Company

Steel Structures Technology Center, Inc.

Title

President

Robert E. Shaw, Jr., PE, is President of the Steel Structures Technology Center, Inc., Howell, Mich. A graduate civil engineer from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he began his career in the steel construction industry in 1973. He serves on the AISC Committee on Specifications, TC12 Quality Control and Quality Assurance, and the AISC Connections Prequalification Review Panel. Mr. Shaw is a long-standing member of the American Welding Society D1 Structural Welding Committee and serves on Subcommittees on Steel (D1.1), Seismic Welding Issues (D1.8), and has served on several task groups. With the International Institute of Welding, he serves as Chair of Commission XVIII on Quality Management in Welding and Allied Processes, is past-Chair of Commission XV on Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Welded Structures, and is current Chair of Subcommission XV-C on Fabrication.

Prior to forming SSTC in 1990, he was with AISC for 10 years as a Regional Engineer and later as Associate Director of Education, and before that, seven years with a steel fabricator.