Professor Dan M. Frangopol of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been selected to receive the 1998 State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The award is presented to the person or group that has produced the most outstanding paper that reviews and interprets state-of-the-art scientific and technical information for the benefit of the profession. The 1998 award is being given to the ASCE Technical Committee on Optimal Structural Design that Frangopol chairs for a manual on engineering practice and guide to structural optimization.
Frangopol authored a chapter of the guide describing how to incorporate structural reliability in projects and provides a framework for controlling the safety of buildings and bridges during the design process. He is a faculty member at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Frangopol, an elected fellow of ASCE, is a researcher and consultant to industry and government in the United States and abroad. His fields of expertise are structural safety and reliability, structural optimization, and bridge engineering.
The prestigious ASCE award was presented at the Structural Engineers World Congress in San Francisco in July.