Richard L. Wood

Associate Professor

Richard Wood is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests lie with the remote sensing and digital assessment of the built and natural environment. This focus includes the characterization of post-natural hazard scenes of built-up areas and natural environments (e.g., forests) to aid forensic engineering and hazard studies, including post-windstorms. His work focuses on the deployment of geospatial tools including lidar and unpiloted aerial systems (or drones) coupled with machine learning to extract features of interest. Wood received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He currently co-chairs the Remote Sensing Subcommittee of the ASCE Standards Committee for Wind Speed Estimation in Tornadoes and serves as president/chair of the SEI Nebraska Section.

 

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  • M.S., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  • B.S., with Greater Distinction, Civil Engineering, Clarkson University

Research Opportunities (Graduate/Undergraduate)

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

    • Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure
    • Structural Damage Assessment & System Identification
    • Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
    • Extreme Loads on Structures
    • Nonlinear Structural Modeling
  • Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

Courses Taught

  • CIVE 221 – Geometric Control Systems (co-instructor)
  • CIVE 443/843 – Advanced Structural Analysis
  • CIVE 842 – Structural Dynamics
  • CIVE 945: Structural Analysis and Design for Dynamic Loads
  • View the Undergraduate Course Catalog
  • View the Graduate Course Catalog
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Experience

  • Professional Committee Leadership in International and National Organizations:
  • President, Nebraska Section, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Co-chair, Remote Sensing Subcommittee, Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Steering Member, Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Post-disaster reconnaissance mission to assess structural and geotechnical damage following:
    • 2019 Hurricane Dorian (Bahamas): NSF StEER as imaging team lead for FAST-2
    • 2017 Hurricane Harvey (Texas): 2 missions of GEER and NSF Rapid
    • 2015 Pampa Tornado (Texas): NSF Rapid
    • 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (Nepal)
    • 2014 Pilger Tornado Family (Nebraska)
    • 2010 Baja California Earthquake (California and Bajac California): 2 missions of EERI and GEER
  • Professional Committee Membership:
    • Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network, Level 4 Member 
    • Surveying and Geomatics Educators Society (SaGES), member
    • Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
    • Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member and steering committee
    • Remote Sensing Subcommittee, Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member and co-chair
    • National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, member
    • Advances in Simulation, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member
    • School Earthquake Safety Initiative, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), member
  • Active journal reviewer, including:
    • American Concrete Institute (ACI) Structural Journal
    • American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Bridge Engineering
    • American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
    • American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Structural Engineering
    • Automation in Construction
    • Engineering Structures
    • Journal of Applied Mechanics
    • Journal of Building Engineering
    • Journal of Natural Hazards
    • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry
    • International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,  International Journal of Geo-Information
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