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Don White is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, having joined the faculty in 1997. Before his tenure at Georgia Tech, he was part of the Purdue University School of Civil Engineering from 1987 to 1996. He earned his Doctorate in Structural Engineering from Cornell University in 1988 and is an alumnus of North Carolina State University. His research interests encompass a broad spectrum, including the design behavior of steel and composite steel-concrete structures, computational mechanics, and nonlinear analysis methods applied to design. Dr. White contributes significantly to multiple AISC Technical Committees and has contributed to various AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications over the past 20 years. He has received several awards recognizing his contributions to the field, including the Special Achievement Award in 2005 and the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award in 2009. His works and leadership have advanced the state-of-the-art in stability design for steel structures.
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA
Member of the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty with a focus on structural engineering research and education.
Purdue University • West Lafayette, IN
Taught and conducted research in civil engineering, with a specialization in structural engineering.
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