Robert H. Dodds, Jr.

Robert H. Dodds Jr. is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in the field of structural engineering with a focus on non linear fracture mechanics of structural materials. He has done extensive research for the fields of fracture mechanics, fatigue, and engineering software development.

In 2008, Dodds was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in non-linear fracture mechanics and applications to practice in nuclear power and space systems.

Education

For his undergraduate career, Dodds attended the University of Memphis Herff College of Engineering where he studied civil engineering. After attaining his Bachelor of Science (1973), he would leave Memphis and enroll at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also contributed $50,000 to the construction of the M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Student Center, a new addition to the Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory at the University of Illinois.

Career

After the completion of his post graduate degrees, Dodds would take an associate professor position on the faculty of the University of Kansas teaching civil engineering.

While pursuing his career in higher education, Dodds became the co-editor of Engineering Fracture Mechanics in 1996. He also serves as an associate editor for the International Journal for Engineering with Computers and Engineering computations, as well as, a contributing editor to the International Journal for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures.