Faculty Advisor:
Professor Navid Nastar, PhD, PE, SE, F.ASCE Navid Nastar, PhD, PE, SE, F.ASCE is a Founding Partner and Principal Structural Engineer at Brandow & Nastar, Inc., a consulting structural and forensic engineering firm in Southern California, and an Adjunct Professor of structural engineering in Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in structural and earthquake engineering and is engaged in related research. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) student chapter at USC. His research interests include forensic engineering, failure investigation, earthquake engineering, and behavior and design of structures under extreme loads. |