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Ron Welch (P.E.) received his B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from the United States Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He became the Dean of Engineering at The Citadel on 1 July 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the Department Head of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler from Jan 2007 to June 2011 as well as served in the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.

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Timothy Wayne Mays, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Civil Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. Dr. Mays recently served as Executive Director of the Structural Engineers Associations of South Carolina and North Carolina. He currently serves as NCSEA Publications Committee Chairman. He has received three national teaching awards (ASCE, NSPE, and NCSEA) and both national (NSF) and regional (ASEE) awards for outstanding research. He is the recipient of the 2009 NCSEA Service Award. His areas of expertise are code applications, structural design, seismic design, steel connections, structural dynamics, and civil engineering aspects of antiterrorism.

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Dr. Monika Bubacz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management at The Citadel. She received both her B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Poznan University of Technology in Poland, and the Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of New Orleans. Before her current appointment she has worked for Mercer University, Center for NanoComposites and Multifunctional Materials in Pittsburg, Kansas and Metal Forming Institute in Poznan, Poland. Her teaching and research interest areas include materials science, polymers and composites for aerospace applications, nanotechnology, and environmental sustainability.

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Kevin Skenes is an assistant professor at The Citadel. His research interests include non-destructive evaluation, photoelasticity, manufacturing processes, and engineering education.

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Kaitlin Marley is a doctoral student at the University of California-San Diego in the Structural Engineering Department. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2008, and her Master of Science degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of California-Berkeley in 2009. She worked as full-time lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC, from the fall of 2010 through the fall of 2013.

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Dr. J. Michael Grayson is a former National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Clemson University where he received the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) with a minor in Environmental Engineering (summa cum laude) followed by the Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE) and PhD both with an emphasis in structural engineering. Dr. Grayson has extensive experience in the structural framing and finishing of light-frame commercial and residential buildings, as well as experience in bridge and highway construction and inspection practices with the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT). A native of Okatie, SC, firsthand experience of the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Hugo (1989) continues to have a profound influence on Dr. Grayson’s teaching and research accomplishments and goals at The Citadel. Dr. Grayson continuously strives to improve his teaching in the classroom in order to produce principled civil and environmental engineering leaders that are capable of thinking critically about topics while fostering a lifelong love and capacity for independent learning.

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