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Civil engineering's Radlińska wins ACI achievement award

Aleksandra Radlińska, assistant professor of civil engineering at Penn State, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the ACI Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.

The award, which was presented on April 12 by the American Concrete Institute at the ACI Concrete Convention and Exposition in Kansas City, Missouri, is given to a faculty member with less than seven years served in all faculty positions and recognizes “excellence and innovation in the teachings of concrete design, materials or construction, with demonstrated evidence of technical competence, high character and integrity.”

Radlińska, a Penn State faulty member since August 2012, received her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering with a specialty in structural engineering from West Pomeranian Technological University in 2004 and her doctorate in concrete materials from Purdue University in 2008.

Prior to joining Penn State, Radlińska was an assistant professor at Villanova University from 2008 to 2012.

Radlińska teaches undergraduate courses in materials science as well as graduate courses in concrete materials and properties.

Her research interests include cement and concrete in sustainable design, durability, shrinkage and cracking of concrete, reliability-based analysis of the behavior of construction materials and using alternative cement binders with reduced CO2 emission.

Prior to winning the ACI Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, Radlińska won the ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement in 2012, the Best Paper Award from the ASEE Mechanics Division in 2011, the Bryant Mather Award for Best Paper in Concrete Materials from the Transportation Research Board in 2008, and the Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching from Purdue University in both 2006 and 2007. She was also the 2009 ExCEEd Teaching Fellow.

The ACI Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award was established in 2001 to honor the late Walter P. Moore Jr. Moore was an ACI Fellow, an ACI Board Member and a structural engineer in Texas who believed in the development of educators committed to the teaching of concrete.

Last Updated April 13, 2015