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JAMES C. ANDERSON 30219 Via Rivera (213) 740-8660 (office) Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 jamesa@usc.edu Professional UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Experience Los Angeles, California 1994-date Professor of Civil Engineering 1979-1994 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering 1974-1979 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Regular Teaching: Design of Steel Structures, Statics and Strength of Materials, Advanced Steel Design, Limit Design of Steel Structures, Design for Dynamic Loads, Earthquake Engineering, Matrix Analysis of Structures, Structural Dynamics, Design of Prestressed Concrete, Design of Reinforced Masonry, Reinforced Concrete Design, Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design. Special Teaching: * Visiting Associate Professor, UC/Berkeley, Spring, 1990. * Visiting Associate Professor, UCLA, Spring,1988. * Structural Design for Earthquake, Course Coordinator and Lecturer, 1975-1978, 1980-1984. * Nuclear Power Plant Structures, Lecturer, 1974, Course Coordinator and Lecturer, 1975-1978. * Aseismic Design of Structures (Ecuador), Course Coordinator and Lecturer, 1978-1980. Research Interests: * Inelastic dynamic Behavior of systems subjected to dynamic loads and correlation with measured response. * Earthquake resistant design of structural systems including base isolation. * Computer aided design of structures in steel and reinforced concrete. * Large scale testing of structural components and assemblies in steel an