Northeastern University
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Principal Investigators
Prof. Jerome F. Hajjar - Northeastern
University
Jerome F. Hajjar is the CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair
at Northeastern University. He was Professor and Narbey Khachaturian
Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
between 2005 and 2010, where he served as Chair of the Structures
Faculty. Between 1992 to 2005 he was Professor at the University of
Minnesota. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, he was a
structural engineer and Associate with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
in New York and Chicago. He received his BS from Yale University and
his MS and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research interests
include computational analysis, experimental testing, structural
stability, and design of steel and composite steel/concrete
structures. He is also a registered professional engineer in
Illinois and Minnesota.
Mark
D. Webster - Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
Mark D. Webster, PE and LEED AP BD+C, is a structural engineer in
the Boston-area office of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH).
Mr. Webster has nearly twenty-five years of experience in the
design, analysis, and investigation of concrete, steel, masonry, and
wood structures. His lifelong concern for the health of the natural
environment has led him to investigate the intersection of
sustainability and structural engineering practice. This work has
made him a leading authority in the field. He has written and
lectured on topics such as the practical measures structural
engineers can take to improve the environmental performance of their
designs and the life-cycle environmental impact of building
structural systems. He is a founding member and former Secretary of
the Structural Engineering Institute’s Sustainability Committee and
former Chair of the USGBC Materials & Resources Technical
Advisory Group. He received a BA degree from Haverford College and
BS and MS degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Graduate Students
Lizhong Wang - Ph.D. - Northeastern University
Clayton Brown - M.S. - Northeastern University
Jared Schultz - M.S. - Northeastern University
Undergraduate Students
Majed Alnaji
Kayla Arruda
Madeline Augustine
Michael Bangert-Drowns
Corinne Bowers
Ian Carver
Marissa DeCarlo
Steve Earl
Morgon Foster
Hector Grande
Daniel Gray
Saif Jassam
Brian Liang
Julietta Moradei
Edward Myers
Dennis Rogers
Michael Tormey
Luke Troup