Joseph C. Nadeau, Ph.D., P.E., a professor of the practice in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, where he teaches courses in mechanics and structural design, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Nadeau has over 28 years of experience as an educator in structural engineering and is known for his dedication to his students and his colleagues. He has served as faculty advisor to the Duke ASCE student chapter for close to 25 years, over which time Duke’s ASCE student chapter has hosted the regional student conference three times. Duke’s ASCE student chapter was recognized by ASCE for its hosting activities of the 2002 Carolinas Conference with a 150th Anniversary Award from ASCE. As a member of Duke’s residential campus community, Nadeau served as Faculty-in-Residence in Few Quad for six years.
He has served as director of undergraduate studies for 15 years, during which time he oversaw the design and implementation of the undergraduate environmental engineering program. He has also served as ABET coordinator for close to 20 years and was responsible for the reaccreditation of the civil engineering program twice as well as the initial accreditation of the environmental engineering program when it was launched.
Nadeau is a significant contributor to Duke’s capstone design experience, Overture Engineering. Overture Engineering is a realistic, simulated design experience which incorporates the activities of three senior design courses in the areas of architecture, environment, and structure. Student teams in each course are paired together across courses to design an approximately 50,000-square-foot research facility somewhere on Duke’s campus. In recognition of his educational contributions and impacts, Nadeau has received numerous teaching awards from Duke’s civil and environmental engineering students, Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, and Chi Epsilon.
He is a licensed professional engineer in North Carolina and has been a member of ASCE for nearly 40 years.
Nadeau received his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University, where he was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa. Further, he has graduated from various subsystems of the Keene Public School system in Keene, New Hampshire, where he grew up, and started his first professional job at The MacMillin Company, a construction management and design-build firm.
