Professional Activities

• Registered Professional Engineer in Michigan - No. 29970
• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Chair,  ASCE Committee on Wood, Oct. 2000 - Oct. 2003
• Chair, SEI/ASCE Committee on Reliability-Based Design of Wood Structures – Oct. 2006 – Oct 2009.
• Chair, SEI/ASCE Committee on Design of Wood Structures – Oct. 2009 – Present.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Structural Engineering, Oct. 1997- Oct. 2000
• Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 1989-1999.
• Member, American Society of Engineering Education
• Member, Prestressed Concrete Institute
• Adjunct Professor, Forest Resources and Environmental Science
• President, ASCE Upper Peninsula Branch, June 1989-May 1990

Reviewer for:

Journals: 

• Journal of Structural Engineering,
• Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering,
• Forest Products Journal,
• Structural Safety,
• IEEE Spectrum,
• Natural Hazards Review,
• Wood and Fiber Science,
• Risk Analysis,
• Journal of Construction
• Engineering and Management,
• Engineering Structures

Book Publishers: 

• Prentice-Hall,
• Cambridge Press,
• John Wiley & Sons,
• American Society of Civil Engineers,
• Pearson, Chapman-Hall/CRC,
• Addison/Wesley,
• Macmillan,
• van Nostrand Reinhold, Harper & Row

Funding Agencies: 

• National Science Foundation,
• United Stated Department of Agriculture