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Dr. Daniel G. Linzell, P.E., F.ASCE, F.SEI, is the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of the School of Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to becoming Dean, he served as Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs and was the Leslie D. Martin Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) from September 2018 to October 2025. He concurrently directed the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation between June 2023 and August 2025. From 2013 to 2018, Dr. Linzell was the Voelte-Keegan Professor and Chair of UNL’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was an Assistant, Associate, and the inaugural John A. and Harriette K. Shaw Professor of Civil Engineering at Pennsylvania State University from 1999 to 2013.

Dr. Linzell’s group performs structural engineering research with foci including infrastructure health monitoring; response of building and bridge systems to extreme loads, specifically blast, impact and fire; steel structures; the design and behavior of bridges during construction and under service loads; and advanced structural analysis. His research group has received over $15M in federal, state, and private funding and has published over 100 peer-reviewed, archival journal articles and refereed conference papers and abstracts. Courses Dr. Linzell has taught include bridge engineering, steel design, structural analysis, and infrastructure health monitoring.

He co-chairs the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Education and Leadership Committee, sits on ASCE’s Industry Leaders Council, is a member of its Collaborative Leadership Team, and serves on SEI’s Futures Fund Foundation Board and its Professional Community Executive Committee. Dr. Linzell is a member of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering Advisory Board at the Ohio State University and is a past Chair of the Structural Stability Research Council. He is a Fellow of ASCE and SEI and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Georgia, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania.