Jeremy Isenberg, retired president and chief executive officer of Weidlinger Associates Inc., will present "Engineering for Security" at 7:30 p.m. March 30 in the Applied Research Laboratory Auditorium, University Park. Isenberg's presentation is the 2006 Thomas C. Kavanagh Memorial Structural Engineering Lecture and is sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The event is free to the public.
Weidlinger Associates is a structural engineering and software development firm employing more than 300 people with more than $50 million in annual revenues. An expert in the design and analysis of protective structures, Isenberg has received many awards and honors including the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) 1997 Ernest E. Howard Award and its 1998 C. Martin Duke Award, as well as the Software Engineering Institute's 2003 Tewksbury Award. He was instrumental in the formation of ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute and served as president of its board of governors. In 1999, Isenberg was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He was cited for his contributions to designing and testing protective structures and detecting seismically vulnerable underground pipelines. A former Fulbright Scholar, Isenberg holds a doctoral degree from Cambridge University.