Dr. Ernest W. Kiesling, NSSA Executive Director

Ernest W. Kiesling, P.E., Ph.D., Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas Tech University and Executive Director of NSSA. He and his colleagues developed the In-Residence Storm Shelter, an above-ground shelter capable of providing a very high degree of protection from extreme winds. Texas Tech provided shelter designs and other input to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (F.E.M.A) publications on storm shelters.  He was instrumental in the founding of the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA) and has served as Executive Director since 2001.