Forum in
1995 and served as its director until 2004. He leads a FEMA project for impact assessment for the eight
central US states, was advisor to the UK Department of the Environment, advisor to the Civil Defense
Agency of Italy, and review panel member for the Italian Ministry of Research and the New Zealand
and Canadian Science Research Councils
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 楼主| wangjianping 发表于 2009-3-20 15:18:49 | 显示全部楼层
Amr ’ s technical interests are multi - resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis,
large - scale hybrid testing, and fi eld investigations of the response of complex networks and structures
to extreme loads, on which he has more than 250 research publications, including over 110 refereed
journal papers, many conference, keynote and prestige lectures (including the Nathan Newmark Distinguished
Lecture), research reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles, and fi eld investigation
reports. Amr has successfully supervised 29 PhD and over 100 Masters Theses. Many of his
students hold signifi cant positions in industry, academia and government in over 12 countries. He has
a well - funded research group, with a large portfolio of projects from private industry, state agencies,
federal agencies, and international government and private entities. Amr taught many different subjects
both at Illinois and at Imperial College. He is recognized as an effective teacher and has been on the
‘ incomplete list of teachers considered excellent by their students ’ twice at UIUC.
He has contributed to major projects for a number of international companies and other agencies
such as the World Bank, GlaxoWellcome (currently GSK), Shell International, AstraZeneca, Minorco,
British Nuclear Fuels, UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Mott MacDonald, BAA, Alstom Power,
the Greek, Indonesian and Turkish Governments, and the National Geographic Society. He is currently
working on large projects for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), State Emergency
Management Agencies, Istanbul Municipality, US AID, Governments of Pakistan and Indonesia, among
others. Amr enjoys scuba - diving and holds several certifi cates from the British Sub - Aqua Club and the
US Professional Association of Diving Instructors. He also enjoys reading on history, the history of
painting and fi lm - making
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刚刚当上了UIUC土木系主任
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