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Program - Steel Structures to Withstand the Elements: What Structural Engineers Need to Know About Corrosion.
Jennifer McConnell, Ph.D., University of Delaware

Dr. McConnell is the Bentley Systems Career Development Professor at the University of Delaware, where she also directs the Center for Innovative Bridge Engineering. She has over 20 years of research experience in bridge behavior, laboratory testing, field evaluation, inspection, long-term performance, design, and analytical modeling of bridges. She is a member of the National Steel Bridge Alliance Oversight Committee, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Steel Bridge Task Force, the AISI Corrosion Advisory Group, and the Transportation Research Board Committee on Steel Bridges.
The American Institure of Steel Construction (AISC) awared Dr. McConnell with the 2023 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award which recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical papers are considered an outstanding contribution to the engineering literature on fabricated structural steel. Jenifer has conducted groundbreaking research into the performance of uncoated weathering steel (UWS) in bridges. Her work incorporates long-term field data on the performance of steel structures and corrosion protection methods in various environments and includes an analysis of practical design strategies that improve corrosion resistance.”
Dr. McConnell will present “Steel Structures to Withstand the Elements: What Structural Engineers Need to Know About Corrosion”.