David Odeh
Principal
Odeh Engineers/WSP

David Odeh is a Senior Vice President whose structural experience spans 30 years. In this position, he is responsible for structural design and analysis of building structures of all types, with particular emphasis on the application of digital design technology to structural engineering.

David has served on the adjunct faculty of the School of Engineering at Brown University from 2001 until 2018, teaching courses in the design and analysis of building structures. He regularly lectures at other universities, including the Rhode Island School of Design (School of Architecture), the University of Notre Dame, University of Cincinnati, and at professional conferences. He has published numerous articles in engineering conference proceedings and engineering journals.

Since 2008, David has also served on the Existing Building Code Committee of the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations, which reviews the structural provisions of the International Existing Building Code. In 2016, David served as President of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a 30,000+ member international organization that serves the structural engineering profession. In this capacity he was an invited speaker to conferences around the world and led the institute’s efforts to serve and enhance the structural engineering profession. He was named a fellow of SEI in 2013, and became a fellow of ASCE in 2015, a designation reserved only for the most distinguished structural engineers in the nation.