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NISS founded by Dr. Mustafa Mahamid started his career as a structural engineer at GRAEF and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago. His designs include a wide variety of projects, including healthcare, commercial, residential, industrial, and high-rise buildings located in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and China. His experience extends to various building materials, including steel, concrete, wood, and masonry. He is a licensed Structural Engineer (SE) and Professional Engineer (PE & P.Eng) in multiple states in the US and Canada and a registered civil engineer in Israel. He is a fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and American Concrete Institute (ACI). He is the editor-in-chief of the STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING HANDBOOK 5th edition and for CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER DESIGN, 1st Edition, both books were published in May 2020 with McGraw-Hill. He is a co-author of the upcoming books STEEL CONNECTION DESIGN BY INELASTIC ANALYSIS, by Wiley, and STEEL, CONCRETE, AND COMPOSITE DESIGN OF TALL AND SUPERTALL BUILDINGS by McGraw-Hill. His research interests extend to steel structures, earthquake engineering and fire structural engineering.
Dr. Mahamid Research Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an Associate Research Fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a structural engineering consultant.
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