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Civil and Ocean Engineering Seminars for Spring 2006 Semester

 

Use of Neural Networks for the Analysis and Design of Pavement Systems

• Date: April 27, 2006
• Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
• Location: 219, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Halil Ceylan, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

 

TBA

• Date: April 27, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. Jeff Melby, Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

 

Coastal Inlet Functional Design: Anticipating Morphologic Response

• Date: April 20, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Nicholas C. Kraus, Ph.D., Senior Scientist Group,
  Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory, Engineering Research and Development Center U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

 

Overview of Recent Development of Numerical Viscoelastic Time Domain Boundary Element-Based Pavement Fracture Simulator and Applictions to Pavement Design

• Date: April 19, 2006
• Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
• Location: 104, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. Bjorn Birgisson, P.E., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Florida

 

Rheological Characterization of Aged and Polymer Modified Bitumens

• Date: April 18, 2006
• Time: 1:00 p.m.
• Location: 104, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. Gordon Airey, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Nottingham Centre for Pavement Engineering (NCPE), The University of Nottingham

 

Impacts of Hurricane Katrina

• Date: April 13, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Professor Robert A. Dalrymple, Willard & Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

 

Coastal Highway Damages from Recent Hurricanes

• Date: April 6, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Scott Douglass, Civil Engineering Department, Univeristy of South Alabama

 

Blind and Visually Impaired Pedestrians

• Date: April 3, 2006
• Time: 11:30 a.m.
• Location: 217, Civil Engineering/ Texas Transportation Institute Building
• Speaker/s: Melanie White, C.O.M.S., Orientation and Mobility Specialist

 

The State of U.S. Public Transportation

• Date: March 30, 2006
• Time: 11:30 a.m.
• Location: Gallery, Langford Architecture Building
• Speaker/s: Mr. William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association

 

Continued Professional Development of the Transportation Workforce

• Date: March 28, 2006
• Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
• Location: 217, Civil Engineering/ Texas Transportation Institute Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. John M. Mason, Jr., P.E., Associate Dean, Penn State University, Director, Pennsylvania Transportation Institute

 

Development of the Highway Safety Manual

• Date: March 28, 2006
• Time: 3:45-5:00 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. John M. Mason, Jr., P.E., Associate Dean, Penn State University, Director, Pennsylvania Transportation Institute

 

Engineering Experience in 3-D Design: The "Paperless" Renovation of Chicago's Soldier Field

• Date: March 23, 2006
• Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
• Location: 203, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Joseph G. Burns, P.E., S.E., FAIA; Managing Principal; Thornton Tomasetti Group

 

Extreme Wave Loads on Offshore Structures

• Date: March 23, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. Rong Zhao, Marintek

 

Objectives and Design of Base Isolated Buildings

• Date: March 21, 2006
• Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
• Location: 222, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Nikhil Kalghatgi, Associate, KPFF Consulting Engineers

 

A Risk-Based Approach to Modeling Life-Cycle Costs Associated with Warranty

• Date: March 9, 2006
• Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
• Location: 222, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Ivan D. Damnjanovic, Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas at Austin

TBA

• Date: March 9, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Atlantia Offshore

 

An Integrated Approach to Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring and Nondestructive Inspection

• Date: March 9, 2006
• Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
• Location: 221, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. Jennifer E. Michaels, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

TBA

• Date: March 8, 2006
• Time: 11:30 a.m.
• Location: 217, Civil Engineering/ Texas Transportation Institute Building
• Speaker/s: Mike Behrens, P.E., Executive Director

 

Advancements in Physical Characterization of Modified Asphalts

• Date: March 3, 2006
• Time: 11:00-12:00 p.m.
• Location: 217, Civil Engineering/ Texas Transportation Institute Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. Hussain Bahia, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Port Planning and Design

• Date: March 2, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Doug Sethness, CH2M Hill

 

Impact of Modern Headlamps on the Design of Sag Vertical Curves

• Date: March 1, 2006
• Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
• Location: 419, CVLB
• Speaker/s: Madhuri Gogula

 

LNG Liquid Sloshing and Its Effect on LNG Carrier Motions

• Date: February 23, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 222, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Dr. D.H. Lee, TAMU - Post-Doctoral Researcher

Tailoring Structures for Dynamic Wind Load Effects

• Date: February 16, 2006
• Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
• Location: 219, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Professor Ahsan Kareem, NatHaz Modeling Laboratory University of Notre Dame

Underwater Robotics

• Date: February 9, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Jason Stanley, Vice President & Regional Manager, Schilling Sub-Atlantic Alliance

 

Private Involvement in Public Infrastructure Delivery in the U.S.

• Date: February 7, 2006
• Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
• Location: 217, Civil Engineering/ Texas Transportation Institute Building
• Speaker/s: Speakers from Cintra, Ferrovial Agroman and Earth Tech, Inc.

 

Continuous Flow Intersections

• Date: February 2, 2006
• Time: 11:30 a.m.
• Location: 217, Civil Engineering/ Texas Transportation Institute Building
• Speaker/s: Sean Merrell, P.E.

 

Riser Design and Installation

• Date: February 2, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Erin (Matthews) Balch '98, Project Engineer, MCS

 

Impulsive Fluid Load Experiment in LNGC Design

• Date: January 26, 2006
• Time: 3:55-4:45 p.m.
• Location: 118, CVEN Building
• Speaker/s: Sun Hong Kwon, Pusan National University