Degrees Offered: M. Eng., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in both Structural Engineering and Civil Engineering.

Our graduates lead internationally recognized research and education programs and carry out innovations within multi-disciplinary teams for technologically complex environments such as large-structural systems of the civil infrastructure

Research Areas 

Advanced Structural Materials and Systems   
High performance steels and innovative structural systems for steel highway bridges.  Fiber composite and precast bridge decks.  Fiber composite, and hybrid materials and structural systems for Navy ships.  Advanced structural materials and systems for earchquake hazard and multi-hazard mitigation.

Earthquake Resistant Structures
New systems for buildings and bridges.  Innovative self-centering systems.  Probabilistic performance-based design.  Passive and semi-active damping systems.  Evaluating and improving performance of existing steel and precast systems.  Large-scale, real-time hybrid earthquake simulations.

Simulation, Measurement and Evaluation
New methods for large-scale laboratory tests and simulations.  Field monitoring and evaluation of in-service structures.  Non-destructive evaluation of structures and structural materials.

Infrastructure Reliability, Maintenance and Life-Cycle Performance
Reliability and risk of structures and civil ifrastructure systems.  Life prediction, life-cycle performance optimization under conflicting objectives.  Bridge network maintenance planning.

Intelligent Infrastructure Systems
Advanced technological innovations in hardware design, software architecture and system algorithms for monitoring, evaluation, and damage detection of structures with an emphasis on infrastructure monitoring and management.

Infrastructure Hazard Mitigation
Evaluating risks to infrastructure systems from multiple hazards including fire, blast and earthquake loadings and providing reliable mitigation technology

Facilities
ATLSS Engineering Research Center
NEES Earthquake Research Facility 
Intelligent Structures Technology Lab

Faculty 
  

John W. Fisher	Shamim Pakzad
Dan M. Frangopol	Stephen Pessiki
Le-Wu Lu	James M. Ricles
Peter Mueller	Richard Sause
Clay Naito	John L. Wilson
Alexis Ostapenko	Ben T. Yen

Curriculum
List of Graduate Courses in Structural Engineering

Contact
Ms. Prisca Vidanage, Graduate Coordinator
13 East Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: (610) 758-3530  email: pmv1@lehigh.edu

Admission
Get  information on Graduate Admissions.