Professional Societies/Activities

• American Society of Civil Engineers (member and Geo-Institute (G-I) member), Deep Foundations Committee member, past member Image Processing Committee, and Shallow Foundations Committee.
• Boston Society of Civil Engineers (member), past editorial board member of the journal “Civil Engineering Practice”.
• International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (member of committee TC205 (formerly TC23) - Limit State Design In Geotechnical Engineering Practice 01/2002-present).
• American Society for Testing and Materials (member of the D-18 committee and subcommittees D18.11, D18.98 1996-2000), past editorial board member of the Geotechnical Testing Journal.
• Society for Experimental Mechanics (past member)
• Transportation Research Board member of committee AFS30.
• Deep Foundations Institute member.
• ADSC member
• National Academy of Science - National Research Council - Transportation Research Board Member of committees A2LO2 (1993-1999) and A2KO3 friend of the committee (1993-2001), committee member (2002 – 2008).
• Israel Society of Engineers and Architects.
• Professional Engineer, Registered in Israel (Registration no. 28161)
• Serves as a reviewer for proposals, reports, and papers for the following: NSF, FHWA, ASTM GTJ, TRB, NCHRP, ASCE JGGE, CGJ, ASCE Mechanics, J. of Geoph. Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Civil Engineering Practice, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics.

Educational Background

1989               Sc.D., Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Geotechnical Division, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

1979, 1982    B.Sc. (Cum Laude), M.Sc. (with honors), Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering,

                      Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Bio

Dr. Samuel Paikowsky is the President of GeoDynamica Inc. and also a Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, where he has resided for over two decades. He has 30 years of experience in geotechnical related consulting, research and engineering projects. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of deep foundations, reliability based design instrumentation, testing and analysis, and has been involved in projects worldwide.

Dr. Paikowsky holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a MSc. in Geotechnical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and a Sc.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from MIT entitled "A Static Evaluation of Soil Plug Behavior with Application to the Pile Plugging Problem".

In 1989, Sam joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell where he continues today. He has developed a successful research program and published numerous papers focusing on foundation engineering, reliability based design and basic modeling and analyses of granular materials. His research of deep foundations, soil-structure interaction, and related topics has been, or currently is, supported by the FHWA, MHD, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Science, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Air force, among others. Sam is a member of national and international societies and committees including, ASCE and TRB foundation committees, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, and Limit State Design Committees. Sam is the 1993 recipient of the prestigious five year National Science Foundation Young Investigator award (NYI), and the 1996 recipient of the ASTM Hogentogler award.