Through an NSF grant, SLU in partnership with Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, has created learning modules for experiential learning in structural engineering.
Modules
There are twelve modules broken down into four categories of structural analysis, reinforced concrete, steel design and foundations. As these are developed, they will be added to the website.
Faculty
Chris Carroll, Ph.D., P.E.
chris.carroll@slu.edu
Matthew Lovell, Ph.D., P.E.
Matthew Lovell is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and he currently serves as the Senior Director of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment office. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, and he holds his PE license in Indiana. Matt is very active with respect to experimentation in the classroom. He greatly enjoys problem-based learning and challenge-based instruction. Matt is the 2018 recipient of the American Concrete Institute’s Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. He was awarded Teacher of the Year for the Illinois Indiana section of ASEE in 2017. Also, he was awarded the Daniel V. Terrell Outstanding Paper Award from ASCE. Matt is highly active in ASEE, currently serving as Immediate Past Chair of the ASEE CE Division. In 2014, Matt received the ASEE CE Division Gerald R. Seeley Award for a paper highlighting a portion of his work regarding the development of a Master’s Degree at Rose-Hulman.
Kyle Kershaw, Ph.D., P.E.
Kyle Kershaw is the Roland E. Hutchins Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at Rose-Hulman, he earned degrees from Missouri University of Science and Technology (BSCE and PhD) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MSCE), in addition to working for nearly 8 years as a geotechnical consultant. His main areas of expertise within the field of geotechnical engineering include foundation design, earth retention, slope stabilization, and geologic hazard analysis. Kyle continues to be active in consulting, as well as applied geotechnical and pedagogical research, which includes ongoing work with experiential learning in the classroom and geotechnical aspects of infrastructure resiliency. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Colorado.
James Hanson, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. James Hanson is Department Head and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where his teaching emphasis is structural analysis and design. He is author of the textbook Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice, and he is the recipient of several teaching and best paper awards from ASEE, ACI, and ASCE. Jim brings four years of military and industry experience to the classroom and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Ronaldo Luna, Ph.D., P.E., F. ASCE, D.GE
Professor of Civil Engineering and Senior Consultant
Dr. Ronaldo Luna is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Saint Louis University, and he teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in the field of geotechnical and civil engineering. His research interests lie in the dynamic response of soils and liquefaction, geographic information systems in civil engineering, and advances in soil mechanics/foundations, and earthquake engineering. He was a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, for fifteen years. Previously he was an assistant professor at Tulane University. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1983, from the University of Maryland; and a Master of Science in geotechnical engineering in 1985, from Purdue University. He earned his PhD in 1995 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Luna has practiced as a geotechnical engineer in the west coast and the central US and currently in the region and internationally. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Missouri, California, and Washington and holds a consulting active practice. He has published over 120 technical papers. Dr. Luna is a Fellow with the American Society of Civil Engineers since 2007 and was recently certified as a Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE) by the Academy of Geo-Professionals.
John Aidoo, Ph.D.
Dr. Aidoo is currently a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and serves as the Director for Operation Catapult, a pre-college summer program at Rose-Hulman Institute Technology.
Prior to this appointment, he worked as the Bridge Design Engineer at South Carolina Department of Transportation. He received his B.S. Degree from the University of Science & Technology, Ghana in 1997 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina in 2002 and 2004 respectively.
His research activities include repair and strengthening of buildings and bridges using Advanced Composite Materials, laboratory and field testing of structures and the fatigue behavior of concrete bridges.
Additionally, Dr. Aidoo is a co-advisor for Rose-Hulman’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, which has completed several humanitarian projects. He also has helped broaden students’ horizons through senior-year global capstone design projects in his native land of Ghana. He does pedagogical research related to humanitarian projects undertaken by both the Civil Engineering Department and Engineers Without Borders.
Current and Former Students
Hana Baban
Hana Baban is a graduate student at Saint Louis University, where she is pursuing a Master's Degree focused in Structural Engineering. Her thesis research investigates the behavior of three-dimensional strain fields of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) through digital image correlation. Hana also currently works as a structural engineer at Jacobs.
Alec Derks
Ben Frieden
Abigail Grunenwald
Abigail Grunenwald completed her undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Saint Louis University in 2022 and is currently pursuing a masters in SLU's accelerated BS/MS program. She is also working as a civil/structural engineer at Burns & McDonnell in the Transmission & Distribution department. She recently passed her F.E. exam and enjoys reading and trying new things. She is excited to continue learning more about engineering education this year!
Kateri Heithaus
Madeline Mueller
Francis Peters
Keaton Schieffer
Jonathan Stodala
Jonathan Stodola graduated from Saint Louis University in 2022 with a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and Theology. He is currently working as a Structural Engineer for Larson Engineering Inc in Maryland Heights, MO. At Larson he works on a variety of projects from small pre-assembled structures and pipe supports to steel connections and apartment buildings. Jonathan passed the F.E. and is currently working towards his professional license.
Elise Westhoff