selected publications article Estimating Damage Caused by Natural Hazards for the Insurance Industry in Puerto Rico.. Dimension - College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico. 3:17-26. 2005 Mitigating the Vulnerability of Existing Electrical Steel Towers. (Special Publication ). 65-a FEMA. 2003 conference paper Effect of the Interior Masonry Walls on the Seismic Behavior of Concrete Houses - An Experimental Study.. 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China. 2008 Assessing Bridge Conditions by Performing Static Load Tests. LACCEI 2006 Conference, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 2006 Experimental Cyclic Behavior of Concrete Wall Houses Loaded in their Weak Direction. XXIII South Eastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Puerto Rico. 2006 Experimental Determination of the Load Distribution Factor for Bridges. XXIII South Eastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Puerto Rico. 2006 Simplified vs. Detailed Bridge Models: A Time and Costs Decision. LACCEI 2006 Conference, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. 2006 Estimating Natural Hazard Damage for the Insurance Industry in Puerto Rico.. 3rd LACCEI International Conference, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.. 2005 Simple Earthquake Construction Details That Make Big Differences. Earthquake Conference, Puerto Rico Civil Engineering Society. 2005 Optimal Design of Battered Piles. (Proccedings). 2 Conference on Bridge and Highway Design. San Juan, Puerto Rico . 2004 Earthquake Instrumentation of Puerto Rico Bridges. (Procceding). Annual Meeting Seismological Society of America . 2003
presentations presentation Lateral load tests of RC older homes loaded in their weak Direction, Speaker, The Second NEES-EDEFENSE Workshop on Collapse Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures, E-Defense, Kobe, Japan.
professional service activities University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Professor 2003 - Structural Laboratoty Director 1997 - University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Associate Professor 1997 - 2003 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Assistant Professor 1992 - 1997 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Instructor 1986 - 1992 Catholic University of Cordoba Lecturer 1981 - 1984 National University of Cordoba, Argentina Teaching Assistant 1977 - 1980
education and training Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo 1996 M.C.E. in Civil Engineering 1986 B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, National University of Cordoba, Argentina 1980
awards and honors Outstanding Professor of UPRM, conferred by University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 1990 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, conferred by Ramos Foundation, 1985 Concrete Construction, conferred by NIME Committee, 1983 Merit Award by the General Engineering Department, conferred by Department of General Engineering.
