Jerome F. Hajjar Named Mid-America Earthquake Center Deputy Director
Jerome F. Hajjar has been named Deputy Director of the Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center.
August 15, 2005
Jerome F. Hajjar has been named Deputy Director of the Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center. The MAE Center, headquartered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an Engineering Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation, and is one of three national earthquake research centers in the United States. Hajjar joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2005 where he is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar. Previously a structural engineer and associate at Skidmore Owings & Merrill from 1988-1992, Hajjar was a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota from 1992-2005, where he participated in building and commissioning the NEES facility at Minnesota.
An author of over 80 articles, Hajjar's primary research activities are in the field of computational analysis, experimental testing, and design of steel and composite steel/reinforced concrete structures. Hajjar's recent work on composite construction has included studying the seismic behavior, analysis, and design of concrete-filled steel tubes in composite frame structures. His recent work on steel construction has included conducting experiments on steel moment-resisting connections with improved column reinforcement details. He has also studied procedures for assessing member and frame stability for design of steel frame structures. Hajjar has a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Yale (1982), and an M.S. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1988) in Structural Engineering from Cornell. He is on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Specification Task Committees on Composite Construction; Stability; and Loads, Analysis, and Systems, for which he is vice-chair; he led the editing of the AISC Commentary for the 2005 AISC Specification; he was on the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) Provisions Update Committee and the BSSC Task Subcommittee 11 on Composite Construction; and he is the past chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute Technical Administrative Committee on Metals. Hajjar was awarded the 2000 ASCE Norman Medal, the 2003 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the 2004 AISC Special Achievement Award, and the 2005 AISC T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award for his research on steel and composite construction. Hajjar is also a registered professional engineer in Minnesota. As Deputy Director of the MAE Center, Hajjar is assuming a major leadership role of the new integrated plan for consequence-based risk management of the Center, alongside the Director and the Leadership Team. He is also taking over coordination of the MAE Center's Engineering Engines thrust as well as being an investigator on the Center's Advanced Simulation Tools project.
An author of over 80 articles, Hajjar's primary research activities are in the field of computational analysis, experimental testing, and design of steel and composite steel/reinforced concrete structures. Hajjar's recent work on composite construction has included studying the seismic behavior, analysis, and design of concrete-filled steel tubes in composite frame structures. His recent work on steel construction has included conducting experiments on steel moment-resisting connections with improved column reinforcement details. He has also studied procedures for assessing member and frame stability for design of steel frame structures. Hajjar has a B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Yale (1982), and an M.S. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1988) in Structural Engineering from Cornell. He is on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Specification Task Committees on Composite Construction; Stability; and Loads, Analysis, and Systems, for which he is vice-chair; he led the editing of the AISC Commentary for the 2005 AISC Specification; he was on the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) Provisions Update Committee and the BSSC Task Subcommittee 11 on Composite Construction; and he is the past chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute Technical Administrative Committee on Metals. Hajjar was awarded the 2000 ASCE Norman Medal, the 2003 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the 2004 AISC Special Achievement Award, and the 2005 AISC T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award for his research on steel and composite construction. Hajjar is also a registered professional engineer in Minnesota. As Deputy Director of the MAE Center, Hajjar is assuming a major leadership role of the new integrated plan for consequence-based risk management of the Center, alongside the Director and the Leadership Team. He is also taking over coordination of the MAE Center's Engineering Engines thrust as well as being an investigator on the Center's Advanced Simulation Tools project.
