Background
Criswell, Marvin Eugene was born on October 31, 1942 in Chappell, Nebraska, United States. Son of Wilbur Arthur and Evelyn Lucille (Jeffries) Criswell.
consultant Civil engineering educator
Criswell, Marvin Eugene was born on October 31, 1942 in Chappell, Nebraska, United States. Son of Wilbur Arthur and Evelyn Lucille (Jeffries) Criswell.
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University Nebraska, 1965. Master of Science in Civil Engineering, University Illinois, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, University Illinois, 1970.
Structural engineer, Clark & Enerson, Olson, Burroughs & Thompson, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1965;
research structural engineer, United States Army Corps Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1967-1969;
assistant professor сivil engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1970-1975;
associate professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1975-1984;
professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, since 1984;
acting associate department head, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1989-1991;
associate department head academic affairs, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, since 1991. Associate director Colorado Spuce Grant Consortium, since 1997. Сivil engineering program visitor Accreditation Board Engineering and Technology, 1981-1989.
Co-founder, board directors, secretary Engineering Data Management, Inc., Fort Collins, 1983-1985.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers (member commission on curricula and accredition 1984-1988, past secretary administration commission on bridges 1990-1992, chairman subcommittee on reliability and wood design 1992-1996, commission on wood, safety of bldgs, design of engineered wood construction Studies., chairman subcommittee on reliability and wood design1992-1996), American Society for Testing and Materials, American Society Engineering Education (chairman сivil engineering division 1981-1982, Rocky Mountain section 1987-1988, board directors and zone IV chairman 1990-1992, Dow Outstanding Young Faculty award 1978, G. Wadlin award сivil engineering division 1990, Best Paper award 1992), American Concrete Institute (committees on fiber concrete, chairman subcommittee structural design and uses of fibber concrete since 1996, space applications of concrete, connections in monolithic concrete, and shear and torsion).
Married Lela Louise Kennedy, September 5, 1965. Children: Karin Lee, Glenn Alan, Dianne Marie, Melanie Anne.