SERG -- Faculty
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| Department Undergraduate Coordinator, Executive Officer Phone: 978-934-2273 Office: Pasteur Hall Room 112 Email: Donald_Leitch@uml.edu |
Phone: 978-934-2276 Office: Pasteur Hall Room 109 Email: Susan_Faraji@uml.edu |
Associate Chair for Doctoral Studies Phone: 978-934-2288 Office: Falmouth Hall Room 107-C Email: Tzuyang_Yu@uml.edu |
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| Phone: 978-934-5932 Office: Pasteur Hall Room 110 Email: Paul_DeStefano@uml.edu |
Email: Robert_Hajjar@uml.edu |
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Brief biography: Susan Faraji is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. She has more than three decades of teaching, research, publication, and consulting experience in the field.
Over the past 31 years, she has taught a wide range of courses at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, from basic mechanics to advanced design and analysis courses, such as Concrete Design, Steel Design, Bridge Design, Seismic Design, Practice of Structural Engineering, Finite Elements, Structural Dynamics, Structural Analysis and Behavior of Structures. She has an extended knowledge of a variety of codes, such as the Massachusetts building code, AISC, ACI, AASHTO, IBC, and ASCE/SEI. She also has extensive industrial experience, having worked with a variety of government agencies, such as the United States Army, the Massachusetts DOT, the Rhode Island DOT, and the NCHRP, and a variety of consulting firms, such as the Shaw Group, the Maguire Group, Purcell Associates, Bayside Engineering, and YAS Ventures, LLC, on diverse projects. These projects include a variety of buildings, such as schools, hospitals, commercial buildings, apartment buildings, parking garages, and a dome-shaped building. She has further worked on culverts, ramps, an elevator, an aircraft prototype model, tentage framing, retaining walls, pontoons, and many bridges. Her work has involved the analysis, design (using the latest design codes), and two and three dimensional computer modeling of a wide range of structures for a variety of loadings such as gravity, snow, wind and seismic.
Dr. Faraji has co-authored with Dr. Jerome Connor of MIT a comprehensive 1200 page book, Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, first published in 2012 and now in its second edition (Springer, 2016). The material is presented in 3 parts and 16 chapters. The new edition provides a balanced, seamless treatment of both classic, analytical methods and contemporary, computer-based techniques for conceptualizing and designing a structure. It also provides treatments of geometrically nonlinear analysis and limit analysis based on nonlinear inelastic analysis. Part I of the book covers statically determinate structures. Part II covers methods for the analysis of statically indeterminate structures. Part III covers materials regarding the practice of structural engineering. It has chapters on modern bridges, lateral load issues for multistory buildings, and vertical loads on multistory buildings.
Dr. Faraji’s research interests include: integral abutment bridges, jointless bridges, issues related to tall buildings, wind and seismic analysis, motion based design, nonlinear analysis of structures, vibration, tentage framing, finite element modeling, tall buildings, and soil-structure interaction.