Company

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title

Professor

Larry Fahnestock is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and CEE Excellence Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois. He holds B.S. degrees in architectural and civil engineering from Drexel University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Lehigh University. During the 2013-2014 academic year, he served as an Education Innovation Fellow in the Grainger College of Engineering. He has several years of experience designing buildings as a structural engineer and he is a licensed professional engineer in California and Illinois. Dr. Fahnestock teaches courses in structural systems and behavior and design of steel structures, and his teaching awards include the ASCE Student Chapter Outstanding Instructor Award (2007), the Grainger College of Engineering Rose Award for Teaching Excellence (2010), and the Chi Epsilon Central District Excellence in Teaching Award (2013). Dr. Fahnestock’s research interests include earthquake engineering, steel structures, seismic stability, progressive collapse mitigation, and bridge performance under service and extreme loading. He is a Fellow of ASCE and of the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute, and he is the immediate Past-Chair of the Structural Stability Research Council. Dr. Fahnestock is a member of AISC Task Committee 3 on Loads, Analysis and Stability and an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. For his contributions in the field of seismic behavior and design of steel structures, he has received ASCE Reese (2009) and Huber (2014) Research Prizes, and a Faculty Fellowship (2009) and a Special Achievement Award (2016) from AISC.