Julio Ramirez

Speed Coach

Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering and NHERI NCO Center Director

Dr. Julio A. Ramirez is the Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering of Purdue University. For the past 30 years, he has been teaching and conducting research in structural engineering. His research covers design, evaluation of performance and code development of reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges and buildings. Since 2016, he has been Center Director of the Network Coordination Office of the NSF funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI). Dr. Ramirez is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the American Concrete Institute and the recipient of the 2000 Delmar Bloem Award and the 2006 Joe W. Kelly Award of the American Concrete Institute.