Edwin H. Gaylord Jr. Distinguished Faculty Office

Edwin Gaylord Jr. graduated from Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio; received a bachelor's degree from Case Institute, Cleveland, Ohio; and a master's degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Gaylord joined the civil engineering faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1956 where he stayed until his retirement in 1971. Gaylord co-authored a number of structural engineering textbooks, including Handbook of Structural Engineering and Design of Steel Structures. Among other honors, Gaylord was awarded the G. Brooks Earnest Award for outstanding contributions to the civil engineering profession by the Cleveland section of the American Society of Civil Engineering. Fully funded.