Welcome to Mohammadreza Rajaee, as he joins the Ph.D. program in structural engineering, co-advised by Mohamad Alipour and Larry Fahnestock. Mohammadreza recently completed a M.S. in Structural Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and his thesis research focused on Crashworthiness Analysis of Luminaire Poles. He has received a Jacob Karol Estate Fellowship from CEE at Illinois and he is a graduate research assistant on the project Estimation of the Load Rating of Existing Highway Bridges Based on Bridge Weigh-in-Motion Data, which is sponsored by the Illinois Center for Transportation.