Houston Branch Meeting Main Speaker 

Professor Satish Nagarajaiah holds a joint appointment between the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, and the Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Department at Rice University. He obtained his Ph.D. (1987-1990) from State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a post-doctoral researcher before he started his academic career in 1993.

Dr. Nagarajaiah’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of structural dynamic systems and control; smart-structures-materials-sensors; system identification; monitoring; applied nanotechnology; earthquake and wind engineering; offshore structures; civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, other state and Federal Agencies. National Science Foundation has awarded him the prestigious faculty early CAREER award for his research in structural control. He has published nearly sixty journal papers and over hundred conference papers. He currently supervises seven Ph.D. students. He holds two U.S. Patents. Visit the following web site www.ruf.rice.edu/~nagaraja for full details.

Dr. Nagarajaiah currently serves as the co-editor of the international journal—structural control and health monitoring journal [Wiley Journal], and serves on the editorial board of four other international journals. He served as the associate editor for the journal of structural engineering (2002-2006) and as the guest editor of several special issues in various journals. He currently serves as the chairman of ASCE Structural Engineering Institute, Technical Activities Division Executive Committee. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of the international association of structural control and monitoring. He served as the chair of the U.S. panel on structural control and monitoring (2006-2008). He was the founding chair structural health monitoring and control committee (2004-2006), ASCE-Engineering Mechanics Institute, and chair of the structural control committee (1998-2002), ASCE Structural Engineering Institute.