Anahid Behrouzi

Anahid Behrouzi
Anahid Behrouzi (MS 13, PhD 16)
Assistant Professor
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

CEEAA Young Alumni Achievement Award, 2021

For investment in her students at Cal Poly, Tufts, UIUC and NC State; and for significant contributions through leadership in professional organizations and research dissemination as well as development of young academics/practitioners that improves the quality of both engineering education and seismic design practice in the United States and beyond.

Biography

Dr. Anahid Behrouzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo. There she teaches structural analysis, dynamics and reinforced concrete design courses as well as advising research related to the earthquake behavior of concrete structures and engineering education.

Behrouzi has been recognized for teaching and service with the 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Award, 2021 American Concrete Institute Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award and the 2021 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Younger Member Award.

Behrouzi has a B.S. in Civil Engineering and B.A. in Spanish Language & Literature from North Carolina State University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At Illinois, her graduate research focused on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete shear walls within the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) facility.