Dr. Eddy M. Rojas is the Dean of Engineering at the University of Dayton (UD).  The School of Engineering offers a full complement of undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering and engineering technology serving more than 3,000 students. Before joining UD, he served as Director of the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Before joining UNL, Dr. Rojas was a Professor in the Department of Construction Management at the University of Washington (UW), where he was also the Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Research and Education and the Graduate Program Coordinator. Prior to joining UW, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).  Dr. Rojas holds graduate degrees in civil engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.) and economics (M.A.) from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an undergraduate degree (Lic.) in civil engineering from the University of Costa Rica.  Dr. Rojas is also a Professional Engineer registered in the State of Michigan.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Rojas has led numerous research studies in modeling, simulation, and visualization of construction engineering and management processes; engineering education; and construction economics.  He has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator in more than 20 different projects with more than $12 million in research expenditures.  These studies have been sponsored by government agencies and private sector organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Army, the KERN Foundation, the Construction Industry Institute, the New Horizons Foundation, and ELECTRI International.  Dr. Rojas has documented and disseminated the results and findings from his research efforts in more than 80 publications in technical refereed journals, technical conference proceedings, and technical reports, and in more than 25 invited lectures and presentations at national and international seminars, symposia, and workshops.  Dr. Rojas is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Dean Award from the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) and the 2011 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  He is also the editor of two books in construction productivity and construction project management published by J.Ross Publishing.            

Dr. Rojas is well known in both academic and professional circles not only through his research and publications, but also by means of his professional activities, including his work as reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Specialty Editor for the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Chair and Technical Committee member in several congresses and conferences, and reviewer for technical journals and conferences.