Jerry Wekezer

Professional

Education

Current Professional Registrations

Academic Positions

Research Positions

Research Interests

Professional Memberships and Services

Honors and Awards

Education

B.S. Civil Engineering - Technical University of Gdansk (Poland), 1969,
M.S. Structural Mechanics - Technical University of Gdansk, 1969,
Ph.D. Applied Mechanics - Technical University of Gdansk, 1974.

Current Professional Registrations

P.E., Civil Engineering, State of Alaska, No: 8155, since February 6, 1991,
P.E., Civil Engineering, State of Florida, No: 0050131, since February 22, 1996.

Academic Positions

Period		Academic Position
4/2002 to present		Distinguished University Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida A&M - Florida State University College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida.
8/1994 to 8/2004		Department Chairman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, FAMU - FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida.
3/1990 to 8/1994		Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage.
9/1987 to 8/1994		Professor in Structural Mechanics, School of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage. Tenured since September 1989.
8/1985 to 9/1987		Associate Professor in Structural Mechanics, School of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage.
2/1983 to 8/1985		Visiting Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
9/1976 to 8/1982		Lecturer of Civil Engineering, University of Basrah, Iraq (on leave of absence from Technical University of Gdansk), 1976 - 80, and 1982.
12/1974 to 12/1982		Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland.

Research Positions

Fulbright Senior Research Specialist, funded by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). University of Roma Tre, June 1 – June 28, 2007.
Visiting Professor. Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), Mississippi State University, August 8, 2006 - December 15, 2006.
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, granted by Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). Institute of Vehicles, Department of Vehicles and Heavy Machinery, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, June 23 - August 7, and October 14 - December 2, 2000.
Research Highway Engineer, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Design Concepts Research Division (HSR-20), McLean, VA 22101: July 1991 - August 1992 (on sabbatical leave from University of Alaska Anchorage), May 1994 - August 1994, May 1995 - July 1995 (research assignment at NCAC).
Research Highway Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, TFHRC, Pavements Division (HSR-30), McLean, VA 22101: June 1993 - August 1993.
Research Associate of Applied Mechanics, Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk, Poland: September 1973 - August 1974.

Research Interests

Theoretical and experimental applied structural mechanics.
Crash and safety assessment of paratransit buses.
Contact, impact and penetration problems.
Applied finite element analysis.
Crashworthiness assessment of roadside safety structures.
Engineering finite element modeling, computer simulations, programming and computer aided design.

Professional Memberships and Services

Editorial Advisory Board, Advances in Transportation Studies, an International Journal (Prof. Andrea Benedetto, Editor-in Chief). Member since September 2007.
National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC), Member of the Lab Assessment Team, Federal Highway Administration, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, McLean, VA, September 18-21, 2006.
National Research Council, Transportation Research Board (TRB): Member, Committee on Roadside Safety Features, A2A04 (February 1, 2001 - January 31, 2004)
Transportation Research Board, Transit Cooperative Highway Research Program: Member, Project C-17, FY 2005, "Analyze Current and Future Crashworthiness Specifications for Light-Weight Vehicles in View of new Energy Absorption Modeling Technology with the Aim of Developing a Unifying Structural Safety Standard"(February 2005 - ).
Transportation Research Board, National Cooperative Highway Research Program: Member, NCHRP Project 22-13 (1) and (2), "In-Service Performance of Traffic Barriers"(September 1996 - August 2002), Member, NCHRP Project 22-18, "Generic Crashworthy Traffic Control Devices"(August 1999 - present).
American Society of Civil Engineers: Fellow,Control Group member of the Committee on Flexural Members (October 91 - September 94), Control Group member of the Committee on Education of the Electronics Computations Committee (May 28, 1991 - April 94), Member of the Committee on Methods of Analysis, Structural Division of the ASCE (June 1992 - May 2001);
National Education Association (NEA), Member.
United Faculty of Florida, Member.
Reviewer:
Structures and Buildings. UK Institution of Civil Engineers journal (ICE) (2008);
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC, Reviewer ID #: 151739 (2007-2012);
International Journal of Impact Engineering (2007);
Advances in Transportation Studies, An International Journal (2007 - );
International Journal of Crashworthiness (2006 - );
Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME (1986 - 89);
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE (1987 - 1989);
Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE (1985 - 1988);
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (1984 - 85);
Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE (1997 - )
Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board (1994 - )

Honors and Awards

Engineering Teaching Award, In Recognition of Outstanding Teaching at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. Presented by Ching-Jen Chen, Dean, March 2008.
Fulbright Senior Research Specialist, funded by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). University of Roma Tre, June 1 – June 28, 2007.
Recognition of services and contributions to the efforts of the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS). December 19, 2006.
Recognition for distinguished service to the College as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994-2004 by the faculty, staff, and the dean. October 2004.
University Distinguished Professor, Florida A&M University. Since April 23, 2002.
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Vehicles, Department of Vehicles and Heavy Machinery, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, June 23 - August 7, and October 14 - December 2, 2000.
Listed in:
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Eighth Edition, 2005-2006
Americas Registry of Outstanding Professionals, Honored Member, 2003-2004
The Roll of Honour of the Polish Science. Information Processing Center, Warsaw, 2002.
Who is Who in America, Marquis Who's Who, 57th 58th Edition, 2003,2004.
Who's Who in Engineering Education (WWEE), 2002 edition, published on the World Wide Web.
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 25th edition, 1997-98,
Dictionary of International Biography, 23rd edition, 1993,
Who's Who in the West, 23-rd, 24-th and 25-th editions, 1992/93, 1994/95,
Who's Who in American Education, 4th,5th and 6th editions, 2004-2005;
Men of Achievement, sixteenth edition, Winter 1993, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.
Golden Pan in appreciation for all the years of dedicated service to the students and faculty of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Civil Engineering Department, 1985 - 1994. April 30, 1994.
Special Recognition for outstanding contribution in staff technical development and in the application of finite element analysis of roadside safety hardware. Federal Highway Administration, Washington D.C., June 1992;
School of Engineering Professor of the Year, granted four times: in 1987, 1988, 1992 and 1994 by the Students' Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers at the School of Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage;
University of Alaska's Outstanding Instructor. Featured in the 1988 / 89 University of Alaska President's Report;
The Best Publication in Theoretical Mechanics. Honorary Mention for the paper "Statics of Thin-Walled Bars with Variable Cross Sections". Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Gdansk, December 16, 1974;
Outstanding Researcher, granted twice: in October 1973 and 76 by the President of the Technical University of Gdansk;
Most Appreciated Faculty Member, presented in June 1972 by the Civil Engineering students, Technical University of Gdansk;
Outstanding Design Award for the M.S. Thesis "A Steel Structure for a Sports Arena." Presented in January 1970 by the Polish Department of Construction.