| Title: | Professor |
| Dept: | Civil And Environmental Engineering |
| Office: | SH 108 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2597 |
| Email: | P.BOSELA@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. SH 108, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
| Ph.D., University of Akron, Ohio | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Dr. Paul Bosela is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Cleveland State University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Youngstown State University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Akron. His teaching and research interests are in forensic engineering, investigation of structural failures, non-destuctive testing and concrete pavement (including steel slag aggregate concrete).
Dr. Bosela is a registered Professional Engineer, who was a practitioner for 11 years before joining CSU. He has extensive forensic engineering experience in the investigation of structural failures, and has personally investigated hundreds of failure cases for private clients, including the determination of the cause and extent of damage to structures, such as roof collapse, foundation failure, beam failure, collapse during construction, cracking of concrete, plaster and masonry, etc. Specific causes investigated have included flood, weight of ice and snow, wind, ponding water, fire, improper design, deterioration, corrosion, hydrostatic pressure, defects, soil expansion/subsidence, inadequate bracing, vibration, impact, etc. Based upon his education and practitioner experience, he has served on the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) since 1985, including terms as Chairman of both the Executive and Education Committees. TCFE was formed following a series of notable engineering failures such as the collapses of the Hartford Civic Center, Kemper Arena, and Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkway. The primary purpose of TCFE and its education committee is to incorporate lessons learned from failures of constructed facilities into the education of civil engineering practitioners and students. This technical council has presented sessions and workshops on lessons learned from engineering failures at the ASCE National Conventions, Structures Congresses, and at the First, Second, Third and Fourth Forensic Congresses. Dr. Bosela had served as the Technical Program Chair and Editor-and Chief of the 3rd Forensic Congress held in October 2003, and Co-editor and Co-Chair of the 4th Congress held in 2006. He has also served as a regular speaker for the Learning From Failure Case Study Workshops for University Professors. In addition, he served as a peer review team leader for the FEMA/ASCE World Trade Center Performance Investigation. It was his desire to bring lessons learned from engineering failure case studies into the classroom, and perhaps prevent a few mistakes from being repeated, that ultimately led him from private practice into academia. | ||