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Jeff Dragovich
Based in our New York office, Jeff Dragovich focuses on domestic and international projects as well as research and development.
Jeff has 31 years of experience in structural engineering firms, as an engineering scientific programmer-analyst at Boeing, academia, and as a research structural engineer in the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
He is a recognized expert in seismic design, nonlinear static and dynamic finite element analysis, performance-based design, structural vibration analysis, and software development.
Jeff has developed many software applications for finite element pre and post processing, nonlinear material analysis, floor vibration analysis, structural optimization, and static and dynamic structural analysis. He has extensive experience in finite element model development for nonlinear analysis.
Jeff is the industry liaison with the Seattle University department of Computer Science and Data Science, where DeSimone has sponsored four capstone projects. He has led Engineers Without Borders projects in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Thailand, and participated in Professionals without Boarders projects in Zambia.
Education:
BS Civil Engineering, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
MS Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
PhD Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Professional Licenses & Certifications:
Licensed Professional Engineer (PE), California, Washington
Licensed Professional Engineer (SE), California, Washington
American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fellow (F.ACI)
Structural Engineers Association of Washington (SEAW)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
American Society of Civil Engineers/Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE/SEI)
Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
Memberships and Affiliations:
Voting Member and Secretary, ASCE/SEI Advancement of Performance Based Design Committee
Voting Member, ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code
Voting Member, ACI Committee 318-C, Safety, Serviceability, and Analysis
Voting Member, ACI Committee 318-H, Seismic Provisions
Voting Member, ACI Committee 369, Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation
Voting Member, ACI Committee 369S, Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit Code
Voting Member, ACI Committee 374, Performance Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings
Voting Member, ACI Committee 375, Performance-Based Design of Concrete Buildings for Wind Loads
Voting Member, ACI Committee 131, Building Information Modeling of Concrete Structures
Voting Member, SEAW Earthquake Engineering Committee
Voting Member, SEAW Wind Engineering Committee
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