Performance-Based Design For Structures

MEET THE CHAIR

Maha Kenawy, Ph.D., M.ASCE

Dr. Maha Kenawy is an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Her research work is at the interface of structural and earthquake engineering, probabilistic risk assessment methods, and scientific computing. Dr. Kenawy is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award for early career faculty, and her research has been funded by federal and local agencies such as the United States Geological Survey, and the Hamm Institute for American Energy. Dr. Kenawy holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Construction Engineering from the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to joining OSU, Dr. Kenawy worked as a consultant at the engineering firm Exponent, where she developed risk assessment frameworks for infrastructure systems subjected to natural hazard events. She also worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno where she assessed the regional-scale impacts of earthquakes on civil structures using physics-based earthquake simulations and high-performance computing.