November 11, 2002

Engineer Who Led Investigation Of World Trade
Center Collapse Will Speak Nov. 20 At
Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, Ky. - The structural engineer who led the federal investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers will visit Western Kentucky University this month.

Dr. W. Gene Corley, senior vice president for Construction Technology Laboratories Inc., will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Downing University Center Theater.

His lecture -- "World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations and Recommendations" -- is sponsored by the William A. and Joyce R. Bell Faculty Excellence Fund for Civil Engineering.

Dr. Corley, who received his degrees from the University of Illinois, is recognized as one of the leading experts in structural concrete and was the principal investigator after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

A member of numerous professional organizations, Dr. Corley is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and American Concrete Institute, past president of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, past chair of the ASCE Council on Forensic Engineering and has authored more than 150 articles and books on structural design.

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