Dr. A. Osman Akan, Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University received his BSCE from the Middle East Technical University and MS and PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.? During his over 40 years of service in academia as a teacher, researcher, and faculty administrator, Dr. Akan published numerous journal articles, book chapters and textbooks.? He received awards from the ASCE for two of his journal articles.? The proposed book would be the sixth textbook Dr. Akan has authored or co-authored.? He was a registered PE in the Commonwealth of Virginia until he retired in 2016.? Dr. Akan is an ASCE Fellow.