Bruce R. Ellingwood

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name = Bruce R. Ellingwood

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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.cite journal
author = Rajashekhar, M.R.
coauthors = Ellingwood, B.R.
year = 1993
title = A new look at the response surface approach for reliability analysis
journal = Structural safety
volume = 12
issue = 3
pages = 205–220
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accessdate = 2008-04-09
doi = 10.1016/0167-4730(93)90003-J]

Biography

Education

Bruce 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, Bruce 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 is currently in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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

ee also

*Structural engineering

References

External links

* [http://people.ce.gatech.edu/~bellingw/ Home Page]