Education

Experience

Primary Expertise

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

Honors

About

Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering:
Engineering & Project Management
Ocean Engineering Graduate Program

Co-director:
Marine Technology and Management Group
Center for Risk Mitigation

Professor Bea has 55 years of experience in engineering and management of design, construction, maintenance, operation, and decommissioning engineered systems including offshore platforms, pipelines,
and floating facilities. He has been teaching at the University of California at Berkely since 1989.

Education

1956, A. A., Jacksonville University

1959, B. S. in Civil Engineering, University of Florida

1960, Master of Science in Engineering, University of Florida

1969, Harvard Executive MBA Program

1961-1976, Post-graduate studies at Tulane University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, Bakersfield College, and University of Houston

1998-2000, Doctor of Technology Program, Technical and Scientific University of Norway, Trondheim

2000, Ph.D., Center for Oil & Gas Engineering, University of Western Australia

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Experience

1954-1959: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (Engineer-in-Training)

1959-1960: S. S. Jacobs Construction Co. (Construction Estimator)

1960-1976: Shell Oil Company (Manager, Head Office Civil Engineering Group; Chief Mechanical Engineer, Production Division; Offshore Division Construction Engineer, Head Office Production & Financial Control; Royal Dutch Shell Ltd. Production & Financial Control, Shell Development Company (Manager, Offshore Technology Development Group)

1976-1981: Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Ocean Services Division (Vice President, Chief Engineer, Geotechnical, Structural, Environmental, Field Operations)

1981-1989: PMB Engineering - Bechtel Inc. (Vice President, Senior International Consultant)

1989 - present: University of California, Berkeley (Professor)

Primary Expertise

• Ocean Environmental Conditions and Forces (earthquakes, wind, waves, currents, mudslides, ice)
• Foundations Design and Construction (field explorations, soils testing, piles, mats, pipelines)
• Structures Design, Construction, Maintenance, Re-qualification
• Reliability & Safety Assessments; Human & Organization Factors in Safety of Marine Systems
• Risk Assessment and Management of Engineered Infrastructure Systems

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• National Academy of Engineers
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Academy of Management

Honors

• New Orleans City Council Proclamation in gratitude for research and efforts in promotion flood protection and to aid in the recovery of New Orleans and Louisiana, 2007
• Chancellor's Award for Research in the Public Interest, 2007
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2005
• Life Member, American Society of Civil Engeineers, 2004
• Hall of Fame, Risk and Reliability Engineering, Offshore Energy Center, 2003
• Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering Division Professional Contributions Award, 2001
• Blakely Smith Medal Lifetime Achievements in Ocean Engineering, Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers, 2001
• Corporate Leadership Award, U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service, 2000
• Offshore Technology Pioneer Award, Energy Center, 1998
• Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering Technical Achievement Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997
• National Academy of Management, 1994
• National Academy of Engineering, 1989
• Marine Board, National Academy of Engineering, 1989 - 1995
• Society of Professional Engineers Project of the Year for 1993
• United States Coast Guard Research Commendation, 1992
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers OMAE Technical Achievement Award, 1997
• Institution of Engineers Australia Eminent Speaker Award, 1990
• American Society of Civil Engineers Croes Medal, 1978
• Bechtel Fellow Award, 1987
• J. Hillis Miller Engineering Award, 1960

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