Andrew T. Myers
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Industry Lead,
Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)
Office
- 439 SN
- 617.373.3813
Research Focus
Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling
About
Andrew Myers is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University and a registered professional engineer in the state of California. Prior to joining Northeastern, Andrew worked for two years at AIR Worldwide in San Francisco, where he consulted on site-specific natural catastrophe risk assessments.
He received his M.S. (2006) and Ph.D. (2009) at Stanford University and his B.S. (2004) from Johns Hopkins University; all three degrees are in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus on Structural Engineering. His interests include multi-scale experimental testing of structures, computational mechanics-based simulation, probabilistic modeling of structural and natural systems, home renovations and CrossFit.
Education
- Ph.D., Structural Engineering and Geomechanics, Stanford University, 2009
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Licensure
- Professional Engineer: California
Honors & Awards
- 2023 Constantinos Mavroidis Translational Research Faculty Award
- 2021 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
- 2020 named winner of the 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast for startup, T-Omega Wind
- 2016 NSF CAREER Award
- 2013 CEE Excellence in Teaching Award
- 2007 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship
Professional Affiliations
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- Structural Engineers Association of Northern California
Research Overview
Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling
Selected Research Projects
- Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- – Principal Investigator, National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium
- Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)
- – Principal Investigator, DOE
- CAREER: Advancing Multi-Hazard Assessment and Risk- based Design for Offshore Wind Energy Technology
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation GOALI/Collaborative Research: Optimization of
- Infrastructure-Scale Thin-Walled Tube Towers Including Uncertainty
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Innovative, Ultra-Low Cost, Locally Manufactured Floating Wind Turbine for Cheap Electricity
- – Principal Investigator, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- C. Qiao, A.T. Myers, S.R. Arwade, Characteristics of Hurricane-Induced Wind, Wave, and Storm Surge Maxima along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, Renewable Energy, 150, 2020, 712-721
- F. Mirzaie, A.T. Myers, A. Jay, A. Mahmoud, E. Smith, B.W. Schafer, Analysis of Geometric Imperfections of Spirally Welded Slender Tubes, Thin-Walled Structures, 146, 2019, 106447
- C. Qiao, A.T. Myers, S.R. Arwade, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification of Metocean Models for Assessing Hurricane Risk, Wind Energy, 23, 2019, 220– 234
- S. Hallowell, A.T. Myers, S.R. Arwade, W. Pang, P. Rawal, E. Hines, J.F. Hajjar, C. Qiao, V. Valamanesh, K. Wei, W. Carswell, C. Fontana, Hurricane Risk Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbines, Renewable Energy, Elsevier, 2018
- F. Mirzaie, A.T. Myers, A. Jay, A. Mahmoud, S. Torabian, E. Smith, B.W. Schafer, Imperfection Measurements to Predict Buckling Behavior of Slender Steel Tubes, Thin-Walled Structures, Elsevier, 2017
Jul 17, 2024
Phase II of NOWRDC Offshore Wind Hurricane Risk Assessment Project
CEE Professor Andrew Myers, University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, and Research Associate Professor Nathan Post are leading a team of five universities for Phase II of the NOWRDC administered project, “Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation.”
Feb 09, 2024
First-Ever National Offshore Wind Research Center
CEE Professor Andrew Myers, CEE/MIE Associate Research Professor Nathan Post, and CEE CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a consortium of forty partners, were selected to join a first-of-its-kind $11.9 million DOE research center, Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), dedicated to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment across the nation.
Oct 31, 2023
Time Magazine Names Northeastern Research-Supported Company’s Turbine Towers to Best Inventions of 2023 List
Time Magazine selected the spirally welded wind towers as one of “The Best Inventions of 2023,” highlighting the innovative and efficient approach developed by Keystone Tower Systems with support from CEE Professor Andy Myers.
Jan 24, 2023
Faculty and Staff Awards 2023
Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering were recognized at the annual awards event in a variety of categories for their contributions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Jan 04, 2023
Northeastern Hosts Offshore Wind Tech Week
CEE department hosted the first Offshore Wind Technical Week, which brought together members of the scientific community, researchers, academia and the offshore wind engineering industry from around the world.
Dec 07, 2022
CEE Hosts Offshore Wind Symposium
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Symposium 2022, featuring keynote speaker former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III.
Jun 09, 2022
T-Omega Wind Start-up is Redesigning Wind Turbine Platforms
The start-up T-Omega Wind, founded by CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and Senior Research Engineer Jim Papadopoulos, is using a new type of wind turbine platform that will be more flexible and efficient than current models.
Mar 14, 2022
CEE Spinout Wins Accelerator Grant to Continue Wind Energy Research
CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers, an expert in structural engineering, and Senior Research Engineer Jim Papadopoulos, an expert in structural/mechanical design, recently founded a startup company developing novel offshore wind energy solutions spun out from research conducted at Northeastern University. Now, their startup T-Omega Wind has received a new grant to continue development.
Oct 27, 2020
Northeastern-spinoff Wins 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast
CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and Part-time faculty Jim Papadopoulos were named winners of the 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast for their startup, T-Omega Wind.
Feb 20, 2020
Myers Awarded MassCEC Grant for Innovative Floating Wind Turbine
CEE Associate Professor Andrew Myers and co-inventor Jim Papadopoulos were one of 18 groups awarded funding from a new $1.7M grant by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s (MassCEC) Catalyst and InnovateMass programs in support of clean energy startups and research teams across the Commonwealth.