Thomas Bartlett (Bart) Quimby, P.E., Ph.D., F.ASCE Owner & Principal Engineer, Quimby & Associates, Eagle River, Alaska Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage   Service Professional Experience Publications

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Fellow

• UAA ASCE student chapter faculty advisor, 1991-1998, 2003/04, 2009-2011
• ASCE National Committee on Student Activities, 1998-2002 (2001 CSA Chair)
• ASCE National Educational Activities Committee, 2003-2006
• ASCE National Educational Programs Committee, 2003-2004
• ASCE National Pre-College Outreach Committee, 2004-2006
• ASCE National Committee on Accreditation Operations, 2014-2018, Chair 2016/17
• ASCE National Committee on Accreditation, 2016/17

AISC/ASCE National Student Steel Bridge Competition

• Hosted two Regional Competitions
• Hosted the 1999 National Competition
• Rules Committee Member, 2000-2012
• National Scorekeeper & Webmaster, 2012-2017

ABET, Inc

• Civil Engineering Program Evaluator (EAC & ETAC), 2007-present
• Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission, Commissioner, 2013-2018
• Over 20 program evaluations, both domestic and international

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) - Member

Structural Engineers Association of Alaska - Member

• Member of the Board of Directors, 1994-1998

Anchorage Area National Engineer's Week Steering Committee

• Student activities/competitions subcommittee chair, 1989-1990, 1996-2004

Owner, Quimby & Associates, Eagle River, Alaska. Self-employed Structural Engineering Consultant. Engaged in independent structural design consulting at various times on a part-time, occasional, or full time basis. At times the firm has employed up to 4 engineers and 1 staff. Currently the firm has no employees (by design). Projects completed include field investigations, design reviews, seminars, and the design of industrial, commercial, educational, and residential structures with computations, drawings and specifications. Projects use timber, steel, masonry, and concrete materials. Structural systems used include post and beam, shear wall, moment frame, and concrete thin shells.

University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska: Assistant, Associate, & Professor, Chair of Civil Engineering, Associate Vice Provost for Curriculum & Assessment, Interim Vice Provost, Associate Dean, interim Chair of Geomatics, Interim Dean. Engaged in the development and teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses in the structural engineering curriculum, graduate research, and many departmental and university academic committees. 

Senior Civil Engineer (on Contract), Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Anchorage, Alaska. Engineering Project Leader (EPL) for various Feasibility Studies and Final Designs. Provided technical support for projects by other EPLs. 

Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Researching the methodology of automated optimal design of reinforced concrete building frames. Design techniques used include optimization and expert systems.

Adjunct Instructor, Brigham Young University. Taught a graduate timber structures course.

Structural Engineer, Porath/Berry, Architects + Engineers. Temporary position as design engineer. Prepared design calculations, specifications, conducted investigations and prepared reports. 

Structural Engineer, Architects GDM & Assoicates, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. Structural Engineer. 

Anchorage, Alaska. Structural Engineer, Westbrook & Associates, Anchorage, Alaska.

Instructor of Engineering, UAA School of Engineering, Anchorage, Alaska. Prepared and taught courses in the structural series. Served on several committees and worked on computer software projects. 

Structural/Civil Engineer, Arthur H Whitmer Associates, Anchorage, Alaska

Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.  Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided-Engineering. Developed structural steel design software to run in conjunction with existing frame analysis software.

Lab Technician, Alaska Testlab, Anchorage, Alaska. Soils and material testing.

Junior Assistant Sanitary Engineer, Alaska Area Native Health Service, Environmental Health Branch, Anchorage, Alaska. Involved in the construction of village water, sewer, and waste disposal systems throughout Alaska. Also developed operation and maintenance manuals.

Corrosion Technician, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Anchorage, Alaska. Gathered data on the cathodic protection system along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

Computer-Aided Structural Steel Design, master's thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 1982.

The Application of Heuristic and Mathematical Search Techniques to the Automated Design of Reinforced Concrete Components, Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1988.

Quimby, T.B., "Seismic Forces in Spherical Domes: A Membrane Solution", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 121, No. 11, November, 1995.

Quimby, T.B., and Balling, R.J., "Automated Design of Reinforced Concrete Components", Computer Utilization in Structural Engineering, proceedings of the sessions related to computer utilization at Structures Congress 1989, ASCE Structural Division, New York, May 1989.

Quimby, T.B., and Nelson, W.G, "Effects of Prestressing on Floating Ice Sheets", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Copenhagen, Demark, Volume IV, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, June 1995.

Quimby, T.B., "Critical Lengths for Upheaval Buckling of Straight Pipelines Buried in Ice Rich Soils", Proceedings of the 15th ASME International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Florence, Italy, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, June 1996.

Quimby, T.B., and Fitzpatrick, M.R., "Upheaval Buckling of a Pipeline in an Arctic Environment", ASCE Eighth International Specialty Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, August 1996.

Liu, H., Quimby, T.B., A.M. Reinhorn, "Application of Seismic Isolation Techniques in Cold Regions", Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Cold Region Development, Anchorage, AK, May 1997.

Quimby, T.B., "Air Formed Concrete Shells for Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions", Cold Regions Impact on Civil Works: Proceedings of the ASCE Ninth International Specialty Conference on Cold Regions Engineering, Duluth, Minn., Sept 1998.

Over 200 design reports, Quimby & Associates and other consulting organizations, 1981-present.

ASCE 7-95 Wind Load Provisions Seminar, Quimby & Associates, Juneau (1997) & Anchorage (1998)

NEHRP Seismic Provisions Seminar, Quimby & Associates, Juneau (1999)

Building in the North:  What Works and What Doesn't, Science for Alaskans Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Alaska and the Alaska Science and Technology.  Presentations in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Feb. 2000