Billie F. Spencer, Jr.

Professor

Nathan M.& Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering

2113 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

Phone: (217) 333-8630

Fax: (443) 646-0675

Email: bfs@uiuc.edu

Laboratory website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/sstl/

B.F. Spencer, Jr. holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (University of Missouri – Rolla 1981), and M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1983, 1985). He joined the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois in 2002. Dr. Spencer served as a professor at the University of Notre Dame from 1985-2002.

Dr. Spencer has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in structural mechanics, structural dynamics, and structural reliability. He is the author of two books. The first is a monograph entitled On the Reliability of Nonlinear Hysteretic Structures Subjected to Broadband Random Excitation (Springer-Verlag 1986). The second book, coauthored with Prof. K. Sobczyk, is entitled Random Fatigue: From Data to Theory (Academic Press 1992).

Dr. Spencer has research interests primarily in the areas of stochastic fatigue, stochastic computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, damage detection and health monitoring, and civil engineering applications of smart structures technology. He is currently a member of the executive board of the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research on Smart Structures Technologies (ANCRSST).

Dr. Spencer is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the International Association for Structural Control, and the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability. He was the founding chair of the Committee on Structural Control and is the past chair of the Committee on Fatigue and fracture Reliability, both in the ASCE Structures Division. He serves as associate editor of Shock and Vibration, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Structural Control, and has served as associate editor for ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.