JESÚS DE LA GARZA is the Chair of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University. He is also the Vecellio Professor Emeritus in Construction Engineering and Management at Virginia Tech. Jesús has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction. He has received ASCE’s Peurifoy Construction Research Award, ASCE’s Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, and he has been elected to the grade of Distinguished Member of ASCE. Jesús is the Editor-in-Chief for ASCE’s Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Jesús has received the Construction Industry Institute’s Outstanding Researcher Award, Distinguished Professor Award, Outstanding Instructor Award, and the Richard L. Tucker Award for Leadership and Service. He is a Fellow of the Construction Management Association of America and a Fellow of the Project Management College of Scheduling.
JESÚS DE LA GARZA served as Director of the Civil Infrastructure Systems program at the National Science Foundation. His research is organized around four tracks, namely, Project Controls, Information Technology for Construction Management, Project Delivery Mechanisms, and Infrastructure Asset Management.
Jesús received his MS and PhD from the University of Illinois and his BSCE from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. He has held visiting professorships at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, Arizona State University and Georgia Tech.