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Qian Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Manhattan University. He holds a Ph.D. in Structures, Mechanics and Materials from the University of Iowa. As a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and LEED AP, his expertise spans structural engineering, resilience engineering, and educational psychology. His research focuses on crashworthiness analysis, optimization algorithms, and sustainable infrastructure systems.
Dr. Wang has published extensively in journals like Engineering Structures, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. His work bridges structural reliability, computational methods, and real-world engineering challenges such as blast-resistant design and geotechnical risk assessment. He collaborates on UTRC grants addressing aging infrastructure resilience and fire behavior in steel bridges.
Active in professional organizations including ASEE and ASCE, he teaches courses ranging from introductory civil engineering to advanced structural design. His pedagogical research explores personality traits and cognitive factors influencing engineering student performance.
Notable contributions include developing novel meta-modeling techniques for reliability analysis and advancing crash simulation methodologies for transportation barriers. His peer-review activity spans top journals in structural and computational engineering.
