CE Alumnus Thomas D. Poulos has been promoted to senior principal in the Chicago office of Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm.

Poulos, who leads the firm’s aviation market sector, has been with Thornton Tomasetti since 1997. He has more than 20 years of experience leading complex projects for all types of structures, including design-build.

Poulos is a licensed structural engineer in Arizona and Illinois, and a licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin. He is certified in the practice of structural engineering by the Structural Engineering Certification Board and is registered with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying as a certificated Model law Structural Engineer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Purdue University and a master’s degree in structural engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.