Perry Green, PhD, PE (SC)

Dr. Green has given extensively to the Civil/Structural Engineering profession throughout his 40+ year professional engineering career. Dr. Green is a registered Professional Engineer in South Carolina. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since his undergraduate days at Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science where he earned his BSCE in 1977. He received his Master’s Degree in 1979 and Doctorate at Lehigh University a little more than 20 years later. After receiving his PhD he taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville for several years before leaving to become the first, full-time Technical Director of the Steel Joist Institute (SJI).

As Technical Director, Dr. Green was instrumental in the preparation of the 42nd and 43rd Editions of the Steel Joist Catalog as well as the First Edition of the Composite Steel Joist Catalog. He authored numerous articles and papers on Open Web Steel Joists and Joist Girders and presented at state, regional, national, and international conferences such as the Encuentro Internacional del Acero en Colombia, ASCE-SEI Structures Congress, the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) and the Steel Erector’s Association of America (SEAA). He also edited and/or co-authored more than six (6) Technical Digests.

Dr. Green has provided professional expertise throughout his career in the areas of teaching, research and service to the engineering community. Thankfully, even in retirement after a 12 year career with Bechtel Corporation, Dr. Green is still professionally engaged through organizations such as the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC).

Dr. Green has been a member of the SSRC since 1994. During that time he’s served as Technical Secretary, a member of the Executive Committee, chair of the Bylaws Committee, Treasurer, and currently holds the position of Historian.

Dr. Green has been a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Cold-Formed Steel Committee on Specifications (CFS-COS) since 2000. For the last fifteen (15) years he was chair of the Connections and Joints subcommittee. Since joining AISI, he has been directly involved with three (3) editions of the North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members. In 2023, AISI’s support for the CFS-COS ended and is now being replaced with a new entity yet to be formally announced.

Finally, Dr. Green has been a member of AISC’s Task Committee Design of Nuclear Facilities since 2018 and a member of the Connections Task Committee since 2020.