School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE)

Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC)

Construction Engineering

confronting engineering challenges Annual Report 2010 inside leadership Message from the Interim Director...... 1 New Dean in Engineering...... 1 Sustainable Engineering Message from the Program Chairs...... 2 and the Built Environment research Sustainable engineering is a revolutionary Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering...... 5 approach to engineering that: Del E . Webb School of Construction...... 14 Construction in Indian Country...... 19 • focuses on the long-lasting improvement of the human condition; students • redefines the design boundaries Awards...... 20 of infrastructure, natural and social Student Groups...... 22 Scholarships...... 24 systems; and • transforms the traditional design and faculty construction methods of complex Alumni ...... 25 systems by the application of life cycle New and Visiting Faculty ...... 26 and environmental assessment, risk and Faculty Honors...... 27 uncertainty analysis and other emerging Faculty ...... 29 techniques . Staff...... 40 The built environment includes society’s physical infrastructure and integrated G. Edward Gibson, Jr. systems such as housing, business and Interim Director commerce, transportation, and utilities which facilitate the smooth operation Judy Reedy of basic services supporting health, Editor prosperity and social well-being . Joe Kullman Contributing Writer

Elaine Rettger, Studio 18 Art Director

Tom Story Selected Photography

The Arizona State University School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Annual Report is produced by the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and published every year.

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Arizona State University Message from the Interim Director

Greetings! It is an honor to serve as the interim director for the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSEBE) . In this capacity I have had the great privilege to work closely with our faculty, staff, and students in setting the course for our future . Our School is a unique blend of civil and environmental engineering and construction management-focused programs . We are re-writing the way educational programs focus on sustainable engineering planning, design, and construction processes while focused on the built environment that is so essential to our civilization .

The theme of this annual report is to highlight selected research projects that are being performed by our faculty and students . As we prepare a new generation of engineers and constructors, our cutting edge work is redefining how we approach the problems that will challenge our future .

In this report, we showcase but a few of the dozens of projects currently ongoing within SSEBE . The link between research and teaching is direct . We literally have hundreds of graduate students and a number of undergraduates involved in this effort, learning as they assist faculty in performing the work . Much of the new knowledge discovered in these projects is subsequently transferred to graduate and undergraduate classrooms .

We are excited about the success of our faculty members in attracting research funding as we are currently working on projects totaling $8,207,655 from a variety of sources . This represents a 40 percent increase over the past three years .

Of course we continue to work diligently to offer the best undergraduate teaching programs possible and our programs are considered among the very best in the nation . We have recently added a new Construction Engineering undergraduate degree program that is proving very attractive to many students . In addition we are hiring new faculty members to support teaching and research initiatives .

Enjoy this report and if you are in Tempe, please contact me and come by for a visit .

G . Edward Gibson, Jr ,. Ph D. ,. P E. .

New Dean in Engineering

Paul Johnson, executive dean of the Ira A . Fulton Schools of Engineering and professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, has been named dean of the Fulton Engineering Schools, effective January 1, 2011 .

Johnson has been a faculty member at ASU since 1994 and has previously served as the university’s associate vice president for research and as interim dean of Fulton .

He received a B S. . in chemical engineering from the University of California-Davis in 1983 and an M A. . and Ph D. . in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1984 and 1987 respectively .

Johnson came to ASU as an associate professor in 1994, rising to the rank of full professor in 2003 . He later served as associate dean of research at Fulton, university associate vice president of research, and executive dean of Fulton, a position he has held since 2006 . His teaching, research, and professional activities focus on the application of contaminant fate and transport fundamentals to subsurface remediation and risk assessment problems . He is an expert in soil and groundwater remediation and risk assessment .

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 1 Message from the Program Chairs

Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE)

The Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE) program within the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment deals with education and research addressing the critical infrastructure needs of our society .

The CESE program continues to focus on its traditional areas of environmental engineering, water resources, water and air quality, transportation planning and materials, structures and geotechnical engineering . Michael Mamlouk, Ph .D . CESE Program Chair Our program has been growing and currently we have 30 teaching and research faculty, 608 undergraduate students and 151 graduate students .

Our undergraduate students have the option to complete a general civil engineering degree or to concentrate in construction engineering, environmental engineering or sustainable engineering . The ABET review for our undergraduate civil engineering degree was very successful last fall with the degree program approved for six more years .

We started emphasizing hands on experience for our freshmen in an effort to improve our retention record . We also increased the number of our teaching assistants and will try to enhance the teaching opportunities for our Ph D. . students . Several of our undergraduate students are involved in research through the FURI program . Our students are actively engaged in various student organizations such as ASCE and Chi Epsilon .

Undergraduate Student Enrollment Undergraduate Degrees Awarded Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE) Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE) Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) • CESE • DEWSC • CESE • DEWSC

600 150 608

537 525 494 400 432 100 109 105 400 100 361 98 91 86 328 81 70 200 50

0 0 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

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The Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE) and the Construction Management (CON) graduate programs continue to grow and prosper . For the 2009-10 academic year, there were 151 students (87 M S. /. M S. E. . and 64 Ph D. ;. 109 male and 42 female; 95 domestic and 56 international) in the CESE program and 58 (48 M S. . and 10 Ph D. ;. 44 male and 14 female; 44 domestic and 14 international) in the CON program .

Between 2005 and 2008, the CESE program awarded 38 M .S .E ., 45 M .S . and 38 Ph .D . Subramaniam Rajan, Ph .D . degrees while the CON program awarded 61 M .S . degrees . For the 2009-10 academic Graduate Program Chair year, the CESE program awarded 9 M .S .E ., 9 M .S ., and 10 Ph .D . degrees, while the CON program awarded 23 M .S . degrees . The CON program revised the non-thesis M S. . degree program, requiring students to complete 30 credit hours and a comprehensive exam; this option has been quite successful and has increased the persistence of M S. . students in the non-thesis option . Both programs saw an increase in the students attending classes full-time (9 credits or more per semester) while still meeting the needs of part-time students working in the industry . Most of the graduate courses are taught either early in the morning or late in the afternoon enabling both the full-time and part-time students to take graduate courses .

We have continued our efforts to provide various forms of financial aid packages to deserving full-time graduate students . The 2009-10 financial aid package (excluding RAs/TAs) amounted to approximately $500,000 from various sources - Dean’s Fellowships, Fulton Enrichment and Department fellowships, Graduate College’s Block Grant Awards and Enrichment Fellowships and Science Foundation Arizona Fellowships .

Graduate Student Enrollment Graduate Degrees Awarded Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE) Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (CESE) Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) • CESE • DEWSC • CESE • DEWSC

200 40

34 150 30 33 151 141 141 30

100 110 20 20 21 18 65 50 58 10 50 11 39 9

0 0 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 3 Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC)

Greetings! The Del E . Webb School of planning, construction safety, performance Construction (DEWSC) has been very busy measurement, building information modeling, during the past year and it is an exciting time facility management, and others . Several of to be a student in our program . Our CM their research projects are highlighted in this undergraduate enrollment for fall 2010 is 315 newsletter and results of these studies are students with an additional 63 graduate students . migrating into the classroom . We graduated 85 students last academic year . Our alumni and the construction industry We have a very experienced and active faculty, continue to support student achievement with eleven tenured or tenure-track faculty through endowments and annual scholarship members, three lecturers and fourteen faculty donations . Last year we awarded over G . Edward Gibson, Ph .D . associates handling teaching duties . With this $210,000 to several dozen deserving students . DEWSC Programs Chair wide experience base, we teach courses in Our students continue to be very active in current areas such as sustainable design and competitions at the Associated Schools of construction, building information modeling, Construction meeting in Reno, NV, the American trenchless construction methods, concrete Concrete Institute in Chicago, IL and the production, heavy construction and mechanical/ National Association of Homebuilders in Las electrical estimating and facility management . Vegas, NV, taking home awards in several events . One hundred fifty-seven students We welcome Aaron Cohen as the first completed internships in summer 2010 and Associated General Contractor (AGC) Lecturer were located in 12 states, Canada and Mexico who joined us in summer 2010 through a with an average pay of $15 per hour . generous endowment from many local AGC member companies . Aaron comes from The CM undergraduate program is accredited Chicago where he ran a heavy construction by the American Council for Construction business for the past 14 years . He is Education (ACCE) and we are preparing focused on teaching and improving our heavy for accreditation with the visit scheduled for construction concentration . spring 2011 . For more information on the CM undergraduate program, visit the program Our faculty are involved in a variety of funded website at http://engineering asu. .edu/ research projects in underground utility undergraduate/con . construction, project leadership, front end

New degree program

The University Graduate Council recommended the are interested in continuing their education in engineering proposed Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in with a focus on construction . The American Society of Construction Engineering program for approval . Civil Engineers (ASCE), the professional society for all civil engineers, is strongly pushing for a master’s degree as the The MSE in Construction Engineering graduate program minimum degree required for all practicing civil engineers . The at ASU is a multi-disciplinary program encompassing the society has passed ASCE Policy 465 (“Academic prerequisites areas of geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, for Licensure and Professional Practice”) details of which transportation engineering and construction management- can be found at several web sites . The MSE Construction related area . The primary goal is to impart scientific and Engineering degree will help meet that objective . technical knowledge that is used to construct infrastructure projects commonly used in Architecture/Engineering/ Current MSE graduate students will be given the opportunity Construction (A/E/C) industry . to move to this degree program as early as spring 2011 semester . New students will be accepted for fall 2011 The Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Construction semester . Engineering degree will be desirable to those students who

4 Arizona State University Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Research Expenditures FY 2010 $5,109,689

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 5 Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Perils of plastics: risks to human health and the environment

Principal Investigator: lastics surround us . A vital manufacturing ingredient Rolf Halden Pfor nearly every existing industry, these materials appear in a high percentage of the products we use every day . Although modern life would be hard to imagine without this versatile chemistry, products composed of plastics also have a dark side, due in part to the very characteristics that make them so desirable – their durability and longevity .

Rolf Halden, associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and “We’re doomed to live with assistant director of Environmental Biotechnology at the yesterday’s plastic pollution and Biodesign Institute, has undertaken a survey of existing we are exacerbating the situation scientific literature concerning the hazards of plastics to human health and to the ecosystems we depend on . with each day of unchanged behavior.” Adverse effects to human health remain a topic of fierce controversy, though a growing consensus is emerging that plastics and their additives are not always the benign companions we once assumed them to be . Halden says he accepted the invitation to write about plastics and human health “because the topic showcases the bigger problem of how to create a sustainable future for modern civilization ”.

Despite the scourge of discarded plastics and the health risks these substances pose, Halden is optimistic that society can begin to make wiser choices and develop more sustainable products, formed from biodegradable, non-toxic chemical building blocks . New forms of polymer, some made from renewable materials that are digestible by microorganisms, are being explored .

Vegetation near an urban U.S. stream shows a sample of contemporary, non-biodegradable plastic waste that can persist in the environment for centuries or even millennia. (Photo: R. Halden)

6 Arizona State University Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Finding sustainable ways to improve groundwater

s many cities grow, they need to utilize water Principal Investigator: Asources that require more than usual treatment Bruce Rittmann to make them safe and palatable . A good example is the City of Glendale, AZ, which needs to develop groundwater sources that are not contaminated with nitrate from past agricultural practices .

Looking toward improved sustainability as it uses more groundwater, the City of Glendale partnered with ASU, environmental engineering company CH2M HILL, and the Water Research Foundation to test innovative means to biologically reduce nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . “Although biological treatment of drinking water is less expensive The team operated two types of biological reduction (or and more sustainable than denitrification) pilot processes at the City’s Cholla Water Treatment Plant . One system is heterotrophic, which conventional means, it is not means that an organic material is added to drive nitrate widely used in the United States. reduction . The second system is autotrophic, meaning that hydrogen gas is added to allow reduction . Our successful project will give The pilot systems were operated by a team of ASU students and post-docs from the Center for utilities and cities confidence Environmental Biotechnology and under the direction of that they can gain the benefits Bruce Rittmann, Regents’ Professor of Environmental with minimal risks.” Engineering . The pilot systems gave excellent performance, demonstrating the value of denitrification .

The ASU and CH2M HILL teams are completing technical, economic, and social-impact analyses for the final report .

Membrane biofilm reactor pilot unit operated in Glendale, AZ

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 7 Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering SSEBE researcher helps reveal new smoking hazard

Co-Principal Investigator: study reporting on the health hazard posed Hugo Destaillats Aby nicotine in third-hand tobacco smoke from cigarettes made headlines recently around the world . The team that performed the research detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science included Hugo Destaillats, a research professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment . He is also a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where the study was conducted . Destaillats was a co-leader of the research team for the third-hand smoke study, which shows “We know that these residual stronger indications of the high level of health risks levels of nicotine may build up posed by smoking . over time after several smoking His team’s description of the findings about how residual cycles, and we know that through levels of nicotine from third-hand smoke can build up the process of aging, third-hand and become more toxic over time is presented in a news release from the Berkeley Lab . smoke can become more toxic over time.” The study found that when the residue from tobacco smoke settled on indoor surfaces, it mixed with indoor air pollutants to form tobacco-specific nitrosamines, or TSNAs, which are potent cancer-causing substances found in unburned tobacco and tobacco smoke .

People, particularly infants and toddlers, are most likely exposed to these carcinogens by either inhaling dust or by skin contact . Using fans and opening a window doesn’t help eliminate the hazards because most of the nicotine and other substances from burning cigarettes aren’t found in the air, but are absorbed by surfaces .

8 Arizona State University Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Pavement rehabilitation

he School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Principal Investigator: TEnvironment (SSEBE) at Arizona State University Kamil Kaloush is well known for its work on pavements research studies . Over the past ten years, several studies on asphalt rubber pavement research were completed for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), Texas DOT, Alberta Transportation, Canada and Swedish Road Administration, Sweden . Collaboration efforts are underway in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . The research program focuses on developing typical design input parameters and engineering properties specific for asphalt rubber mixtures . “We are a fortunate research group at ASU because we have Pavements related research activities at the National the essential technologies, Center of Excellence for SMART Innovations in SSEBE include studies on the Urban Heat Island effect, pervious facilities and industry support to concrete, thin and ultra-thin white-topping pavements, re-design and build sustainable and modeling of pavement production and construction pavements for the future.” impacts on CO2 emissions . Kamil Kaloush, director of the center and associate professor in SSEBE, is the recipient of the 2009 Community Service Award presented by the Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference .

Krishna Biligiri, recipient of the Young Scientist Grant award by the board of the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE) at the prestigious INTER-NOISE 2010 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, is a research scientist in the department working with Kaloush .

Since September 2009, Biligiri has been assisting the Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI) in Linkoping, Sweden . This is a joint collaborative Discussion on pavement rehabilitation outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil effort between ASU and VTI for a period of two years on a European Union (EU) directive project PERSUADE (PoroElastic Road SUrface: an innovation to Avoid Damages to the Environment) .

Krishna is also actively involved as a VTI research team member and has been contributing to other research projects in topics related to the development and evaluation of bio-based road products .

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Geo-Alchemy: turning sand into sandstone

Principal Investigator: round improvement is routinely used in geotechnical Edward Kavazanjian, Jr. Gpractice to mitigate natural hazards, enhance foundation performance, and reduce construction costs and impacts . Most of these ground improvement techniques employ mechanical or chemical processes to improve soil behavior .

Recently, the use of biological processes to improve the physical behavior of soil has begun to attract the interest of geotechnical engineers . Continuing work initiated under a National Science Foundation Small Grant for Co-Principal Investigator: Exploratory Research (SGER), this project is investigating Bruce Rittmann the application of microbiological induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) as a soil improvement technique .

Work conducted under the SGER showed that MICP can be induced by denitrifying bacteria (“denitrification”) . Denitrification is potentially superior to MICP by ureolysis, a process currently being explored by other research groups working on MICP, in that denitrifying bacteria are ubiquitous in the subsurface and the process does not produce toxic by-products and can work under anaerobic “Our strengths in environmental conditions, e g. . below the water table . microbiology and geotechnical This research has the potential to transform geotechnical engineering put ASU in a practice, not only by development of a new, sustainable position to become one of the approach to ground improvement but also by advancing leaders in the emerging field of the emerging field of biogeotechnical engineering . bio-geotechnical engineering.” Microbial activity in soil is ubiquitous . Every gram of soil contains 109 or more microorganisms . The ability to manage these organisms for beneficial purposes opens up a myriad of potential opportunities, from strength and stiffness enhancement to groundwater control, corrosion protection, waste containment, erosion control, soil and groundwater monitoring, remediation, and even energy production . Microbially mediated subsurface processes offer the promise of sustainable, non-disruptive and energy efficient engineering solutions to important infrastructure development and geologic hazard mitigation problems .

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Traffic instabilities in congested traffic top-and-go driving motions are characterized by Principal Investigator: Srecurring decelerations followed by acceleration and Soyoung Ahn are typical features of heavily congested freeway traffic . These oscillatory driving motions have adverse impact on air quality, fuel consumption, vehicle wear-and-tear, Collaborator: and traffic safety . Despite their ubiquity and negative Jorge Laval, impact on environment and safety, we have limited Georgia Institute of Technology understanding about the causal factors and features of stop-and-go traffic .

Sponsored by National Science Foundation, this research investigates how stop-and-go disturbances initiate and “A small disturbance created by propagate in space . The research team has analyzed high- a vehicle in congestion has the resolution vehicle trajectories using Wavelet Transform to butterfly effect for many vehicles systematically detect disturbances in traffic and measure their spatiotemporal characteristics . following upstream.”

The research to date indicates that stop-and-go disturbances can be triggered by instabilities in driver behavior and lane-changing maneuvers . The disturbances usually start small as subtle decreases in speed but become more pronounced as they propagate through congested traffic, often leading to momentary stoppage . The vehicle trajectories illustrate how a small disturbance causes substantially slow or stoppage states (the blue region) to many vehicles .

Based on the findings, the research team is currently developing mathematical and statistical models to describe driver behavior and lane-changing maneuvers, and their effects of congested traffic . With a better understanding of stop-and-go traffic and related behavior, this research will provide a foundation to develop traffic control schemes to smooth oscillatory driving behavior, which will improve safety and environmental impact of congested traffic .

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Dealing with electronic waste

Principal Investigator: ric Williams, assistant professor in the School of Eric Williams ESustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, is working on solutions to the problems arising from the ballooning amount of electronic waste – or e-waste – that comes from discarded computers and related devices .

The engineering professor and industrial ecologist is looking at the environmental impact and public-health problems of technology’s rapid expansion seen in the “The toxics generated in the environmentally hazardous buildup of e-waste worldwide . recycling processes were The problem comes from efforts to reclaim precious not originally present in the metals from circuit boards and wires by using very primitive methods, Williams says . To obtain copper, equipment – it’s a problem in informal ‘backyard’ recyclers in the developing world the recycling process, not the simply burn off the insulation, producing a host of toxic chemicals from the burning plastic . And to obtain gold product.” and other metals from circuit boards, they simply treat them with liters of nitric acid and cyanide . “There’s no proper way to dispose of the waste acid and cyanide, which ends up being dumped into local water or soils,” Williams says .

Improved recycling processes are key but Williams thinks it is important to work within the affected countries themselves . He and his team are now preparing a paper on proposals to buy up used circuit boards and wiring to send for processing at facilities that have better environmental controls and more sophisticated techniques for recovering precious metals . “We’re doing economic analyses of this idea,” he says . “It looks like it’s a pretty cheap system to implement ”.

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The Consortium for Emerging Technologies Military Operations and National Security

rad Allenby, professor in the School of Sustainable Founding Chair: BEngineering and the Built Environment, has been Brad Allenby appointed Founding Chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security (CETMONS) . CETMONS is intended to act as a resource to bring sustainable engineering and technological expertise into an important, and sometimes underappreciated, area of policy and operations (see cetmons o. rg) .

Throughout history, technological evolution and military activity have been linked . The existential challenge to society represented by warfare, combined with the Many technologies of sufficient immediate advantage that new technology can deliver, power to be of interest militarily tends to accelerate technological innovation and diffusion . have at least the potential The relationships between the resulting technology systems, and consequent social and ethical issues and to be deeply destabilizing to changes, are quite complex, however, and understanding existing economic, social, and and managing them to enhance long term military advantage and security, is a critical challenge . This is technological systems. particularly true when, as now, technological change is both rapid and accelerating posing the risk of cultural backlashes that could affect both short term mission capabilities and longer term security interests .

Many technologies of sufficient power to be of interest militarily have at least the potential to be deeply destabilizing to existing economic, social, and technological systems . Examples might include the possibility that military RFID sensor systems, insect robots and cyborgs are shifted from theatre intelligence to domestic intelligence; that telepathic helmet technology transitions from a small unit communication enhancement to a non-intrusive thought detection device in civil society; or that warrior enhancement technology results in radical life extension for selected civilian populations . Emerging technologies are likely to have similar destabilizing effects within the military as well, potentially affecting not just military operations, but military culture and organization, as well as broader social perspectives on military initiatives generally .

This rendition of a robotic insect, although fanciful, is illustrative of a class of rapidly developing technologies that could have dramatic effects both on the battlefield, and in civil society. School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 13 Del E. Webb School of Construction Research Expenditures FY 2010 $1,374,602

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New skills needed by project managers in 2020 new generation of engineers and managers will be Principal Investigator: Aneeded to address many of the problems facing our William Badger built environment .

William Badger and Avi Wiezel are the academics on the Construction Industry Institute’s (CII) Research Team 281 which will determine the new skills needed for project managers (PMs) in 2020 .

The research team is composed of 20 industry members representing owner and construction companies who together employ more than 700,000 people . Their Principal Investigator: innovative approach is to collect data from leadership Avi Wiezel seminars using three exercises/games that were developed by Badger and Wiezel and featured in Engineering News-Record .

The industry team members are being trained to conduct one-day seminars for the PMs within their companies and to provide the data for the research project .

The benefit of the seminars for the companies is an improvement in education and training of their PMs, the “Employees in a leadership benefit to the companies’ leadership group is feedback on PM problems and challenges, and the benefit for the environment want to do things researchers is the data collection in an interactive, realistic while employees in a management environment . environment have to do things.” Data mining techniques will be used to determine the most effective approaches to managing projects in the future .

Students from the Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED) represent disciplines from the schools of design, law, construction and business. School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 15 Del E. Webb School of Construction

Critical front end planning factors for infrastructure projects

Principal Investigator: any infrastructure projects suffer delay, cost G. Edward Gibson, Jr. Moverruns and performance degradation, much of it caused by unclear requirements, lack of due diligence and poor early scope definition .

G . Edward Gibson, Jr ., is performing a multi-year research project for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) investigating the process and factors related to successful early project planning of infrastructure capital projects .

PDRI for Infrastructure is a This research has input from a steering team of 20 comprehensive tool for planning industry representatives and has collected data from over 60 individuals in four workshops covering major geographic locations in the United States and also two workshops in London .

As part of the effort, the research team visited and analyzed projects at the site of the 2012 London Olympics . The result of this effort is a risk management tool called the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI), which is currently in the testing phase and has been used on projects from 14 countries on four continents representing over $8 billion USD . Results to date are very promising .

Site of the London Olympics

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Professor teaching small business owners how to expand their ventures

onstruction and construction-related companies Assistant Research Professor: Care learning how to strengthen their businesses Thomas Schleifer through a collaboration of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Alliance for Construction Excellence, the professional development and industry education affiliate of the Del E . Webb School of Construction .

The Alliance has created three courses for ADOT’s Academy for the Development of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises .

It’s geared for start-up and mid-level “disadvantaged business enterprises” that have established themselves as viable companies but are seeking to grow their businesses through building in-house technical expertise, pursuing larger contracting opportunities, or transitioning from the role of subcontractor to prime contractor .

The academy program works to ensure small companies, including those owned by women and minorities, are provided a level playing field on which to compete for federally funded projects .

ASU assistant research professor Thomas Schleifer developed the courses which focus on leadership and entrepreneurial skills, accounting, management and business-planning methods, strategic planning, asset management, negotiating skills, communications and other subjects that new business owners need to learn to become successful .

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General Services Administration (GSA) Implementation of the Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS)

Dean Kashiwagi, Ph .D ., P .E ., he GSA (Heartland Region, Region 6, Kansas City, Professor, Fulbright Scholar TMO) has had difficulty in accurately identifying the source of construction project deviations . Led by Kashiwagi is the director of the regional director and visionary Cy Houston, the GSA is Performance Based Studies implementing the Performance Information Procurement Research Group, specializing System (PIPS) under a five year contract worth $825K to: in the delivery of services, the optimization of supply chains, and 1. implement an accurate measurement system the creator of PIPS . of project time and cost deviations that is not dependent on government management or Disruptive technology forces documentation 2. transfer risk and control to the designers/ engineers, project managers, contractors including the minimization of risk that and contractors to do their the vendors do not control functions differently to minimize 3. minimize GSA project/risk management deviations. transactions 4. minimize project cost and time deviations 5. increase vendor profits 6. decrease project costs .

GSA is attempting to attain the same level of performance as other government entities (University of Minnesota, State of Hawaii, and the U .S . Army Medical Command) by minimizing 60% of all PM/RM transactions while minimizing contractor deviations . Best value PIPS is different from other systems due to its ability to simultaneously minimize client management, direction, and control and cost and increase quality, value, and vendor profit .

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American Indian Initiatives

he Construction in Indian Country (CIIC) is a non- Student Support Tprofit organization within ASU, established in 2001, in a joint effort from the ASU Office of the President • 7 American Indian students are currently enrolled in on American Indian Initiatives and the DEWSC . the DEWSC CIIC’s mission is to improve the quality of sustained 2 new freshmen and 1 new graduate student will be construction on the lands of American Indians, Alaska • entering the program in the fall Natives, and other indigenous peoples through education and by building trust between tribes and industry . CIIC • Average 7-9 American Indian students in the is guided by members of an executive committee who program annually represent a variety of professions in the construction • Average 1-2 American Indian students that industry, architecture, engineering, finance, legal, graduate annually academic, tribal, federal, public and private entities . CIIC 8 American Indian students have earned their provides an annual conference, student support and • Construction Management degrees since 2006 research in support of CIIC’s mission . • 1 new full-time visiting eminent scholar position This year marked the seventh annual CIIC 2010 within the DEWSC to provide research for CIIC Conference and golf mixer held on May 17-19, 2010 in Fort McDowell, Arizona . The conference aims to educate tribes and industry by providing various informational Grant & Endowment workshops about the realities and opportunities concerning construction in Indian country . The • 5 American Indian students were awarded $2,000- conference also aims to build trust, relationships, and $2,500 each from the American Indian Construction provide networking opportunities among tribes, industry, Management Grant for a total of $12,000 for the and various entities . The proceeds of the conference go 2009/10 academic year directly toward sustaining the CIIC organization, annual • An additional $30,000 will be deposited into conference as well as fund the educational grant and the American Indian Construction Management endowment for American Indian students pursuing their Endowment for the 2009/10 academic year construction management degrees within the DEWSC .

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American Indian Construction Management Grant Student Recipients - 2009/10

Leonard Black is a Adam Hill was Kammy Harding is a Buu Van Nygren is Sylvester Yazzie member of the Navajo born and raised in member of the Navajo originally from Yellow was raised in St . Nation and originally Rochester, New York Nation originally from Rock Point, UT and Michaels, AZ and from Kayenta, AZ . He and is a member of Pinon, AZ . She is is a member of the is a member of the is currently a junior the Mohawk Tribe . currently a junior and Navajo Nation . He Navajo Nation . He is and will be graduating He is currently a plans on graduating is currently a junior currently pursuing a in spring 2011 with his senior at the Del in the fall of 2012 and is majoring bachelor’s of science undergraduate degree E . Webb School of with her construction in construction degree in construction in construction . After Construction and management degree management with management . While graduating, he would pursing a bachelor’s with an emphasis in a minor in business . attending school, like to begin gaining degree in construction heavy construction . After graduation, he plans on gaining experience so he may management with an Upon graduating, Buu plans to experience in the become a qualified emphasis in general she would like to obtain a master’s construction field . With construction manager . building . With his continue working in degree in business his degree he plans Leonard would also degree he would like the heavy construction administration and on securing a job on like to give back to to fulfill his dream field to gain more gain more experience the Navajo reservation his American Indian of helping American experience and obtain in the construction where he will help his community. Indian communities . her master’s degree in management field . community . construction .

Student Achievements

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Student Awards Alex Bertheau, a construction undergraduate student, Elham Bani Hashem, a graduate has won 3rd place for his project “Modulus of Elasticity and research and executive fellow and Mechanical Behavior of Ultra High Performance Concrete” lifetime member of the International Road in the 2010 American Concrete Institute Concrete Projects Federation (IRF) fellowship orientation Competition . Alex’s faculty advisor is Luke M . Snell . and executive leadership program, was selected as the winner of the Gerald P . Carmen Castilleja and Nathan Rodriguez, graduate Shea Award . This is a prestigious award students in SSEBE, have been awarded the Reach for the given to just one IRF fellow each year who Stars (RFTS) Fellowship for 2010-2011 . The RFTS supports has proven his/her special ability, talents, fellows during their first year to allow them to devote fulltime and technical potentials . Elham was also selected, by fellow attention to their program of study and to enhance their scholarly votes, as one of the two presidents of the class and captain of and professional skills . Each student will receive a stipend one of the fellows teams . Under her supervision, the team won of $15,000 for the academic year . In addition to the stipend, all of the competitions, including a bridge building competition . students receive a tuition award for the first year, student health insurance and continued financial support by the academic unit Kristin McClellan and Michael Ziv-El, won the Phoenix in the second academic year with a TA or RA position . / Scottsdale Groundwater Contamination Scholarship for Environmental Science for 2010/11 . This award in the amount Carlos Cary, Ph .D . student, in civil and of $6,500 is being offered in recognition of their solid history environmental engineering, received an of achievement and research in the study of groundwater award for his paper “Comparative Study of contamination and in support of their dissertation . a Mechanistic Resilient Modulus Predictive Equation for Unbound Materials” from the Kalyan Ram Piratla, graduate research International Society for Maintenance and associate in the Del E . Webb School of Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures Construction, was selected to receive a presented at the 2nd International 2010 AZ Water Scholarship . Kalyan is Conference on Transport Infrastructures working on a NSF RESIN project titled held in Brazil . This award was based on the papers quality “Sustainable Infrastructures for Energy and relevance of its scientific content . Carlos’ faculty advisor is and Water Supply Systems” under the Claudia Zapata . guidance of Dr . Samuel Ariaratnam . Kalyan’s scholarship application focused Kyle Doudrick has been selected for an ASU Graduate and on problems of Arizona’s Water Resources and Infrastructure Professional Student Association Travel Grant in the amount of looking at issues such as water re-use, centralized vs . $950 for travel to The 15th International Conference on Ti02 distributed treatment plants and resiliency of the water Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications . distribution infrastructure .

Nathan Dunkin, a civil engineering Jeffrey Stempihar has been selected undergraduate student, has received as a recipient of a research stipend in a 2010 Charles P . Lake/Rain for Rent the amount of $10,000 as part of the Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 . Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the academic year 2010-11 . Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration of the U .S . Department of Transportation and administered by the Airport Cooperative Mac Gifford has been selected to receive the ACEC of AZ Research Program (ACRP) of the Transportation Research 2010 Scholarship . The American Council of Engineering Board/National Academies, the award is presented for Companies of Arizona (ACEC/AZ) is devoted to the business successful completion during the upcoming academic year of interests of engineers in private practice, working to create a research paper on the topic “Use of Fiber Reinforced Asphalt a business environment that encourages quality design and Concrete as a Sustainable Paving Material for Airfields” . public service . The ACEC/AZ Scholarship is designed to assist member firm employees and their families who are pursuing their education in an engineering discipline . School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 21 Student Achievements

Construction students contribute to a life-changing

home makeover A group of construction students from the Associated General Contractors (AGC) student chapter in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment teamed with Rebuilding Together, Gilbane Building Company and Ryan Companies to provide a home makeover for a Phoenix-area family .

Rebuilding Together works to preserve affordable home ownership-especially for veterans with disabilities . They provide free home modifications and repairs .

Between 15 and 20 DEWSC construction students contributed to the makeover, providing the necessary labor to complete the eight-day project in spring 2010 . With additional contributions from the contractors and the subcontractors, the volunteers were able to completely rebuild this 1,000 square-foot house for a Phoenix-area family of four .

ASU’s AGC student chapter does four significant community service projects each semester . Projects like the ones done with Rebuilding Together provide students with valuable field experience and the chance to make a difference in the Scope of work: community . New roof Ceiling replacement In the fall semester, the AGC chapter participates in Rebuilding Together’s Paint-a-Thon, a service project to paint the exterior of New evaporative cooler owner-occupied housing for low-income homeowners . system Kitchen and bathroom renovation New water heater Landscaping and dust remediation in yard Flooring replaced New windows and doors Plumbing repaired Removal of aluminum siding Interior and exterior painting

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Clean sweep for SEBE students

SEBE graduate students swept the top three places at the annual Association of Engineering Geology (AEG) Student Night . This year’s event was held at the ASU Memorial Union on Tuesday evening, April 7, 2010 . Abstracts were solicited by AEG from students in geology and geotechnical engineering programs at ASU, U of A, and NAU .

The top three abstracts were selected by the judging committee from among the submitted abstracts and those students were invited to make presentations at the event . The presentations were then ranked by the judging committee to determine who received the first, second, and third place awards .

All three students selected to make presentations were from SEBE.

■■ First place went to Nasser Hamdan for his presentation on “Microbially Induced Precipitation of Calcite using Pseudomonas Denitrifcans ”.

■■ Second place was awarded to Simon Ghanat for his presentation on “Influence of Deep Basin Soil Conditions on the Seismic Hazard in Phoenix ”. 2nd place presentation by Simon Ghanat: ■■ Third place was awarded to Maie El-Keshky The diagram represents a map of the depth-to-bedrock in for her presentation on “Influence of Temperature the Phoenix Basin derived from Arizona Geological Survey on Unsaturated Soil Properties” . data (Zapata 2008) . It can be noted that the Phoenix Basin is dominated by a large area of deep soil (darker color on the map) . The known active fault seismic sources that may affect the Phoenix Basin are the Carefree, Horseshoe, Sugarloaf, Sand Tank, and Cottonwood Basin Fault . The predominant style of faulting for all these sources is normal faulting . The closest active fault to the Phoenix Basin is the Carefree Fault, which is about 45km from downtown Phoenix and is believed to be capable of magnitude 6 .3 event with an average recurrence interval of 5000 years . Student Excellence School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 23 Student Achievements

2009/10 Scholarship Awards Congratulations to the following students on their achievement and a special thank you to the donors for their contributions. CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING Argyro Lalos Tribute Scholarship Rafael Balderrama Arizona Society of Civil Engineers Scholarship (AzSCE) Michaela Doherty, Tyson Baca Charles and Nancy O’Bannon Scholarship Matthew Petrucci Charles Lemon Memorial Scholarship Bryan Wright Charles Lemon Memorial Scholarship Jayleen Robinson, Douglas Rohrer CIRC Scholars Program Jorge Amaya, Tyson Baca, Nathan Merrill, Mara Ramos, Paulina Reina, Jothan Samuelson, Sergio Sanchez CIRC/METS Scholars Program Erick Barrios Ponce, Christopher Gino, Kathryn Hoffmann Civil and Environmental Engineering General Scholarship Christopher Barsby, Christy Cavano , Michaela Doherty, Janet Frazier, Thomas Volo Dean’s Advisory Council Scholarship Cassandra Johnson Distinguished Senior Canio Hoffarth Ed Denison Memorial Technology Award John Kondziolka Elyse and Paul Johnson Scholarship Vanessa Chavez Excellence in Engineering Leadership Scholarship Christopher Gino Ira A . Fulton Schools of Engineering Alumni New Student Scholarship Kevin Walsh Jan Tuma Memorial Scholarship Joy Marsalla Kenneth R . and Kathryn Geiser Memorial Scholarship Rafael Balderrama Kiewit Companies Scholarship – Civil Engineering Cody Anderson Martin H . Rosness Memorial Scholarship Rachel Leigh Marvin J . Sheldon Memorial Scholarship Tyson Baca Mike Kolling Memorial Scholarship – Civil Engineering Keith Christian, Nathan Merrill NACME Scholarship Nicholas Aguilar, Sergio Sanchez Paragon Structural Design, Inc . Scholarship Kevin Lardner PBS&J Foundation Scholarship Joy Marsalla Rod J . McMullin SRP Water Resource Scholarship Nathan Dunkin, Joy Marsalla Stanley Consultants Scholarship Christopher Gino, Canio Hoffarth Terry Bourland Memorial Scholarship Vanessa Chavez Wood, Patel and Associates, Inc . Scholarship John Kondziolka DEL E. WEBB SCHOOL OF CONSTRUCTION Achen Gardner – Mike Kolling Memorial Skyler Holloway, Jesse Pina, Jason Santor AGC Student Chapter Joshua Brown, Bret Burnham, Joshua Dixon, Brittany Hoste, Jonathan Millett, Lucas Semter, Alexandra Taylor, Silvino Villanueva Ames Family Scholarship William Scott Andrew Hanneman Pablo Sandoval Bechtel Group Foundation Scholarship Cynthia Botello, Brittany Hoste, Nico Rochwalik Ben C . Griggs Memorial Award Silvino Villanueva Charles and Nancy O’Bannon Scholarship for Construction Curtis Kelner D . L . Withers Construction Co . Yorhan Angulo-Aguirre Daniel and Katherine Mardian Cynthia Barela Dave Clifton Memorial / ASPE Brian Park Del E . Webb Foundation Finance & Accounting Jonathan Meek, Morgan Spears Del E . Webb Foundation Undergraduate Lindsay Johnson Del E . Webb Foundation Women in Construction Josephine Bierwagen, Ashleigh Feiring Del E . Webb Memorial Scholarship Chase Farnsworth, Rebecca Freitas Del E . Webb School of Construction Doug Hosea, Adam Walter Distinguished Senior Award Chase Farnsworth, Rebecca Freitas FNF Construction Brantley Gallimore Frank Chandler Memorial David Phipps James Fann Memorial Brian Newman Jan Bennett Endowed Scholarship Joshua Marriott Jerry King Memorial Pablo Sandoval Jim Bebout Memorial Colton Atwell Kiewit Companies Scholarship Christian Sosinski Kitchell Contractors, Inc . William Nelson Kitchell Leadership Scholarship Nicholas Baxter, Josephine Bierwagen, Cynthia Botello, Bret Burnham, Chase Farnsworth, Ashleigh Feiring, Rebecca Freitas, Garrett Hardy, Brittany Hoste, Brent Lewis, Kaitlyn Mulhollan, Justin Nelson, Nico Rochwalik, Lucas Semler, Pablo Sandoval, Silvino Villanueva LeaderShape Recipients Cynthia Botello, Brittany Hoste, Pablo Sandoval, Alexandra Taylor, Silvino Villanueva Opus West Construction Corporation Undergraduate Scholarship Kaitlyn Mulhollan Pulte Home Corporation Jorge Martinez R . Glen Schoeffler Memorial Russell Intermaggio R . H . Johnson Scholarship Joseph Baker, David Braeckow, William Dietz, Andrew Ronan Richard Dawn Award Greg Carbajal Robert J . Wheeler Scholarship Scott Carfi, David Kestner Ron Pratte Memorial Brian Park Dr . Sandra L . Weber Memorial Award Tracy Strenger Schuff Steel Co . Academic Scholarship Gregory Brewer Sun Valley Construction Joshua Dixon The Beavers Anthony Davini, Brent Lewis 24 Arizona State University Alumni News

Alumni News

Enamul Hoque has been recognized Dr. Hisham Mahmoud has joined AMEC, by the Academy of Geo-Professionals the international engineering and project (AGP) Board of Trustees as having met management company, as President of its the requirements for the Diplomate, Earth & Environmental business . Mahmoud Geotechnical Engineer (D G. E) credential . has also been appointed to the company’s The certification period will run from Group Management Team and will be based February 21, 2010 thru May 31, 2011 . in Atlanta.

Hoque is the President and CEO of Hoque Mahmoud joins AMEC from URS and Associates, Inc ,. a consulting engineering firm established in Corporation, and has more than 19 years of experience with 1997 specializing in geotechnical exploration, civil engineering, URS and its predecessor companies Dames & Moore and construction materials testing, environmental assessment and Woodward Clyde . Most recently, as East/Midwest Group solid waste engineering . General Manager, Infrastructure and Environment, he managed around 3,500 employees in some 40 offices in the U S. . and He was presented with a certificate of knowledge and lapel pin Canada . in recognition of his achievement at the induction ceremony, GeoFlorida Conference 2010 . The Diplomate credential stands Mahmoud has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering as a testament to life-long learning . Awardees are encouraged from the University of Qatar and a Master’s and a Ph D. ,. in Civil to show their support of AGP’s goals by serving as an example Engineering from Arizona State University, 1991 . for the next generation of geotechnical engineers .

ASU construction grad offers helping hand

Jeff Begay, a member of the Navajo that Kitchell hires people, like me, who and refurnish the home of a Navajo tribal Nation who has worked for decades to understand this culturally unique segment member and fellow Vietnam veteran improve business and living conditions of America and also strives to provide whose home had been nearly destroyed in Native American communities, is the quality service, with integrity and respect ”. by vandals . 2010 Del E . Webb School of Construction Outstanding Alumni of the Year . “There’s a perception that a construction management graduate with an Begay graduated from ASU with a engineering background works only degree in construction management in with concrete, steel and wood, and isn’t 1974 and now is manager of business really involved with much of anything development for Kitchell Contractors else,” he says . Among his efforts beyond Native American Division . Through his construction business, Begay has been division’s work, Begay has helped lead instrumental in organizing Kitchell’s efforts to bring quality construction Cultural Sensitivity Seminars, inviting services to Indian lands . guest speakers from various tribal communities to make presentations Lack of quality building has long about their history, culture and community . plagued Indian reservations, he says . Jeff Begay (at right) is the Del E. Webb Many reservations “are like Third World Begay also has worked as a general School of Construction Outstanding Alumni countries . They are struggling to develop contractor and been a consultant to the of the Year award winner. He’s pictured a strong economy, struggling to build Gila River Indian community, assisting attending a Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community Veteran’s Pow Wow. At left is good infrastructure,” Begay says . He in the development of governmental Stephen Tahmahkera, son of Gary Tahmahkera, sees his job as “a mission and a passion . facilities, infrastructure and community a microbiology laboratory coordinator in ASU’s We are helping to build nations, to make housing programs . Earlier this year, School of Life Sciences. them prosperous and healthy . It’s fabulous Begay helped lead an effort to rebuild

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New Faculty Visiting Faculty

Thomas P. Seager, associate professor, Roger Owers is a visiting eminent scholar joined the School of Sustainable in the Del E . Webb School of construction . Engineering and the Built Environment His research focus is on construction in in August 2010 . Seager is formerly “Indian Country” . a founding faculty member at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at This involves researching the political, Rochester Institute of Technology and led economic, social, technical, and legal development of their Ph .D . curriculum in aspects of engineering and constructing on sustainability . lands of American Indians . Owers worked for a major Indian tribe in the Phoenix metro area, first as a He works at the leading edge of an integrative, construction manager for the tribe, and then as in-house legal transdisciplinary approach to engineering education and counsel for the tribe . He practices construction law and Indian research and is currently leading projects related to ultra- law and also consults to a wide range of small businesses, low energy community infrastructure, ethics education for design firms, developers, and contractors . science and engineering graduate students, and the life-cycle environmental implications of single-walled carbon nanotubes Owers is developing a series of seminars for teaching in energy applications . construction best practices to Native American constituents .

Seager is the author of 24 full journal articles on topics including resilience in the context of coupled ecological- Mookencherl Mathews received a re- engineering systems and stochastic approaches to invitation to work as an Eminent Research understanding stakeholder value choices in the context of Fellow at the School of Construction in the life-cycle assessment, and has authored over two dozen other year 2010 . He had a successful tenure as articles, books chapters, or refereed conference papers . an Eminent Research Fellow at the School He served as an assistant professor at Hudson Valley of Construction in 2004 and 2005 . In the Community College prior to earning his Ph .D . in Civil short time he has been identified as one Engineering at Clarkson University in 2001 and has previously of the best teachers in the Ira A . Fulton held faculty appointments at Purdue University and University Schools of Engineering . He has taught of New Hampshire . Statics, Strength of Materials and Building Construction and Methods .

William Harris Smith has joined the His area of research is in the Restoration of Ancient DEWSC team as a professor of practice . Monuments in India and abroad . An award winning real estate developer with over $1 billion in projects to his credit, Mathews hails from IIT Madras, India, where he was the Smith excels at coupling exceptional Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering before taking design with construction capabilities . up the above assignments .

Whether re-visioning and re-using buildings by “breathing new life” into worn, historic treasures, or creating new housing concepts for in-city dwellers or university students, Bill’s firms have delivered on time and on budget . His financial expertise with varieties of real estate instruments provides the ability to make deals happen when those with less creativity and experience strike out .

This fall Bill will co-teach CON 252 Building Construction Methods, Materials, and Equipment with Professor William Badger .

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Faculty Honors

Brad Allenby, a professor in SSEBE, has resistance . Participants, whose areas of expertise included recently co-authored a book that combines medicine, microbiology, and public health, made specific concepts of sustainable engineering with his recommendations for needed research, policy development, a pioneering work in industrial ecology . surveillance network, and treatment guidelines . Industrial ecology broadens the scope of the Antibiotic resistance issues specific to the developing world were sustainability concept, Allenby says . “It looks discussed and recommendations for improvements were made . at economic, technological and industrial systems and their interaction with environmental and social systems ”. From that point of view, Allenby says, “You look at a factory Dean Kashiwagi has won the International not only from merely an economic perspective, but from the Facility Management Association (IFMA) 2009 perspective of its overall impact on environmental and social Distinguished Educator Award, recognizing systems . You look at things like its carbon emissions and how numerous accomplishments in research as well the factory uses resources, and how they are tied to design as in teaching . choices and manufacturing practices ”. Kashiwagi is a professor in the Del E . Webb School of Construction, a part of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment . Allan Chasey, associate professor in DEWSC, The IFMA is the world’s largest international association for has received the President’s Medal for Social professional facility managers, supporting more than 19,500 Embeddedness and also has been named the members in 60 countries . The association’s members manage Sundt Construction Professor of Alternative more than 37 billion square feet of property around the world . Delivery and Sustainable Development for the academic year 2010/11 in recognition of his The organization particularly cited Kashiwagi’s use of resources leadership and talents . He will be working on research and provided by a prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant he was teaching, including class development and outreach, in some awarded in 2008 to develop a project to bring state-of-the- facet of alternative delivery and/or sustainable development . art facility and project management research and practices to Botswana, Africa in the past year . The award also honors Kashiwagi’s work to establish a Edward Gibson, interim director, programs “groundbreaking” Facilities Management Model of the Future chair in DEWSC and professor in the School of graduate program . Sustainable Engineering and the Built Kashiwagi is director of ASU’s Performance Based Studies Environment was selected as the recipient of the Research Group . It focuses on applying concepts for improving Construction Industry Institute (CII) Distinguished efficiency and performance, and minimizing risk, in project Professor Award . This award is sponsored by the management, as well as for organizations and businesses . CII Professional Development Committee and honors full-time or adjunct faculty at a graduate or undergraduate program that incorporated published CII research findings in their courses Edward Kavazanjian, a professor in SSEBE, during the previous calendar year . has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) . He was also awarded the 2010 Thomas A . Middlebrooks Rolf Halden , associate professor in SSEBE, Award by ASCE for co-authoring a paper titled traveled to Annecy, France to partake in an “Shear Strength of Municipal Solid Waste” . The invitation-only special colloquium of the American paper was judged worthy of special commendation for its merit Academy of Microbiology concentrating on as a contribution to geotechnical engineering . Antibiotic Resistance: An Ecological Perspective on an Old Problem . The colloquium was convened to discuss antibiotic resistance and the factors that influence the development and spread of

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Faculty Honors contd.

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, assistant professor Avi Wiezel, associate professor in the Del E . in SSEBE, has been chosen as one of the Webb School of Construction, is among 13 recipients for the 2009 TANITA Healthy Weight faculty appointed to the inaugural Leadership Community Grant-in-aid program . Her awarded Development Initiative for spring semester 2010 . grant will amount to $11,000 . The Leadership Development Initiative, coordinated by the Office for Developing Transformational Leaders, launched this new program in spring 2010 . The program includes a series of workshops and Jason Lueke, assistant professor in the Del E . developmental experiences for tenured faculty who have Webb School of Construction, has received the demonstrated leadership ability, enacted leadership roles within Outstanding Young Career Achievement award the college, who are new to leadership roles or may aspire to from the North American Society for Trenchless leadership or administrative roles . Technology .

Paul Westerhoff, a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Michael Mamlouk, professor in SSEBE and Environment, has been appointed to a three-year program chair of Civil, Environmental and term on the U S. . Environmental Protection Sustainable Engineering, has been awarded Agency’s Science Advisory Board . Board the 2010 Arizona Pavements/Materials members provide expertise on technical issues to Conference Community Service Award for help guide the agency in policy-making and decision-making . exceptional contributions to the paving/ Westerhoff also received the Excellence in Review Award from materials programs in Arizona . Environmental Science & Technology .

Subramaniam Rajan, a professor in SSEBE, Matthew Witczak, professor in SSEBE, has has been awarded the 2009 Outstanding been invited to deliver the first annual Leonard E . Engineering Educator of the Year for the Greater Wood Academic Enrichment Seminar at Purdue Phoenix Area Engineer’s Week . Rajan is being University . Witczak was selected by a panel of recognized for his long-standing and high impact faculty in the School of Civil Engineering at teaching effort at ASU and his contribution Purdue as an outstanding candidate to offer the towards the undergraduate and graduate curriculum . first lecture because of his preeminent position in the field of asphalt materials and pavement design and analysis .

Bruce Rittmann, a National Academy of Engineering member and Regents’ Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the The following faculty have been recognized by the Built Environment, won the 2009 Award for Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering (FSE) for being in Research Excellence from the Arizona the top 5% of best teachers in FSE for 2009/10: BioIndustry Association . Rittmann is an international leader in using microbes found in nature for the l to r: Braden Allenby, professor, William Badger, professor, benefit of the environment or human health . His research team Kraig Knutson, lecturer, sr ,. and Brooke Mayer, lecturer . tackles some of the world’s leading problems related to water, waste and energy .

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Morteza Abbaszadegan, Ph.D. Soyoung Ahn, Ph.D. Braden Allenby, Ph.D., J.D. Samuel T. Ariaratnam, Ph.D., Professor Assistant Professor Professor P.E. Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Professor Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Del E. Webb School of Health-Related Water Transportation Earth Systems Engineering Construction Microbiology Urban Underground Infrastructure Systems Soyoung Ahn is an assistant Brad Allenby is the Lincoln Morteza Abbaszadegan is a professor in the School of Professor of Engineering and professor and director of the Sustainable Engineering and the Ethics, and of Law, a professor Samuel Ariaratnam is a professor National Science Foundation Built Environment at ASU. Prior in CESE, Founding Chair of in the Del E. Webb School of (NSF) Water & Environmental to joining ASU in 2006, she the Consortium for Emerging Construction at Arizona State Technology (WET) Center at received her Ph.D. (2005) in Civil Technologies, Military Operations, University. He received his Arizona State University. He and Environmental Engineering and National Security, and B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering joined the department in 1999 from the University of California, the Director of the Center for from the University of Waterloo after spending more than Berkeley and worked as a Earth Systems Engineering and (Canada) and his M.S. & Ph.D. six years as a Microbiology postdoctoral research associate Management at ASU. from the University of Illinois at Research Manager in private in the Department of Civil and Urbana-Champaign. industry. He developed an Environmental Engineering He moved from his previous Environmental Microbiology at Portland State University, position as the Environment, Ariaratnam’s educational and course (CEE 467/567) for the Oregon. Health and Safety Vice President research interests lie in the CESE program. for AT&T in 2004. Allenby area of “Urban Underground Her expertise lies in traffic received his B.A. from Yale Infrastructure Systems” with Abbaszadegan’s research flow theory, traffic operations, University, his J.D. and M.A. an emphasis on Horizontal interest focuses on health- ITS applications, congestion (economics) from the University Directional Drilling and related water microbiology management, and traffic safety. of Virginia, and his M.S. and Trenchless Pipe Replacement. including microbial detection Her research aims to 1) better Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences He has published over 150 methodologies, pathogens understand the fundamental from Rutgers University. technical papers, holds inactivation and removal nature of traffic flow through three patents, co-authored mechanisms during water observation, experimentation and Allenby is past President of the five textbooks, and is active treatment processes, and water the application of quantitative International Society for Industrial in numerous professional quality in water distribution methods, 2) examine the safety Ecology, ex-Chair of the organizations. systems. He has developed new impact of traffic flow phenomena, AAAS Committee on Science, techniques for the detection and 3) apply the knowledge Engineering, and Public Policy, In 2003, he was presented of viruses, bacteria, Giardia in developing traffic theories Chair of the IEEE Presidential with the Young Civil Engineer and Cryptosporidium in water and control strategies through Sustainability Initiative, an AAAS Achievement Award from the samples. He has authored more applications of ITS. Fellow, an AT&T Industrial University of Illinois at Urbana- than 50 research papers in peer- Ecology Fellow, and a Fellow of Champaign. Ariaratnam is a reviewed journals and more than Her research has been funded the Royal Society for the Arts, past recipient of the John O. 20 in books and reports. by Arizona Department of Manufactures & Commerce. Bickel Award from the American Transportation, Federal Highway Society of Civil Engineers Abbaszadegan successfully Administration, National Science His areas of expertise include (ASCE) and was named to established a NSF Water Quality Foundation, Oregon Department sustainable engineering, Design the Phoenix Business Journal’s Center (WQC) and WET Center of Transportation, and Oregon for Environment, industrial prestigious “Top Forty Under at ASU. The NSF Centers Transportation Research and ecology, telework and netcentric 40” list in 2006. Currently, provide a platform to address Education Consortium. organizations, transhumanism, he serves as the Chairman of issues as diverse as water quality and earth systems engineering the International Society for by capitalizing the strengths Ahn currently serves as a and management. Trenchless Technology and is of partner organizations. The member of the Traffic Flow active in the local community as Centers have provided research Theory and Characteristics a member of the Tostitos Fiesta resources and capabilities to the committee of the Transportation Bowl Committee. participating members in a variety Research Board. of water quality arenas. Ariaratnam is a registered professional engineer in the State of Arizona and the Province of Ontario (Canada).

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William W. Badger, Ph.D., Howard H. Bashford, Ph.D., Allan D. Chasey, Ph.D., P.E. James J. Ernzen, Ph.D., P.E. P.E., N.A.C. P.E. Associate Professor Associate Professor Professor Associate Professor Del E. Webb School of Del E. Webb School of Del E. Webb School of Del E. Webb School of Construction Construction Construction Construction High-Technology Construction Concrete Materials and Construction Management Residential Construction Construction Operations Allan Chasey, an associate Bill Badger received his Ph.D. in Howard Bashford owned professor in the Del E. Webb Jim Ernzen is an associate Soil Mechanics from Iowa State and operated an engineering School of Construction, received professor and Director of University in 1972, his MSCE in consulting firm for 19 years and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, M.S. Concrete Industry Management Civil Engineering from Oklahoma a construction development in Engineering Management (CIM) at the Del E. Webb School State University in 1964, and his company for 8 years before from the Air Force Institute of of Construction. BSME in Mechanical Engineering coming to the DEWSC in 1991. Technology, and B.S. in Civil from Auburn University in 1959. He has been a faculty member Engineering from ASU. He has over 22 years experience ever since, spending two years as a construction manager, Badger was director and at Brigham Young University He is Director of CREATE, project engineer, construction professor in the Del E. Webb and the remainder of the time at a research consortium of materials researcher, and civil School of Construction DEWSC. companies representing the engineering educator in the Army (DEWSC) from 1992 to 2005. Advanced Technology design Corps of Engineers. He is currently a professor in Bashford has served as Director and construction. DEWSC. of the Graduate Program since Ernzen serves as the Academic 1997. He has also worked Chasey developed a graduate Co-chairperson of the Project From 1982 to 1985, Colonel with Drs. Walsh and Sawhney program in Advanced Technology Delivery Methods Task Force Badger was the Engineer of DEWSC to develop a facilities in conjunction with sponsored by the Alliance for for the United States Military collaborative research program leading experts in controlled Construction Excellence at Academy (West Point), focused upon residential environment manufacturing. This Arizona State University where supervised long-range construction. This has lead to one-of-a-kind program focuses he teaches a graduate course, planning, engineering, energy, the development of the Arizona on the construction process conducts seminars, and performs environmental, construction, Partnership for Advancing for high-technology, controlled research. He also teaches and maintenance. 1979-82, Technology in Homebuilding environment facilities. He is courses and conducts research Colonel Badger was the District (AzPath), a partnership with five also developing the Building in concrete materials and Engineer in St. Paul, MN. As local home builders, National Information Modeling (BIM) concrete construction operations. Commander of a U.S. Army curriculum for the School of Science Foundation, and the He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering District, he provided US Department of Housing and Construction. leadership and management Engineering at the University Urban Development (HUD). Chasey is a registered of Texas at Austin, M.S. in to an engineering organization Bashford is also the Director of of 800 personnel with an area Professional Civil Engineer in Mechanical Engineering from the Housing Research Institute Arizona, an OSHA Construction University of Notre Dame and including parts of five states, (HRI) at ASU. executed programs of planning, Outreach Trainer, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering engineering, construction, and Bashford also heads the Master LEED AP. He is a member from University of Notre Dame. operation of navigation and flood of Real Estate Development of the American Society of control projects and conducted (MRED) program at DEWSC. Civil Engineers (ASCE), the emergency operations for floods This accelerated program is Association for the Advancement and other natural disasters. part of a university wide trans- of Cost Engineering (AACE), disciplinary degree, collaborating the Institute of Environmental Awards: with the schools of design, law Sciences and Technology 2008 - One of ENR’s 25 and business at Arizona State (IEST), International Society Newsmakers of the year University. of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE), and the Semi-conductor 2007 - The Construction Industry He is the recipient of the Environmental, Safety and Institute’s Richard L. Tucker 2003 Crescordia Award for Health Assoc. (SESHA). He Award for Leadership & Service Outstanding Excellence in also serves as the lead of the Facilities Working Group for 2005 - Associated Schools Environmental Education. the Factory Integration TWG of Construction’s Life Time for the International Technology Achievement Award Roadmap for Semiconductors 2000 - Member of the National (ITRS). Academy of Construction (N.A.C.)

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Apostolos Fafitis, Ph.D., P.E. Peter Fox, Ph.D., P.E. G. Edward (Edd) Gibson, Jr., Rolf U. Halden, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor Professor Ph.D., P.E., N.A.C. Associate Professor Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Professor, Programs Chair and Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering SSEBE Interim Director Sustainable Engineering Concrete & Structures Design Wastewater Treatment and Del E. Webb School of Environmental Engineering and Water Reclamation Construction Water Resources Construction Management Apostolos Fafitis joined the faculty at ASU in 1984. Peter Fox has been a faculty Rolf Halden received his Master’s He received his Ph.D. from member in Civil, Environmental Edd Gibson joined ASU and degree in Biology (Diploma, Northwestern University. Prior and Sustainable Engineering at the Del E. Webb School of 1992) from the Technical to joining ASU, Fafitis worked ASU for 20 years. He received Construction in August 2009 University of Braunschweig, for15 years for various structural his Ph.D. in Environmental as its programs chair. He is Germany, and a second Master’s consulting companies in South Engineering from the University Professor and Sunstate Chair of (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Civil Africa, Greece and the USA. He of Illinois in 1989, his M.S. Construction Management and Engineering from the University has been involved in the analysis in Environmental Engineering Engineering in SSEBE. of Minnesota. and design of reinforced and from the University of Illinois in prestressed concrete bridges 1985 and his B.S. in Chemical Gibson has led over $9 million His research and teaching and buildings. Engineering with Honors from in funded research during his interests are in bioremediation, the University of Illinois. career from sponsors such as proteomic mass spectrometry, Fafitis’ teaching interests include: NSF, Construction Industry human exposure assessment, statics and strength of materials, His professional interests Institute, NRC, Alfred P. Sloan and sustainable chemistry. reinforced and prestressed are primarily in water reuse, Foundation, Texas Department concrete design, nonlinear biological treatment processes of Transportation, U.S. Army Ongoing projects focus on structural analysis and dynamics and brine disposal/desalination. Corps of Engineers and others. the occurrence and fate of of structures. He has focused his work on He has taught on the university pharmaceuticals and personal natural treatment systems, level for almost 20 years and care products (PPCPs) in the Research interests: constitutive groundwater recharge and has delivered more than 190 environment, the genomic and modeling of brittle materials, indirect potable water reuse for short courses to industry during proteomic characterization elasto-plastic behavior of the last fifteen years. that time, receiving awards of pollutant-degrading structures, time dependent for university and continuing microorganisms, the development nonlinear structural analysis and Fox served on the National education instruction. of in situ microcosm array (ISMA) seismic isolation of structures. Academy of Science ad-hoc technology for remedial design, committee that published the Gibson has several years of and the determination of body Selected Publications: National Research Council report industry employment experience burdens and biomarkers of toxic Fafitis, A. (2001) “An Application entitled “Prospects for Managed with the U.S. Army Corps of exposures and effects in adults of Green’s Theorem in the Underground Storage of Engineers and Texas Instruments, and children. Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Recoverable Water” in 2008. He and is a licensed professional Sections Under Biaxial Stress”, also authored the groundwater engineer in Texas. He is Past- Halden’s microbiology and ASCE J. of Str. Eng. Vol. 127, pp. recharge chapter in the Metcalf President of the Board of mass spectrometry labs are 840-846. and Eddy textbook on water Governors for the Architectural housed in the Center for reuse. In addition, Fox was an Engineering Institute within Environmental Biotechnology Fafitis, A. (2005) “Nonlinear at ASU’s Biodesign Institute. truss Analysis by One Matrix executive committee member for the American Society of Civil the development of the national Engineering. He has served on the Maryland Inversion”, ASCE J. of Str.Eng. State Water Quality Advisory Vol. 131, pp. 701-705. roadmap for desalination and water purification. Honors & Distinctions: Committee, the Food and Drug Attard, T. and Fafitis, A. (2007) Elected as Fellow in ASCE, Administration’s Nonprescription “Optimal Seismic Analysis of Fox was awarded the Quentin 2006. Elected National Drugs Advisory Committee, and Frames”, Engineering Structures Mees Research Award from the Academy of Construction a National Research Council Parts 1 and 11,29(8),pp.1990- AzWater Association in 1991, (NAC), 2005. U.S. Dept. committee of the National 2000. 1994, 1997 and 2003. of State, Fulbright Senior Academies. Specialist Grant to Norway, Rong, B., Chen, Z. and Fafitis, 2004. Construction Industry A. (2009) “Axial Compression Institute’s Researcher of the Year Stability of a Crisscross Section Award, 2004. National Society Column Composed of Concrete- of Professional Engineers, Filled Square Steel Tubes”, J. of Sustaining Universities Program, Mech. Of Mater. and Struct. Vol. Outstanding Engineering 4, pp. 101-113. Educator Award, 2002.

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Sandra Houston, Ph.D., P.E. Paul Johnson, Ph.D., P.E. Kamil Kaloush, Ph.D., P.E. Dean T. Kashiwagi, Ph.D., P.E. Professor Dean, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Associate Professor Fulbright Professor Civil, Environmental & Engineering Civil, Environmental & Director Sustainable Engineering Professor Sustainable Engineering Performance Based Studies Geotechnical Engineering Civil, Environmental & Pavements and Materials Research Group (PBSRG), Del Sustainable Engineering E. Webb School of Construction Environmental Engineering Project Management Sandra Houston has been Kamil Kaloush is an associate a member of the Civil, professor in Civil, Environmental Environmental and Sustainable Paul Johnson is the Dean in and Sustainable Engineering, Dean Kashiwagi is the worldwide Engineering faculty at ASU the Ira A. Fulton Schools of affiliate faculty in the School of expert in optimizing the delivery for 25 years and former Engineering and a professor Sustainability, and Director of the of construction and other chair of the department. Her in the School of Sustainable National Center of Excellence services using performance primary area of expertise is Engineering and the Built on SMART Innovations (www. information. His structures/ geotechnical engineering. Environment. asuSMART.com). He holds a processes simultaneously Houston’s contributions to the Ph.D. degree specializing in minimize project/risk field of geotechnical engineering He received his Ph.D. and M.A. pavements and materials from management functions up to focus on advancement of in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University. He 90%, increased vendor profit methodologies for dealing Princeton University and B.S. is a registered Professional as much as 100%, increased with arid region problem soils, in Chemical Engineering from Engineer, and has over 20 years performance to 98%, and particularly collapsible and University of California, Davis. of experience as a consulting decrease costs. expansive soils. engineer in pavement research. Prior to joining ASU in 1994, he His Performance Information She is the regular instructor of was a Senior Research Engineer Kaloush is a member of several Procurement System (PIPS) and undergraduate and graduate level at the Shell Oil Westhollow professional organizations Performance Information Risk foundation engineering classes Technology Center. His teaching, and has over 60 publications Management System (PIRMS) and has recently developed research and professional in his field. He is the chair of is licensed by the U.S. Army a graduate level course on activities focus on the application the Transportation Research Medical Command and the Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. of contaminant fate and transport Board subcommittee on General Services Administration. fundamentals to subsurface Pavement Materials and the Kashiwagi has generated over A heavy emphasis on the remediation and risk assessment Urban Climate; a member of the $8.5M in grants over 16 years, advancement of unsaturated problems. Civil Engineering Examination and has successfully run over soil mechanics into the practice Johnson received the AEHS Committee, National Council of 700 project tests, delivering over of geotechnical engineering Examiners for Engineering and $4B of construction and other is evident by her professional Academic Career Recognition Award in 2006 and CERF Surveying; and co-advisor for the services. service activities. ASU-ASCE student chapter. Charles Pankow Award for Kashiwagi is an accomplished Houston has a long history Innovation Finalist in 2005. In 2009 Kaloush was the author of over 175 refereed of leadership in professional Johnson is also editor-in-chief recipient of the Community conference and journal papers society organizations, particularly for the National Ground Water Service Award presented by the and is a registered engineer in through participation in the Associations journalGround joint ASU, ADOT, Industry and eight states. He was the 2009 American Society of Civil Water Monitoring and Local Government Pavements/ International Facility Management Engineers (ASCE), the Geo- Remediation. Materials Conference committee. Association Educator of the Institute of ASCE, and the Year. In 2005, he was the International Society of Soil recipient of the CoreNet Global Mechanics and Geotechnical Innovation of the Year Award Engineering (ISSMGE). She for the research being tested currently serves as the chair of at Harvard University and in the Unsaturated Soils Committee 2001 his work received the of the Geo-Institute of ASCE, Pono Technology Award for as a member of the ISSMGE research work and results in the Committee on Unsaturated State of Hawaii. Kashiwagi’s Soils, and as a member of the research has also expanded to National Academies of Science Finland, Netherlands, Africa, and Committee on Geotechnical and Malaysia. Geo-environmental Engineering.

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Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Jason S. Lueke, Ph.D., P.Eng. Michael S. Mamlouk, Ph.D., Ph.D., P.E., G.E. Ph.D. Assistant Professor P.E., F.ASCE Professor Assistant Professor Del E. Webb School of Professor and Program Chair Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Construction Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Underground Construction and Sustainable Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Environmental Biotechnology Infrastructure Pavement and Materials

Edward Kavazanjian is a Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown is an Jason Lueke is an assistant Michael Mamlouk graduated geotechnical engineer with assistant professor in Civil, professor in the Del E. Webb from Purdue University and 20 years of experience in Environmental & Sustainable School of Construction has over 30 years of research engineering practice and 13 Engineering (CESE). Before (DEWSC). Prior to joining and teaching experience in the years of university teaching joining CESE she was a DEWSC in January 2009, he field of pavement / materials and research experience. His postdoctoral researcher at worked for 8 years as a civil engineering. Prior to joining ASU, research and teaching interests Biodesign working in the Center infrastructure engineer in the Mamlouk worked at the State include geotechnical earthquake for Environmental Biotechnology. contracting and consulting University of New York at Buffalo engineering, analysis and design She received her B.S. (1996) industries. He received his Ph.D. for 5 years. He received his Ph.D. of waste containment systems, in Industrial Biochemical in Civil Engineering, specializing degree from Purdue University and the emerging area of Engineering from Autonomous in Construction Engineering and in 1979. biogeotechnical engineering. Metropolitan University in Mexico Management, from the University City and her M.S. (2000) and of Alberta, Edmonton, in Mamlouk’s main areas of Kavazanjian has been honored Ph.D. (2005) in Environmental 2005. His research focuses on expertise include pavement by the American Society of Civil Engineering from Georgia underground construction, buried design, pavement evaluation Engineers (ASCE) with the 2010 Institute of Technology. infrastructure, and trenchless and maintenance, and material Thomas A. Middlebrooks award construction methods. characterization. He is currently for his paper on “Shear Strength Her primary areas of research working as the Co-PI of a of Municipal Solid Waste” interest are: biotransformation Lueke has been involved $750,000 project funded by the and in 2009 with the Ralph B. and fate of environmental professionally in numerous National Cooperative Highway Peck Award for outstanding contaminants, bioremediation of infrastructure projects including Research Program (NCHRP) contributions to the geotechnical soil, sediments, and groundwater, water distribution, and dealing with the endurance limit engineering profession through the use of microbial systems wastewater and storm water of hot-mix asphalt. the publication of thoughtful, for bioenergy production with management; undertaking carefully researched case an emphasis on environmental design services, feasibility Mamlouk has published histories on landfill engineering. applications of molecular studies, value engineering, numerous technical papers and He was also selected as 2009 microbial ecology. Another area risk mitigation, and tendering is actively involved in professional Engineering Educator of the Year of research where she applies services; and has specialized societies such as ASCE, AAPT, by the Phoenix chapter of the her molecular microbial ecology expertise in trenchless TRB and ASTM. He is the main National Society of Professional expertise is the human intestinal construction methods including author of the “Materials for Civil Engineers. microbial ecology and its horizontal directional drilling, and Construction Engineers” relationship to obesity. pipe relining, pipe bursting, textbook, which has been used Kavazanjian is co-author of the case boring, and tunneling. by over 125 engineering schools Federal Highway Administration Her research has been published Lueke is currently researching nationwide and overseas. He guidance document on in Proceedings of the National photogrammetric methods to has worked as a consultant and Geotechnical Earthquake Academy of Science, Applied provide quality assurance and to expert witness to many highway Engineering for Highways and and Environmental Microbiology, record as-builds; investigating agencies and local industry and the Environmental Protection Environmental Science and behavior of buried plastic pipe is a professional engineer in the Agency guidance document on Technology, FEMS Microbiology installed by open trench and State of Arizona. RCRA Subtitle D (258) Seismic Ecology and Environmental directional drilling beneath rivers; Design Guidance for Municipal Microbiology. and researching methods to Solid Waste Landfill Facilities. sustainably rehabilitate water He is Immediate Past President distribution networks. of the Geo-Institute of ASCE, representing the 11,000+ In 2010, Lueke was awarded the geotechnical engineers who Trent Ralston Award for Young belong to ASCE and also a Trenchless Achievement from member of the National Research the North American Society for Council Board of Earth Sciences Trenchless Technology (NASTT) and Resources, where he for excellence in the early stages serves as chair of the standing of his career. Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering. School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 33 Faculty

Larry W. Mays, Ph.D., P.E., Panagiotis (Takis) Mitropoulos, Barzin Mobasher, Ph.D., P.E. Ram Pendyala, Ph.D. P.H., D. WRE, F.ASCE Ph.D., P.E. Professor Professor Professor Assistant Professor Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Del E. Webb School of Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Construction Cement and Concrete Transportation Systems Water Resources Sustainability Construction Accident Engineering Engineering Prevention Larry Mays has been a professor Barzin Mobasher, who joined Ram Pendyala joined ASU in at Arizona State University since Panagiotis Mitropoulos joined the Ira A. Fulton Schools of 2006 after spending 12 years 1989, and former chair of the the faculty at the Del E. Webb Engineering faculty in 1991, has on the faculty at the University department. He started his School of Construction as an been involved in research and of South Florida. He received academic career at the University assistant professor in August teaching in the area of cement his Ph.D. from the University of of Texas at Austin in 1976, and 2004. He has a Doctoral and concrete engineering California at Davis in 1992. became Director of the Center degree in Civil Engineering for more than 25 years. He for Research in Water Resources from Stanford University and a received his Ph.D. in 1990 Pendyala teaches courses in in 1988. Mays received his Ph.D. Master of Science degree in Civil from Northwestern University. transportation engineering, in 1976 from the University of Engineering from Virginia Tech. His specific expertise is in transportation systems analysis Illinois. He is a registered professional the mechanics of composite and modeling, and public engineer in Greece. Before materials, the development of transportation planning and His area of research interest is joining ASU, Mitropoulos worked new construction materials design. He has conducted more in the use of optimization and for eight years as a Performance and the durability of building than $5 million in sponsored risk/reliability methods for the Improvement Specialist on materials. research over the past 15 years design and operation of water large technical projects and as for a variety of agencies. His infrastructure systems to promote a consultant with Lean Project Mobasher has published more research has primarily focused on water resources sustainability. Consulting. than 100 peer-reviewed research the development and application He has mentored over 30 Ph.D. papers on the mechanics and of new methods for modeling students. Mitropoulos teaches courses durability of concrete technology, and forecasting transportation in productivity improvement, and has delivered more than demand and system performance Mays is the author, co-author, or construction scheduling and 120 technical presentations under a wide variety of socio- editor-in-chief of over 20 books construction safety. His primary worldwide. economic, modal, and land use including Water Resources areas of research include scenarios. Engineering; Groundwater accident prevention, high In 2009 Mobasher was selected Hydrology; Applied Hydrology; performance crews, and lean as a Fellow of the American Pendyala is currently Chair of the Hydrosystems Engineering and production management. Concrete Institute (ACI), one of Transportation Research Board’s Management; Water Resources the most prominent organizations Travel Analysis Methods Section, Handbook; Water Distribution In 2007, Mitropoulos received in the concrete technology field. and Vice Chair and Chair-Elect Systems Handbook; Hydraulic the NSF Career Award for his of the International Association Design Handbook; Water research “Safety as an Emergent He is a member of the American for Travel Behavior Research. He Resources Sustainability, and Property of the Production Society of Civil Engineers has published nearly 100 articles others. Mays’ most recent books System: Work Practices and (ASCE) and American Ceramic in refereed journals, books, are Urban Water Management Team Processes of High Society and member of the and conference proceedings. in Arid and Semi-arid Regions Reliability Crews.” International Editorial Board of He serves as an advisor to published by UNESCO , and Computers and Concrete. various agencies including the Ancient Water Technologies He is a member of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency Lean Construction Institute, Mobasher was the recipient published by Springer. of the ACI Scholarship Award for Planning, Transportation the International Group of Research Board, US Department Among his honors is a Lean Construction, and the in 1984 and Federal Highway Administration Honorable of Transportation and World distinguished alumnus award Construction Research Council. Bank. from the University of Illinois at Mention Award in 1988. Champaign-Urbana. He is a Pendyala has mentored over 50 Diplomate, Water Resources M.S. and Ph.D. students. He Engineering, of the American was named among the top 5% Academy of Water Resources of teachers in the Ira A. Fulton Engineering and a Fellow of Schools of Engineering for 2008. ASCE and IWRA.

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Subramaniam (Subby) Rajan, Bruce Rittmann, Ph.D., N.A.E. Thomas P. Seager, Ph.D. Kenneth T. Sullivan, Ph.D., Ph.D., P.E. Professor Associate Professor M.B.A. Professor Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Assistant Professor Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Del E. Webb School of Sustainable Engineering Director Sustainable Engineering Construction Associate Chair Center for Environmental Performance Measurement Graduate Program Biotechnology Structures and Materials Environmental Biotechnology Tom Seager joined the School of Sustainable Engineering and Kenneth Sullivan has a research the Built Environment in the Ira and teaching focus in the use Subby Rajan’s teaching and Bruce Rittmann’s research and A. Fulton Schools of Engineering of performance measurement research interests include solid teaching focus on Environmental at Arizona State University in and best value concepts to mechanics with emphasis Biotechnology, or managing August 2010. Seager is formerly increase business efficiency on constitutive modeling, microorganisms to provide a founding faculty member and to minimize risk. He has finite element analysis, services to society. The services at the Golisano Institute for conducted his research across design optimization and include bioremediating pollution Sustainability at Rochester the project life-cycle including high-performance software of water and soil, and generating Institute of Technology and design, construction, and facility development. Currently he is renewable bioenergy. This highly led development of their Ph.D. management. The research working on research projects inter-disciplinary research links curriculum in sustainability. is applied at both organization sponsored by the Federal engineering fundamentals with and project levels, including microbial ecology, biochemistry, He works at the leading edge of contracts, risk management, Aviation Administration (FAA), genetics, geochemistry, and an integrative, transdisciplinary project management, and the Army Research Office (ARO) materials. approach to engineering accountability systems. ASU has and local industries. These education and research and is applied many of his concepts projects involve characterization Rittmann’s awards include currently leading projects related internally and estimates a value of materials for blast and membership in the National to ultra-low energy community impact of over $10M/year due to ballistic mitigation, development Academy of Engineering, a infrastructure, ethics education the realized efficiencies. of constitutive models and Fellow of the AAAS, the Huber for science and engineering computer simulations, and and Freese Awards from the graduate students, and the life- Sullivan has a Ph.D., MS, and design optimization to reduce ASCE, and appointment as a cycle environmental implications BS in Civil and Environmental the weight, thickness and cost of Regents’ Professor at ASU. He of single-walled carbon Engineering and a MBA in Real body, vehicle and aircraft armor. has more than 420 publications nanotubes in energy applications. Estate and Urban Economics all and is on the ISI’s List of Most from the University of Wisconsin- Rajan continues to mentor Highly Cited Researchers. Seager is the author of 24 Madison. undergraduate, master’s and full journal articles on topics doctoral students and has been Selected Publications: including resilience in the Honors/Distinctions: recognized for these efforts Rittmann, B. E. and P. L. context of coupled ecological- Top 5% of Engineering Faculty as CEE’s nominee for ASU McCarty (2001). Environmental engineering systems and Award 2009 President’s Professor Award. Biotechnology: Principles and stochastic approaches to Applications. McGraw-Hill Book understanding stakeholder Deputy Director of the PBSRG. Selected Publications: Co., New York. value choices in the context of Director of FMRI D. Naik, S. Sankaran, B. life-cycle assessment, and has Research Secretariat for Mobasher, S. D. Rajan and J.M. Marcus, A. K., C. I. Torres, authored over two dozen other CIB W117 – Performance Pereira, “Development of Reliable and B.E. Rittmann (2007). articles, books chapters, or Measurement in Construction. Modeling Methodologies for Fan Conductionbased modeling of refereed conference papers. the biofilm anode of a microbial Blade-Out Containment Analysis. Selected Publications: fuel cell. Biotech. Bioengr. 98: He served as an assistant Part I: Experimental Studies”, J of Sullivan, K., Kashiwagi, J., and 1117-1182. professor at Hudson Valley Impact Engineering, 36:1, 1 11, Kashiwagi, D. (2010). “The Community College prior 2009. Optimizing of Design Delivery Chung, J., R. Krajmalnik-Brown, to earning his Ph.D. in Civil Services for Facility Owners.” Z. Stahlecker, B. Mobasher, and B. E. Rittmann (2008). Engineering at Clarkson Journal of Facilities Management, S.D. Rajan and J. M. Pereira, Bioreduction a hydrogen-based University in 2001 and Vol. 8 (1), pp. 26-46. “Development of Reliable membrane biofilm reactor. has previously held faculty Environ. Sci. Technol. 42(2): 477- Modeling Methodologies for Fan appointments at Purdue Sullivan, K. and Guo, Y. (2009). 483. Blade-Out Containment Analysis. University and University of New “Contractor Cash Flow and Part II: Finite Element Analysis”, Hampshire. Profitability Analysis between J of Impact Engineering, 36:3, Best Value and Low Bid.” Cost 447-459, 2009 Engineering, Vol. 51 (9), pp. 16-20.

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Enrique R. Vivoni, Ph.D., P.E. Paul Westerhoff Ph.D., P.E. Avi Wiezel, Ph.D., P.E. Eric Williams Ph.D. Associate Professor Professor AssociateProfessor Assistant Professor Civil, Environmental & Civil, Environmental & Del E. Webb School of Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Construction Sustainable Engineering Watershed Hydrology Environmental Engineering Construction Engineering Earth Systems Engineering

Enrique Vivoni holds a joint Paul Westerhoff joined ASU and A faculty member of ASU since Eric Williams is assistant appointment as an associate CESE in August 1995 and was 1996, Avi Wiezel holds a M.Sc. professor with a joint professor in the School of promoted to full professor as a degree in structural engineering appointment between the School Sustainable Engineering and University Exemplar in 2007. He and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in building of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and the was appointed Chair of Civil, science. the Built Environment and the School of Earth and Space Environmental and Sustainable School of Sustainability. He is Exploration. He obtained Engineering in 2008 and Prior to becoming a professor, Research Director of the Center a B.S. in Environmental founding Director of the School Wiezel held several managerial for Earth Systems Engineering Engineering, M.S. in Civil and of Sustainable Engineering and positions with construction and and Management. His research Environmental Engineering the Built Environment through engineering firms in Europe interests include life cycle and Ph.D. in Hydrology from 2010. and the Middle East. His assessment, industrial ecology, the Massachusetts Institute of activities resulted in continuous information technology, and Technology. Westerhoff has a strong productivity improvements energy and water systems. publication and research record, averaging 15% per year for Vivoni is well known for has garnered wide recognition the units in which he was in Much of Williams’ work his research in watershed for his work related to treatment charge. Wiezel taught in four addresses the environmental hydrology and its linkages with and occurrence of emerging languages on three continents assessment and management ecological, atmospheric and contaminants in water, and has (Asia, Europe, and America) to of information technology. Life geomorphologic processes. As a been active in multidisciplinary students of all levels, ranging cycle studies of microchips surface hydrologist, he performs research. He has lead research from vocational education to and computers have shown research in hydrometeorology, funded by AWWARF, USEPA, doctoral students. that the manufacturing phase is ecohydrology, geomorphology NIH, NSF and local organizations more environmentally intensive and surface-groundwater investigating reactions and fate He ranks among the top 5% of than previously thought. The interactions. His teaching is of oxo-anions (bromate, nitrate, best teachers in the Ira A. Fulton management of electronic waste centered on surface hydrology arsenate) during water treatment, Schools of Engineering and is (e-waste) is under investigation and techniques for numerical and characterization, treatment and the recipient of the Outstanding via a project taking a global field studies. oxidation of natural organic Faculty Member Award. He perspective on environmental, matter in watersheds, formation serves as the Coordinator of social and economic issues. Vivoni is the recipient of of disinfection by-products, Construction Graduate Studies. Williams also works on managing numerous awards including removal of taste and odor Wiezel is a true interdisciplinary implications and applications the Most Promising Engineer micropollutants and fate of of Information Technology -Hispanic Engineering National researcher, with interests ranging nanomaterials in water. He has from computer modeling of for energy demand such as Achievement Award Conference over 105 peer reviewed journal telecommuting, e-commerce and (2007), Presidential Early human skills in construction, article publications and has been to engineering education, and energy smart homes. Career Award for Scientists involved in over 250 conference and Engineers (2008) and U.S. leadership. He served as the Energy related work includes life presentations. He belongs President of the Faculty Senate Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar to ASCE, AWWA, AEESP, cycle assessment of emerging (2009). He is an active member in the School of Engineering and energy technologies such as ACS, IOA, IWA, AWPCA, and as the Chair of the Education of the American Geophysical IHSS and serves on numerous photovoltaics and biofuels. Union, American Society of Civil Committee of the Technical He also works on combining voluntary committees for these Council on Computers and Engineers, Geological Society organizations. thermodynamic and energy of America and American Information Technology (TCCIT) approaches with empirical Meteorological Society. Westerhoff has received several in the American Society of Civil modeling to assess long-term research awards including the Engineers (ASCE). trends and future potential of 2005 ASCE Walter L. Huber energy technologies. Research Award and the 2006 WEF Paul L. Busch Award.

36 Arizona State University Faculty Research Faculty

Matthew W. Witczak, Ph.D., Claudia E. Zapata, Ph.D. Ramzy Kahhat Abedrabbo, Absar Alum, Ph.D. is an P.E. Assistant Professor Ph.D. is an assistant research assistant research professor Professor Civil, Environmental & professor in the School of in Civil, Environmental and Civil, Environmental & Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering Sustainable Engineering. He Sustainable Engineering Geotechnical Engineering and the Built Environment at joined ASU in 2001 and was Pavement Design Arizona State University. He appointed assistant research obtained his Ph.D. in Civil and professor in 2006. Alum’s Claudia Zapata received her Environmental Engineering at research is in the area of Matthew Witczak is an Ph.D. from Arizona State the same university focusing on health related environmental internationally recognized expert University in 1999. Her research the sustainable management of microbiology and toxicology. in the area of highway and interests are in the areas of electronic waste (e-waste). His The primary area of his expertise airfield pavements. He served characterization and modeling current research focuses on the is microbiology/engineering on the faculty of the University of fluid flow and volume change development of methodologies interface. His work on the of Maryland for 26 years before behavior of unsaturated soils to characterize and quantify rapid microbial detection becoming professor of Civil and lab/field instrumentation. the international flow of methodologies has resulted in Engineering at ASU in 1999. She has particularly focused on e-waste. He also investigates a new generation of biosensor. the characterization of problem the creation of sustainable Alum is active in various Witczak is co-author, with the soils; applications related to the management systems in order professional organizations late Professor E.J. Yoder, of the behavior of pavement subgrades to manage e-waste properly including the American Society textbook, “Principles of Pavement due to dynamic loading and in specific locations around for Microbiology. Recently Design”, and has authored well environmental conditions; and the globe. Kahhat has also he was selected as Visiting over 120 technical papers and the assessment of fluid flow and studied and researched about Resource Person for developing reports in the area of pavement volume change of soils under the environmental impacts of countries under UNESCO- design, rehabilitation, materials slabs-on-ground residential residential buildings using the life ASM-VPR program. and management systems. He foundation systems. cycle assessment methodology. has been involved in numerous In the past, he has been worldwide consulting activities Zapata is currently working on involved in a number of mine and has been invited to speak three main research projects: projects such as environmental in all five continents. Witczak The implementation of the impact assessments, baseline has also testified before the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement monitoring, and aquifer U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Design Guide for the Maricopa characterization in Peru. national transportation issues. Department of Transportation; At ASU, Witczak has been the study of cracked expansive the research team leader in clays for the National Science developing the 2002 Pavement Foundation; and the development Construction majors Rebecca Freitas and Josephine Design Guide for flexible of an Atlas of unsaturated soil pavements, and a national study properties for the 50 states Bierwagen review blueprints. Photo by Jennifer Johnson. for the development of a simple for the National Cooperative performance test for asphalt Highway Research Program. mixtures. Zapata is the author of 20 Honors & Distinctions: technical publications focusing 2002 Asphalt Institute Honor on expansive soils, unsaturated Roll, ASCE invited co-author soil properties predicting models, on “The History of Asphalt and environmental effects on in the U.S.” to commemorate pavement design. She was the 75th year Anniversary of featured in the May/June 2009 ASCE as a technical society, ASCE Geotechnical Engineering Walter J. Emmons Award of the magazine, Geo-Strata, as a Association of Asphalt Paving co-author of the article entitled Technologies, 2008 Thomas B. “Application of Unsaturated Deen Distinguished Lectureship Soil Mechanics to Pavement Award. Subgrade Design.”

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Paul Dahlen, Ph.D., is an Hugo Destaillats, Ph.D., Della M. Roy, Ph.D., research Thomas Schleifer, Ph.D., assistant professor research in joined CESE in 2006 as an professor, holds a part-time assistant research professor, Environmental Engineering. He assistant professor research. joint appointment in the School joined the construction industry received a B.S. in Hydrology He holds a joint appointment of Sustainable Engineering at age 16 and has more than from the University of Arizona, with the Lawrence Berkeley and the Built Environment and 50 years of contracting and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and National Laboratory. Destaillats the School of Mechanical, consulting experience. He Environmental Engineering from earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry Aerospace, Chemical and holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Arizona State University, and at the University of Buenos Materials. She is also a construction management and has spent over 7 years working Aires (Argentina), and was a Professor Emerita of Materials served as a superintendent, in industry as a hydrologist/ postdoc at the California Institute Science at The Pennsylvania PM and president of the largest environmental engineer. of Technology. He studies State University where she has international consultancy firm Dahlen’s research interests various aspects of environmental held various faculty appointments serving the contract surety focus on the assessment and chemistry including the fate and through the years. Her various industry. During this period, remediation of hydrocarbon transport of organic pollutants, research and teaching interests he assisted in the resolution impacts to soil/groundwater. the characterization of pathways include the areas of cementitious or salvage of hundreds of Specific research includes of human exposure to toxic materials, chemically bonded distressed or failed construction leaking underground storage environmental contaminants and ceramics, biomaterials firms. Schleifer has been listed tank impacts on groundwater the development of advanced research and radioactive waste in “Who’s Who in Finance resources, hydrocarbon vapor remediation technologies management. Areas of research and Industry” , “Who’s Who in intrusion processes, oxygen for water and air cleaning. A encompass materials synthesis, America” and “Who’s Who in the injection technologies for use recent focus of his work has processing, characterization in World.” Publications by Schleifer in in-situ permeable reactive been the study of chemical inorganic, ceramic, cement and include: books; Construction barriers, and the use of in-situ transformations of pollutants in mineral systems; phase equilibria Contractors’ Survival Guide, thermal remedial applications the indoor environment. He is the and thermodynamic properties; John Wiley and Sons; Glossary for hydrocarbon impacted soils/ author of more than 35 journal hydrothermal synthesis; of Suretyship and Related Terms, groundwater. articles. chemically bonded ceramics; CMA Press; video and audio biomaterials synthesis; nano- tapes; Schleifer’s Construction and micro-structural design, Profit Series, newsletter: and durability of materials. Roy Schleifer’s Construction has authored or co-authored Forecast. some 435 papers, and 10 edited books. She is Founding Editor of the journal Cement and Concrete Research of which she served as Editor-in-Chief for 34 years. She has received numerous awards and honors: Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the World Academy of Ceramics. She has also received the Jeppson Medal, Copeland Award, and Bleininger Award of the American Ceramic Society.

Resplendent in their hard hats, Construction Management graduates of the Del E. Webb School of Construction Cynthia Karina Botello (left) and Briselda Guerrero chat while waiting for the Hispanic Convocation to begin.

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Aaron Cohen, M.S., joins Kraig Knutson, Ph.D., Christopher Lawrence, Brooke Mayer, Ph.D., Edwin C. Weaver, ASU as the Associated a senior lecturer in the Ph.D., studied several a lecturer in CESE, P.E., a senior lecturer General Contractors DEWSC joined the years of architectural completed her Ph.D. in DEWSC, teaches (AGC) Lecturer focusing DEWSC team in 1998. technology before earning at ASU in 2008. Her and develops graduate on teaching courses in the He owned and operated a B.S.C.E. at Lawrence primary emphasis is and undergraduate Heavy/Civil concentration an electrical contracting Technological University in teaching undergraduate courses in the Concrete for the Construction business for 9 years and 1994. Master’s and Ph.D. CESE courses, including Industry Management Management degree worked as a journeyman studies at ASU followed Statics, Numerical and Construction program. Cohen is / foreman for several with a specialization in Methods, and Introduction Management degree an alumnus of ASU electrical contractors. Geotechnical Engineering. to Environmental programs. Before moving holding a BS in Business He is a Certified His research and Engineering. She is also to Arizona, Weaver was Management as well as Professional Constructor engineering employment involved with the ASU on the faculty in the an M.S. from DePaul (CPC), has his Electrical focused on unsaturated student chapter of the Construction Engineering University. He brings Journeyman’s Certificate, soils theory and the American Society of Civil and Management with him over 15 years of Electrical Contractor’s design, development and Engineers (ASCE). program at North industry experience having License (State of fabrication of advanced Carolina State University served as the President Arizona). soil testing systems. Mayer recently completed from 2000-2007 and of Apollo Trenchless, several studies related was recognized by the Inc., an engineering and Knutson has a Ph.D. in In January 2000, to the removal and department with the construction service Industrial Engineering Lawrence began an inactivation of microbial 2006-2007 Kimley- provider specializing from Arizona State adjunct and associate pathogens from drinking Horn Faculty Award for in the application of University (1998) and teaching position at ASU water using enhanced most outstanding faculty trenchless technologies received his Master in Civil, Environmental coagulation and member. for municipal construction of Science Degree in and Sustainable ultraviolet disinfection, the projects. Cohen has Construction from the Engineering (CESE) and reduction of disinfection Research areas of also been employed as Del E. Webb School of the Del E. Web School of byproducts and their interest include Contracts a Project Manager and Construction (1995). Construction (DEWSC). precursors using titanium and Specifications for Estimator for Tires & He began his current dioxide photocatalysis, Concrete Construction, Teaching and research lecturer position in 2005. and innovative Concrete Paving for Tracks, Inc., a company include historical specializing in utility strategies to achieve Airfields and Roadways, construction methods, Lawrence teaches many low total phosphorus and Safety during construction projects. He infrastructure security and different courses and has has spoken on the subject concentrations in high Concrete and Masonry application of industrial instructed much of the water flows. Construction Operations. of horizontal directional engineering techniques to technical core in both drilling at various Weaver is a licensed construction processes. CESE and DEWSC. Professional Engineer regional and national He serves on several trade shows for industry (PE) in Arizona and North committees and leads Carolina. associations such as CESE student groups the American Society of as a Faculty Advisor for Civil Engineers (ASCE), the ASU chapters of American Water Works the American Society of Association (AWWA), Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Public Works Chi Epsilon (the national Association (APWA) civil engineering honor and Underground society) and the Society Construction Technology of American Military (UCT) Expo to name a Engineers (SAME). few.

The West campus recently completed part of a program that is slated to bring 17,000 solar panels to its south parking lots and surrounding areas.

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment 39 Staff

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Staff

Gary Aller Jacki Houchens Sylvia Romero Director, Alliance for Construction Coordinator, Sr. Program Manager Excellence Jacob Kashiwagi John Savicky Derek Brennan Program Manager Program Manager Desktop Publishing Specialist, Sr. Rachael Lugo Kimberly Silentman-Kanuho Brian Dyar Accountant, Sr. Coordinator Fiscal Specialist Jhanaye Mansker Jake Smithwick Matthew Eicher Administrative Associate Research Technician Program Manager Marisa Masles Clyde Steinhilber Peggy Ferrin Research Specialist, Sr. Business Manager Specialist, Sr. Elizabeth Moore Marie Sullivan Dhaval Gajjar Academic Success Specialist Research Specialist Research Lab Assistant Megan Pearse Dawn Takeuchi Peter Goguen Academic Success Specialist Research Advancement Accountant Laboratory Manager Judy Reedy Kenneth Witczak Lisa Hogle Administrative Associate to the Laboratory Coordinator Program Manager SSEBE Director

New Staff

Tom Fujibayashi, technical support analyst Tyler Harris, laboratory coordinator/technical senior, started at ASU as a member of services specialist, is a recent addition to SSEBE . Engineering Technical Support in 1989 . Tom New to Arizona, Tyler moved here from New York looks forward to continuing his support for the City . This former Marine and Columbia University teaching and research computing needs of the alumnus is glad to be a part of the SSEBE team school . and looks forward to continue establishing this school as one of the nation’s finest .

Susan Garrison, administrative assistant, came to ASU in 2005 as an administrative Pamela Hintze, administrative associate, will be assistant working in the Engineering Deans’ working with the Performance Based Studies office and then transferred into SSEBE in 2009 Research Group assisting with ORSPA contracts, to work in the Del E . Webb School of licensing materials and financial reports . She has Construction office . over 20 years of experience in accounting management .

Linda Gonzalez, academic success specialist, joined SSEBE in November of 2009 . She has worked in higher education for 12 years, mostly in the capacity of teacher education and experiential education . Linda earned her M S. . Degree in Cultural Anthropology from Montclair State University in 2000 .

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New Staff contd.

Anthony Perrenoud, research technician, with Jacqueline Thompson, research technician, PBSRG in the Del E . Webb School of returned to the Del E . Webb School of Construction (DEWSC) . He initially started in Construction in December 2009 after working in February 2009 and was hired on as staff in the construction industry for four years . She January 2010 . Anthony graduated in May 2010 earned her M S. . in environmental planning from with a BS in Construction Management from ASU in 2004 and began conducting research in DEWSC and will begin graduate school in fall 2010 . His the School of Construction from 2004-06 . Jacqueline is responsibilities include project management, training and working on an NSF Partnership for Innovation grant that is assisting clients and vendors and research within the investigating construction sustainability . construction industry .

Brian Volker, academic success specialist, Dawn Rogers, program manager, has been in joined ASU in June of 2006 . His first position the construction industry for over 13 years with ASU was a graduate specialist in the working with both local and national construction Architecture Department . In January 2010 Brian trade associations . Dawn graduated from joined the SSEBE advising department . He Northern Arizona University with a degree in graduated from ASU in 2001, with an Journalism and Public Relations . She was then undergraduate degree in Communication Studies and continued hired to implement and form the Concrete Home Building at ASU to receive his M S. . degree in Liberal Studies in 2008 . Council for the National Association of Home Builders in Brian is presently finishing his second Master’s degree in Global Washington, DC . Dawn has extensive experience working in the Technology and Development . construction industry and continues to work with the mentoring program for Women In Construction . Lauren Winston-McPherson, student services coordinator assistant, recently joined the civil Mike Sever, assistant director of academic engineering and construction advising center . In services, joined SSEBE in October 2010 . Mike is addition to her professional endeavors, Lauren is originally from Ohio . After seven years in the also pursuing a Master of Liberal Studies degree United States Air Force he completed his with a concentration in Gender and Culture undergrad in Education and M S. . in Higher Studies . Her expected graduation date is spring 2011 . Education . Mike has worked in higher education since 1996 and has been an advisor in Business, Chemical and Materials Engineering, and Barrett, The Honors College at ASU .

Alicia Stiers, business operations manager, joined the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in July 2009 . She had formerly been with the School of Materials prior to the reorganization of the Fulton Engineering Schools . Alicia has been with ASU for 16 years .

Construction at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

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