Mohammed
(Mo) Gabr is
Professor of Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University specializing
in Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental
Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. at North
Carolina State University in December 1987. He was awarded a postdoctoral
fellowship at the Norwegian
Geotechnical Institute (NGI) for 1988 by the Royal Norwegian Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research. Upon returning to the US, he worked as a
Project Engineer for Woodward-Clyde Consultants
until August 1991; at that time he joined West Virginia University (WVU). He
has been Assistant and then Associate Professor(1995) at West
Virginia University from 8/91 to 1/98 and Associate then Full Professor
at North Carolina State University from
1/98 to present. Dr. Gabr spent the summers of 1992 and 1993 as a Research Faculty
at the Waterways Experiment Station,
Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Gabr was the recipient of the 1996 Edmund Friedman
Professional Recognition award by the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was selected as the 1993 West Virginia
Young Engineer of the Year by ASCE. He received the 1993-94 Outstanding College
Researcher award and 1995-96 Outstanding College Teacher award from the College
of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) at WVU. He received the 1994-95
J.C. Burnichal Teaching award and the 1994-95 Outstanding Advisor award from
the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at WVU. He was selected as a North
Carolina State University Outstanding Teacher in 2008, received an Alumni
Outstanding Teacher award in 2008, and was elected to the academy of Outstanding
Teachers at the University. He is the former Chair of Transportation
Research Board national committee on Physicochemical Properties of Soils
(1997-2003), and current Chair of ASCE Geo-Institute
national committee on Geosynthetics. Dr. Gabr served as editorial board member
(EBM) of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and
Geoenvironmental Engineering (2001-2006) and as Editor of the Environmental
Geotechnics Section of Geotechnical News (1998-2004). He currently serves
as EBM of ASTM
Geotechnical
Testing Journal and as Editor of the ASCE
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Dr. Gabr was elected
as Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
in 2000. He is a registered professional engineer in five states.