Assistant Professor
Department of Construction Systems
College of Engineering and Technology
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
PKI 105B – 1110 South 67^th Steet
Omaha, NE, 68182-0571, USA
Phone: (402) 554-2544
Fax: (402) 554-3304
E-mail: gmorcous@mail.unomaha.edu

Education:

Ph. D., Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Major: Civil Engineering.
Minor: Infrastructure Management.
Thesis: “Case-Based Reasoning For Modeling Bridge Deterioration”.
Date: November 2000

M. A. Sc., Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Major: Civil Engineering.
Minor: Construction Engineering and Management.
Thesis: “Estimation of Quantities and Cost of P.C. Bridges Over the River Nile in Egypt; Conventional and Neural Networks Approaches”.
Date: July 1997

B. Eng. (honors), Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Major: Civil Engineering.
Minor: Structural Engineering.
Final Project: “Analysis of Cable-Stayed Bridges”.
Date: July 1994

Awards:

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) Award 2001-2002.
Ph.D. Thesis Nominated for the NSERC Doctoral Prize Award.
Concordia University Fellowship 1997 – 2000.
Concordia University Tuition Fee Remission 1997.
Cairo University Award of Excellence 1990-1994.

Activities:

Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering – Dalhousie University, NS, Canada.

Member of the organizing committee of the 31^st World Congress of Housing, International Association of Housing Science (IAHS).

Associate Member: American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Associate Member: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE).

Associate Member: Egyptian Society for Engineering (ESE).

Reviewer: Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE.

Reviewer: Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE.

Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia (APENS).