Bio Sketch
John Ting became the dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in July 2003. Prior to that, he was professor and head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Lowell from 1999 to 2003. Previously, he was a tenured associate professor at the University of Toronto (1983-90) and post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer at the California Institute of Technology (1981-83).
John Ting has been involved in teaching, research and software development in Civil & Environmental Engineering for more than two decades. He has published over 40 refereed papers and reports and presented over 25 seminars and conference papers.
He has helped obtain and directly participated in externally funded research in Geotechnical Engineering exceeding $1.5 million on topics ranging from lateral pile behavior, centrifuge modeling, Discrete Element numerical modeling and analysis of Integral Abutment Bridges, and exceeding $1 million on incorporating Service Learning in Engineering Education.
He has taught over 20 different undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil Engineering and computer programming - at Caltech, University of Toronto and UMass Lowell.
Dr. Ting graduated from McGill University (1975) with a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering as the E. Brown Gold Medal holder for Highest Ability in the Faculty of Engineering. He holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (1976) from the California Institute of Technology. He holds a Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering (1981) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since coming to UMass Lowell, he has worked on Discrete Element computer modeling of granular materials and more recently, on developing streamlined analysis methods for Integral Abutment bridges for the Massachusetts Highway Dept. Since the late 1990s, Dr. Ting became deeply involved with Math/Science education at the K-12 level and the state of engineering education, and was an active participant in the Raytheon/University of Massachusetts K-16 Engineering Collaboration He has actively promoted K-12 outreach activities and service-based multidisciplinary projects and activities for the College, as a means to help with both recruiting and retention.
In addition, he has coached MathCounts middle school teams for several school systems (Groton-Dunstable Middle School and Parker Charter Essential School, Devens).