Keith D. Hjelmstad

Keith D. Hjelmstad holds a B.S. (Colorado State University 1978), M.S. (University of California at Berkeley 1979), and Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley 1983), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1983. During the 1994-95 year he served as Assistant Dean of Engineering and during 2002 he served as Interim Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering .

Dr. Hjelmstad has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in structural analysis, structural mechanics, structural dynamics, design of steel structures, and optimization of structures. He is the author of the bookFundamentals of Structural Mechanics (2nd Ed., Springer, 2004).

Dr. Hjelmstad has research interests in computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, stability of structures, optimization, structural identification, nondestructive evaluation of large structures, and numerical simulation of complex structures. He is currently a member of the Science Steering Committee of the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets at the University of Illinois .

Dr. Hjelmstad is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Structural Stability Research Council, and the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability. He also serves on Task Committee 3 of the American Institute of Steel Construction Committee on Specifications. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research and the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering .

In 1987 Dr. Hjelmstad was the recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential YoungInvestigator award and the American Society of Civil Engineer's Alfred Noble Prize. In 1993 he was named a University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been recognized several times at the University of Illinois for excellence in teaching and advising, including the 2002 Robert E. Miller Award for Excellence in Teaching Mechanics and the 2002 Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students.

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