Garry Neil Drummond Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering | Interim Department Head of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering | Director of the Large-Scale Structures Laboratory | Associate Director of the UA Center for Sustainable Infrastructure
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Dr. Michael E. Kreger is recognized internationally as a leader in reinforced concrete structures and earthquake engineering. His research, which has resulted in more than 150 technical publications, has focused on earthquake resistance and rehabilitation of structural concrete buildings, behavior of pre- and post-tensioned concrete bridge structures and durability of structural concrete.
His work has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ T.Y. Lin Award in 1991 and 2009, and the American Concrete Institute Foundation’s Concrete Research Council Arthur J. Boase Award in 2011. He is also a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. His research has influenced changes in the ACI Building Code, AASHTO Design Specifications along with engineering practices for the transportation departments in Indiana and Texas.
Kreger is heavily involved in the American Concrete Institute where his technical committee work focuses on development of design codes and technical documents used by practicing engineers. He is a member or past member of several ACI committees including those focusing on building codes, disaster reconnaissance, concrete structures and earthquake-resistant design of concrete buildings.
Prior to joining the faculty in the UA College of Engineering in August 2014, Kreger was a professor for more than 10 years in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University where he was also the first director of the Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research.