Bruce R. Ellingwood

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Bruce R. Ellingwood
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Civil Engineering
Institutions	Georgia Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisor	Alfredo H-S. Ang

Bruce R. Ellingwood is an American civil engineer and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a two-time recipient of the Norman Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to the Engineering Science. Ellingwood also received the Walter P. Moore, Jr. Award by the ASCE. He is a pioneer in the field of structural reliability.^[1]

Biography

Education

Ellingwood received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1968, 1969, and 1972, respectively. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Alfredo H-S. Ang.

Career

After receiving his Ph.D. in 1972, Ellingwood joined the Naval Ship Research and Development Center as a Research Structural Engineer. In 1975, he moved to the Center for Building Technology at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), and later became the leader of the Structural Engineering Group for the Center for Building Technology. In 1986, Ellingwood joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, and in 1990, became the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Civil Engineering. He joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 as Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and held that position from 2000 to 2002. He currently is College of Engineering Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, where he also holds the Raymond Allen Jones Chair in Civil Engineering.

Honors

Honors and Awards

Nathan M. Newmark Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006
Lifetime Achievement Award, American Institute of Steel Construction, 2006
Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor, Florida Atlantic University, 2005
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
National Academy of Engineering, 2001
Walter P. Moore, Jr. Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999
Norman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1983 and 1998
T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award, American Institute of Steel Construction, 1988
L. J. Markwardt Research Prize, Forest Products Research Society, 1988
Moisseiff Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1988
State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award, ASCE, 1983 and 1988
Engineer of the Year of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NSPE, 1986
Engineering Achievement Award, D.C. Joint Council of Engrg. and Arch. Societies, 1980
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal, 1980
Walter L. Huber Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1980

List of doctoral students

Andrew Bechtel
Falak Shah

References

↑ Rajashekhar, M.R.; Ellingwood, B.R. (1993). "A new look at the response surface approach for reliability analysis". Structural safety 12 (3): 205–220. doi:10.1016/0167-4730(93)90003-J. Retrieved 2008-04-09. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

External links

Faculty homepage
Faculty overview page, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

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