Associate Professor
Phone: (239)590-7391
E-Mail: corndoff@fgcu.edu
Office: Holmes Hall, 410

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering

Dr. Cynthia Orndoff joined FGCU as Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering in the School of Engineering in August 2006. With over a decade of field experience, Dr. Orndoff has worked in multiple areas of Civil Engineering with the Illinois Department of Transportation. It was her desire to transfer this field experience to future engineers as well as foster a win-win atmosphere in civil engineering project management that prompted Dr. Orndoff to return to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1995 for graduate school. She began her graduate career working as a Research Assistant for the Department of Civil Engineering. As a doctoral candidate she served as Assistant to the Dean for the College Of Engineering Academic Programs working with academic leadership in coordinating and synchronizing aspects common to all undergraduate engineering degrees.

Dr. Orndoff received her Doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from UIUC in 2001. Her dissertation encompassed customer focus in asset management where she pioneered a new methodology for assets identification and assessing their corresponding worth. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri where she has taught courses in Infrastructure Management, Planning, Introduction to Transportation, Construction Management as well as initiating a course in Contract Law for Engineers. Her areas of expertise include asset management, decision-making, GASB#34, economic development, performance assessment, policy, performance-assessment, organizational assessment, and public relations. Her engineering research incorporates economics, public administration, public policy, political science, public finance, planning, and sociology aspects. This application-based research encompasses engineering leadership, education, and practice issues.