Fred
Moavenzadeh
James Mason Crafts Professor
of Systems Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Center for Technology,
Policy, and Industrial Development
Director, Technology and Development
Program
Principal Fields
of Interest
International Construction, Industrialization, Technology and Development
Fred Moavenzadeh's current
interests include technology and development with special focus on formulation
of technological policies for socio-economic development. He is particularly
interested in institutional structures required to develop a viable science
and technology infrastructure that could serve the human resource development
strategy of newly industrialized nations.
As director of the Center
for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development since October 1998,
he is focusing on developing an institutional environment at MIT that
fosters the interdisciplinary research needed for enhancement of industrial
productivity and performance. CTPID's primary areas of concentration are
Aerospace, Automotive, Telecommunications, Mobility, Materials Systems,
Environmental Policy, and Technology and Law. CTPID emphasizes interdisciplinary
research and encourages collaboration with industry and government on
issues of major concern to society at large.
As director of the Technology
and Development Program since 1973, Professor Moavenzadeh has been
involved in a wide variety of interdisciplinary research and teaching
activities. In collaboration with other MIT faculty, he has taught subjects
in engineering, economic, social, and political issues of concern to newly
industrialized nations.
Professor Moavenzadeh is currently
directing TDP programs with the Malaysia University of Science and Technology
and, in Thailand, with King Mongkut University of Technology in Thonburi
and the National Science Technology and Development Agency. He has directed
collaborative programs with Cairo University, Egypt; Technische Universitat,
Berlin; Cujo University in Mendoza, Argentina; the American University
in Beirut; and Kuwait University in the area of science, technology, and
development. He has led collaborations with the Consortium on the Environment
and the Construction Industry in Japan and with the Foundacion Ospina
on the South American River System.
Books
and Publications
Future
Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, Fred Moavenzadeh et
al., editors. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Global
Construction and the Environment: Strategies and Opportunities.
Fred Moavenzadeh. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994.
Concise Encyclopedia of
Building & Construction Materials, Fred Moavenzadeh, editor. England:
Pergamon Press, 1990.
Proceedings of the Conference
on Science, Technology and Development in Latin America, Fred Moavenzadeh,
editor. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 1986.
Transportation, Energy and
Economic Development: A Dilemma in the Developing World, Fred Moavenzadeh
and David Geltner. New York: Elsevier, 1984.
Author of over three hundred
professional papers and reports.
Editorial Boards:
Editor-in-Chief
of Construction Business Review
Member of the Editorial
Board, Journal
of Urban Technology
Member of the Editorial
Board, Journal of Infrastructure
Systems, ASCE
Selected Consulting
International
Agencies
- World Bank
- United National
Industrial Development Organization
- United Nations
Center for Human Settlements
- Inter-American
Development Bank
- U.S. Agency for
International Development
- Organization Latin-American
de Energia
Corporations
- Colombia Gas Company
- Statoil Company
- Monsanto Corporation
- Techint-Argentina
- Ferrovial-Spain
- HCC
Awards
and Honors
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers' deFleury Medal for mentoring and advancing engineering education,
2001.
Sanford E. Thompson
Award for a paper of outstanding merit by the American Society for Testing
and Materials
Materials National
Society of Professional Engineers 20th Annual Journalism Award Program
for a paper entitled "Construction's High-Technology Revolution,"
1986.
Purdue University
1987 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award.
Professional
Appointments
Governor's Appointee to Board
of Directors of the Massachusetts Photovoltaic Center, 1985-2000.
Governor's Appointee to Asset
Management Board, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1991-2001.
Member of the CII Research
Center Council, 1992-present.
Professional Associations
American Association
for the Advancement of Science
American Society of
Civil Engineers
Building Research
Institute, National Academy of Engineering
Council on Science
and Technology for Development
Registered Professional
Engineer in Ohio and Massachusetts
Society for International
Development of Science
Transportation Research
Board, National Academy of Engineering
Professional History
Professor, MIT, July 1972-Present
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, September 1970-May 1982
Associate Professor, MIT, July 1966-July 1972
Assistant Professor, MIT, September 1965-July 1966
Education
B.S., Teheran University, 1958
M.S., Cornell University, 1960
Ph.D. , Purdue University, 1962
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