He joined the faculty in September of 2008 and in 2010 was recognized as the inaugural Kearny Faculty Fellow in CCE. Ideker received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in May of 2008 in Civil Engineering. He also holds an M.S.E. from The University of Texas at Austin (2004) and a B.S.C.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia (2002).