Alí Saffar

PhD Civil Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1981-1986

MS Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1981-1986

MSCE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA; 1979-1981

BSCE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA; 1976-1979

• Professor, Jul 2000-Present
• Associate Professor, 1994-2000
• Assistant Professor, 1990-1994
• Adjunct Professor, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; 1986-1989
• Research Assistant, Mathematical & Experimental Eval. of Bracing Systems; 1983-1986

• Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Engineering Professor Award, November/1995

• Advanced Mechanics of Materials with Applications, Graduate textbook including digital module presentations to be published by CRC.
• Elements of Wood Frame Structures, Printed for class use since 1994.  Last revision:  2016.
• Developing Insurance Solutions Software for Natural Hazard Loss Estimation, with Guillermo Gerbaudo, Report to Insurance Security Commission of Puerto Rico, 2007.
• Development of Hurricane Based Fragility Curves for Wood-Zinc Houses in Puerto Rico, with Rolando García González, Presentation to Mid-America Earthquake Center, 2007.
• On Improving the Performance of Wood-Zinc Roof Systems, with Daniel Avilés Nieves, Report to Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2006.
• Design of an Intelligent Structure, Engineering Mechanics:  A force for the 21^st Century, Proceedings of the 12^th Engineering Mechanics Conference, 1998.
• Performance of Steel Roof Decks subjected to Repeated Wind Loading, Proceedings of the Fifth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1997.
• Stochastic Structural Dynamics:  Proceedings ot the Third International Conference, Editor, January 1997.
• Wind-induced failure of steel roof decks, Proceedings of the 7^th Specialty Conf. On Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, ASCE, 1996, pp. 894-897.
• Cost-Performance Criteria for Seismic Retrofitting, Proceedings of the 7^th Specialty Conf. On Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, ASCE, 1996.
• Column Design in Fire Exposed Steel Frames, Proceedings of the 7^th Specialty Conf. On Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, ASCE, 1996, pp. 906-909.
• “Criterio Costo-Rendimiento para Retroalimentación Sísmica” (In Spanish), Proceedings of the 9^th Latin American Conference on Seismic Engineering, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1996.