Dan M. Frangopol

Dan Mircea Frangopol
Residence  United States
Nationality United States American
Fields Civil Engineering
Institutions Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Alma mater University of Liège, Belgium
Doctoral advisor Charles E. Massonnet

Dan Mircea Frangopol is an American civil engineer and the first holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,[1] an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences.[2][3] and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea. He has received three Honorary Doctorates and several prestigious awards, including the OPAL Award (ASCE), the Nathan M. Newmark Medal (ASCE), the T.Y. Lin Medal (T.Y. Lin International), the J. James R. Croes Medal (twice, ASCE), the Fazlur R. Khan Life-Cycle Civil Engineering Medal (IALCCE), the OPAC Award (IABSE), the Alfred Noble Prize (ASCE), the Arthur M. Wellington Prize (ASCE), the Ernest E. Howard Award (ASCE), the Moisseiff Award (ASCE), the Munro Prize (Elsevier), and the IASSAR Senior Research prize, to name a few. He is the founding president of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and of the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). He is an Honorary Professor at eleven universities and an inaugural Fellow of SEI and EMI, Fellow of ACI, IABSE, and ISHMII, Honorary President of both the IABMAS-Italy Group and the IABMAS-Brazil Group, Honorary Member of the Portuguese Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, and Honorary Member of IABMAS-Australia Group and of IABMAS-China Group. Dr. Frangopol is an experienced researcher and consultant to industry and government agencies, both nationally and abroad. His work has been funded by NSF, FHWA, ONR, NASA, USACE, AFOSR, ARDEC, ASCE and by numerous other agencies including the U.K. Highways Agency and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. He has left an indelible legacy of work, having authored or co-authored 2 books, 40 book chapters, 320 articles in archival journals (including 9 prize winning papers from ASCE, IABSE, and Elsevier), and more than 500 papers in conference proceedings. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal.[4] He is a pioneer in the field of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering.[5]

Biography

Education

Dan M. Frangopol received his Diploma in Engineering from the Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, in 1969.

In 1976, he received his doctorate of Applied Sciences from the University of Liège, Belgium.

His doctoral thesis entitled Probabilistic Study of Structural Safety was supervised by Charles E. Massonnet and J. Ferry-Borges.

Career

After receiving his diploma, from 1969 to 1974 Frangopol held a position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Civil Engineering in Bucharest. In 1974 he moved to Belgium, where he was a Research Structural Engineer (structural reliability, analysis and design of inelastic structures, structural optimization) at the Department of Mechanics of Materials and Structural Engineering, University of Liège. In 1977 he went back to Romania to become an Associate Professor at the Institute of Civil Engineering in Bucharest. From 1979 to 1983 he was a Project Engineer at A. Lipski Consulting Engineers in Brussels, Belgium. In 1983 he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder as Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, in 1988 he became Full Professor, and in 2006 an Emeritus Professor. In 2006 he moved to Lehigh University as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the first holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture. Since January 2008 he is a Visiting Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei (Taiwan) and since September 2009 he is an Honorary Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai (China).[6]

Honors and Awards

References

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  5. Frangopol, D.M.; Lin, K.Y.; Estes, A.C. (1997). "Life-cycle cost design of deteriorating structures". Journal of Structural Engineering-ASCE 123 (10): 1390–1401. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(1997)123:10(1390).
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  7. "Life-Cycle Engineering Pioneer Receives 2016 OPAL for Education". ASCE News. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
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  19. "Tianjin University". tju.edu.cn. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
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