Construction and Steel Structure

Amr S Elnashai is the Vice Chancellor/Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at the University of Houston, USA. He was previously Dean of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, and the Harold and Inge Marcus Endowed Chair in Engineering. Before serving at Pennsylvania State University, he was Head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor. He is a fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers as well as the UK Institution of Structural Engineers. He authored/co-authored over 145 journal publications and 4 books and many other reports and publications. He advised 45 PhD students to graduation, and over 100 MS thesis students.