Innovative Industry-Related Research Projects for Civil Engineering Undergraduate Students

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KSU). He has about 37 years of Industrial and Academic experience in the field of structural engineering, about 16 years of which consists of teaching and research. He has been teaching Civil Engineering courses at various universities in Tehran, Sydney and Atlanta. He obtained his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1998. After graduation, he continued his research at Sydney University before joining Taylor Thomson Whitting (TTW) a Consulting Engineering firm in Sydney in 2000. He was the Chief Engineer/Technical Director in Tendon Systems/Trillium Structures, an engineering company in Suwanee, Georgia from November 2004 till July 2016. Dr. Jonaidi has been involved in analysis and design of complex structural projects such as: Modeling and analysis of high-rise buildings, Analysis and design of steel structures, Floor vibration of slabs, and pedestrian bridges, Serviceability vibration analysis of high-rise buildings under wind effect, Earthquake Engineering, Design of post tensioned concrete structures. He also used Finite Element Analysis for: Nonlinear and Buckling analysis of silos and thin-walled members, Temperature effects on concrete slabs, Industrial concrete pavements, Analysis of long span spatial steel structures, Analysis of Glazing facade and so on. Furthermore, he has experience in: Below grade shoring walls using soil nails and ground post-tensioned anchors, retrofit of concrete structures using Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP), and the strengthening of structures to resist progressive collapse.