Weidlinger principal Ettouney is a multifaceted engineer and researcher who seeks to inspire a more multidisciplinary approach to solving problems of the built environment and improving the codes that govern design and construction.

NEW YORK - Mohammed Ettouney, a principal of Weidlinger Associates, Inc., has been elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI), a national forum for the structural, mechanical, electrical, and architectural engineering communities. One of ASCE’s seven institutes, the AEI's mission encompasses technical, educational, scientific, and professional issues unique to the civil engineering industry. AEI is under the direction of a seven-member board of governors.

Ettouney's professional work focuses on infrastructure security. He has introduced many concepts and guidelines to the field, including theories on multihazards and progressive collapse, and he has completed numerous protective designs for federal, state, and local authorities. Ettouney was a member of the task committee for establishing the Building Security Council, and he was appointed to serve on its first board of directors. A member of the earthquake engineering community, he was one of the writers of the NYC Seismic code (1995) and is on the steering committee for development of a second-generation performance-based seismic design code, a FEMA-sponsored project.

Ettouney is heavily involved in the economics, life cycle costs, and cost benefits of structural health monitoring. At Weidlinger, he has worked on structural acoustics and submerged systems, introducing the use of scale-independent elements for mid-range frequency analysis (1991) and a probabilistic boundary element method (1987). Other interests include structural vibrations, linear and nonlinear soil mechanics, and dynamics.

Ettouney is an active member of ASCE, ASNT (American Society of Non-Destructive Testing), and AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction). He was recently designated a Fellow of the AEI and is currently a member or chair of several ASCE, ASNT, and AISC committees. Ettouney has lectured on multihazards, building security, blast, progressive collapse, earthquake engineering, structural health monitoring, structural acoustics, and vibrations. He is widely published, with more than 275 publications, and is co-authoring books on structural health and building security.

Ettouney has a BS in civil engineering (1969) and an MS in structural engineering (1972) from Cairo University, an ScD in structural mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1976), and an MBA from Long Island University (1980). He is a licensed Professional Engineer.