About the author  ⁄ Dennis R Mertz, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE

Dennis R Mertz, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE, is the Director of the Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering at the University of Delaware. Professor Mertz is currently a member of the SEI Board of Governors and, as such, a member of Executive Committee of the SEI Technical Activities Division. He has also served on both the Structures Congresses committee and the Structures Congress National Technical Program committee.

For many decades, Structures Congress has been bringing together a national, international and diverse community of structural engineers to advance the practice within buildings, bridges, and non-building structures. Over the years, this annual event attracts more than 1,200 attendees from practice, academia, government, industry, and allied fields and has grown to become the premier event for all structural engineering professionals. Structures Congress 2014 is in Boston on April 3-5.

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