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Civil and Ocean Engineering Seminars for the Spring/Summer 2007 Semesters
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Welcoming and Introducing New Students
- Date: January 18, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Dr. Billy Edge, TAMU, Bauer Professor, Division Head, Coastal and Ocean Engineering
Automatic Plankton Image Classification and Abundance Estimation
- Date: January 25, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Dr. Qiao Hu, MIT/ Woods Hole
Wireless Sensors and Carbon Nanotube Thin Films for Structural Monitoring Applications
- Date: January 26, 2007
- Time: 2:30- 3:30 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Jerome P. Lynch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
- Other: Lynch Seminar Info.
Human Factors in Roadway Design
- Date: January 31, 2007
- Time: 11:30 am- 1:30 p.m.
- Location: 217, CE/TTI Building
- Speaker/s: Robert Dewar, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary Department of Psychology
- Abstract: The presentation will involve a general introduction to human factors and driving and a consideration of the following issues as related to roadway design: driver perception of the road and workload, intersection design, left-turn issues, roundabouts, curves, bridges, one-way streets, work zones, and road safety audits.
A Novel Experimental Technique in Slamming
- Date: February 1, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Dr. Sun Hong Kwon, Pusan National University
Roundabout Design and Operations
- Date: February 6, 2007
- Time: 2:00- 4:00 p.m.
- Location: 217, CE/TTI Building
- Speaker/s: Brian Ray
Seminar on Highway Safety: Crash Prediction Modeling in New Zealand
- Date: February 8, 2007
- Time: 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
- Location: 217, CE/TTI Building
- Speaker/s: Shane Turner, Ph.D., MIPENZ, CPEng, IntPE(NZ)
- Lunch: Pizza will be provided
- Other: Turner Highway Safety Seminar Info.
Improved Effectiveness of Integrated Incident Management Strategies
- Date: February 22, 2007
- Time: 3:00- 4:00 p.m.
- Location: 217, CE/TTI Building
- Speaker/s: Yorgos J. Stephanedes
TBD
- Date: February 22, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Dr. Rob Hetland, TAMU
Ductile Cement/Concrete and Related Materials: Nanotechnology Perspective
- Date: March 8, 2007
- Time: 2:30- 3:30 p.m.
- Location: CVEN 104
- Speaker/s: Dr. Charles Beatty, University of Florida
- Other: Beatty Seminar Flyer
Do Plants Really Prevent Wave Erosion Along the Edge of a Salt Marsh?
- Date: March 8, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Bldg.
- Speaker/s: Dr. Rusty Feagin, Forest Science Department, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, TAMU
- Other: Feagin Seminar Flyer
Deepwater Oil and Gas Developments and Challenges
- Date: March 22, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Gordon Sterling, Offshore Engineer, Shell Oil Company
- Other: Sterling Seminar Flyer
Interfacial Waves and Stability in Stratified Exchange Flows Down a Sill
- Date: April 5, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Eletta Negretti, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Other: Negretti Seminar Flyer
Experimental Study of Wave Breaking Using Imaging Methods
- Date: April 12, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:55 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Ho-Joon Lim, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division, Zachry Dept. of Civil Engineering, TAMU
- Other: Lim Seminar Flyer
AEESP Distinguished Lecture: Advancing the Art of Microbial Risk Assessment
- Date: April 13, 2007
- Time: 1:50 pm
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Dr. Joan Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Michigan State University
- Other: Rose Lecture Flyer
Offshore Concrete Structures: Past, Present and Future
- Date: April 19, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:55 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Arnstein Godejord, President Nina Merethe Wiley, Vice President Dr. Techn. Olav Olsen Inc.
- Other: Seminar Flyer
Statistical Methods for Structural Health Monitoring
- Date: April 26, 2007
- Time: 3:55- 4:45 p.m.
- Location: 118, CE Building
- Speaker/s: M.K. Choi, TAMU Galveston
- Other: Seminar Flyer
Lifetime Optimisation Tool for Porous, Noise Reducing Wearing Courses
- Date: June 26, 2007
- Time: 2-3 p.m.
- Location: 222, CE Building
- Speaker/s: Professor Andre Molenaar, Department of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology
