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Harry A. Capers Jr., P.E Structural
Engineering (State Bridge Engineering) Harry A. Capers Jr., P.E is a member of the New Jersey’s Senior Executive Service and a 24year veteran of the department, Harry is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Certified Public Manager. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science and Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering from PolytechnicUniversity, Brooklyn, NY and a Masters of Public Administration from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. He represents New Jersey on the AASHTO sub-committee for Bridges and Structures and currently is serving on that body’s Technical Committees for Load and Load Distribution as Vice Chairman, and as a member of the Technical Committee for Moveable Bridges and Seismic Design. He is currently also participating on several ongoing National Cooperative Highway Research Project panels. He was recognized as the 1996 Government Engineer of the Year by the NJ Central Chapter of ASCE and has been awarded two Certificates of Professional Achievement by the NJDOT.
Dr. Hamid Ghasemi Research
structural Engineer Dr. Hamid Ghasemi is a Research Structural Engineer with the FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, McLean, Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from University of Kentucky and has been active in developing the criteria for seismic isolation of bridges and serves on joint US-Japan efforts for implementing new earthquake protective systems for enhancing the seismic performance of bridges.
Michael Grubb, P.E., Structural
Engineer Michael Grubb, P.E.is a structural Engineer with BSDI, Inc. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Clarkson University and his Masters’ degree from Cornell University. He worked for US Steel, AISC Marketing, HDR Engineering, AISI, and currently at BSDI, Inc. in PA. He has been active in developing the Alternate Load Factor (Autostress) Design for continuos steel bridges as well as the development and updating of the new steel-bridge LRFD-AASHTO Design specifications.
Prof. Antoine (Tony) E. Naaman Professor Prof. Antoine (Tony) E. Naaman is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the Prestressed Concrete Institute, and the International Ferrocement Society, of which he is current President. He is also active on several of their technical committees. Dr. Naaman is the author of more than two hundred publications including a textbook on prestressed concrete, a co-edited book on external prestressing in bridges, two co-edited books on high performance fiber reinforced cement composites, and a book on ferrocement. His research work in prestressed and partially prestressed concrete has led to the provisions on partial prestressing currently adopted in the AASHTO LRFD Specifications for Highway Bridge Design. He has won several professional awards including the ASCE T.Y. Lin award, the PCI Martin P. Korn award, and the German Alexander von Humboldt award.
Assistant
Professor Prof. Hani H. Nassif, P.E.has joined Rutgers University in the Fall of 1998. Prior to that, he has taught at Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked on the University of Michigan team for the Calibration of the new AASHTO LRFD Bridge Specifications as well as the Ontario Highway Bridge Design Code (OHBDC). He received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and his Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees from The University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. He has several years of practical experience in the design and construction of sewage treatment plants and bridges. He is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Design of Concrete Bridges of ACI 343 (bridges), Chairman of ACI Committee 348 (Structural Safety), Member of TRB Committee A2C05 (dynamics and field testing of bridges) as well as TRB A2C52 (Task force on seismic design of bridges). He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Missouri.
Prof. Dennis Mertz, P.E Associate
Profesor Prof. Dennis Mertz, P.E teaches bridge engineering at the University of Delaware. He is the founding Editor of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Delaware, Professor Mertz was an Associate of the bridge design firm of Modjeski and Masters, Inc. He was the Co-Principal Investigator of the research project that developed the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. All of Professor Mertz’s formal engineering education is from Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Pennsylvania. |
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