Dan M. Frangopol

Dan Mircea Frangopol
Residence	United States
Nationality	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

• OPAL (Outstanding Projects and Leaders) Lifetime Achievement Award for Education, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016^[7]
• Alfred Noble Prize, for the exceptional merit of a paper published across all technical publications of five major engineering societies in the United States, including ASCE, AIME, ASME, IEEE, and WSE, 2015^[8]
• Honorary Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 2015
• Honorary Professor, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China, 2015
• Honorary Professor, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China, 2015
• Honorary Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2015
• Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Japan Group, 2015^[9]
• Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of distinguished service to Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) as the Vice President (2014-2015) and Member of the Board of Governors (2013-2015), American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015
• Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania, 2014
• J. James R. Croes Medal, one of the most prestigious awards given by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a paper published in one of its 34 journals, 2014^[10]
• Honorary Professor, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 2014
• Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Australia Group, 2014^[11]
• Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Brazil Group, 2013^[12]
• Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Italy Group, 2013^[13]
• Inaugural Fellow, Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE, 2013^[14]
• Honorary Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 2013^[15]
• Vice-President of the International Association for the Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR), 2013
• Arthur M. Wellington Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012^[16]
• Fazlur R. Khan Life-Cycle Civil Engineering Medal, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2012^[17]
• Inaugural Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute, ASCE, 2012
• Senior Prize, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2012
• Honorary Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 2012
• Honorary Professor, Chang'an University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 2012
• Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - China Group, 2012
• Honorary Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2011^[18]
• Honorary Professor, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, 2011^[19]
• Distinguished Member (formerly called Honorary Member) of American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010^[1]
• Honorary Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2009- ^[6]
• ISHMII Fellowship Award, International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, 2009^[20]
• Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), University of Liège, Belgium, 2008^[21][22]
• 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^[23]
• Ernest E. Howard Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007^[24]
• 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^[25]
• 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^[26]
• State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005^[27]
• Kajima Research Award, Kajima Corporation, 2004
• Moisseiff Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003^[28]
• 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 of Bucharest, Romania, 2001
• IASSAR Senior Research Prize in the area of System Reliability and Optimization, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, 2001^[29]
• J. James R. Croes Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001^[30]
• Distinguished Service Appreciation as Chair of the Technical Division Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
• Honorary Member, Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, Elected 2000 ^[2]
• State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998 ^[27]
• Award of Appreciation, Federal Highway Administration, 1998
• Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, 1996 (First Winner of this Award)

References

External links

• Official website
• International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS)
• International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE)
• Structure and Infrastructure Engineering - International Journal (Taylor and Francis)
• Structure and Infrastructure Engineering - Book Series (Taylor and Francis)
• The Fazlur R. Khan Distinguished Lecture Series