Rodrigo Salgado
Charles Pankow Professor in Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Lyles School of Civil Engineering
550 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
Office: HAMP G235
Phone: (765) 494-5030
Email:
salgado@purdue.edu
Web:
personal web site
Specialty Area(s)
Affiliation(s)
Education
J.D. (cum laude), Indiana University, 2022
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1993
M.S., University of California at Berkeley, 1990
B.S., Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul, 1986
Research Summary
Prof. Salgado is the author of 120 journal publications, 81 conference publications, 30 technical reports and the text The Engineering of Foundations. He has supervised 27 Ph.D. students to completion and has been the recipient of prestigious awards, including the ICE Geotechnical Research Medal (2015), the Outstanding Reviewer Award from Computers and Geotechnics (2015), the IACMAG Excellent Contributions Award (2008), the Prakash Research Award (2005), the ASCE Huber Research Prize (2004), and the ASCE Arthur Casagrande Award (1999). He has also been an invited participant of the U.S. and U.S.-China editions of the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He is a Fellow of ASCE and has been inducted into the GeoAcademy. He is an Editor of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvioronmental Engineering and serves on the editorial boards of several top journals. Prof. Salgado's interests lie in geomechanics, foundation engineering, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and offshore and energy engineering.
Selected Research Projects
Honors & Awards
Computers and Geotechnics Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier, 2015
Geotechnical Research Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), 2015 (best ICE geotechnical engineering paper, published in Géotechnique in 2014)
Distinguished Visiting Researcher, CAPES, Brazil, selected in 2013
Distinguished Foreign Expert (1000 Scholars Plan of the Chinese Federal Government), selected in 2013 (unable to participate due to time constraints)
Diplomate, Academy of Geoprofessionals, ASCE, 2012
Southeast University Fellow, Southeast University, China, 2011
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, elected in 2011
Invited Participant, NAE U.S.-China Frontiers of Engineering Program, 2009
Invited Paper to the 60th Anniversary Issue of Géotechnique
Excellent Contributions Award, IACMAG, 2008
Invited Participant, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Program, 2005
Shamsher Prakash Research Award, 2005
ASCE Walter L. Huber Research Prize, 2004
Gledden Senior Fellowship, University of Western Australia, 2000
ASCE Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award, 1999
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1994
Parker-Trask Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-90
Selected Publications