Shirley Dyke

Shirley J. Dyke is an American civil and mechanical engineer, the Donald A. and Patricia A. Coates Professor of Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and a professor of civil engineering at the Purdue University College of Engineering and a former editor-in-chief of ''Engineering Structures''. Her research has focused on structural dynamics and earthquake engineering including the seismic safety of buildings and bridges, problems in control theory involving tuned mass dampers and magnetorheological dampers, and the use of computer vision in bridge inspection. Provided by Wikipedia