Associate Professor & Associate Dean of CEPS

Phone: (603) 862-3537
Email: robert.henry@unh.edu

University of New Hampshire
Kingsbury Hall Room W283
33 Academic Way
Durham, NH 03824

Research Overview

The development of civil engineering related multi-media courseware (SEVE) in the area of structural engineering, the use of 3-D and virtual reality modeling of structural systems in engineering education, fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) concrete bridge deck slabs, the evaluation of corrugated materials to form hyperbolic-parabaloid shaped roof structures to provide inexpensive building systems that can be constructed rapidly and have long term utilization.

Selected Publications

Henry, Robert, "Civil Engineering Curriculum Computer Integration 1992", ASCE - Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Dallas, TX, June, 1992.

Henry, Robert M., "Computer Fluent Civil Engineer: What Does That Mean", Proceedings of ASCE - Fifth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Anaheim, CA, June 8, 1993. (Reprinted in the April 1994 issue of CE Computing Review)

Henry, R.M., Behr, R.A., and Spalding, K. "Using Hyper-Media on DOS to Visualize Basic Structural Systems", Proceedings of the 1993 ASEE Annual Conference, Urbana, IL, June 21, 1993.

Stetson, M. and Henry, R., "Estimating the Natural Frequencies of Dynamic Models", Structural Engineering Review, Vol. 5, No. 4, pg 309-312, November, 1993.

Henry, Robert M., "Matrix Structural Analysis Course: The Things I Will Never Do Again", Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 21, 1995.

Goodspeed, C.H., Cronin, D., Henry, R.M., and Thibodeau, K., "FRP Grids Reinforce and Corrugated Sheets Roof A Salt Storage Facility", Composites Institute’s 51st Annual Conference, February 1996.

O’Neill, Robert J., Henry, Robert M. and Lenox, Thomas A, "Role of Computing: Educators’ Perspective", Proceedings - 1996 ASCE Third Computing Congress, Anaheim, CA, June 1996.

O’Neill, Robert J., Henry, Robert M. and Lenox, Thomas A., "Role of Computing: Practitioners’ Perspective", Proceedings - 1996 ASEE Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 1996, Best Paper - CE Division for 1996.

Henry, Robert M., "SEVE – A Structural Engineering Visual Encyclopedia", Proceedings - 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 1997, Best Paper - CE Division for 1997.

Awards

Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award New England Section - ASEE, June, l986.
Outstanding Use of Technology in Education - UNH, October 1988.
Outstanding Teacher, Dept. of Civil Eng., Tau Beta Pi, April 1989.
ASEE Best Paper Award for CE Division for 1996
ASEE Best Paper Award for CE Division for 1997
Premiere Award for Outstanding Educational Software, November, 1998

Teaching Interests

Numerical methods applied to civil engineering problems, structural vibrations, finite element method, structural analysis, 3-D and virtual reality modeling, and first year engineering courses.