Dr. Aly S. Nazmy
Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Nazmy is a Professor of Structural Engineering and has been the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at ADU since September 2007. He served as Director of the General Education Program at UAE University from September 2006 to September 2007, and as Chairman of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the same university from September 2000 to September 2006.
He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Structural Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Structures and Mechanics from Princeton University, USA. He served on the faculty of the Polytechnic University in New York between 1987 and 1993, and on the faculty of the University of Maine between 1993 and 1998, before joining the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UAE University in September of 1998.
Dr. Nazmy’s primary area of research activities is the seismic behavior and seismic retrofit of bridge structures, especially long-span suspension, cable-stayed, and arch bridges. His research on the non-synchronous seismic excitation of long-span cable-stayed bridges was considered a breakthrough in the field when published in the early 1990s, and is still cited until today in all publications on the subject. He received the George Van Ness Lothrop Honorific Graduate Fellowship in Engineering at Princeton University for his pioneering research on this subject. He is a member and past chair of various field related societies. He has published over 60 papers and technical reports on bridge dynamics and earthquake engineering, in addition to two edited books. His work appeared in numerous international journals.
He was the chair of the Ninth Arab Structural Engineering Conference held in 2003 in Abu Dhabi. Dr. Nazmy also conducted several studies on the seismic retrofit of a variety of landmark bridges in the US.
