Abi Aghayere, PhD, PEng, is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology and the coauthor of Reinforced Concrete Design, Sixth Edition. He is a member of the Editorial Board of ASEE's Journal of Engineering Technology and the winner of RIT's Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2004–2005. He has over seventeen years of diverse experience in the design of building structures of different types and materials.

Jason Vigil, PE, is a structural engineer in Rochester, New York, who has been involved in the design of several buildings including many wood structures. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology.