CAMP June Newsletter: Page 8

Professor Kerop Janoyan Appointed Executive Officer for Clarkson University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Kerop Janoyan (Executive Officer, Clarkson University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)

CAMP Professor Kerop Janoyan has been appointed Executive Officer for Clarkson University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective July 1. He joined the Clarkson faculty in 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Janoyan has served as a member of a number of technical committees and has chaired many conference sessions of SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and is the Clarkson University representative to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.

Professor Janoyan (who has a number of publications) carries out research that focuses on a broad range of topics, including performance monitoring of infrastructure using wireless sensor networks, innovative bridge design and evaluation, dynamic soil-structure interaction in foundation engineering, laboratory and field measurements in geotechnical and structural engineering, and advanced sensor development and measurement tools for civil, environmental, and industrial applications.  His work has been funded by the Federal Highway Administration, the New York State Department of Transportation, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the Syracuse Center of Excellence, the NYSTAR Center of Advanced Material Processing, General Motors Powertrain, John Deere, General Electric, Cooper Crouse-Hinds, and several other agencies and industrial partners.

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The CAMP newsletter is published four times per year by the Center for Advanced Materials Processing, a NYSTAR-designated Center for Advanced Technology located at Clarkson University.

Editor: Dana M. Barry.

Potsdam, New York 13699-5665 S.V. Babu, Distinguished University Professor / CAMP Director (babu@clarkson.edu)

John E. Prendergast, Deputy Director (jprender@clarkson.edu) 

Phone: 315-268-2336

FAX: 315-268-7615

email: leila@clarkson.edu

website: http://www.clarkson.edu/camp