David Ford
Ph.D., P.E.
Professor; Vecellio Chair
Professor; Vecellio Chair
Areas of Interest
Community disaster resilience
Project dynamics theory and practice
Managing highway design by contracted professionals
Owner management of contracted highway construction phase services
Military acquisition
The system dynamics methodology
- Bachelor of Science; Tulane University, 1976
- Master of Engineering; Tulane University, 1979
- Doctor of Philosophy; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
- CEE 3014: Construction Management
- CEE 5054: Project Control of Built Infrastructure
- CEE 5064: Construction Project Dynamics
- Solutions for Advancing Floodplain Evaluation and Resilience (SAFER) Study
- Ozumba, Benjamin, D.N. Ford, C. Wolf, C. Corso, B. Gates, (2026) “Modeling Disaster Habitation for Improved Flood Mitigation Project Analysis”. ASCE J Infrastructure Systems. 32(2). June, 2026. Open Access. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/JITSE4.ISENG-2711
- Ozumba, Benjamin and D.N. Ford (2025) “Dynamic Modeling for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery” Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences. 2025; 0:1-16. Nov., 2025. Open access. http://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3221
- Ozumba, Benjamin, D.N. Ford, C. Wolf, C. Corso, B. Gates (2023) “Modeling Disaster Habitation for Improved Mitigation Project Analysis” ASCE Natural Hazards Review. 25(2), May, 2024. Open access. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-1867 .