THE STRUCTURES LAB
JOESEPH VOCATURO

Joseph Vocaturo oversaw the building of the models. He has served as the lab manager for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 1999. In addition to managing the labs, he advises and assists undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in both educational and research efforts. He has received the Princeton University Merit Award for laboratory teaching and commitment to students. Before coming to Princeton, Joe was a Senior Staff Technician/Associate Test Specialist at Lockheed Martin, where he worked on space flight systems and launch operations.

Joe supervised the students and managed the model building project both technically and administratively. For the Bayonne, George Washington, Felsenau, and Sunniberg Bridges, he was instrumental in the selection and procurement of materials, the techniques employed for the fabrication of parts, and the integration design (how to join and fasten parts). The fabrication and assembly of parts for some models required the use of specialized tooling. He designed this tooling for all the bridge models excluding the George Washington Bridge, for which Ted Griffith was the principal tool designer. He was also primarily responsible for determining or approving the degree of detail expressed in the models.

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