Edward Segal
Ph.D., P.E.
Adjunct Faculty
Edward Segal is Adjunct Faculty in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Segal is also an associate professor in the Department of Engineering at Hofstra University and leads the Segal Structures Group. The group 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.
Segal 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, Segal 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, Segal worked at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger designing glass and metal enclosures. He is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in New York.