Professor
Iowa State University
Now at Iowa State University, Douglas D. Gransberg was previously the Harold W. Connor Professor of Construction Science and the Sam K. Viersen, Jr., Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon, a Certified Cost Engineer, a Designated Design-Build Professional and a Chartered Surveyor by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in the UK. Before moving to academia in 1994, he spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In his final posting, Dr. Gransberg was the Europe District’s Area Engineer stationed in Ankara, Turkey, where he managed an annual design and construction program that exceeded $200 million. He has been on the Oklahoma Governor’s Task Force on Construction Law since 1999 and helped developed legislation authorizing innovative project delivery practices for public building projects in that state He also owns an active design-build consulting practice with many of his clients being public owners such as the Federal Highway Administration, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, the U.S. Agency for International Development, transit authorities in New York City and Washington, D.C., and the Montana, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington State Departments of Transportation.
Dr. Gransberg is a native of Billings, Montana. He is married and has two sons who both graduated from the University of Oklahoma: Erik, B.S., Civil Engineering (2006), and Nils, B.S., Construction Science (2007).