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Dr. Spencer received his B.S. (1981) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and his M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Civil Engineering in 1985, and has worked primarily in the areas of stochastic fatigue, stochastic computational mechanics and civil engineering applications of structural control. Dr. Spencer has published numerous technical papers/reports, including two books. The first book is a monograph entitled "On the Reliability of Nonlinear Hysteretic Structures Subjected to Broadband Random Excitation" which was published by Springer-Verlag in 1986. The second book, coauthored with Prof. K. Sobczyk, is entitled "Random Fatigue: From Data to Theory" and was published by Academic Press in 1992. In 1993, Dr. Spencer was named the inaugural recipient of the Junior Research Prize of the International Association of Structural Safety and Reliability for his work in stochastic fatigue of engineering materials. Dr. Spencer has been working in the area of structural control since 1988 and is the past chair of the Committee on Structural Control, ASCE Structures Division.
