Cathleen Jacinto

Cathleen has over 20 years of experience in the design industry as a structural engineer.   She collaborated on a variety of building design projects while at Thornton Tomasetti and T.Y. Lin International in Chicago, Illinois, from small to large-scale project types in healthcare, aviation, commercial, infrastructure, cultural, and steel connection design.  At FORSE Consulting, Cathleen assists other structural engineers with designs on a variety of projects, and contributes to FORSE’s seminars and publications.  One topic Cathleen highlights is structural steel HSS design, as a technical consultant to the Steel Tube Institute.  She currently contributes as a Board Member to the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois and contributes to committees with AISC and ASTM.  She has a Professional Masters in Structural Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Cathleen is a licensed Structural Engineer (SE) and Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Illinois.