Dan M. Frangopol
Dan M. Frangopol | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | University of Liège, Belgium |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Civil Engineering |
| Institutions | Lehigh University |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles E. Massonnet |
Dan M. 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, he has received two Honorary Doctorates and several awards, including the Newmark Medal, the State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award (twice), and the IASSAR Senior Research prize. 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 a pioneer in the field of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering.[1]
Biography
Education
Dan 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 with title "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 977 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 and in 1988 he became Full Professor, in the same Department. He is still an Emeritus Professor and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2006 he moved to Lehigh University as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and 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 a Honorary Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai (China).
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Member (formerly called Honorary Member) of American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010
- Honorary Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2009-
- ISHMII Fellowship Award, International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, 2009
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), University of Liège, Belgium, 2008
- IALCCE Senior Award, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2008
- RAE Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award, The Royal Academy of Engineering, for Research at the University of Surrey, 2008
- Munro Prize, Elsevier - Engineering Structures, for the best paper of the year published in 2006 in Engineering Structures, 2007
- IABSE OPAC Award (Outstanding Paper Award), for the best paper among all papers published in 2006 in all issues of Structural Engineering International, the Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2007
- Ernest E. Howard Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007
- T. Y. Lin Medal, T.Y. Lin International and International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2006
- Honorary Member, Portuguese Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2006-
- IFIP Award, International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, 2006
- Nathan M. Newmark Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005
- Kajima Research Award, Kajima Corporation, 2004
- State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004
- Moisseiff Award, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2003
- JSPS Fellowship Award for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, 2001
- IASSAR Senior Research Prize in the area of System Reliability and Optimization, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, 2001
- J. James R. Croes Medal, for the second best paper among all ASCE journals, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
- Honorary Member, Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, Elected 2000
- State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998
- Award of Appreciation, Federal Highway Administration , 1998
- Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, 1996 (First Winner of this Award)
- Congress of the United States Official Proclamation upon Receiving the SAE International Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, 1996
- Distinguished Service Appreciation as Chair of the Technical Division Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
References
- ^ Frangopol, D.M. (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). Retrieved 2010-07-30.
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