Mohamed Talaat Named Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers

“It’s an honor to be recognized by ASCE and to join a community of peers who are committed to advancing our profession and serving the greater good,” said Mohamed. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to research, standards, and practice that help improve the safety and resilience of our built environment.”

With more than two decades of professional experience and seven years in academic research, Mohamed has advanced the field of probabilistic safety and risk assessment for nuclear and defense installations, critical infrastructure, and industrial facilities. His expertise spans performance-based earthquake engineering, finite element simulation, structural failure investigation, and seismic design and retrofit.

Mohamed has contributed to the seismic and wind probabilistic risk assessments of numerous nuclear power plants and mission-critical facilities, as well as notable design, retrofit, and failure investigation projects such as San Francisco’s Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco War Memorial Building, Chile’s Giant Magellan Telescope Observatory, and Minnesota’s I-35W bridge collapse. He has also supported key research initiatives with the Idaho and Argonne National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A committed leader in professional organizations, Mohamed serves on multiple ASCE committees, including the Nuclear Standards and ASCE/SEI 7-28 Committees, and co-leads Chapter 2 on Earthquake Ground Motion in the upcoming ASCE Standard that will merge ASCE/SEI 4 and ASCE/SEI 43 Standards. He is also an active member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), the Egyptian Syndicate of Civil Engineers, and the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC).