EDWARD GARCIA, P.E.
1210 East Washington Avenue
Des Plaines, IL 60016
(847) 340-4131 (Residence)
(847) 376-7041 (work)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1984 to 1997
PRINCIPAL
Garcia Associates - Consulting Engineers
15 Van Siclen Avenue
Floral Park, New York 11530
(516) 354-5878
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Design responsibilities for structural steel, reinforced concrete, and composite wood frameworks to
support commercial, industrial and residential multifamily and single family structures. Structural
analyst and designer for the founding of heavy truck and crawler treaded self propelled tower cranes as
well as stationary cranes and stiff-leg derricks for New York City high-rise construction. Structural work
included reinforcing or altering building structures to accommodate imposed stresses induced by the
loading operations of the cranes as well as designing cribbage, bracing and underpinning systems to
prevent collateral damage or movements at adjoining or nearby structures, particularly NYC's extensive
subway and RR underground systems.
Among projects undertaken were Banco de Santander building at 55th street, Faculty Residence Towers
for Rockefeller University, Trump Parc (apartment conversion at 58th street and 6th avenue), Towers on
the Park (Central Park West at 110th Street), Bank of Japan at 57th Street and the Revlon Building at 625
Madison Avenue.
Other recent projects include total design responsibilities for a major Port Washington hardware and
plumbing supply building and the re-design and supervision of construction for the Mid-Hudson
Recycling Park, a 100,000 sq. ft. structure which had been 50% destroyed in a fire. This latter work
resulted in the salvaging and re-utilizing of significant structural components, resulting in significant
savings to both insurers as well as owners.
1972 to 1979
CONSULTANT
Allied Associates - Engineers and Architects
15 Van Siclen Avenue
Floral Park, New York 11001
(516) 354-5404
GENERAL CIVIL ENGINEERING
Professional Engineer's reports of inspections, forensic engineering investigations, analysis and
evaluations of commercial, industrial, multifamily buildings and single family residences including
building facade inspections, reports, and certifications in compliance with NYC local law 10. Perform
investigations and prepare reports for commercial and residential property managers, attorneys, investors
and individual owners or other interested parties. Depositions of findings and expert testimony provided
to litigants.
Edward Garcia
(2)
Prepared drawings and specifications for single, multiple family, commercial and industrial buildings for
new construction, alterations, additions and/or modifications. Work performed in conjunction with
space-planners, interior designers, associated architects or directly on behalf of owner-clients. Provide
consultant services to construction managers.
Analyzed existing drainage systems for capacities and remediation under various frequency of
occurrence intensities. Work included calculations of area runoffs from undeveloped or unpaved locales
as well as roofs, parking areas, and paved surfaces. Designed overflow systems, recharge basins, sewer
lines, culverts, drainage channels and gutters for new construction as well as for extensions and /or
modifications and upgrades of existing developments and systems. Collateral analysis and design
included developing the necessary grading and pavement requirements and included the preparation of
requisite drawings and specifications for the projects undertaken.
1965 - 1977
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER
Redesigns, alterations, modernization's and designs for new construction of single and multiple family
residences. Prepared plans and specifications for contract and performed as general contractor for
projects in New York (Garden City, East Hampton, New Hyde Park, Monroe, and Goshen) and in
Massachusetts (Rockport, Gloucester and Stockbridge).
Projects carried through from Historic
Preservation District approvals to final Certificates of Occupancy.
1960 - 1965
Federal Aviation Agency
Federal Building
JFK International Airport
Queens, N.Y.
PROPOSAL WRITER AND PROJECT ENGINEER
Airports Engineer with the United States Navigational Aids Program. Surveyed, designed, and wrote
contract proposals for the construction and installation of Instrument Landing and Approach Light
Systems (ILS and ALS) for Federal Region II (northeastern U.S., Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands).
Responsibilities included the design of access roads, water supply and drainage systems as well as power
requirement satisfaction at remote sites for the electronic markers and their requisite housings.
Conditions often required boring wells and routing power lines over inaccessible terrains as well as
specifying necessary engine generator capacities for back up power. Projects included designing stable,
unpaved access road systems with occasional small bridges, retaining walls and drainage culverts.
Major projects included the emergency installation of these facilities for the newly elected President
Kennedy at Hyannesport, Ma., Dulles International Airport, LaGuardia's runwway 2-22 (which required
extensive negotiations with the NY Port Authority and the NYC Dept. of Parks, including personal
meetings with Commissioner Robert Moses to obtain his special authorization to deviate from redundant
NYC requirements), Greater Pittsburgh International, Baltimore's Friendship International, JFK
International's second runway 2-22, and Greater Cincinnati Airport in Covington, Kentucky.
RESIDENT ENGINEER
Directed and oversaw the construction of several of these projects to ensure contract compliance and
effect redesigns or alterations as required by unexpected conditions. At the time, projects were on the
order of one to two million dollars, not including engineering or government supplied equipment costs.
EDWARD GARCIA, P.E.
82 Somerset Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530
(516) 742-0237
ACADEMIC AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
1985 - June 1997
PROFESSOR/ CHAIRMAN
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York
College at Farmingdale
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735
As Chairman and Professor of this department I was responsible for academic planning, budget
development and student advising as well as supervision of departmental and adjunct faculty. In
addition, it was my responsibility to develop, maintain, as well as deliver, a variety of courses in this
engineering science two-year transfer program which included Statics, Dynamics and Solid Mechanics
(engineering level strength of materials). I created and taught an interdisciplinary course titled "Man and
Technology" (history and sociology of technological change and adaptation) which proved to be one of
the most popular offerings at the college. I originally developed the course to satisfy accreditation and
departmental review recommendations for such an offering.
In the late-seventies I developed an "open enrollment" experimental admissions procedure, convincing
the college's curriculum committee and administration to permit acceptance and matriculation of
interested students whose records and pre-requisites in math and science may have been deficient, in the
very rigorous engineering science program. After testing and advisement, these students were carefully
counseled and tracked in what we labeled the "extended engineering science program". They fulfilled
their pre-requisites (usually math and physics) while taking standard engineering science requirements in
graphics, computer programming, english, chemistry, and a humanities or social sciences elective. It
proved very effective and was incorporated into the college catalog. We increased enrollments as well as
graduates by approximately 34 and 20 percent, respectively.
Under my supervision, the engineering science program became one of the most respected of the New
York two year transfer programs. Our graduates routinely transferred to, and succeeded at, the most
competitive engineering schools in the nation, including M.I.T., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Cornell,
Stanford, R.P.I., Georgia Tech. as well as the many regional schools like Cooper Union, Polytechnic
Institute of New York, Stony Brook, S.U.N.Y. - Maritime, S.U.N.Y. - Stony Brook , C.C.N.Y. and
Manhattan College.
In addition to my engineering science teaching responsibilities over the many years I have been at
Farmingdale, I also frequently taught Mathematics through Technical Calculus, and Physics, including
University Physics (the physics major's and engineering level) as well as the Statics, Structural Analysis,
Hydraulics, Surveying and Graphics requirements for the departments of Architectural, Civil and
Construction Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technologies. ( I was originally recruited from
CCNY to teach in the Construction Technology program and to help develop the Engineering Science
program).
The technology programs, in which I also advised, served to channel students to technical occupations
for which they were prepared by these programs. In close cooperation with the chairs of the technical
programs, we also developed great success in transferring capable students between the technical and the
engineering science programs, depending upon their proclivities and abilities, as well as transferring
technical program graduates to our, or other college's, baccalaureate of technology programs.
Edward Garcia
(2)
1979 - 1984
DEAN, School of Engineering Technologies
State University of New York
College at Farmingdale
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735
Academic planning and supervisory responsibility for seven academic departments, representing fifty
five faculty in the disciplines of engineering sciences and electrical, mechanical, civil and architectural
technologies, and a supporting staff of 15 secretaries and laboratory technicians in the School of
Engineering Technologies.
Responsibilities included supervision, guidance, and professional
development of faculty and technical staff, as well as budget development and disbursement.
Among major achievements was the planning and implementation of the shift to, and incorporation and
utilization of, computer capabilities via a 1.5 million dollar vocational education grant for computer,
printer and plotter equipment to support new laboratory and graphics courses as well as the orderly
development of all staff capabilities as they effected transitions from traditional skills to computer
literate proficiencies without endangering their positions with the college. We were, as a result, one of
the first, if not the first, college in the nation to routinely train undergraduate college students in
computer drafting and were one of the first to adopt AutoCad, which has become the national drafting
standard, training all technical and engineering students in its use.
Initiated the preparation and development of the college's first baccalaureate programs in electrical and
manufacturing engineering technologies and effected the regularization and integration of day and
evening degree programs, eliminating inconsistent requirements between day and evening which made
possible, for the first time, to gain full simultaneous ABET accreditation for all technical programs
whether day or evening, in 1982.
1972 - 1975
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Department of Engineering and Computer Science
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York
Instructed Sophomore and Junior level engineering students in Engineering Mechanics, Statics and
Dynamics.
1965 - 1968
INSTRUCTOR
Department of Civil Engineering
City College of New York
139 th Street at Convent Avenue
New York City, N.Y.
Instructed sophomore and junior level engineering students in Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics,
Surveying, Stress Analysis and Structural Analysis.
1979
Special Assignment
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Temporary leave from the college to assist the U.S. Federal Government's Emergency Management
Agency in it's disaster recovery assistance to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as a result of hurricanes
David and Frederick in the Fall of 1979. Planned and developed emergency measures to restore damaged
civil infra-structure of the islands, including emergency routing of potable water supplies, containment of
ruptured sanitary sewers, restoration of filtration and sewage treatment plants and restoration and/or
repairs of washed out roads.
Edward Garcia
(3)
EDUCATION
M.E. (Civil Engineering) - City College of New York, 1965
B.C.E. - City College of New York, 1960
Ph.D. dissertation (undefended) - Sailors, Scholars, and Scientists: The School of
Navigation of Seville in the Sixteenth Century
S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, 1983
Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (History) - passed, 1977
M.A. (History) - SUNY, Stony Brook, 1972
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND LICENSING
Professional Engineer - New York State, 1965
Professional Organizations:
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Historical Association
Society for the History of Discovery
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
ARTICLES, PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS
1981
"Christopher Columbus: Master Mariner or Myth"
Conference Paper - delivered: SUNY Maritime College, Bronx, N.Y.
The American Sailor and the U.S. Merchant Marine
1982
"Sebastian Cabot: Pilot Major"
Conference paper - delivered at University of Indiana , Bloomington;
Annual Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Published - Transactions of the SSPHS, 1983
1980
"Art and Iconography in the Reconstruction of History of Naval
Technology" Conference Paper - delivered at SUNY Maritime College, Bronx, N.Y.
Symposium: Art and Technology through History
1985
Conference Panel Moderator - Annual Meeting; American Historical
Association; New York City: Panel Topic - "Iberian Ships and Shipping in
the Early Modern Era"
LANGUAGES
Spanish - fluent, speaking, writing, reading capability
Portuguese - reading ability, some limited understanding of spoken standard Portuguese
EDWARD GARCIA, P.E.
82 Somerset Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530
(516) 742-0237
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRINCIPAL
Garcia Associates - Consulting Engineers, 1984 - present
CONSULTANT
Allied Associates - Engineers and Architects, 1972 - 1979
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, 1965 - 1977
PROJECT ENGINEER/PROPOSAL WRITER
Federal Aviation Agency, 1960 - 1965
ACADEMIC AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Professor/ Chairman
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York at Farmingdale, 1985 - 1997
Dean, School of Engineering Technologies
State University of New York at Farmingdale, 1979- 1984
Adjunct Professor
Department of Engineering and Computer Science
Hofstra University, 1972 - 1975
Instructor
Department of Civil Engineering
City College of New York, 1965 - 1968
Special Assignment, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1979
EDUCATION
M.E. (Civil Engineering) - City College of New York, 1965
B.C.E. - City College of New York, 1960
Ph.D. dissertation (undefended) - S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, 1983
M.A. (History) - SUNY, Stony Brook, 1972
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND LICENSING
Professional Engineer - New York State, 1965
Professional Organizations:
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Historical Association
Society for the History of Discovery
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
ARTICLES, PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS
Published articles and presented several papers on topics regarding the history of
spanish naval architecture and its influence.
LANGUAGES
Spanish - fluent, speaking, writing, reading capability
Portuguese - reading ability, some limited understanding of spoken standard Portuguese
EDWARD GARCIA, P.E.
82 Somerset Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530
(516) 742-0237
REFERENCES
Dr. Gerald Flynn
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York
College at Farmingdale
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735
(516) 420-2187
Dr. Nicholas Harding
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York
College at Farmingdale
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735
(516) 420-2187
Dr. Lee Jacknow
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York
College at Farmingdale
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735
(516) 420-2187
EDWARD GARCIA, P.E.
82 Somerset Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530
(516) 742-0237
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRINCIPAL
Garcia Associates - Consulting Engineers, 1984 - present
CONSULTANT
Allied Associates - Engineers and Architects, 1972 - 1979
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, 1965 - 1977
PROJECT ENGINEER/PROPOSAL WRITER
Federal Aviation Agency, 1960 - 1965
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Professor/ Chairman
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York at Farmingdale, 1985 - 1997
Dean, School of Engineering Technologies
State University of New York at Farmingdale, 1979- 1984
Adjunct Professor
Department of Engineering and Computer Science
Hofstra University, 1972 - 1975
Instructor
Department of Civil Engineering
City College of New York, 1965 - 1968
Special Assignment, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1979
EDUCATION
M.E. (Civil Engineering) - City College of New York, 1965
B.C.E. - City College of New York, 1960
Ph.D. dissertation (undefended) - S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, 1983
M.A. (History) - SUNY, Stony Brook, 1972
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND LICENSING
Professional Engineer - New York State, 1965
Professional Organizations:
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Historical Association
Society for the History of Discovery
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
ARTICLES, PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS
Published articles and presented several papers on topics regarding the history of
spanish naval architecture and its influence.
LANGUAGES
Spanish - fluent, speaking, writing, reading capability
Portuguese - reading ability, some limited understanding of spoken standard Portuguese
EDWARD GARCIA, P.E.
82 Somerset Avenue
Garden City, New York 11530
(516) 742-0237
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1985 - June 1997
PROFESSOR/ CHAIRMAN
Department of Engineering and Computer Sciences
State University of New York
College at Farmingdale
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735
As Chairman and Professor of this department I was responsible for academic planning, budget
development and student advising as well as supervision of departmental and adjunct faculty. In
addition, it was my responsibility to develop, maintain, as well as deliver, a variety of courses in this
engineering science two-year transfer program which included Statics, Dynamics and Solid Mechanics
(engineering level strength of materials). I created and taught an interdisciplinary course titled "Man and
Technology" (history and sociology of technological change and adaptation) which proved to be one of
the most popular offerings at the college. I originally developed the course to satisfy accreditation and
departmental review recommendations for such an offering.
In the late-seventies I developed an "open enrollment" experimental admissions procedure, convincing
the college's curriculum committee and administration to permit acceptance and matriculation of
interested students whose records and pre-requisites in math and science may have been deficient, in the
very rigorous engineering science program. After testing and advisement, these students were carefully
counseled and tracked in what we labeled the "extended engineering science program". They fulfilled
their pre-requisites (usually math and physics) while taking standard engineering science requirements in
graphics, computer programming, english, chemistry, and a humanities or social sciences elective. It
proved very effective and was incorporated into the college catalog. We increased enrollments as well as
graduates by approximately 34 and 20 percent, respectively.
Under my supervision, the engineering science program became one of the most respected of the New
York two year transfer programs. Our graduates routinely transferred to, and succeeded at, the most
competitive engineering schools in the nation, including M.I.T., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Cornell,
Stanford, R.P.I., Georgia Tech. as well as the many regional schools like Cooper Union, Polytechnic
Institute of New York, Stony Brook, S.U.N.Y. - Maritime, S.U.N.Y. - Stony Brook , C.C.N.Y. and
Manhattan College.
In addition to my engineering science teaching responsibilities over the many years I have been at
Farmingdale, I also frequently taught Mathematics through Technical Calculus, and Physics, including
University Physics (the physics major's and engineering level) as well as the Statics, Structural Analysis,
Hydraulics, Surveying and Graphics requirements for the departments of Architectural, Civil and
Construction Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technologies. ( I was originally recruited from
CCNY to teach in the Construction Technology program and to help develop the Engineering Science
program).
The technology programs, in which I also advised, served to channel students to technical
occupations for which they were prepared by these programs. In close cooperation with the chairs of the
technical programs, we also developed great success in transferring capable students between the
technical and the engineering science programs, depending upon their proclivities and abilities, as well as
transferring technical program graduates to our, or other college's, baccalaureate of technology programs.