Dr. Ryan J. Sherman joined the faculty in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 2019. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2007, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 2009 and 2016, respectively. Previously, he served on the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Construction faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as well as worked as a Research Engineer at the Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research at Purdue University. Dr. Sherman has conducted large-scale laboratory testing, as well as field monitoring and instrumentation projects around the United States, on steel bridge and ancillary highway structures. He has had an active role in over 25 research projects, encompassing the areas of large-scale structural experimentation, structural health monitoring, sensor development, material characterization, fatigue and fracture, and analytical simulation. His recent research interests include additive manufacturing for civil engineering infrastructure and novel geometries for rapid steel bridge deployment. Dr. Sherman serves on professional technical committees for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA). In addition, he is a licensed Professional Engineer.
Steel structures , Fatigue and fracture , Additive manufacturing , Large-scale structural testing , Field monitoring and testing of structures , Retrofit design and testing , Fitness-for-service evaluation , Redundancy of structural systems
Georgia Tech students have weighed in and six professors from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering have been honored for their exceptional classroom skills.
Assistant Professor Ryan Sherman has been awarded the American Institute of Steel Construction’s (AISC) 2023 Milek Fellowship in recognition of his innovative research on metallic additive manufacturing. Since 2004, AISC has given a promising non-tenured university faculty member the four-year, $200,000 award.
The Steel Bridge Task Force, which consists of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the National Steel Bridge Alliance, and the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials T-14 Technical Committee for Structural Steel Design, have selected assistant professor Ryan Sherman as the recipient of the 2023 Robert J. Dexter Memorial Award Lecture.
