December 8, 2025
Professor Dorothy Reed retired earlier this year after 42 years on the CEE faculty. A national voice in wind engineering and infrastructure resilience, Reed studied how major storms knock out power and what can be done to prevent long outages. She also served as associate dean of academic affairs and held an adjunct role in Industrial & Systems Engineering.
Her leadership extended across the profession. Reed served as president of the American Association for Wind Engineering and chaired the Structural Wind Engineering Committee within the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She is a Fellow of ASCE and the Structural Engineering Institute, and her honors include the Michael Gauss Distinguished Service Award from AAWE in 2022, the Steve & Sylvia Burges Endowed Lecture in 2020 and the Puget Sound Engineering Council’s Academic Engineer of the Year in 2014.
Reed now holds the title of professor emeritus, capping a career that shaped research, teaching and practice in resilient infrastructure.