About the author ⁄ William Wright, Ph.D., P.E.
William Wright, Ph.D., P.E. is the Team Leader for Bridge Design and Construction Research at the FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, VA. Dr. Wright has 21 years of steel bridge research experience and has worked on many failure investigations involving bridge collapse. Dr. Wright is a licensed professional engineer in Maryland and may be reached via email at bill.wright@dot.gov.
