Clint Rex grew up in Ada, Ohio, a college town where his father taught industrial and engineering technologies. As an undergraduate in Civil Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Clint received several scholarships and worked as a co-op for Turner Construction Company and the consulting firm Dames & Moore.



After receiving his B.S. in 1992, Clint came Virginia Tech as a Via Fellow. He also received fellowships from Tau Beta Pi and the Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors. While working on his M.S. and Ph.D., Clint co-authored several published papers with Dr. Sam Easterling of CEE and presented his research at professional conferences in Italy and Germany. He earned his doctorate with honors in 1996.



Armed with a Ph.D., Dr. Rex went to work as a Design Engineer with Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, a structural engineering firm in Atlanta, Georgia. "From the moment I walked in the door to today," Clint says, "I have been given challenging projects that have pushed my abilities as an engineer." His first project was the design of a new structure for Atlanta's famed Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King, his father, and grandfather preached. "Right away I was into a high profile job with a complicated steel structure," Clint notes. The building actually was designed to resemble an African hut.



Clint's other projects have included a 46-story office building in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta's new Crawford Long Hospital and Medical Office Building. The Crawford Long project had a construction budget in excess of $135 million and contains more than one-million square feet of space. Clint also worked with Dr. Kord Wissmann, who received one of CEE's Outstanding Young Alumni Awards in 2000, on the design of the AAA Baseball Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.



Dr. Rex is active in the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), for which he serves as President of the Atlanta Professional Member Regional Committee, and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a technical paper reviewer for the AISC Engineering Journal, the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, and the Journal of Constructional Steel Research. He continues to co-author papers and to make presentations at professional conferences.



This year, he was named an AISC Engineering Awards of Excellence Merit Award Winner. Clint says that his involvement in the steel design and construction industry is a direct result of the influence of mentors including the CEO of his firm, Stanley D. Lindsey, and professors Sam Easterling and Tom Murray of Virginia Tech.



An avid outdoorsman, Clint recently has been spending any free time he can find rock climbing and mountain biking. "Hanging on the side of a cliff or crashing down a steep hill on my bike during the weekends helps me focus on the business of structural engineering during the week, and keeps me alive with new and innovative ideas for buildings."