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Bing Qu

Professor and Department Chair

Structural

Email: bqu@calpoly.edu  

Office Hours

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Education

  • B.S., Tongji University, China, 2001

  • M.S., Tongji University, China, 2004

  • Ph.D., University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2008

Professional Registration

  • Professional Engineer (PE) in Civil Engineering, CA
  • Seismic design, analysis, evaluation, and retrofit of steel structures
  • Progressive collapse performance of building structures
  • Bridges crossing earthquake fault rupture zones
  • Seismic analysis of nonstructural components
  • Interlocking compressed earth block walls
  • 2024 Cal Poly Distinguished Scholarship Award
  • 2020 Raytheon Excellence in Teaching and Applied Research Award
  • 2019 ASCE Moisseiff Award
  • 2014 and 2016, Tom and Lucia Chou Award
  • 2013 Faculty/Staff Appreciation Award for “going above and beyond in inspiring and assisting the Multicultural Engineering Program students”
  • Outstanding Reviewer Awards: Thin-Walled Structures (2018), Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (2017), Journal of Building Engineering (2017), Engineering Structures (2014 and 2017), and Journal of Constructional Steel Research (2013 and 2016)