Research interests include Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Computer-Controlled Testing and Experimental Mechanics, Fatigue and Fracture of Steel and Concrete, NDE of Structures and Smart Materials, and Finite Elements and Numerical Modeling
	In charge of planning, construction, and development of a full-scale testing facility at KSU (1994-1996)  Director of this major testing facility: Testing Lab for Civil Infrastructure (1997-2000)
	Editor of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Membership in Professional Organizations

American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE): National and Regional Section, associate member; ASCE Kansas Section, member. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE): National and Regional Section, member; ASEE Civil Engineering Division, member. American Concrete Institute (ACI), member until 1993; Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI), member; Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM), member; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, member in 1991-1993.

	ASCE committee on Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence (Technical Committee on Computing Practices, TCCP), Member and Past Chair.
	ASCE Structures Division (STD) - Committee on Emerging Computing Technology (A&C), member (and acting chair in 1994).
	ASCE/ACI Committee 423: Prestressed Concrete, associate member
	ASCE/STD Steel Bridge Committee, member
	ICCE (International Community of Engineering Composites): Infrastructure Committee, member
	ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division (EMD) - Committee on Experimental Analysis and Instrumentation, member.

Conference Session Organized and Chaired as Part of National Committee Activity:

1. ASCE/TCCP: Comp. Congress '94, "Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Civil Engineering, Wash. D.C., [June 20-22, 1994].
2. ASCE/EMD: Struc. Cong. 95, "Intelligent Damage Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures, Boston, MA, [April 3-5, 1995], with Richard White as co-chair.
3. ASCE/ECT: Struc. Cong. 95, "Fuzzy Logic Applications in Structural Engineering, Boston, MA. [April 3-5, 1995].
4. SEM Conference on NDT, "Ultrasonic II", June 13, 1996, Nashville, TN.
5. ASCE Structures Congress 96,  "Intelligent Damage Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures", Chicago, April 1996.
6. ASCE Computing Congress '96, "Machine Learning", Anaheim, CA, [June 17-19,1996]
7. ASCE Computing Congress '97, "Machine Learning Applications in Transportation Infrastructure," Philadelphia, PA [June 16-18, 1997].
8. Civil and Structural Engineering Computing '99, "Professional and Educational Issues," Oxford, UK, [Sep. 13-15, 1999]