Edward Segal

Edward Segal is Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon Architecture and an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Hofstra University. He leads the Segal Structures Group, which engages in material exploration, form generation, and historic analysis related to a range of engineering research, design and teaching activities. The group frequently works on developing design-to-construction methods for structures built from unconventional, underutilized and/or natural building materials. Physical prototyping and collaborating across disciplines are important aspects of the group’s work.

Edward received his B.S. from Cornell University and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. In 2008, he was awarded a SOM Foundation Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship to study European physical modeling and testing laboratories and the structures that emerged from those facilities. The objective of this research was to identify potential roles for physical models as complements to computational models in design and education. In 2017, he received the ASCE ExCEED (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Award. In 2019, he was selected to be an ASCE ExCEEd Fellow. From 2008 to 2011, Edward worked at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger designing glass and metal enclosures. He is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in New York.