Shamim Sheikh, Ph.D., P.Eng.

University of Toronto
Department of Civil Engineering
35 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4
Ph: 416.978.3671
Fax: 416.978.7046
Email: sheikh@ecf.utoronto.ca

Dr. Shamim A. Sheikh is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto. Before joining Toronto in 1989, he was on the faculty of the University of Houston for over nine years.

Dr. Sheikh's main research interests include earthquake resistance and design of concrete structures, upgrade of structures for non-seismic and seismic resistance with fibre-reinforced polymers, and durability of FRP-concrete composites under various loading and environmental conditions including nuclear radiation. He has also carried out extensive research in the area of expansive cement and its applications, and has a patent for an expansive cement to his credit. Dr. Sheikh has extensively published his work in various journals and conference proceedings around the world. His work on retrofitting with FRP has been applied to a large variety of concrete structures including highway bridges, refinery structures, etc.

A Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Dr. Sheikh serves on technical committees of various professional societies including American Concrete Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers and Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. He was the Chairman of the American Concrete Institute-American Society of Civil Engineers committee on Reinforced Concrete Columns between 1996 and 2002. He serves as a consultant to organizations such as the United Nations, oil companies such as Petro-Canada and Shell Oil, and engineering companies.

Dr. Sheikh has received honours and awards from various agencies including National Research Council of Canada, Engineering Institute of Pakistan, and Science and Technology Agency of Japan. In 1999, he received the American Concrete Institute Structural Research Award for outstanding contributions to the application of structural engineering research and for notable achievement in research in structural engineering.

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