Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2025
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2021
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2020
Additional Education & Training
  • Technical Competences: Finite Element Analysis (Abaqus, LS-DYNA, MASTAN2)
Academic Appointments
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Seismic Design of Steel Structures, Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, Fall 2025
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Structural Analysis I, Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, Spring 2021
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – Statics, Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, Fall 2020
Professional Honors
  • Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
  • McNair Scholar
  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
  • Purdue University John E. Goldberg Fellow
Professional Affiliations
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  • American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)

Dr. Mustafic works as a forensic engineering consultant in the Civil and Structural Engineering practice at Exponent. He performs site inspections, weather and construction damage assessments, forensic collapse analysis, finite element simulations, and code compliance evaluation. He has experience with large-scale structural testing and numerical modeling to understand the structural behavior of walls used in the construction of modular nuclear structures.

Dr. Mustafic earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Purdue University, where he performed large-scale structural experiments at Bowen Laboratory. His dissertation topic was on the structural behavior of a novel form of modular construction called steel-plate composite with diaphragm plates (SC-DP). SC-DP is applicable to the nuclear structures industry, where it is being considered for the design of small modular reactors (SMRs). In addition to the experiments, he created a 3D finite element modeling approach capable of accurately predicting SC-DP behavior.