Chris Ramseyer is the newest faculty member in the Fears Lab team.  He earned his Ph.D. from OU in 2005, and joined the faculty on January 1st, 2006.  Chris is an expert in structural design, and teaches both steel and concrete design courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.  His teaching skills are exemplary, and while working as a graduate student, he won the prestigious George Tauxe faculty teaching award for 2004.  

Chris is also an excellent researcher, and is currently performing large-scale experimental efforts at Fears Lab, including testing oil-drilling structures at loads ranging to millions of pounds of force.

In addition to his teaching and research duties, Chris also serves at the OU ASCE faculty advisor and as the experimental facility mentor to the rest of the civil engineering faculty.  He’s also the Fears Lab landscape designer and the resident OU South Campus birdwatcher, so this man wears a lot of hats.