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IAN M. FRIEDLAND is assistant director for transportation research at the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER). As assistant director, his primary responsibility is for the day-to-day technical and administrative management of the Center's Highway Project, a $15+ million program comprised primarily of FHWA-sponsored contracts performing seismic vulnerability studies on highway systems and their components. He is also responsible for the administration and management of all other Center transportation research and implementation projects, including one recently completed for the City of New York as a subcontractor to Steinman Engineers providing a seismic hazard assessment of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City and one starting in the fall of 1998 for the AASHTO-sponsored National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) that is developing new highway bridge seismic design specifications. Mr. Friedland provides liaison to and coordination with Federal, State, and local transportation agencies, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, State transportation agencies, AASHTO, and similar authorities.
Prior to joining MCEER in 1992, Mr. Friedland was a senior program officer with the National Academy of Science's Transportation Research Board. In this position, he was in charge of all bridge research being conducted in the AASHTO-sponsored National Cooperative Highway Research Program. During his tenure with NCHRP, a number of major bridge initiatives were completed for AASHTO under his direction, including the development of the AASHTO "LRFD Bridge Design Specifications," the AASHTO "Manual for Condition Evaluation of Bridges," the AASHTO "Guidelines for Bridge Management Systems," and the AASHTO "Guide to Metric Conversion." Mr. Friedland has also worked as a design and construction engineer for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation and Bechtel Power Corporation.
Mr. Friedland has been a member of numerous national task forces and advisory committees, including the FHWA Technical Advisory Committee responsible for the development of PONTIS (the FHWA-supported Bridge Management System), the FHWA Task Force on Scaffolding, Shoring, and Formwork (which developed recently published standard specifications, and design and certification provisions for bridge temporary works), the FHWA Research Council on Curved Bridges, and the AASHTO special Task Force on Metrication. In addition, he was responsible for technical oversight of the NCHRP Bridge Management System, BRIDGIT, during it's initial stages of development.
Mr. Friedland is a registered professional engineer and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York (member ITS-NY Board of Directors), the Cornell University Society of Engineers, and the Association for Bridge Construction and Design. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Cornell University in 1977 and his Master of Science degree in structural engineering and structural mechanics from the University of Maryland in 1978.
AASHTO: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
FHWA: Federal Highway Administration
