Glenn Washer
James C. Dowell Fellow, Professor
2502 Lafferre Hall
Phone: 573-884-0320
Email: washerg@missouri.edu
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biography
Glenn Washer is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri. Before joining the university, Washer was with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) at the Turner Fairbank Research Center (TFHRC) where he served as the director of the FHWA Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) program. Washer received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at the Johns Hopkins University in 2001. His research interests are focused on condition assessment technology for civil infrastructure. This includes developing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technologies for damage detection, reliability of inspection technologies and risk-based inspection. Research in NDE technologies currently includes ultrasonic stress measurement, ultrasonic testing for steel bridge fabrication, thermal imaging technologies and reliability of NDE technologies. He has published over 120 journal and conference papers related to the condition assessment of bridges, and is a Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT).
Education
PhD from Johns Hopkins University
MS from the University of Maryland
BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts
Technical Focus
Condition assessment of civil infrastructure