The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering No. 27
Save Our Shores Coastal Hazards & Engineering working to protect our coasts ON THE COVER: One of the engineers who traveled to the affected areas of the New Jersey shoreline after Hurricane Sandy hit in the fall of 2012 was Jennifer Irish, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech. a researcher for seven years at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics on society’s need to improve and protect coastal infrastructure, Irish has attracted some $3.2 million from mostly government agencies to research coastal hazards. See story on page 12. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Department Head’s Message ...... 3
Research News From the London Bridge to the Bay Bridge – still looking to improve structural safety ...... 4 A pile of energy languishes, just waiting to be used ...... 6 Forty years in the forefront: The Occoquan Laboratory Story ...... 9 Two coastal towns, one seawall, and a critical difference in hurricane damage ...... 12
Faculty News New Faculty ...... 14 Faculty Honors and Achievements ...... 16
Student News Undergraduate scholarships ...... 17 Graduate scholarships and fellowships...... 18 Ph.D. degrees awarded ...... 19
Alumni News ...... 20
CEE Faculty by Program Area ...... 21 Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program...... 22 Environmental and Water Resources Program ...... 24 Geotechnical Program ...... 30 Structural Engineering and Material Program ...... 33 Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering Program ...... 36
Via Scholars ...... 39
Via Alumni – Where are they now? ...... 57
Via Donors ...... 66
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 1 Each year the Virginia Tech Steel Bridge Team takes on the challenge of building a scale-sized bridge entirely from structural steel. Team members belong to the Virginia Tech Chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Construction, who sponsor regional and national bridge competitions. Virginia Tech recently hosted the Virginia Regionals, consisting of colleges in Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. The event includes the annual steel bridge and concrete canoe competitions.
2 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 DEPARTMENT HEAD’S MESSAGE
“The times they are a-changin.” The words of Bob sey Marr, Amy Pruden and Peter Vikesland were promoted Dylan’s 1964 song speak to the changes and challenges to the rank of professor. Drs. Cris Moen and Pam Murray- of the times. I believe they can also be viewed through the Tuite were promoted to the rank of associate professor with lens of growth and opportunity as life changes. These words tenure. Dr. Joe Dove was promoted to the rank of associate certainly resonate within the Virginia Tech community in professor of practice. While we are fortunate to attract new general and the Via Department of Civil and Environmental faculty to our department, we are equally fortunate to be able to revel in the growth and success of our current col- As most Hokies are aware, a search for the next presi- leagues. Please join me when you have a chance and con- dent of Virginia Tech began during the summer following gratulate our colleagues for their deserved and hard-earned President Steger’s announcement of his plans to promotions! - tion in presidential leadership at a university such several of the outstanding research efforts that as ours brings both challenges and opportunities. are in progress within the department. To further The fundamental challenge is of course to replace expound on the theme of opportunity, I would a president that has led the university to levels of note for you that Drs. Zach Grasley and Jen success, as well as national and international vis- Irish were hired in the past two and three years ibility, the likes of which we’ve never experienced. respectively and have brought wonderful new, With this trepidation, comes the excitement of the timely and important teaching and research focus opportunity we have to identify an individual that areas to the department. The work of all of the can lead us to even greater accomplishments and faculty members highlighted is not only support- visibility. The next president will face major chal- ing students in the department but serving the lenges on both the national and state higher edu- EASTERLING Commonwealth and society in general. And as I’ve cation landscape. Identifying a new leader that has said before, rest assured that these are but a few both the knowledge of and appreciation for who we are as a of the many great things in progress! university today and the ability to build upon our strengths The absolute highlight of the document is the section and capabilities going forward, all within ever changing eco- on our Via Scholars. We as faculty have the privilege of nomical and political landscapes, represents a truly exciting getting to know and work with these outstanding students challenge. Stay tuned! on a day to day basis. I hope that the student biographi- cal sketches contained in the report help you as alumni in the midst of challenges and opportunities. We have and friends to get to know them. Hopefully, you’ll have the opportunity to interact with the Via Scholars as well as searches. These are vacancies within our faculty created the many other outstanding students in the department by a combination of an untimely passing, two retirements, through your on-campus visits, professional activities or as and two of our faculty moving to other universities as de- - partment heads. Certainly anytime you lose the collective dents, we as a faculty are reminded just how fortunate we are to be part of the Via Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering! am inherently an optimist so I prefer, as I mention above, One thing that doesn’t change with time is my appre- to view these challenges as future opportunities for the ciation for the great work done by members of the depart- department. Bringing talented, enthusiastic new faculty ment and College of Engineering to bring you this docu- members to our ranks will without a doubt open up new ment. There are a number of our staff and faculty that are opportunities for instruction, research, collaboration, and responsible for pulling together various parts of the Via outreach. Report. I want to thank them for the work they do in help- ing bring this document to reality each year. In particular, I want to acknowledge the efforts of Ms. Shelly Key and Ms. that once again reminds me how extremely fortunate and Allie Rubio for their leadership in the process within CEE. proud we are to have been able to attract faculty of such high caliber to our department. There are brief bios includ- for the exceptional job she does each year as editor and - Mr. David Simpkins for his wonderful design work. I know mons. I hope you have an opportunity to interact with each you’ll enjoy the results of their exceptional talent and dedi- of them in the near future. cation to bringing you the 2013 Via Report! With kind regards, increasing excellence and professional growth within the department. During the most recent promotion and tenure cycle, I’m very happy to report that Drs. Russell Green, Lin-
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 3 From the London Bridge to the Bay Bridge – still looking to improve structural safety
“There is currently no way to accurately predict whether the addition of certain mineral changes in system chemistry improve or reduce the likelihood of time-dependent degradation under prolonged mechanical and environmental stimuli.” ~ Zachary Grasley
4 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 ne of the longest spans in the world is the San able to predict these properties. He O will also employ X-ray micro-com- puted tomography scans to construct damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Final three-dimensional maps of the mate- reconstruction of the eastern span did not begin until Grasley said he will be “able to help segment or separate different constit- uents within a sample. Grasley’s co-principal investigator entered into the ducts that contained steel tendons in on this project, Tyler Ley of Oklahoma the skyway section of the new span. award recipient and he is well versed in the use of differential X-ray absorp- Although the effects remain un- said. “However, due to the tremendous tion to segment or separate unique known at this time, pitting and stress amounts of concrete being utilized, its constituents within a sample. often accelerate the corrosion of steel manufacturing instead results in the Grasley is also a recipient of an in concrete. second most carbon dioxide produc- In May of 2013 as reports sur- tion in the U.S.” to conduct research on viscoelastic faced questioning the integrity of the If advances in the properties or and viscoplastic properties of calcium concrete span, calls were made for a performance prediction of materials silicate hydrate to predict certain me- number of independent experts to re- made of cement can be made, then chanical responses for cement pastes. view the structure’s stability, possibly the overall result, according to Gras- His new research is a natural exten- using X-ray examinations to provide ley, will have an “enormous societal sion of this work. clues of any serious corrosion. If concrete is under a constant The Bay Bridge is a striking and and carbon dioxide emissions.” state of stress, it is well-known that expensive example of what might go To make these materials more it will move or “creep” as engineers wrong when the various effects on a environmentally friendly, Grasley said, prefer to say. “In fact, there is ample material and its mechanical properties “the stress and strain state of the evidence that stress induced dissolu- are not understood. material must be predictable through- tion is a plausible mechanism of vis- Zachary Grasley, associate profes- out its service life.” This determination coelastic and viscoplastic behavior in sor of civil and environmental engi- requires a better understanding of the materials made with cement,” Grasley neering at Virginia Tech, is a research- viscoelastic and viscoplastic properties said. er who is attempting to gain a better of the reacting cement paste. When this project is completed, understanding of these properties, “There is currently no way to ac- Grasley predicted the TM2 will provide curately predict whether the addition industry with a tool for the a priori effects related to materials made con- prediction of the evolving viscoelastic other changes in system chemistry and viscoplastic constitutive proper- improve or reduce the likelihood of ties of concrete and the effect of stress Grasley selected cement because time-dependent degradation under on an evolving microstructure. “This this commodity is pervasive as a ma- prolonged mechanical and environ- information is a necessary input terial used in infrastructure. The good mental stimuli,” Grasley said. for structural models to accurately news about using cement is the man- He believes that the material predict stresses and deformations ufacturing “requires much less energy model he is developing, the Thermo- throughout the entire service life of dynamic, Mechanical, and Microstruc- concrete structures,” Grasley said. substantially less carbon dioxide 2 by Lynn Nystrom emissions,” on a mass basis, Grasley computational methodology, will be
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 5 A pile of energy languishes, just waiting to be used
If energy piles are able to de-ice bridges, then Guney Olgun of civil and environmental engineering will help eliminate the need for harmful chemical salts that can lead to accelerated corrosion of the span.
Wouldn’t it be nice to Sounds like someone engineering faculty mem- piles”. The idea is based has a vivid imagination? ber Guney Olgun is among energy?” This idyllic mass Actually, Austria started shallow geothermal energy would not depend on fossil pioneering these efforts on efforts in the United States, stored in the ground for fuels with the adverse ef- “energy piles” in the 1980s, using multi-year grant mon- heating and cooling purpos- fects of their greenhouse gas and several other Euro- es. The technology utilizes a pean countries, including - geothermal heat pump that this theoretical goldmine Germany, Switzerland, and ships formed recently with uses the ground as a heat exhibits a potential cost the United Kingdom, have a number of contractor source in the winter and a savings of as much as 80 followed suit. companies. coolant in the summer. percent over more conven- The technology is Olgun explained that tional sources of energy. civil and environmental literally called “energy Continued on next page
This picture shows a model-scale of a bridge deck slab used in testing for the ability to de-ice 6 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 using geothermal energy. energy piles “make it pos- sible to use shallow geother- mal energy at virtually any ground and climatic condi- tion.” The ground main- tains an almost constant temperature about 20 feet below the surface since insulator. Depending on re- gional climate, this constant temperature varies from a low of 45 degrees to a high of 75 degrees in most U.S. regions. “This relatively constant temperature and thermal storage capacity of the ground can be exploited for heating and cooling pur- poses,” Olgun said. “Energy piles are an innovative technology that combines geothermal heat soils react when supporting energy piles. This one is in Houston, Texas. exchange and structural foundation support. In this characteristics of foundation of the thermal-mechanical Building Council and the hybrid system, geothermal soils and the level of struc- behavior of energy piles loops are integrated into tural loads “are typically the under repeated cycles of are reviewing the data and the deep foundation ele- deciding factors for the selec- heating and cooling,” Olgun providing results to the en- ments, such as piles, piers, tion and dimensioning of pile gineering community. or drilled shafts, that are foundations. The geothermal occurring over a three to MESI is owned by already in place to provide heat exchange capacity of an seven week period, allowing Charles Elks, Jr., a 1960 structural support,” he energy pile is a key consid- for several cycles of heating CEE Virginia Tech alumnus. explained. eration in the design of the and cooling to occur. He is Olgun predicted that Energy piles are most system for heating and cool- also conducting concurrent the successful use of en- feasible when they are ing purposes.” testing, with each set-up us- ergy piles could help in the installed at sites where pile Energy piles have the ing two heat pumps, to en- Presidential mandate to foundations are already advantage of being appli- sure reliability in the tests. reduce the energy use by 30 required so no additional cable in any climate or re- Participating industries percent by 2015 in compari- drilling costs are incurred. gion. However, a number of in the studies are provid- son to the 2003 levels at all They are typically put in challenges remain in terms ing in-kind contributions, federal facilities. with a cast-in-place tech- of how the various types of In March, Olgun or- nology such as a micropile, soils react when supporting tests, and donating materi- ganized an International drilled shaft or continuous energy piles, and Olgun has als, instrumentation, and Workshop on Thermoactive heat pumps. Three engi- Geotechnical Systems for “Low maintenance, long various stages of installa- neering foundation contrac- lifetime, less variation in tion. Seven are in the U.S.: tors, Berkel, Thatcher, and Energy, held in Lausanne, energy supply compared to Blacksburg, Va., Gary, In., Layne GeoConstruction, are solar and wind power, and Baltimore, Md., Houston, installing energy piles and environmental friendliness Tx., Milwaukee, Wi., Still- - sponsor of this event. More are advantages to this form water, Ok., and College ing. Mechanical Equipment than 70 researchers from of energy,” asserted Olgun Station, Texas. The remain- around the world attended who received his doctoral ing two are in Turkey and and Geo-Instruments are this workshop to discuss degree in civil engineering Egypt. Each has different providing heat pumps, pip- pressing issues on energy from Virginia Tech in 2003. soil and climatic conditions. ing for the geothermal loops piles. Olgun, a geotechnical “A major obstacle re- and instrumentation for the engineer, explained that the mains in the understanding by Lynn Nystrom
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 7 New system eliminates need for the use of harmful chemicals to de-ice concrete bridges As Guney Olgun began studying energy piles, he realized that they could be used to collect and store heat energy for deicing the nation’s bridge decks in the winter. The piles or drilled shafts used to support the bridge can be used to store the collected heat energy in the summer. Olgun explained how the process works: “Heat can be collected from the asphalt pavement over the summer and stored in the ground using the deep foundations. During the winter, this stored energy can then be reclaimed to heat and deice the bridge deck.” The stored heat is actually extracted from the ground and can in the bridge deck slab to prevent icing, Olgun, a research assis- tant professor of civil and environmental engineering, added. Current practices of deicing concrete bridges using chemical salts can be “harmful to the environment and lead to accelerated corrosion of the bridge deck and reinforcing steel. Energy piles could eliminate the need for deicing salts on many bridges, extend- ing their service life while providing a safe roadway for motorists,” Olgun said. Heating bridges in this manner would also lessen the environ- mental impacts on water sources, vegetation, and wildlife as they would not be subjected to the saline runoff from the deicing salts. Olgun is working with Cris Moen, associate professor of CEE on this project, and they set up a model bridge deck on the Virginia Tech campus to determine the feasibility of using the energy piles for bridge deck deicing. Allen Bowers, who was an undergraduate in the CEE department when the bridge model was constructed also worked with Olgun and Moen. He became the 2012 class vale- Some of the facets they are investigating include: how long it takes to warm and deice the bridge deck; a cost analysis for the installation and operation of these systems; evaluation of long- term savings when using energy piles as an alternative bridge deck deicing system; the development of control systems for feasible, op- timal performance during icing conditions; and explore alternatives for enhanced heat storage to increase heat exchange performance. Studies have already determined that since the bridge deck only needs to be heated to above freezing, passive heating through that only needs minimal electricity that can be provided with a solar powered battery,” Olgun said. “This is critical in overcoming bridge site.” Some 60 percent of the approximately 600,000 existing bridges in the U.S. were built with either conventional reinforced concrete or prestressed concrete. annual repair and replacement cost of corroded concrete bridges in the U.S. to be some $4 billion.
8 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Forty years in the forefront: The Occoquan Laboratory Story
Tom Grizzard has served as the director of the Occoquan Watershed Laboratory for 39 years.
As urban areas grow in population, cities. This trend is expected problem: people are increas- to continue through the rest ingly living within the same the provision of safe and plentiful of the current century. One watersheds from which they result is that some forecasts draw their drinking water. In drinking water is among the most project that, by 2050, over the late 1960s, a microcosm important requirements. half the earth’s population of this problem intrigued will experience chronic water faculty of the Via CEE De- Statistics on the avail- ply and demand all over the shortages. partment to start investigat- ability of safe drinking water planet,” said Tom Grizzard, “This changing character ing the situation in northern professor of civil and envi- of human population has Virginia. water, comprised of streams, created tremendous chal- They quickly learned rivers, and lakes, represents at Virginia Tech and director lenges to engineers of all that the Occoquan Reser- less than one hundredth of of the Occoquan Watershed disciplines working to design, voir, constructed in the late one percent of the total water Laboratory. build, operate, and maintain 1950s, was projected to on earth. Globally, human habita- the built environment of serve as an important source Complicating this rela- tion in the last century has the world’s cities. It may be of drinking water for the tive scarcity of fresh water been characterized by an safely said, however, that one Virginia suburbs of Washing- is that some 60 percent of increase in growth of, and of the greatest undertakings ton, D.C. well into the 21st that small amount resides migration to, urban settings. is the work of civil and envi- century. in only three places in the There are now at least 20 ronmental engineers involved “Only a few years after world: Lake Baikal in Asia, megacities on earth along in providing drinking water the impoundment was Lake Tanganyika in Africa, with hundreds of other to the current and future bil- completed, however, it was examples of cities with hu- lions of earth’s inhabitants,” apparent that human activity America. “The remaining man populations exceeding Grizzard said. in the tributary watershed 0.0036 percent is more glob- one million each. In fact, in In the eastern United was contributing to a rapid ally distributed, but even so, States, population growth decline in water quality, and there are many examples of in human history, half the around urban centers was putting the future of the disconnects between sup- earth’s population resided in has created an additional Continued on page 10
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 9 Michael Gaal, a laboratory reservoir as a reliable drinking water specialist, source at risk,” Grizzard explained. Post prepares water World War II development in the Manas- samples at sas – Centreville, Va., area, approxi- the Occoquan mately 20 miles west of Washington, Watershed DC, “had resulted in increased dis- Monitoring charges of conventionally treated waste- Laboratory. water to tributaries of the reservoir.” - tural activity and growing urban areas elsewhere in the watershed, the or- ganic matter and nutrient pollution entering the reservoir from wastewater discharges had resulted in regular excessive growth of a class of organ- isms known as cyanobacter, or more commonly, blue-green algae. Like most algal species, excessive cyanobacterial growths can lead to depletion of dis- solved oxygen, and can be responsible “However, unlike most algae, some cyanobacteria can also produce com- pounds that impart undesirable tastes and odors to water. In addition, some species produce toxins that pose threats to local wildlife, and in some cases, have been shown to have human health impacts,” Grizzard added. study in the late 1960s, local govern- - ties, and representatives of state and federal regulatory agencies decided to adopt a management policy that would protect the reservoir, but would also make unprecedented use of highly treated wastewater. ment the drinking water yield of a major well into his retirement years. He and Authorities designed and built a water supply reservoir. Hoehn led some of the seminal work water reclamation plant to serve the Oc- In looking for a research team to done at the laboratory on the removal coquan Watershed. The plant employed begin the broad range of studies neces- of nutrients from wastewater and the advanced treatment technologies that sary to evaluate the project, and to effects of algae growth on water supply produced water that was “actually supe- develop a research plan for the future, operations. rior in quality to the streams into which In 2012, the Occoquan Laboratory it would discharge,” Grizzard recalled. civil engineering faculty. Beginning in marked its 40th year of service to the “This unique and innovative use 1972, Cliff Randall, working with Bob Commonwealth, the citizens of northern of wastewater was considered such a Hoehn, both professors of civil engi- Virginia, and to Virginia Tech. Grizzard, radical departure from standard treat- who obtained his doctorate in CEE from remote research facilities of the College Virginia Tech, has served as the labora- the creation of a permanent research of Engineering. Called the Occoquan tory director for more than 39 years, Watershed Monitoring Laboratory, the and has led research projects address- assessment of the endeavor,” Griz- Manassas, Va., facility began operations ing a wide range of applied needs in zard said. The resulting project was a with a modest technical staff comple- environmental engineering practice. milestone in environmental engineering ment of three and a laboratory director. The Occoquan practice, and the Upper Occoquan Ser- Randall served as the chair of the vice Authority water reclamation plant Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Sub- Experience committee of the State Water Control With the advent of advanced highly reclaimed wastewater to supple- Board, and has remained in that post wastewater reclamation practice in the
10 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 watershed, Grizzard and his colleagues whom they co-advised, has developed are now well-prepared for the next directed much of their research efforts generation of faculty and students to towards understanding the water qual- barriers for laypersons to interact with continue to build on what has already ity impacts of agricultural and urban such complex simulation systems. been done. stormwater runoff. In studies con- In recent years, Grizzard has re- In the nearly 40 years of his service ducted under the auspices of the En- turned to one of the themes of his own as the director of the Occoquan Labora- doctoral research. Lake and reservoir tory, Grizzard and his colleagues have sediments often serve as a massive developed nearly $50 million in exter- Grizzard, Randall, and Hoehn devel- repository of materials that have been nal funding. Sponsors have included oped techniques to merge the methods discharged into the system over the life the EPA, the US Geological Survey, the of the water body. Under some condi- in order to characterize and control the tions, cycling of nitrogen, phosphorus, the Metropolitan Washington Council loads of key water pollutants generated iron, and manganese from sediments in urban runoff. In these studies, and can degrade water quality for decades Regional Commission, several regula- similar ones conducted in agricultural after external pollution sources have tory agencies of the Commonwealth of areas, the groundwork was laid for local been removed or controlled. Grizzard Virginia, and a variety of local govern- governments to adopt best management ments and public service authorities. practices and land use management As Virginia Tech continues to strategies to control stormwater pollu- professor emeritus of CEE, have ex- - tion. plored ways to use oxidized nitrogen - “Coupled with the earlier approach- from wastewater to maintain conditions quan Laboratory “serves as an excellent es to innovative use of wastewater, the in deep impoundments that cause some example of what can be accomplished Occoquan experience has been widely pollutants to remain bound with the with a physical presence. A research viewed as an example of sustainable sediments instead cycling to the overly- facility in the natural urban laboratory water quality management in an urban- ing waters. The work has highlighted of northern Virginia has afforded the izing water supply watershed,” Griz- another innovative use of a wastewater- department an unparalleled ability to zard said. “In fact, roots of some of the derived constituent to improve water address a variety of problems at the approaches being taken in the Chesa- quality. watershed-scale. Over four decades of peake Bay restoration may be seen in The research, instruction, outreach and the long and successful history of man- Future service have served the university well, agement of the Occoquan Watershed.” and applied research results from the Grizzard’s knowledge gained from As Grizzard nears retirement, laboratory have materially contributed his work with the Occoquan also led the department has continued to to the solution of a range of important him to a long, ongoing association with invest in its principal off-campus water quality management and water the Republic of Singapore, where water research facility. Beginning in 2009, reuse has played an important role in a major renovation and expansion Region,” Grizzard said. meeting its own critical water supply of the facilities of the Occoquan In looking back on his nearly needs. Since 2003, Grizzard has served Laboratory took place. When fully four decades of service, Grizzard often completed in 2011, the facility jokes about “having been in exile from island nation on water resources man- boasted a reconstructed water Blacksburg for his whole career.” But agement. chemistry laboratory with enhanced today he said that “is no longer the The robust hydrologic and wa- case…Virginia Tech’s College of Engi- ter quality datasets produced by over for staff as well as local and visiting neering may be found throughout the four decades of work in the Occoquan faculty; and expanded space for region, serving the Commonwealth and Watershed continue to serve today in graduate student researchers. In realizing the promise of Ut Prosim in the enhancing the understanding of urban- order to further facilitate applied izing systems. Adil Godrej, a research environmental research opportunities, And back to the original reason for associate professor who also serves as the Occoquan Laboratory also the founding of the laboratory - that Grizzard’s deputy, has done widely- grand experiment in water reuse. Ac- recognized work in the development in the Commonwealth to be cording to Grizzard, by the middle of of complexly-linked modeling tools to this century, “the safe drinking water predict the impacts of land use change Virginia Environmental Laboratory yield of the Occoquan Reservoir is and watershed management practices Accreditation Program. That effort expected to rise by over 50 percent. In on water quality in lakes and reservoirs. was successfully led by the laboratory an uncertain hydrologic future in an Godrej and Grizzard have also worked supervisor, Dongmei Wang, and was era of global climate change, realizing to extend the utility of such complex ably accomplished during a period the potential of all water sources will models to non-expert stakeholders. A of extraordinary upheaval during lab be increasingly important.” As Grizzard recent Ph.D. graduate, Saurav Kumar, renovations. The physical facilities summarized, “Stay tuned.”
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 11 Two coastal towns, one seawall, and a critical difference in hurricane damage
Jennifer Irish received a National Science Foundation after Hurricane Sandy hit the Mid-Atlantic coastline.
After Superstorm Sandy demolished parts of the has attracted some $3.2 mil- - New Jersey and New York shorelines, engineers, lion from mostly government cantly – by a factor of two. agencies to research coastal “The difference in the politicians, and government entities have struggled hazards. impact of Hurricane Sandy with how to protect the coastal regions from major Irish, with Robert Weiss between Bay Head and storms. As with most matters, the decisions come of Virginia Tech’s geosci- Mantoloking underscores the ences department, was on urgent need for sustainable - multi-level protection against In June of 2013, outgo- His plans evolved with tion RAPID grant to conduct natural hazards in order to - the help of numerous reports create resilient coastal com- and expert opinions after the Sandy’s devastation. Within munities,” Irish and Weiss - catastrophic event. two weeks of Sandy’s strike, wrote. ing at $20 billion, to erect an One of the engineers who they were on site, gather- Bloomberg’s plan is ex- traveled to the affected areas ing critical information. In actly that – a myriad of pro- levees, and bulkheads along - tectors to insure the integrity its more than 500 miles of tions to quantify damages Sandy, to appear in Coastal coastline. In making his was Jennifer Irish, associate coastline. pitch, Bloomberg alleged that professor of civil and envi- buried relic seawall along the The report by Irish and the costs of a storm similar ronmental engineering at Vir- Weiss, two of their graduate to Sandy in three decades ginia Tech. With her previous of Bay Head that appeared to students, Stephanie Smal- would be a staggering $90 background as a researcher lessen the wave-driven effects legan of Collins, Ga., and Wei billion in damage and loss of for seven years at the U.S. of Hurricane Sandy on this Cheng of Dongying, Shan- economic activity for the Big Army Corps of Engineers community. The researchers dong, China, and Patrick Apple. By contrast, the 2012 Coastal and Hydraulics Labo- compared the difference in Lynett of the University of damage cost was $19 billion. ratory, and her career path the impact upon Bay Head Southern California at Los Climate change is a ma- now focusing on society’s versus its southern neighbor Angeles’s Department of Civil jor factor in Bloomberg’s call need to improve and protect of Mantoloking and noted the and Environmental Engineer- for immediate action. coastal infrastructure, Irish reduction in wave-induced ing, spoke of how they sur-
12 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 veyed high water marks and impacts of climate change 0.36°C and 1.38°C by 2030 with these processes would assessed damage, overwash, and 0.96°C and 5.02°C by be costly in both the short and breaching in both Bay damages, and populations at 2080, damages caused by and long terms. Head and Mantoloking. the coast. The second one, The researchers in this with Weiss as a co-principal - elevations were very similar, cantly increase,” Irish said. pilot sites: Corpus Christi, - to improve the understand- “Without consideration Texas, Gulfport, Miss., and evations, as measured from ing of tsunami inundation in of damage due to direct water lines in the interiors of coastal forests. wave attack, for the current coastal communities protect- homes of 4.6 and 4.2 meters Bloomberg’s allegation population and level of urban ed by barrier islands. above the mean sea level in that a storm equivalent to development, it has been - Bay Head and Mantolok- Sandy would cause $90 bil- found that with a high rate of ies will be to improve the ing, respectively. High water lion in damages in three de- greenhouse gas emissions for public understanding of ac- marks on the exterior of the cades, mostly due to climate storms similar to Hurricane celerating hurricane hazard homes, thereby including - as a consequence of global the effect of individual ocean generalized projection models lation affected, and economic warming and to provide local waves, are between 4.0 and damages might increase by governments with a tool to 6.5 meters. 19 kilometers, 2500 people, evaluate and make decisions “Erosion and damage to wrote, “”Possible acceleration and $30 million by the the oceanfront homes, how- - 2030s, and by 70 kilometers, social costs related to climate ever, were drastically differ- cation of hurricanes as a con- 11,500 people, and $280 change at individual, neigh- ent in the two locales,” Irish sequence of long-term global million by the 2080s…We borhood, local, and regional asserted. warming trends can lead to expect these numbers to rise levels,” Irish said. They found that all of the substantially when damages The Journal of Water- ocean front homes were dam- wave action, and damages, due to direct wave action are way, Port, Coastal and Ocean aged to some degree. How- which in turn can lead to also considered.” Engineering, a publication ever, by using Google Earth future population shifts.” The estimated numbers of the American Society of to evaluate aerial imagery To better understand for Hurricane Bret ranged Civil Engineers, published a several days before the storm this impact, Irish and her from a $5 to $11 million in journal article by Irish and and then again, on Oct. 31, other principal investiga- damages. Donald T. Resio, professor of immediately after the storm, tors, are developing general - civil engineering at the Uni- Irish and her colleagues were mathematical models for the cation, sea level rise and able to show that the major- physical and socioeconomic method for estimating future ity of the homes in Bay Head responses to future hurricane from global warming will invariably affect the social and associated uncertainties. the Gulf of Mexico. dynamics of low lying coastal http://ascelibrary.org/doi/ In contrast, more than half With their simulations, areas in the Gulf of Mexico, abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29 of the ocean front homes in and the widely held assump- Irish asserted. Any failure to WW.1943-5460.0000157 tion that the sea surface form policies to mitigate the as damaged or destroyed. temperature will rise between economic effects associated by Lynn Nystrom “Our hypothesis regard- ing this stark contrast in Hurricane Sandy’s impact in Jennifer Irish stands amid some of the destruction at Bradley Beach. these communities is that the relic seawall dampened wave forces and held the shore- line,” Irish explained. As Irish continues to report on her post Hurricane Sandy work, she is simulta- neously involved in two other large funded projects related to coastal hazards. One is Oceanic and Atmospheric Grant program, focusing on the understanding of the
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 13 NEW FACULTY
tions, He is the co-author of one joined the depart- book chapter on electrochemical Civil and ment in 2013, Zhen impedance spectroscopy in “Bio- Environmental “Jason” He had electrochemical System: from worked as an as- extracellular electron transfer to Engineering sistant professor of biotechnological application.” civil engineering and He has taught courses on ZHEN “JASON” HE mechanics at the the Introduction to Environ- University of Wis- Engineering, Hazardous Waste His research interests are in environmental biotechnol- Management, and Bioelectro- ogy, biological wastewater treatment, bioenergy production, chemical Systems for Environ- microbial fuel cells, sustainable desalination technology, mental Engineering. He is cur- forward osmosis, water softening process, environmental HE rently the Ph.D. adviser to nine bio-electrochemistry, and sustainable water reuse. doctoral candidates and two In 2010 he received the Green Talents Award from the master candidates. His total research funding as a principal investigator exceeds $2.7 million. That same year he also earned a UWM Graduate School He is a member of the Association of Environmental While a postdoctoral research associate at the Mork American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science, the International Society of Microbial Electrochem- Science and the Department of Earth Sciences, University microbial fuel cells. - He has provisional patent applications on an enzy- ent Removal and Recovery meeting in Harbin, China, the matic water softener, the integration of a microbial fuel cell into an algal bioreactor, microbial desalination cells, and 12th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Guadalajara, osmotic bioelectrochemical systems. With colleagues, he Mexico in 2010. He was a session moderator at the 2011 fuel cells and on electricity generation using phototrophic He was a member of the organizing committee of the Sec- microbial fuel cell technology. In addition to his almost four dozen journal publica- 2009, and is currently a member of the advisory committee tions and his more than two dozen conference presenta-
processing of XBP data, and Civil and her master’s degree participated in research cruises in geophysics from with R/V Planet with a focus on Environmental the Department of mine burial experiments.During Engineering Physics at Westpha- the summer of 2007 she was a lian Wilhelms Uni- research assistant at the School NINA STARK versity of Muenster, of Ocean and Earth Science and Germany in 2007. Technology at the University of She also minored in Hawaii, processing REMUS side the physics of solids and surfaces, mineralogy, and inorgan- ic chemistry. She obtained her doctorate in marine geotech- mapping, and joined a research nics at the MARUM Center for Marine and Environmental cruise with R/V Kilo Moana. Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany in 2011. While pursuing her education she served as a research STARK was a research assistant at the MARUM Center for Marine and for Underwater Acoustics and Geophysics, Kiel, Germany. Environmental Science. She worked on the development, sediment, developed a windows application for rapid data See STARK, next page
14 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Denise R. Simmons researcher developed a project started at Virginia management plan for Georgia Civil and Tech in 2012 as a Environmental postdoctoral associ- After she received her second ate in the Depart- degree, she spent four years from Engineering ment of Engineering Education, working utility company based in South DENISE SIMMONS Carolina, and the following year - at Memphis Light, Gas & Water in orative Proposal on the “Developing Engineer of 2020 Traits: Tennessee. She is the co-author of a book Students.” chapter in Environmental Leader- Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she obtained her Ph.D., also ship called “The color of climate: in 2012, from Clemson University in civil engineering. While SIMMONS Ecology, Environment, Climate she was working on her doctorate, she also served as the direc- Change, and Women of Color – - Exploring Environmental Leadership from the Perspective of tion at South Carolina State University. As director, she raised Women of Color in Science.” more than $2.2 million in grants to support its operations. Simmons is a member of the American Society of Engi- - sor of civil engineering technology at South Carolina State American Association of Blacks in Energy, Project Management University, and she also served as the academic program coor- Institute, and Chi Epsilon. dinator for the department for the 2004-05 academic year. - the University of Phoenix Virtual Campus. She also held an industry in Santiago, Chile. She also garnered a 2009 award adjunct faculty position in 2001 at the Midlands Technical College’s Department of Civil Engineering Technology, located Summer Research Internship Program and she was a 2007 at Columbia, S.C. Simmons also held consulting positions with Indus International and Project Management Consultants, She has worked on state and national K-12 engineering both located in S.C. efforts, directing the 13th annual Summer Transportation She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree in civil Institute that is aimed at work force development by increasing engineering, also from Clemson, in 1990 and in 1995, re- the number and diversity of students pursuing transportation- spectively. Prior to entering graduate school, she started work team that secured a national high school STEM research and company in 1994 to pursue her master’s and as a graduate outreach proposal in 2011.
Stark Continued from previous page was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dalhousie University’s De- partment of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. She inves- tigated bedload transport, the impact of grain shape and geotechnical investigations of natural sediment remobiliza- structure on sediment strength and mobility, pore pressure tion processes and of sediment remobilization with regard to coastal engineering. She participated in some 20 research - Advocate Beach and Grand Passage. As a postdoctoral fellow she continued with the A horse enthusiast, Stark holds training licenses in MARUM-Center in 2011. She conducted geotechnical inves- - tigations of scour at the foundations of offshore wind energy cal Therapy for animals from the German Association for Physical Therapy for Animals. She was the manager of the deployments from the MIR submersibles in the eLEMO State Dressage Cup Series of the German Association for the project in Lake Geneva, mentored graduate students, and Protection of Horses, and has worked as a volunteer for this traveled on research cruises to the offshore windfarm Alpha association. She also volunteered with the 808 Horse Rescue Ventus and to Lago Villarica in Chile. group in Hawaii.
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 15 FACULTY HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Greg Boardman Zachary Grasley Pam Murray-Tuite John Novak Chema De la Tom Grizzard Garza MURRAY-TUITE BOARDMAN GRASLEY Russell Green NOVAK DE LA GARZA GRIZZARD Amy Pruden-Bagchi Tom Dingus Hesham Rakha Jen Irish GREEN PRUDEN-BAGCHI DINGUS Joe Dove Ioannis RAKHA Carin Roberts- IRISH Koutromanos Wollmann Randy Dymond DOVE Paolo Scardina Roberto Leon KOUTROMANOS ROBERTS- WOLLMAN DYMOND Matthew Eatherton SCARDINA LEON J.T. Taylor Marc Edwards EATHERTON Linsey Marr TAYLOR Cris Moen Peter Vikesland EDWARDS MARR Gerardo Flintsch Vickie Mouras MOEN VIKESLAND Kevin Young Glenn Moglen FLINTSCH Dan Gallagher MOURAS YOUNG Tom Murray Mike Garvin MOGLEN GALLAGHER MURRAY GARVIN urray
16 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENT NEWS
AREMA Scholarship Dewberry Scholarships John E. Pruitt, Jr. Scholarships 2013 ASCE Virginia Section Scholarship Walter and Mary Ruth Duncan Scholarships Richard Quarterman ’04 Memorial Scholarship CE Alumni Board Scholarships Howell and Ann Simmons Land Development Chelsey A. Godfrey Scholarship Design Scholarship Lois Cox and Edna Goodwin Scholarships Stantec Award for Excellence in Engineering CEE Alumni Golf Outing Scholarship Ralph P. Hines ’59 Scholarship Undergraduate George A. Stewart Scholars Kenneth R. Ayers ’80 Memorial Scholarships Charles S. Hughes Scholarships L.J. Turner and W.S. Dewhirst Scholarships Kelso Baker Scholarships Williams A. Joyner Scholarship Vecellio Scholarships Michael Baker Corporation Engineering Scholarship Dennis and Sherry Kamber Scholarship Balzer & Associates Scholarships Lingerfelt Family Foundation Scholarships James L. Bland Civil Engineering Scholarship Hersie B. and Ethel G. McCauley Scholarships Charles and Patricia Brown Scholarships Virginia-Carolinas Structural Steel Fabricators Association Andrew “Tripp” McDavid Memorial Scholarship Everett Carter Memorial Scholarship Virginia Concrete Scholarships Kenton and Liliana Meland Scholarship William A. Caruthers CE Scholarship Newport News Shipbuilding Scholarship Frederick V. Watkins, III Memorial Joseph and Jane Christenbury Memorial Scholarship Scholarships Pratt Study Abroad Scholarships Summer 2013 Civil Engineering Class of ’58 Scholarships Harry S. and Patsy B. Williams Scholarship Williams Industries Scholarship Warren F. Cline Scholarship Verne and Jewel Williamson Scholarship Stanley and Francis Cohen Scholarships John DeBell Civil Engineering Scholarship
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 17 GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENT NEWS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Abel Wolman Doctoral Fellowship Hampton Roads Sanitation District – Dr. Charles Bott Pamplin Foundation MBA Fellowship American Infrastructure Fellow Pratt Engineering Fellowships ASTM International Fellowship Brian R. Bluhm Memorial Fellowships Hawkins Fellowships Pratt International Study Abroad Cambi Fellowship IGERT: Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships Education and Research Traineeship: Multistep CMAA National Capital Chapter Scholarship Award Royal Thai Army Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program (IGEP) Cunningham Fellowship Edna Bailey Sussman Fellowships Raymond and Madeline Curry Fellowships Davenport Leadership Scholar International Municipal Signal Sustainable Water Infrastructure Association (IMSA) Management Fellowship Dean’s Diversity Fellowships Jeremy Herbstritt Memorial Internship Tau Beta Pi Fellowship from Sussman Foundation Terracon Fellowship Thomas N. Hunnicutt III Fellowship Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship Vecellio Fellows Institute for Critical Technologies and Applied Science (ICTAS) Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowships Vietnam Education Foundation Fellowship G.V. Loganathan Fellowships Fugro Fellowship Virginia Lakes and Watersheds Association Fellowship Matthew Gregory Gwaltney Memorial Fulbright Fellowships Fellowship Walts Graduate Fellowship National Science Foundation (NSF) West Virginia Water Authority Fellows
18 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 PH.D. DEGREES STUDENT NEWS
The following doctoral degrees were Name: Faisal Hameed Name: Nestor Suarez Zamrano awarded to CEE students between Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: July 2012 and June 2013. Co-Advisors: Brandon Mitchell Name: Sherif Lotfy Abdelaziz Dissertation Title: Co-Advisors: Kathleen Hancock Name: Jia Tang Thomas Grizzard Dissertation Title: Co-Advisors: Celal Guney Olgun Name: Heejin Jung James Martin Dissertation Title: Advisor: Daniel Gallagher Name: Zaeinulabddin Adam Name: Hong Wang Dissertation Title: Advisor: Antoine Hobeika Dissertation Title: Name: Bernard Kassner Dissertation Title: Advisor: Amy Pruden-Bagchi Advisor: Montasir Abbas Name: Michael Woodworth Name: Thiti Angkasuwansiri Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: Co-Advisors: Carin Roberts-Wollmann Thomas Cousins Co-Advisors: William Wright/Elisa Advisor: Sunil Sinha Name: Marc Maguire Sotelino Dissertation Title: Name: Ozgur Atlayan Name: WenJing Xue Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: Advisor: Finley Charney Advisor: Carin Roberts-Wollmann Name: Semra Comu Name: John Petrie Advisor: Linbing Wang Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: Name: Renzun Zhao Dissertation Title: Co-Advisors: Panos Diplas Gutierrez Advisor: John Taylor Name: Marina Eller Quadros Advisor: John Novak Name: Tian Gao Dissertation Title: Dissertation Title: Advisor: Linsey Marr Advisor: Cristopher Moen Name: Alison St. Clair Dissertation Title: Name: Leon Gay Alanis Dissertation Title: Advisor: Sunil Sinha Name: James Stagge Dissertation Title: Advisor: Sunil Sinha Advisor: Glenn Moglen
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 19 CEE ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS
Members of the 2013 Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Board, as well as past participants, gather for the fall meeting at the Inn at Virginia Tech.
Michael A. Alto, P.E. Brian K. Difenderfer, Ph.D., P.E. Laura J. Morillo, P.E. Bruce R. Bates, P.E. Richard M. DiSalvo, Jr., P.E. Aaron Muck, P.E. John R. Hillman, P.E. Thomas A. Broderick, P.E. Ann E. Piazza, P.E. Young Ho Chang, P.E. James N. Carter, Jr. Jonathan R. Porter, Ph.D. Meredith Jones Raymond G. Curry, Jr. Brian L. Ramaley, P.E. Govindan Kannan Stephen M. Seay, L.S. Stephen DeLoach, P.E., L.S. Eric J. Lundberg Kord Wissmann, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE
20 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 FACULTY BY PROGRAM AREA
Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Structural Engineering and Materials Program Program Finley A. Charney Professor Jesus M. de la Garza Vecellio Professor and Program Thomas E. Cousins Professor Coordinator W. Samuel Easterling Department Head and Montague- Michael J. Garvin Associate Professor* Betts Professor of Structural Steel Design Denise Simmons Assistant Professor* Matthew R. Eatherton Assistant Professor Sunil K. Sinha Associate Professor Zachary C. Grasley Associate Professor John E. Taylor Associate Professor Ioannis Koutromanos Assistant Professor Deborah E. Young-Corbett Assistant Professor* Roberto T. Leon David H. Burrows Professor Cristopher D. Moen Associate Professor Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Victoria A. Mouras Assistant Professor of Practice Program Carin L. Roberts-Wollmann Professor and Program Gregory D. Boardman Professor Coordinator Andrea M. Dietrich Professor Kamal B. Rojiani Associate Professor Randel L. Dymond Associate Professor Marc A. Edwards Charles Lunsford Professor Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering Program Daniel L. Gallagher Associate Professor Adil N. Godrej Research Associate Professor (NCR) Montasir Abbas Associate Professor Thomas J. Grizzard, Jr. Professor (NCR) Thomas A. Dingus Newport News Shipbuilding/Tenneco Zhen (Jason) He Associate Professor Professor Erich T. Hester Assistant Professor Gerardo W. Flintsch Professor Jennifer L. Irish Associate Professor Kathleen L. Hancock Associate Professor (NCR) William R. Knocke W. Curtis English Professor and Antoine G. Hobeika Professor Program Coordinator Pamela M. Murray-Tuite Associate Professor (NCR) John C. Little Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor Hesham A. Rakha Professor Linsey C. Marr Professor Antonio A. Trani Professor and Program Coordinator Glenn E. Moglen Professor (NCR) Linbing Wang Professor Amy J. Pruden Professor Emeritus Faculty Robert Paolo Scardina Assistant Professor of Practice Peter J. Vikesland Professor William E. Cox EWR Mark A. Widdowson Assistant Department Head and Donald R. Drew TISE Professor J. Michael Duncan GEO Husen Zhang Research Assistant Professor Robert C. Hoehn EWR Siegfried M. Holzer SEM Geotechnical Engineering Program J. Martin Hughes EWR Thomas L. Brandon, Associate Professor David F. Kibler EWR Joseph E. Dove Research Assistant Professor Robert D. Krebs GEO George M. Filz Assistant Department Head and Charles E. Thangavelu Kuppusamy GEO Via, Jr. Professor James K. Mitchell GEO Russell A. Green Professor Thomas M. Murray SEM Matthew Mauldon Associate Professor John T. Novak EWR C. Guney Olgun Research Assistant Professor Raymond H. Plaut SEM Adrian Rodriguez-Marek Associate Professor and Clifford W. Randall EWR Program Coordinator Dusan Teodorovic TISE Nina Stark Assistant Professor Michael C. Vorster CEM Richard D. Walker TISE Richard E. Weyers SEM NCR - National Capital Region
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 21 PROGRAM AREAS
The Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program
Mike Garvin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a research award from the Global Research Challenge division of Arup Corporation.
The Vecellio Construction Engi- tive support to the program, students, Construction Management Association neering and Management Program and faculty. of America, on the executive committee - friend and colleague, Julio C. Mar- vcempatvt and/or follow us on Twitter - tinez, who died on June 4, 2013. Martinez was on the VCEMP faculty As for news from the VCEMP fac- and the Constructed Environment, from 1996 through 2006 when he ulty, the following paragraphs show- transferred to Purdue University. case some of their activities. Materials, Manufacturing, and Infra- He is best known for the high qual- structure. ity of his research program focused Jesus M. de la Garza, the Vecellio on construction operations modeling, Professor in Construction Engineer- Michael J. Garvin taught his visualization and virtual reality. The ing and Management, received from main research products of his program the Construction Industry Institute include algorithms, methods, proce- guest lecturers from ACS Infrastruc- dures, computer-interpretable lan- Tucker Leadership and Service Award guages, network-based systems, and and the 2013 Outstanding Instruc- Infrastructure Development, and the most importantly, his students. Polytechnic University of Madrid. VCEMP highlights during this Garvin continued work on a grant year include the 2013 Vecellio Distin- a new CII research project to develop from the Virginia Department of guished Lecture presented by Robert a framework for the successful execu- studies and assess procurement pro- continues to enhance the Construction cesses in public-private partnerships. Garvin’s transfer from the Myers-Law- Control Techniques course by convert- He also received two new research son School of Construction to VCEMP ing it into an online delivery format. In service to the profession, de la Garza Arup Corporation as part of its Global is now in his third year as editor-in- Research Challenge. This project will To help bring all the program area chief for the American Society of Civil - initiatives to fruition, Sandy Simpkins Engineers’ Journal of Construction nisms are employed by governments continues to provide unwavering, es- Engineering and Management. He also to bolster projects that have socioeco- sential and extraordinary administra- serves on the board of directors of the
22 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 tion visit. XCaliber Award for teaching with tech- by the Graduate School as part of its Integrative Graduate Education John E. Taylor received a 2013 is currently developing a new course on Entrepreneurship in Architecture/ dubbed BioBuild, will look toward the College of Engineering and was the regulatory, adaptive, and integra- awarded the Journal of Management in to acquaint students with the chal- tive properties of biological systems Engineering’s 2012 Best Peer-Reviewed lenges and opportunities facing new and seek to mimic these in building Paper Award at the ASCE annual A/E/C ventures. In 2012-2013 Taylor systems, buildings, and communities. conference. Over the past year, he has became co-advisor of the Engineers Colleagues John E. Taylor and Debo- published 11 journal articles in lead- Without Borders student organization. rah Young-Corbett are co-principal ing journals. Taylor was selected to He also serves industry and academia investigators in this endeavor. present his globalization research at as Academic Liaison of the Construc- Garvin is serving as an expert tion Industry Institute’s Globalization - - Community of Practice and as editorial lor’s Global Virtual Design and Con- board member for three ASCE jour- Working Group, chaired by former struction course is receiving the 2013 nals. Transportation Secretaries Mary an expert member of a panel working Prieto presents 2013 Vecellio - Distinguished Lecture Cooperative Highway Research Pro- development of the Construction Man- agement at Risk Guidebook. He con- tinues to serve on the editorial boards of the Engineering Project Organization Journal, Journal of Infrastructure Sys- tems and Public Works Management & Policy and acts as a specialty editor for the Journal of Construction Engineering & Management Leadership & Service Award from the Prieto Myers-Lawson School of Construction for his service as associate director for the school from 2009-2012. Victoria Mouras, assistant profes- sor of practice, continues to focus her time and energy on the undergraduate program. She established a new Con- struction Documents Lab to support activities across the VCEMP; students on her practical experience in the design and construction industry, she recently assumed responsibility for the required senior-level course “Profes- sional and Legal Issues.” In recognition of her dedication to teaching, Mouras was awarded a College of Engineering 2012-2013. Additionally, her role as the director of assessment for the de- partment has kept her busy readying -
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 23 PROGRAM AREAS
The Environmental and Water Resources Program The Environmental and Water uted to the faculty, staff, and students. Wingate who completed her 25th year The EWR staff, located in both of service at Virginia Tech this year, well-respected among graduate pro- all within the EWR program. Likewise, grams in environmental engineering in supports a large faculty of approxi- the many contributions to the program the nation, according to the rankings mately 25 individuals and more than from Beth Lucas and Merry-Gayle published annually by U.S. News and 130 graduate students. They help Moeller World Report. The superb diligence, sustain a thriving research program well. Lucas plays an important role commitment, and initiative responsible across more than a dozen research in her administrative support to the for this acknowledgement are attrib- labs. Special recognition goes to Betty many off-campus students who are
24 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 pursuing MS degrees with an environ- mental and water resources engineer- ing focus through the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program. In the past year the EWR program gradu- ated numerous master’s and doctoral students whose acknowledgment sec- tion of their thesis or dissertation paid special tribute to EWR’s two analytical chemists, Julie Petruska and Jody Smiley. Their dedication and invalu- able expertise enhance greatly the research experiences of many students each year. The Occoquan Laboratory, the Randy Dymond, center, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was one of the faculty leaders in getting a new interdisciplinary members who make important con- bachelor’s program in real estate approved this year. tributions to departmental programs. Barbara Angelotti and Alicia Tingen bring a wealth of years of experience through the work of Jeny Beausoliel week summer school for operators and to the overall administrative support of who provides administrative support as chair of a series of short courses the laboratory, looking after all aspects to faculty and students working at sponsored by the Virginia Department of Health. well as facilities management. George Church. She provides a welcoming Underwood, Mark Lucas, and Doug Andrea M. Dietrich met with Holladay collectively bring over 75 students joining the program in the global experts in drinking water quality and aesthetics at a meeting in Taiwan. operations of the laboratory. Special recognition is given to Phil Speller- The following paragraphs provide in the 21st century to be published berg who retired in the past year after information regarding the activities on these topics. Her activities include and accomplishments of many of the a successful year of teaching, service, staff of the laboratory. Spellerberg re- full-time faculty in the EWR program and research. Using both on-campus ceived the 2013 University Staff Career during the past year. and distance-learning instruction, she Achievement Award in recognition of educated students in environmental Gregory D. Boardman received engineering and chemistry. Through operates a network of 11 automated the Enslow-Hedgepeth Award from the her advisory position with the Ameri- stream monitoring stations along with Virginia Water Environment Associa- can Water Works Association student 25 river and reservoir stations that are chapter and membership on editorial also regularly monitored. Joan Wirt, keynote address at VWEA’s “Wastewa- boards, she actively promotes careers Curt Eskridge, and Mike Gaal stay ter Operations Education Seminar and in and advancement of drinking water on top of the sample analysis efforts Operations Challenge Competition.” He quality and sustainability. Her re- of the laboratory, each year analyzing was elected to the Board of Trustees search group published 10 articles on over 5,000 water samples in support of the Virginia Section of the American diverse topics from stability of drinking of the laboratory’s funded research Water Works Association and assigned water infrastructure to water qual- program. Their efforts help insure that oversight of the Membership Involve- ity for dairy cows. With her research the laboratory maintains its unique ment and Outreach Council, which group, she traveled within the U.S. and globally to give 16 professional environmental laboratory. During the working with eight graduate students presentations related to water quality past year Jeanie Taylor joined the on seven research projects in the areas and safety. laboratory and has proven to be a wel- of characterizing water and solids come addition to the staff. In addition from hydraulic fracturing operations, Randy Dymond remains very ac- to full-time staff the laboratory is ably treatment and reuse of industrial tive in both teaching and research ef- supported by shorter-term wage em- - forts in the areas of land development, ployees, many of whom are students ter, removal of siloxanes from digester urban stormwater modeling, and geo- gaining important experience. gas, and digestion of food wastes. He spatial information technology. Three continues to be active in outreach ac- of Dymond’s nine graduate students tivities: as director of an annual, two- Continued on page 26
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 25 faculty and staff at the Occoquan Lab, from Blacksburg’s urban stormwater this year, one for collaboration and Grizzard continues to provide sound modeling to civil information models the other for exceptional achievement in developing a cross-contamination water quality in the Occoquan Res- journal papers under review. Besides model for retail delis. He presented the ervoir. In 2013, Grizzard marked the teaching Hydrology, Land Development results of his research at various na- 10th anniversary of his service on an Design, and Sustainable Land Devel- tional and international conferences, international panel working with the opment, he worked with Vinod Lohani and conducted outreach by holding Republic of Singapore to manage water of engineering education on a project seminars and webinars with industry resources in one of the world’s most called LabView Enabled Watershed and consumer groups. densely populated cities. web-accessible water quantity and Adil Godrej and his group contin- Erich Hester’s research focuses data collection system for a stream on ued their Occoquan modeling activities on how stream hydraulics and hu- the Virginia Tech campus. In an inter- by starting work on a model for the disciplinary campus effort, Dymond 2008-2012 period, using data that was ecological health and water quality has been one of the prime movers in mostly gathered from the monitoring getting a new bachelor’s program in activities at the Occoquan Labora- graduate students continued to work real estate approved this year. In ad- tory. A loading analysis for nitrogen on core research areas such as the dition, the Land Development Design discharges from the Upper Occoquan impact of stream restoration practices Service Authority’s water reclamation on water quality and the effect of pref- with more than 30 sponsoring compa- plant will be performed to establish the nies; more information is available at monthly pattern of loading that they www.lddi.cee.vt.edu should use to optimize their discharge, - keep within their annual limits, and ginia Tech Institute for Critical Tech- Marc Edwards was an endowed speaker at the Gordon Research the nitrate content of the discharge in Three graduate students matriculated, Conference on Aqueous Corrosion. while two more joined the group. One Edwards won a faculty advising award nitrogen gas in the absence of oxygen from the Association of Environmental in the deep waters of the reservoir in to evaluate the ability of cutting edge Engineering and Science Professors summer, thus preventing the release of geophysical techniques to determine phosphorus and other species and aid- where water pollution originates within award, and from the University Coun- Godrej, along with Glenn Moglen, will Little also published an article about cil on Water Resources Competition for co-advise a Ph.D. student on an inter- measuring environmental sustain- Randi Brazeau’s Outstanding Disser- national project that will use the model ability at the watershed level. It was tation honorable mention citation. Ed- to examine changes in hydrology and featured on the cover of Environmental wards also received the Barus Award water quality expected under climate Science & Technology. Also, Hester for Defending the Public Health and change conditions. John Little and - Interest from the Institute of Electrical Tom Grizzard are the other Virginia ence for Undergraduates awardees this Tech collaborators on the project. summer that assisted with the above institute cited his “demonstrated cour- projects. age, persistence, and uncompromising Tom Grizzard, director of the dedication to public welfare” over more Occoquan Laboratory, continues to Jennifer L. Irish continued re- than a decade of volunteer efforts search on coastal hazards via seven on lead in water. Edwards is only Virginia focused on managing critical grants, including those funded by the 11th recipient of this prestigious water resources in urbanizing water- award in the last 35 years, which is sheds. Grizzard works on an expert given to recognize courageous actions panel with the Virginia Department of advances in statistical methods for to protect the public despite risk to a Environmental Quality to develop pro- professional career. tocols for assessing the performance of to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s both proprietary and non-proprietary Strategic Sciences Group — Opera- Dan Gallagher and his students urban stormwater control technolo- tional Group Sandy, whose outcomes continued their risk assessment work gies. Grizzard is also doing research in were reported directly to the Hurricane on water and food. He was appointed developing cost-effective ways to ret- Sandy Rebuilding Taskforce estab- to the executive management team lished by President Obama. Her group that oversees the $25 million U.S. systems to achieve results that will authored three journal papers and one Department of Agriculture project on better support Chesapeake Bay res- book chapter, and Irish was invited E. coli in beef. His teams won two toration efforts. Along with the other to present her research at the Ameri-
26 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 can Geophysical Union’s fall meeting. Irish continues to be active with the American Society of Civil Engineers Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute and as a member of the Academy of Engineering Board of Trustees. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Springer Handbook on Ocean Engineering, Part C: Coastal Design. This spring, Irish introduced a graduate course on ad- vanced coastal engineering.
William Knocke completed his three-year appointment as the as- sociate vice president for research at Virginia Tech in the summer of 2013, and returned to the EWR program as coordinator in July. He will continue to have certain research leadership du- - dent for Research, but will focus most of his time on teaching and research within the program area. Knocke continues to emphasize drinking water treatment technologies in his research work, with primary emphasis on iron and manganese control methods. Dur- ing the past 18 months, he has worked with three co-authors from around the U.S. to prepare a comprehensive guid- ance manual on manganese control in drinking water treatment situations, written to help utilities and design engineers develop enhanced strategies and processes for implementation.
During the last year, John Little gave invited presentations on his re- Using both on-campus and distance-learning search in Basel, Switzerland; Golden, instruction, Andrea Dietrich, professor of civil and Colorado; Wuhan, China; Kiel, Ger- environmental engineering, educates students in many; Tianjin, China; Beijing, China; environmental engineering and chemistry. Cologne, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary. He was invited by the edi- tors of Atmospheric Environment to to broaden his research expertise into Graduate students and post-doctoral prepare a special issue of the journal the area of environmental sustain- researchers are determining the trans- ability, with a particular emphasis on formation, transport, and fate of vari- of Semivolatile Organic Compounds the various orientors, indicators, and ous nanomaterials in incinerators and frameworks that are used to evaluate of fullerenes in the atmosphere. They also served as chair of the Association the sustainability of societal systems. are also collaborating with a group in of Environmental Engineering and electrical and computer engineering on - Linsey Marr’s research group in sertation Award Sub-Committee. While air quality engineering addresses the funded project to develop a micro-gas- continuing to be active in research on environmental impacts of nanomate- chromatograph for measuring person- emissions of SVOC from building ma- - al exposure to air toxic compounds. terials as well as on the oxygenation of tion of air pollutant emissions, and In collaboration with a construction lakes and reservoirs, Little has begun Continued on page 28
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 27 A student conducts research in the interdisciplinary Water INTERface lab.
28 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 management professor, researchers are benchmarking the carbon footprint The Environmental and Water Resources (EWR) of earthmoving operations. The goal of a new project funded by ICTAS is to Program remains well-respected among graduate develop a low-cost sensor for detecting programs in environmental engineering in the research on the relationship between nation, according to the rankings published annually by U.S. News and World Report. The was featured in the Wall Street Jour- superb diligence, commitment, and initiative nal. Marr was promoted to professor this year. responsible for this acknowledgement are attributed to the faculty, staff, and students. Glenn Moglen continues his research in the areas of land use Pruden’s work on understanding sium on Bioremediation and Sustain- water supply. Moglen is providing in- environmental pathways of antibiotic able Environmental Technologies and - resistance also gained national media meetings of CUAHSI and the U.S. - attention as her research revealed the presence of antibiotic resistance genes He was an invited participant in the at thousands of design points in in recycled wastewater and brought - to light potential concerns when the shop on “Long Term Management of Moglen has developed a web site to water is used for snowmaking at ski Contaminated Groundwater Sites.” allow tailored geographic information resorts. Pruden also enjoyed teaching Widdowson provided external reviews CEE 5194 Environmental Engineer- for the State of California and the U.S. nutrient loading behavior under future ing Microbiology and working together Environmental Protection Agency on land use change on the DelMarVa Pen- policies related to intrusion of vapors insula. ASCE has accepted his paper and Brenda Davy on developing a new into buildings at petroleum-contam- related to the DelMarVa research for course, GRAD 5139, which explores inated sites. In addition, Widdowson publication in its Journal of Hydrologic the science and practice of interdisci- continued administrative duties as Engineering. Also accepted in this jour- plinary research. assistant department head, including nal is a paper forecasting water supply overseeing the department’s gradu- in the Occoquan system under future Paolo Scardina is active in the ate program and its efforts to expand land use and climate change. Both classroom, instructing a number of en- international programs. papers are due out this year in hard vironmental water resources courses. copy. Moglen is writing a textbook on To support his classroom instruction, In 2012, Husen Zhang started Scardina completed the year-long his research and education activity in the CRC Press in 2015. A full 25 years the EWR program. He obtained fund- after earning his Engineer In Train- Program administered via the Virginia ing from the Virginia Bioinformatics Tech Center for Instructional Devel- - and passed the Professional Engineers’ opment and Educational Research ence Institute Small Grants Program to study cause-and-effect relationship - adviser for the Virginia Tech ASCE between intestinal microbiota and tinues his service to ASCE as secretary student chapter. He attended the na- host immunity. His research team and member of the watershed manage- includes Xin Luo, a biologist from the ment technical committee. Adviser Training Workshop and was department of biomedical sciences and pathobiology. In 2012, Zhang Amy Pruden, together with Marc Commendation from ASCE national published a paper “Methanogens in Edwards, Annie Pearce, and Anisha for his efforts as faculty adviser. human health and disease” in the Patel, were the recipients of a pres- American Journal of Gastroenterology Mark Widdowson continued his Supplements with coauthors Mark award, which will enable them to leadership role in the CEE faculty-led Pimentel from Cedars-Sinai Medical explore the “building plumbing micro- study abroad program in the Punta Center, Robert Gunsalus from UCLA, biome.” This research will open new Cana region of the Dominican Repub- and Satish Rao from University of avenues for understanding why patho- lic, including teaching of a senior/ Iowa. He started to serve on graduate gens, such as Legionella, sometimes graduate level course called Sustain- student thesis committees with Amy colonize in drinking water systems and able Water Supply and Reuse. Wid- Pruden. He also served as a panelist will support new solutions for control- dowson and his colleagues presented ling waterborne disease outbreak. papers at the International Sympo-
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The Geotechnical Engineering Program
Tom Brandon, associate professor of civil and work with the Department of Justice on post- Hurricane Katrina litigation.
The Geotechnical Engineering faculty. Program had a very productive year. to serve as an important link between Its national and international visibil- academia and practice. Its annual from the administrative support meeting serves to connect regional and provided by Lisha Farrier and Sandy awards conferred to its faculty mem- national members to the geotechnical Simpkins. bers. Among these, Mike Duncan and faculty and graduating students, and The various activities of the indi- Tom Brandon gave keynote lectures at vidual Geotechnical Program faculty the American Society of Civil Engi- the academic and professional com- members are summarized in the para- munities. graphs below. in San Diego, Calif.; Guney Olgun pre- Several changes have occurred sented a keynote lecture at the Sowers with the geotechnical engineering T.L. Brandon wrapped up his symposium in Atlanta, Ga.; and Jim faculty. Jimmy Martin left the civil work with the Department of Justice Mitchell delivered the keynote lecture regarding the post-Hurricane Katrina at the Southeastern Transportation department after 28 years at Virginia litigation. After several years of effort, Geotechnical Engineering Conference Tech to become the department chair- in Richmond, Va. Russell Green re- man of the Glenn Department of Civil ceived the 2013 Virginia Tech Alumni Engineering at Clemson University. the Corps of Engineers. Brandon is on Award for Excellence in International CEE will miss his contributions to the research leave for 2013. He presented Research. The geotechnical faculty is program and his camaraderie, and it one of the keynote lectures at the also active in important consulting welcomes Nina Stark to the program. ASCE GeoCongress conference in San projects at a national and interna- Her expertise is in marine engineering, Diego in 2013 on the shear strength tional level. and she will be working both with the of soil. He is spending the bulk of his The Center for Geotechnical Prac- geotechnical and the water resources time at the Corps of Engineers’ Engi-
30 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 neering Research and Development Russell Green is actively working The Geotechnical on several continuing research proj- working on levee-related issues. He is ects. Most notably, Green is continu- also a member of the team rewriting Engineering Program ing his work studying the 2010-2011 the levee design manual and is teach- ing short courses for ERDC and the had a very productive sequence. Green spent two months Jacksonville and Vicksburg Districts year. Its national at the University of Canterbury in of the Corps of Engineers during his sabbatical. and international year, giving lectures and performing collaborative earthquake research. In Joe Dove continued his collabo- addition to his oldest son Owen, Green ration with Patricia Dove, professor in the large number of was accompanied to Christchurch by of geosciences, and CEE graduate one of his master’s research students, students in developing novel methods awards conferred to to improve the engineering behavior of - soils. He is working with Jim Mitchell its faculty members. and Ph.D. student Craig Shillaber in research on the earthquakes. Because developing a methodology to evaluate ing boards for the Panama Canal, for energy use and CO2 release during Oconee Dam in South Carolina and as well as in Iceland, Japan, and Haiti, ground improvement. Other areas of Ashton Dam in Idaho, and for the de- Green was awarded the 2013 Virginia active research include the applica- sign of a new off-channel reservoir on Tech Alumni Award for Excellence in tion of advanced sensing techniques the Lower Colorado River in Texas. International Research. He has ad- for site investigation, infrastructure ditionally continued work on a U.S. assessment, and hazard detection; George Filz’s research projects Geological Survey funded project on engineering for sustainability; and, and sponsors include an accessible paleoliquefaction investigations of sites bio-inspired materials. He serves the knowledge base for soil improve- - department as one of the academic ment technologies for transporta- sored project on the development of an advisors for undergraduate majors and tion infrastructure renewal from the energy-based liquefaction evaluation as chair of the curriculum committee. Strategic Highway Research Program procedure, and a Tennessee Valley Au- thority project on the dynamic proper- Mike Duncan worked with George bridge abutments using mechani- ties of coal combustion products. The cally stabilized earth systems with latter two projects are in collaboration supervised CGPR and CEE student re- the Virginia Center for Transportation with Adrian Rodriguez-Marek. search projects. He advised a group of Innovation and Research/Virginia graduate students to plan the renova- Matthew Mauldon has research tion of the Ozawa Geotechnical Library compilation of deep-mixing case in Patton Hall, and the development histories and stability of slopes rein- fractured rock, with application to sta- of a high-tech space in the library for forced with various types of columns bility of high head arch dam spillways group projects and presentations. He with CGPR; and design procedures and abutments. This work, which gave the opening keynote lecture at the ASCE GeoCongress in San Diego, fractured rock material, has been car- Calif., where he also presented a paper ried out with geotechnical engineering on the impacts of time on reinforced presentations based on his research at graduate students and Panos Diplas slopes, co-authored papers on fully conferences and seminars in Berke- of CEE. Mauldon has also begun to softened shear strength of clay, prob- ley, Calif.; Brussels, Belgium; Davis, investigate the use of underground ability of failure of slopes, and analysis Calif.; Portland, Ore.; San Diego, Calif.; mines as a resource for thermal energy of transient seepage through levees, Stockholm, Sweden; and Wollongong, storage, and as a potential ground and served on panels for discussions source for geothermal recovery loops of slope behavior and design. He co- CEE department head, director of coupled to heat pumps. Mauldon authored a paper on the use of the the CGPR, faculty advisor of Virginia serves on the editorial boards of Rock - Tech’s Geotechnical Student Organiza- Mechanics and Rock Engineering and ity analysis presented at the Interna- tion, member of VDOT’s Geotechnical the Korean Journal of Civil Engineering. tional Conference on Soil Mechanics Research Advisory Committee, mem- and Geotechnical Engineering in Paris, ber of the ASCE Geo-Institute Soil Im- Jimmy Martin led three engineer- - provement Committee, and consultant ing research projects related to recent oped the second edition of the book, on geotechnical design and construc- Soil Strength and Slope Stability. Dur- tion projects. and Washington D.C., and one in- ing the past year he served on consult- Continued on page 32
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 31 volving the use of energy piles for the Histories in Geotechnical Engineering project studying an energy-based Middle East. He led efforts to instru- in Chicago in May. Mitchell’s con- methodology for liquefaction assess- ment the Washington Monument for sulting activities included the design ment. These two projects are in col- dynamic structural assessment, and review board for a large copper tail- laboration with his colleague Russell organized a regional earthquake engi- ings storage facility in Utah, a review Green. In addition, Rodriguez-Marek is neering workshop for regional stake- board for ground movement evaluation the lead in a multi-institutional project holders at the Smithsonian Institution. and stabilization of the I-20 Missis- that studied the effects of surface He presented a state-of-the-art lecture sippi River Bridge at Vicksburg, Miss., topography on strong ground motions on soil improvement for seismic miti- a technical peer review panel for the using physical modeling in a geotech- gation for the Los Angeles GeoInstitute Elliot Bay Seawall Replacement project nical centrifuge along with numerical in Seattle, Wash., and the peer review modeling and empirical analyses of series for the Virginia Engineers panel for research on soft zones at recorded data. This project will lead to Conference. Much of his efforts were depth beneath the Savannah River an improvement in hazard assessment related to the interdisciplinary univer- Site in South Carolina. He was elected for regions with irregular topography. an honorary member of the inaugural He has also received funding from the center that he directed. In the past class of the Academy of Distinguished year, DRM developed a new graduate Alumni of the Department of Civil and conduct research on seismic hazard program supported by the Virginia Environmental Engineering, University assessment for nuclear power plants. Tech graduate school, acquired a large of California, Berkeley. He has also actively participated in project from the World Bank to develop various seismic hazard assessment disaster mitigation strategies for 57 Is- Guney Olgun is continuing his re- projects for nuclear power plants in lamic countries, and helped lead a new search and outreach efforts on energy South Africa and various locations in regional land-grant university initiative geotechnology, spanning a wide range the United States. between Virginia Tech and three other of areas from energy piles to energy institutions. In related DRM work, he geostorage. He organized an interna- Nina Stark is investigating co-organized and co-sponsored an in- tional workshop in Lausanne, Switzer- changes and variations of geotechni- ternational disaster resilience confer- land, focusing on pressing issues on cal properties of coastal sediments ence in Portugal. He serves as one of energy foundations. He gave several with regard to subaqueous sediment three co-editors of the special journal invited lectures on energy piles across dynamics and coastal engineering. In issue on disaster resilience under the country, including the state-of-the- the last year, she worked on gravel development from that event. Martin art lecture during the Sowers Sym- recently accepted the chair position at posium in Atlanta organized by the the Glenn Department of Civil Engi- Georgia Chapter of the Geo-Institute. Scotia, site characterizations for tidal neering and Clemson, and has been He also developed and presented an appointed adjunct professor in civil ASCE webinar on energy piles. He is the deepening of the navigation chan- and environment engineering and will - maintain close ties to Virginia Tech. ect to study the performance of energy and an experiment in collaboration with MARUM of Bremen, Germany, Emeritus Professor Jim Mitchell an extension of this project he is also and dotOcean of Zeebruegge, Belgium co-authored a CGPR report on “The investigating the use of ground-source to test and assess the performance of heating for deicing of bridge decks in dynamic penetrometers suitable for He is co-advising Ph.D. research on collaboration with Cris Moen from the coastal and marine deployments. She methods for incorporating sustainabil- Structural Engineering and Materials presented results at the annual meet- ity considerations in ground improve- program. Olgun is also leading another ings of the Canadian Meteorological ment projects. He presented a one-day and Oceanographic Society and the short course on ground improvement soil-mix panels for ground reinforce- American Geophysical Union, as well in Toronto in January. He was the ment during earthquakes. This study keynote speaker at the annual meet- is led by Virginia Tech and it also for Tidal Energy and the International ing of the Southeastern Transportation involves three other universities where Symposium for River, Coastal and Geotechnical Engineering Conference shake table tests, dynamic centrifuge Estuarine Morphodynamics. Also, she in Richmond, Va., in October, par- gave seminars at Dalhousie University, ticipated as a speaker and workshop conducted. Halifax, and Cape Breton University, chair at the 4th International Confer- - ence on Site Characterization in Porto Adrian Rodriguez-Marek’s re- rating with Blue C Designs in Halifax de Galinhas, Brazil in September, and search includes a project focused on to develop and commercialize a new chaired the session commemorating the characterization of the dynamic dynamic penetrometer for geotechni- the legacy of Ralph Peck at the 7th behavior of coal combustion residuals cal investigations in coastal zones with International Conference on Case
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The Structural Engineering and Materials Program
Ioannis Koutromanos, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, joined the structural engineering and materials program group in the summer of 2012, and learned in 2013 that he received the Outstanding Dissertation award from the Masonry Society for his doctoral research.
The faculty in the Structural and outreach, Matt Eatherton re- year, the lab has acquired several new ceived the 2013 Outstanding Assistant MTS actuators and several new data Program continued to excel in teach- Professor award from the College of acquisition systems, which will allow ing, research, and outreach, and they Engineering. And in recognition of his even more projects to be underway were recognized with many prestigious innovative teaching techniques, his in- awards. volvement of undergraduate students busy lab runs smoothly thanks to the Roberto Leon received the 2013 in research and publication, and his efforts of Brett Farmer, Dennis Huff- Tewksbury Award from the American commitment to K-12 outreach, Zach man, and David Mokarem. Society of Civil Engineers/Structrual Grasley received the Walter P. Moore The following paragraphs provide more detail about the faculty mem- his contributions to the organization. ACI. bers’ activities over the past year: Carin Roberts-Wollmann was named The SEM graduate program has almost 100 new and continuing Finley Charney has continued his - graduate students, with more than research on Performance Based Earth- 50 of these students participating quake Engineering, funded by a vari- In recognition of her dedication to in research. The Thomas M. Murray teaching Vickie Mouras was awarded Structural Engineering Laboratory is Institute of Standards and Technology busy with a large number of projects, Teaching Excellence for 2012-2013. involving more than 30 graduate and - undergraduate students. Over the past Continued on page 34
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 33 ment of Agriculture’s Wood Coun- ects are underway, with one project in focused on fundamental behavior of cil. He is active in technical committee collaboration with researchers at Utah cement-based materials that relates work and other activities for ASCE, State University. This project’s focus is to improving the sustainability of our - the development and implementation nation’s infrastructure. He has several - of a rapid bridge condition assessment system. particular, Charney has worked with Grasley’s work on modeling the visco- a variety of groups on updating and Matthew Eatherton’s research elastic properties of concrete through improving the linear and nonlinear group is focusing on developing new a CAREER award, along with two new seismic structural analysis provisions structural systems with enhanced projects that started in 2013. One of for the ASCE 7 Standard. He teaches earthquake performance and im- these new projects focuses on devel- professional seminars in earthquake proved seismic resilience. Two ongoing oping a model that couples chemical engineering, most recently for ASCE, research projects include develop- reactions, microstructure evolution, ing steel plate shear walls that resist and mechanical properties of cement- has also completed the second edition buckling and a self-centering moment based materials. Grasley also has two of his book, Guide to the ASCE 7 Seis- frame that will not require repair after ongoing projects funded by the Qatar mic Load Provisions. During the spring most earthquakes. His group is also - semester of 2013, Charney offered a improving the seismic performance centrates on evaluating the ability of new CEE graduate course “Advanced of existing types of structures. They concrete to be used as the sole con- Topics in Earthquake Engineering.” recently concluded a set of full-scale Over the past year he worked with the tests on moment frame connections gas storage, which, if feasible, could Virginia Tech International Programs to investigate the effect of defects on save around $100 million on a typical group to establish a dual Ph.D. pro- the seismic performance of moment gram with Catholic University in San- frames. Other active research projects tiago, Chile. One Virginia Tech Ph.D. include experimentally evaluating and student is already enrolled in this characterizing the seismic behavior of nanotubes in cementitious materials, program, and Charney will spend the cold-formed steel members and con- with the goal to improve the durability nections, developing procedures for and mechanical properties. at Catholic University. tightening super high tension bolts, and developing a new spectral match- Ioannis Koutromanos, who also Tommy Cousins offers pre- ing algorithm using wavelet transforms joined the group in the summer of stressed concrete and bridge design and a nonlinear solution scheme. 2012, continues his research work on courses and focuses his research Eatherton’s research group is also ac- efforts on challenges associated with tive in outreach activities and profes- bridge performance and longevity. He sional service. They hosted learning is involved in two Virginia Department activities at C-Tech2 summer camp, Engineering Open House, Blacksburg multi-year bridge innovation imple- High School, and elsewhere. He hosted on overlays of Engineered Cementi- two international visiting scholars is partnering with Carin Roberts- from prestigious universities in China. analyses have allowed the establish- Wollmann and two graduate students - to help VDOT bridge engineers develop sional committees and contributed to and implement inverted T-beams the structural engineering profession Earlier this year, he received the Out- topped with a cast-in-place deck on a this past year by authoring two steel standing Dissertation award from the bridge near Richmond, Va. This style plate shear wall design examples to be bridge is an alternative to the tradi- used by practicing structural engi- research, which combined large-scale tional adjacent box beam or voided neers. slab bridges used in short to medium to shed light on the performance of spans. The second project is investi- Zachary Grasley joined the SEM - gating improved connection details for group in August 2012, teaching the struction. Koutromanos is developing adjacent box beam and voided slab undergraduate civil engineering ma- simulation tools for the analysis of RC bridges. Ultra High Performance Con- terials course and a graduate course and masonry structures under multi- on constitutive behavior of cement- directional earthquake excitations, based materials. He is advising the based on nonlinear shell analysis. He material. Cousins and Roberts-Woll- department’s concrete canoe team, is working on the use of the nonlinear mann are part of a USDOT University and off-campus he is secretary of ACI truss analogy for the seismic collapse Transportation Center located at Rut- Committee 236 – Materials Science assessment of low-rise, reinforced gers University. Currently three proj- of Concrete. Grasley’s research has masonry shear wall structures. Two
34 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 graduate students have been recruited Ray Plaut, who retired in 2008, is and work under his supervision in the The SEM graduate a full-time voluntary teacher’s aide in aforementioned areas. program has almost a local kindergarten class. He contin- 100 new and continuing ues to conduct research, and collabo- Roberto Leon is conducting rates with Cris Moen. Papers on lifting graduate students, with research in three principal areas. The of curved girders were published in more than 50 of these 2012, and a paper on the stability of students participating in curved girders resting on bridge piers results being submitted to the AISC research. is under review at a journal. Plaut for possible inclusion in its 2016 published papers on geotextile tubes - trained to use. His group, including used to dewater mine tailings slurry - in a journal and in the proceedings of columns, with emphasis on the use of erton, is wrapping up a multi-year GeoAmericas 2012, a conference held diaphragms and shape memory alloy study on the seismic performance of in Peru. He also published papers on materials; the goal is to increase the thin-walled cold-formed steel members the stability of carbon nanotubes, the and connections for the American Iron response of structures to dynamic to moderate heights. The third area is loads, mathematical models of the - will soon be integrated into a new AISI motion of a woman’s ponytail during tributing seismic loads to lateral force - resisting systems; current analyses building earthquake design. Moen tions of circular elastic plates. He is programs often use an assumption also recently kicked off a new three working with faculty and students in of a rigid diaphragm but the limita- the Department of Engineering Sci- tions of this approach to horizontally University of Massachusetts at Am- ence and Mechanics on mathematical and vertically irregular buildings is herst and Johns Hopkins University models of the Slinky, and on dielectric- unknown. Leon also works on issues that will provide practicing engineers related to passive wireless antenna advanced tools for considering sys- sensors for building and bridge tem reliability in building and bridge design. On the transportation infra- Carin Roberts-Wollmann has concrete buildings and progressive structure and materials front, Moen several new and ongoing bridge collapse of bridges. Last spring, Leon and his group are collaborating with related research projects funded by developed and taught a new course on failures in civil engineering struc- project to validate a computational tool for Transportation Innovation and tures that included an introduction that simulates cracking and failure of to forensic engineering based on both reinforced, prestressed, and ultra high projects noted by Cousins previously a large number of case studies and a in this report, she also worked with broad conception of failure, its origins, him to perform live load tests and and formal approaches to its investiga- team is also closing in on revamped long term monitoring of the Varina- tion. The course also delved into the bridge deck design method for the Enon Bridge for VCTIR to investigate role of building codes, ethical stan- Virginia Department of Transporta- dards, government, and legal issues tion which has the potential to double losses, in combination with tempera- as related to forensic engineering. He service life with corrosion resistant re- ture effects, on the behavior of the serves on numerous technical com- inforcing bars and new design details joints in this segmental box girder mittees of ACI, ASCE/SEI and AISC that limit cracking. bridge. She participates in committee and on the boards of the ASCE/SEI, activities of the ACI, where she is the the Earthquake Engineering Institute Victoria Mouras, assistant profes- chair of Committee 423 – Prestressed sor of practice, continues to focus her Concrete and serves as a member of time and energy on the undergradu- Sub-Committee 318G working on re- ate program by teaching fundamental organization of the ACI 318 Building Cris Moen and his research group structural design courses. Based on Code and Commentary. She is also are working towards a goal of advanc- her practical experience in the de- active in PCI and the Transportation sign and construction industry, she Research Board, where she chairs the and durability. His team collaborates recently assumed responsibility for the committee on concrete bridges. She closely with the steel industry with required senior-level course “Profes- works with the “Concrete for Kids” sional and Legal Issues.” Additionally, outreach program, which was pre- buildings. Moen and his students as the department’s Director of Assess- sented to over 120 middle and high recently validated a new hurricane ment, she led the preparations for the school students at C-Tech2 and Imagi- design method for metal buildings nation camps during the summer of that engineers nationwide are being 2013.
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The Transportation Infrastructure est university-level research center date that will result in the collection of and Systems Engineering Program at Virginia Tech with more than $43 more than 3,500 data years of driver behavior and performance data. VTTI researchers began work on more The following paragraphs illustrate Centers of Excellence and conducts than 60 new sponsored projects during salient accomplishments by faculty, re- research in all modes of transporta- search staff, and students in the TISE tion. TISE is comprised of nine faculty Academy of Sciences-sponsored 2,500- group. members and 63 graduate students. car naturalistic driving study. This $30 The group has representation in both million project is the largest study to This past year, Montasir Abbas Blacksburg and the Capital Region campuses. Several of the TISE faculty VTTI conducts research to save lives, time, and money, and to pro- tect the environment. Researchers continuously developing the techniques and technologies to solve transporta- tion challenges from vehicular, driver, infrastructure, and environmental perspectives. VTTI serves as the larg-
The Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering Program
Among his numerous projects, Antonio Trani has added to his research portfolio fuel and emission System.
36 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 taught the Computer Applications in - proved technologies and methodologies for delivering on-line education with a dual Ph.D. student with the Politecnico small grant to develop a new graduate students matriculated. Abbas and his di Milano, Italy, published 36 peer- course in Critical Issues in Transporta- students published three peer-reviewed reviewed manuscripts, including 17 tion that will be offered in the spring of journal papers and 10 peer-reviewed journal papers and 19 peer-reviewed 2014. conference proceedings. He currently conference papers, and collaborated supervises eight graduate students and with several universities to deliver Antoine Hobeika, professor, serves as a member of several Trans- the second intensive for-credit sum- continued his research work in testing - mittees. He is working on two research Infrastructure Management in Atlanta, - Ga. He has also continued to grow the - research collaboration with existing SIMS. He taught classes on trans- after completing a research assignment international partners, initiated new portation planning and land use and at University of California-Berkeley. and hosted a visit of 15 European sci- and Introduction to Transportation Thomas Dingus is the director of entists as part of a scanning tour of the Engineering. - building Professor of Civil and Environ- - Bryan Katz was promoted to Pro- mental Engineering. A human factors nized the 7th International Symposium fessor of Practice in the Civil and En- and safety transportation researcher, on Pavement Surfaces Characteristics vironmental Engineering Department he is a current member of the board of - Smooth, Safe, Quiet, and Sustainable supporting the TISE program. Katz directors for the Intelligent Transporta- Travel through Innovative Technologies teaches Introduction to Transportation - Engineering and Geometric Design of recently had the honor of being named Highways. Katz began a second year a White House Champion of Change in chairing the Pavement Evaluation 2014 of a pilot program to teach the Intro- transportation safety. He also serves as Conference in Blacksburg, Va., and the duction to Transportation Engineer- director of the Connected Vehicle/In- 9th International Conference on Man- ing course as an online course. He frastructure University Transportation - continues to bring research experience - ing Pavement Management beyond the into the classroom through his role as ing research that will impact future Short-Term: Embracing Innovation and a transportation researcher with Sci- vehicle and roadway technology and Addressing Sustainability, Accountabil- ence Applications International Corpo- improve the safety of drivers. As part of ity, and Improved Performance in 2015 - the CVI-UTC, the Virginia Connected in Alexandria, Va. ing research activities in the Saxton Test Bed was opened during June 2013 Transportation Operations Laboratory with attendance by Gov. Bob McDon- Kathleen Hancock, associate - nell. This initiative is spearheaded by professor and co-director for the Center search Center in McLean, Va., where VTTI as a public-private partnership for Geospatial Information Technology his team is researching innovative and involves vehicles equipped with - solutions to decrease congestion on our connected wireless technology that forms research in both transportation nation’s roadways. enables communication via wireless engineering and geospatially enabling sensors installed along the highway decision-making and problem solv- Pamela Murray-Tuite was promot- infrastructure. ing. In transportation, she performs ed to associate professor. She contin- research in freight transportation and ued her work in evacuation, disruptive Gerardo Flintsch, professor and planning, highway safety, and traf- events, transportation resilience, risk, director of the Center for Sustainable and network analysis. She received Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles VTTI, and his research group partici- to geospatially locate every police-re- collection on commuter responses pated in several research projects in ported crash in Virginia with the goal of to the transportation disruptions infrastructure asset management and improving the Commonwealth’s ability caused by Hurricane Sandy; from the pavement engineering. Among other to more effectively allocate resources Mid-Atlantic University Transporta- - for enforcement, education, and engi- ates Edgar de León Izeppi and Samer neering for highway safety. She is also weather travel demand; from MAUTC Katicha, have received a contract to expanding her work into connected to study the effects of major transpor- vehicle technology with a transit project tation disruptive events; and from the Consortium and are working with through VTTI’s Connected Vehicle/In- Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure Uni- VDOT to establish a long-term accel- frastructure University Transportation versity Transportation Center to study erated pavement testing program at Center. She continues to explore im- Continued on page 38
2013 | VIA REPORT | CEE | 37 emergency vehicle-to-vehicle commu- World Congress in Vienna, Austria. In models that predict airport capacity students, and colleagues developed terms of student supervising, one of and delays. Trani and his group at the surveys and models of travel behavior, Rakha’s master’s students graduated Air Transportation Systems Labora- analyzed detector data, and are cur- this year and he is currently advis- tory continue development of the TSAM rently developing optimization models ing/co-advising 17 more students at and conducting simulation experi- Virginia Tech and three students at Center. This past year they added ments. Murray-Tuite has continued other universities. Rakha continues improved prediction of high-speed rail and expanded her collaborations with to serve as an associate editor for the long-distance users, fuel and emission social scientists specializing in disaster IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Trans- behavior. She also supervised a high portation Systems and the Journal of school intern this past spring, who will Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is to predict the number of commuters continue in the fall. She was appointed a member of the editorial board of the taking innovative small aircraft called to the editorial board for Transporta- Transportation Letters: The International ZIP aircraft developed as a concept by tion Research – Part C and continues Journal of Transportation Research, the to review papers for multiple journals IET Intelligent Transport Systems, and and conferences. a member of various Transportation Hinze and Howard Swingle completed Research Board committees. a model to estimate airspace schedul- Hesham Rakha, together with ing and airspace training requirements the research faculty and students at Antonio Trani, together with the Center for Sustainable Mobility the research faculty and students at Trani and Julio Roa taught a summer - course in Airport Planning and Design at Virginia Tech’s Punta Cana campus are involved in four projects sponsored in the Dominican Republic. The course - - was attended by 20 undergraduate and monia Inc. totaling over $1.5 million graduate students as part of a study- in research expenditures. In collabora- Ames Research Centers. These proj- abroad program. tion with CSM research faculty and ects include: studying the impacts of students, Rakha published 18 peer- high oil prices in the aviation industry; Linbing Wang completed a year- reviewed journal publications and 23 developing models to predict cost-ben- long sabbatical in China. He is very peer-reviewed conference publications. active in research related to high per- He made 31 conference presentations, surveillance to air navigation service formance materials; materials modeling and simulation and pavement testing One of Rakha’s papers received the - and mechanistic pavement design.
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) Director Tom Dingus speaks at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new I-66 test bed at VDOT in Fairfax, Va.
38 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 MEET THE VIA SCHOLARS
he following pages highlight some of the country’s most T a profound curiosity and desire to improve the quality of life around the world — from helping municipalities manage international development. The Via scholarships are made possible through the to the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors subsequently named the ECE department in honor of Mrs. Via died in 1993. Both departments use a portion of the endowment to award scholarships to qualifying students. These scholarships are among the most competitive in the country. Since the Via
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William G. Ayers Phillip R. Bellis Nathaniel Bradley Hometown: Warrenton, Va. Hometown: Roseto, Pa. Hometown: Norwood, Maine Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Lafay- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Virginia Tech ette College sity of New Hampshire Awards/Recognitions: Salutatorian, Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Virginia Tech Civil & Environmental Cum Laude, Dean’s List all semesters, Cum Laude with University Honors, Carroll Phillips Bassett Prize in Civil En- Hamel Scholar, Presidential Scholar, Trail Thru Hiker Class of 2007 gineering (2013), Lafayette Alumni of the member of Tau Beta Pi, Pedro de Alba Primary Area of Interest: Environmental Lehigh Valley Scholarship Award (2013), Memorial Scholarship. and Water Resources Lafayette Alumni of the Lehigh Valley Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Outside Work Experience: Water quality Performing Arts Award (2013), Russell C. Outside Work Experience: Researcher with technician, U.S. Geological Survey; Brinker Prize in Civil Engineering (2012), UNH Contaminated Sediments Center; quality control technician, STG Inc.; land Lehigh Valley Section of the ASM Award intern with UNH Stormwater Center; development intern, Bowman Engineer- (2011), Marquis Scholar (2009 - 2013), and intern with CCR Associates, Land ing Tau Beta Pi - Executive Board of PAE Surveyors and Civil Engineers Chapter, ASCE NSSBC 2013 Mid-Atlantic Career Goals: My initial goal after graduat- Career Goals: Whether I decide to pursue Regional - First Place Overall - Captain, ing is to complete the requirements for a career in academia or industry, I will 3x Lip Sync/Air Band Champion becoming a licensed professional engi- pursue professional licensure. I hope to neer. I plan to work in private industry to Primary Area of Interest: Structures acquire the skills and experience neces- Outside Work Experience: Structural through my work and by inspiring the sary for becoming an integral player in engineering intern, Spillman Farmer next generation of civil engineers. the land development and environmental Architects (2013); civil engineering intern, Alfred Benesch & Company use my skills and experience to pursue (2012-2013); research assistant, NEESR business ownership and entrepreneurial ventures. of panel zone strength in steel moment frame buildings under seismic condi- technical intern, Pennsylvania Depart- ment of Transportation (2010) Career Goals: My career goals are rooted in a desire to provide the structural engi- neering solutions that will best enhance the ability of the global infrastructure to serve the ever-growing needs of society. Beyond structural engineering, I plan on forming a moderately successful rock band that will one day open for a band with much greater talent.
40 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 David Burchnall Jacob A. Buttz W. Lake Carter Hometown: West Chester, Ohio Hometown: St. Johns, Fla. Hometown: Newport News, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: The Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Ohio State University Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Awards/Recognitions: Dean’s list all se- Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Cum Laude; member of Chi Epsilon, Tau mesters at Virginia Tech; graduated top Cum Laude; Dean’s list all eight se- Beta Pi, and ASCE; Dean’s List, all quar- 25 in the civil engineering undergraduate mesters; recipient of Lingerfelt Family ters; OSU William D. Apple Scholar; OSU class; Warren F. Cline Scholar; member Foundation Scholarship (2011-2012), Robert H. Simpson Scholar; OSU Mount of Tau Beta Pi and Theta Tau Vecellio Scholarship (2010-2011), V.C. & Leadership and Service Scholar Program Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical J.N. Williamson Scholarship (2009-2010) Graduate Outside Work Experience: Project manager Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Primary Area of Interest: Structures intern with Kroger Facility Engineering Outside Work Experience: Summer intern- Outside Work Experience: Engineering Career Goals: Upon graduating with my ship with Geopier Foundation Company; intern at Duke Energy’s McGuire Nuclear master’s, I plan on obtaining my P.E. and internship with U.S Army Corps of - Engineers with earthquake engineering design and Career Goals: I want to obtain my master’s second summer with plant-side sup- testing. Eventually I want to return to degree and subsequently pursue a port team evaluating buried pipes; OSU complete my Ph.D. to perform research career as a licensed professional engi- undergraduate teaching assistant in civil and teach. neer. I hope to contribute my knowledge engineering and experience to the innovation of the Career Goals: Upon receiving my master’s geotechnical industry. degree, I plan on working for a structural - est technology to develop innovative and and breadth of diverse clients’ needs. I plan on completing the professional engi- neering requirements. My ultimate goal is to become a principal engineer, fellow or partner in an innovative consulting engi- a larger company/bureau.
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Austin A. Cox Michael Gangi Betsy Godfrey Hometown: Princeton, W.Va. Hometown: North Branford, Ct. Hometown: Norfolk, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Mar- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: shall University sity of Connecticut Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Awards/Recognitions: National Science Cum Laude; graduated with highest GPA Cum Laude; honors scholar; Dean’s Foundation Graduate Research Fellow; in civil engineering class; selected as List all semesters; Babbidge Scholar; selected to present research at Posters the Outstanding Engineering Senior; Transportation Undergraduate Re- on the Hill in Washington, DC, 2013; 3rd Dean’s list all eight semesters; Massey search Fellowship; Harold P. Farrington place in CEE research day for under- Energy Scholarship; Marshall Univer- Engineering Scholarship; New England graduates, 2013; presented research sity Presidential Scholarship; George Scholar; Dr. John T. and Susan B. De- at Eastern Section of Seismological M. Cruise Foundation Scholarship; Wolf Engineering Scholarship Society of America annual meeting in Charles and Elzada Thompson Memorial Primary Area of Interest: Structures Fall 2012; presented research at CGPR Scholarship Outside Work Experience: Research intern meeting at Virginia Tech Spring 2013; Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical at the UConn Center for Transportation Civil Engineering Class of ’58 Scholar- Outside Work Experience: Engineering and Livable Systems ship; Harry Bramhall Gilbert Meritor Scholarship, 2012-2013; graduated internship with Consol Energy/Matney Career Goals: After obtaining my mas- Magna Cum Laude 2013 Construction Company; undergraduate ter’s, I hope to work for a structural research assistant; civil engineering Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical co-op with the West Virginia Division of rehabilitation of the nation’s infrastruc- Outside Work Experience: Internship at Highways; teaching assistant; engineer- ture. I plan to obtain my professional Whitman, Requardt and Associates, ing internship at Conn-Weld Industries engineering license and afterwards LLP summer of 2013 in geotechnical Career Goals: Following completion of my return to school for my MBA. Ultimately, engineering department; earthquake master’s degree, I plan to pursue my I plan to start and run my own success- engineering research at Virginia Tech professional engineering license and a summers of 2012 and 2011. Career Goals: After graduating with a mas- I possibly will consider pursing my Ph.D. ter’s in geotechnical engineering, I plan in the future. to obtain my professional engineering license while gaining work experience at like to learn as much as I can about my - try, while investigating ways to improve current techniques and methods.
42 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Jessica Hekl Gary Hinds Nicholas Izzo Hometown: Oakton, Va. Hometown: Andover, Mass. Hometown: Edison, N.J. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: The Virginia Tech sity of Massachusetts Amherst College of New Jersey Awards/Recognitions: Summa Cum Laude Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Awards/Recognitions: Tau Beta Pi En- graduate, President of Sustainable Land Cum Laude with departmental Honors; gineering Honor Society; Golden Key Development Club, Northern Virginia Dean’s List recognition all semesters; Honor Society Build Association Scholarship, Dean’s member of Commonwealth Honors Col- Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical List with Distinction, EIT lege; Chi Epsilon Honors Society; recipi- Outside Work Experience: Kaiser Building Primary Area of Interest: Environmental ent of Engineering Achon Scholarship and Water Resources Primary Area of Interest: Environmental engineer Outside Work Experience: Land develop- and Water Resources Career Goals: I would like to work for a ment intern at Gordon Associates Outside Work Experience: Land surveying company that works on challenging and Career Goals: After obtaining my master’s, interesting projects around the world undergraduate researcher at the Univer- and eventually own my own consulting focused in sustainable land develop- sity of Massachusetts Amherst working company. I would like to become a part ment and/or environmental engineering. time professor eventually as well. My goal is to be able to play an impor- Mass. tant role in ensuring that communities Career Goals: After graduating I plan to and infrastructure are designed to be work as a consultant, ideally designing environmentally sensitive and resilient and upgrading potable water treatment through generations. Furthermore, I will systems. I hope to obtain my profes- work toward obtaining my professional sional engineering license after some engineering license.
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Patrick Joyce Dale Paul Miller Caitlin Proctor Hometown: Ashland, Penn. Hometown: Ottawa, Ill. Hometown: Stafford, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Illinois Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Virginia Tech Valley Community College; Missouri Tech Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa University of Science and Technology Awards/Recognitions: Via Stewart Scholar- Cum Laude; Dean’s List, all semesters; Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa ship, full undergraduate tuition coverage Cum Laude; Engineer in Training (EIT); (2008-2012); Ralph & William Hodges ASCE member; Virginia Transportation Order of the Engineer; Eagle Scout Memorial Scholarship (2011-2012); Byron Construction Alliance Scholarship 2012, Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical M. and Helen S. Brumback Scholarship 2011; Simpson Strong Tie Structural Outside Work Experience: McCleary (2010-2011); Pamplin Leadership Award Scholarship 2012, 2011; National Asphalt Engineering, Peru Illinois (slope stabil- (2008-2009); Pauly Scholarship for Gen- Paving Association Scholarship 2011, ity, bearing capacity, settlement, soil eral Engineering (2008-2009); Presidential 2010 improvement, spread footings, drilled Alumni Scholarship (2008-2011); National Primary Area of Interest: Structures shafts, driven piles, retaining walls, geo- Foundation of Ectodermal Dysplasia Outside Work Experience: Internship with technical analysis of bridge foundations Scholarship (2008); Dean’s List (2008- HNTB Corporation (May 2012-Aug. for Illinois Department of Transporta- 2011) 2012); internship with Pennsylvania tion); Engineers Without Borders; MS&T; Primary Area of Interest: Environmental and Department of Transportation (May Tarija Bolivia (constructed Gabion walls Water Resources 2011-Aug. 2011, May 2009-Aug. 2009); - Outside Work Experience: Undergraduate internship with Gannett Fleming (Dec. munity water tower) research under Dr. Amy Pruden (2012); 2011-Jan. 2012, May 2010-Aug. 2010) Career Goals: My goals are to become grader for AutoCad class, Virginia Tech Career Goals: After I obtain my master’s a professional engineer and start my (2010-2012); undergraduate research un- degree, I plan to work for a structural own geotechnical consulting company der Matt Hull; intern, research assistant, focusing on challenging projects while Mastel-Da LLC, Environmental Consulting large and innovative structures. I also employing and contributing to cutting Firm, Fredericksburg, Va. want to become a professional engineer - Career Goals: I will likely pursue my Ph.D. in hopes of being the lead design engi- technical engineering. I hope to use my after my master’s degree and perhaps get neer on structural projects. engineering abilities to improve the lives into water/wastewater consulting. of those less fortunate and stay involved with Engineers Without Borders. As an engineer I will stand by the oath of keeping the safety of the public at the forefront of my efforts and conduct busi- ness in an ethical manner.
44 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Brandon Quinn Rachel M. Sellaro Nicholas Taylor Hometown: Schoharie, N.Y. Hometown: Morgantown, W.Va. Hometown: San Antonio, Texas Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: West Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Missouri University of Science and Virginia University sity of Texas, San Antonio Technology Awards/Recognitions: BS in Civil En- Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Summa gineering and Mining Engineering; Cum Laude; 2011; ASCE Outstanding Cum Laude; Dean’s list all semesters Summa Cum Laude; Mining Engineering Civil Engineering Student; Tau Beta Pi at Missouri S&T; Engineer In Training; Department valedictorian; Tau Beta Pi; member recipient of the highest merit-based associate editor of Chi Epsilon; Dean’s Primary Area of Interest: Environmental and scholarship at Missouri S&T; the Geo- List all semesters; WAAIME Scholarship; Water Resources logical Engineering Scholarship (2011 WVU Engineering Science and Tech- Outside Work Experience: Student assis- and 2012). nology Scholarship; WVU Foundation - Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Scholarship; Best Leadership Award for ing intern, Arkwood Engineering Inc. Chi Omega Sorority; Treasurer of Chi Outside Work Experience: Geotechnical Career Goals: I intend to work as a water re- Omega; treasurer of Society of Mining engineer with CHA Companies in Al- sources engineer after graduation, either Engineers bany, N.Y.; engineering intern with CHA in research or as a project engineer. Ad- Companies; project leader for Engineers Primary Area of Interest: Environmental ditionally, I plan to obtain my P.E. license Without Borders, worked on project to and Water Resources mitigate river bank erosion in Tacachia, Outside Work Experience: Internship with Bolivia the U.S. Department of Energy at the Career Goals: Upon graduating with a National Energy Technology Laboratory; master’s degree, I will pursue a career internship with CONSOL Energy for as a professional engineer. I plan to two summers at Blacksville No. 2 Mine; utilize my experience and education environmental engineering co-op with to work for an innovative engineering Patriot Coal Career Goals: After completing my mas- with development or implementation ter’s degree, I would like to work within of progressive foundation design and the coal industry as an environmental ground improvement methods. As a engineer. I will also work toward obtain- student member of the Association of ing my Professional Engineering license, and consider furthering my education by am particularly interested in applying pursuing a Ph.D. geotechnical principles for the design, construction, and rehabilitation of dam and levee systems.
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Julie Trumpoldt Scott Williams Hometown: Yorktown, Va. Hometown: Auburn, Wash. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Wash- Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Magna University Cum Laude; Dean’s List all semesters; Awards/Recognitions: Engineer In Train- ASCE Virginia Section Scholarship; ing; member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Women’s Transportation Seminar Honors Society, inducted December Leadership Legacy Virginia Chapter 2010; WSU President’s Honor Roll: Scholarship; American Society of Spring 2012, Fall/Summer/Spring 2011, Highway Engineers Scholarship; Howell Fall 2012; PLU Dean’s List Spring 2010, & Ann Simmons Land Development Fall/Spring 2009; Graduated Summa Design Scholarship; Marching Virginians Cum Laude; Eagle Scout Outstanding Rank Member Award (2009, Primary Area of Interest: Structures 2011); Engineer-In-Training; Sustainable Outside Work Experience: Structural intern Land Development Club, vice president - Primary Area of Interest: Transportation mer 2012, summer 2011 and Infrastructure Systems Career Goals: I dream of becoming an in- Outside Work Experience: Transportation engineering intern, Whitman, Requardt going beyond common architecture by & Associates, LLP (WR&A); under- having a complete understanding of ap- graduate teaching assistant, Virginia plied loads and how the transfer through Tech; engineer technician, Science building, while optimizing the strengths Applications International Corporation and weakness of each structural mate- (SAIC); research assistant, Virginia Tech rial. Transportation Institute Career Goals: After completing my mas- ter’s degree, I plan to attain a job at a - portation engineering. My main passion lies in geometric design so I hope to be a project engineer who is in charge of designing safe roadways. I eventually want to work my way up the ranks and become a vice president or regional manager. I also plan to obtain my Profes- sional Engineering license.
46 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Katie Young Joshua Zilke Hometown: Rochester, N.Y. Hometown: Winchester, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (dual degree Construction Awards/Recognitions: Virginia Tech Dean’s Engineering Management and CEE) List (Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Awards/Recognitions: 2013 VCEMP Spring 2010, Fall 2010); ITT Industries Outstanding Graduate Student; 2013 Scholarship (2008-2012); Civil Engineer- CII Conference research presenter; ing Alumni Advisory Board Scholarship 2012 MLSOC Outstanding Senior; 2012 (2010); Joseph & Jane Christenbury Vecellio Fellow; 2012 ASCE Hardy Cross Scholarship (2010); Kenneth R. Ayers - ’80 Memorial Scholarship (2010); William Industries Scholarship (2009); Gilbert L winner; 2011 ASC Region II Heavy Civil & Lucille Seay Scholarship (2009); First - Union Employees Scholarship (2008); ner; 2011 Vecellio Scholar; Eagle Scout Richard C Mack Memorial Scholarship Primary Area of Interest: Construction (2008) Outside Work Experience: - Primary Area of Interest: Environmental gineer, the new N.Y. Bridge (Tappan Zee and Water Resources Bridge replacement); Clark Construc- Outside Work Experience: Virginia Tech, assisted with research projects on Hyporheic Exchange in Streams (Spring engineer, Kaiser Permanente Renova- 2011-present) and Wastewater Treatment (Fall 2009-Summer 2011); NSF Research LPV 145; Forrester Construction, project Experience for Undergraduates at management intern, National Zoo Reno- University of Kentucky, researched Ap- vation; Branch and Associates, winter palachian Headwaters (Summer 2010) intern Career Goals: It is my personal and profes- Career Goals: I plan to pursue a career in the engineering and construction indus- world water quantity, water quality, and try in the area of large transportation water transportation issues so that projects and infrastructure development. everyone can have access to safe and I would also like to obtain my Profes- plentiful sources of fresh water. sional Engineering license and a CCM
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Marcus F. Aguilar Beena Ajmera G. Allen Bowers, Jr. Hometown: Houston, Texas Hometown: Ontario, Calif. Hometown: Woodstock, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: California Location of Undergraduate Studies: sity of Alabama State University, Fullerton Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Environmental Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Magma Cum Awards/Recognitions: National Science and Water Resources Institute/Coasts Laude; NSF Graduate Research Fellow; Foundation Graduate Research Fellow- Oceans Ports and Rivers Institute at Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellow ship; Virginia Tech College of Engineer- Virginia Tech, president (2012), treasurer (2009-2010, 2010-2011); CSUF Civil Engi- (2011); recipient, Brian Bluhm Fellow- neering Fellow; Outstanding Junior (2008- Outstanding Senior, 2012; civil engineer- ship (2011) 2009), Senior (2009-2010) and Graduating ing valedictorian, 2012; member, Phi Primary Area of Interest: Environmental Senior (2010-2011) for CSUF civil engineer- Beta Kappa; Byron and Helen Brumback and Water Resources ing department; Orange Country Engineer- Scholarship Outside Work Experience: Three years ing Council 2010 Outstanding Engineering Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical of summer internship experience with Student; recipient of 2010 Orange Country Outside Work Experience: Research assis- AECOM Water; 1.5 years EIT experience ASCE Branch Scholarship, Jeffery Gordon tant working on integrating geothermal at AECOM Water Scholarship, and Los Angeles Section Geo- energy and deep foundations supported technical Engineering Group Scholarship; Career Goals: I plan to use my experience by the NSF, REHAU, Berkel, and the California Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Pro- in research for innovation in the man- Deep Foundations Institute agement of non-point source pollution Career Goals: Upon graduation I hope to and third place (2013) in GI GeoPoster and surface water hydrology. Pursuant enter practice and obtain my Profession- with this goal is the notion of improved al Engineering license. I have a passion place (2012) in CSU Wide Student Research quality of life as a result of well-managed for interdisciplinary work, especially in Competition; third place in GI GeoPredic- water. Since water is at the nexus of developing sustainable and economic other natural resources (i.e. food, en- infrastructure systems that can be used in Orange County Graduate Women in ergy), I hope to extend my abilities into in developing nations. I dream of touch- Science Conference (2011, 2012); second other, more diverse disciplines. ing lives through my engineering work. place in ASCE PSWC Geotechnical Event; Ultimately, my desire is to use my educa- - tion to glorify God and serve others as a tion (2011); second place in CSUF Student missionary, practicing engineer, and/or Research Competition (2012); third place in an academic professor. 2012 Google Mapping Content; co-authored 11 technical papers; licensed in California as Fundamental Engineer Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Outside Work Experience: Teaching assistant, graduate teaching associate and research assistant at CSUF Career Goals: I plan on obtaining my profes- sional and geotechnical engineering licenses. After graduation, I would like to pursue a career in academia.
48 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 James M. Bryce Brandi Clark Hometown: Hometown: Westervelt, Ill. Hometown: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: sity of Missouri – Columbia Missouri University of Science and Virginia Tech Location of Masters Studies: Virginia Tech Technology Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: 2011/2012 and Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: James R. Reeves 2012/2013 Dwight D. Eisenhower Fellow, Awards/Recognitions: NSF Graduate Scholarship; Civil Engineering Alumni Via Fellow for Master’s Degree at Vir- Research Fellowship, EPA GRO Fellow; Advisory Board Scholarship; William ginia Tech, graduated Magna Cum Laude Barry M. Goldwater Scholar; EWRI A. Caruthers, Jr. Scholarship; Big East and Honors Scholar from the University Undergraduate Technical Paper Contest, Academic All Star Team; Virginia Tech of Missouri, member of Tau Beta Pi and Track and Field Coach’s Award; Virginia Chi Epsilon Honors Societies, selected Tech Athletic Director’s Honor Roll, 2012 to the WISE internship in 2008 Award; OURE Fellow; Missouri S&T Writ- Graduate Student Service Award Primary Area of Interest: Transportation Primary Area of Interest: Structures and Infrastructure Systems Outside Work Experience: Construction S&T Excellence Scholarship; Missouri Outside Work Experience: Midwest superintendent, Prospect Homes of S&T Excellence Scholarship II; Alumni Environmental Consultants intern; WISE Richmond; construction management, Scholarship; Missouri S&T Grant; Robert intern, worked with policy makers in James River Construction, LLC; timber C. Byrd Scholarship; Missouri S&T framer, Blue Ridge Timberwrights Chemistry Department Scholarship; Out- infrastructure; Mettemeyer Engineering standing Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Career Goals: I plan to become a profes- LLC as a structural design engineer on Senior Chemistry Student; Dean’s List; sor in civil engineering involved in small to midsize structures (hospitals, Academic Scholars teaching, research, and community retail, etc.) outreach. I hope to educate and inspire Primary Area of Interest: Environmental Career Goals: I plan to continue a research students, teaching them the importance and Water Resources track either through an academic posi- of structural engineering and the great tion, or a position in industry with the Outside Work Experience: EPA GRO Fel- responsibility they will undertake in goal of continuing the development of lowship; EPA internship at Andrew W. this profession. Through my research I sustainable and cost effective means Breidenbach Environmental Research intend to promote safety, longevity, and for managing infrastructure. I have a Center in Cincinnati, Ohio (NRMRL/ economy of civil structures. I hope to strong desire to work with agencies in WSWRD); Missouri S&T OURE fellows have a positive impact on those around developing countries to help them better program; Virginia Tech laboratory as- me by organizing and being involved manage their transportation assets, as sistant; Missouri S&T Opportunities for with community outreach and service well as a strong interest in teaching Undergraduate Research Experience projects. undergraduate and graduate students at (OURE) the university level.
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Maha El-Metwally Rimas Gulbinas Kathryn A. Gunberg Hometown: Cairo, Egypt Hometown: Hometown: Ada, Mich. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Cairo Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- University, Giza, Egypt sity of Illinois - Urbana sity of Michigan Awards/Recognitions: WTS Central Location of Master’s Studies: Columbia Location of Master’s Studies: University of Virginia Chapter Graduate Scholarship University - NYC Michigan Award, 2011; Ken Wilkinson Continued Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Univ. of Awards/Recognitions: Chi Epsilon, F.E. Engineering Studies Scholarship of the Illinois-Urbana with Highest Honors; Ac- Richart Fellowship, UM; Greene Fellow- Virginia Section Institute of Transporta- centure Outstanding Junior Award; Shell ship, UM. tion Engineers (VASITE), 2009; Interna- Scholarship; Campus Honors Program Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical tional Road Federation (IRF) Student Primary Area of Interest: Construction Outside Work Experience: Soils & Struc- Essay Competition, sustainability tures, Inc.; City of Ann Arbor category, 2009; Civil Engineering Award Outside Work Experience: Worked as of the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo a software and mechanical design Career Goals: Whether in academia or in- University, 2003-2005 engineer at ARPAC; as a part-time dustry, I hope to teach others about geo- consultant for Overseas Strategies; and technical engineering and to continue to Primary Area of Interest: Transportation broaden my knowledge and experience and Infrastructure Systems marketing software company. In between Outside Work Experience: Event co- school and work, I also managed to trek ordinator and group leader in the Egypt Friends at Virginia Tech student other ‘off the beaten track’ places — organization, planning and organizing experiences that I highly value and that the group participation in different social have contributed to my growth as an events and cultural nights and won the individual Best Booth Award in the International Career Goals: My ultimate goal is to create Street Fair 2010, with the group; partici- a more proactive society regarding pating in the activities of the Alliance of energy and resource conservation. We Transportation Engineering Students must connect the dots between aware- (ATES) at Virginia Tech, helping in ness and action and instill a sense of organizing the new students’ welcome responsibility among us all. I plan to events, other social events, and many approach this through studies of various consumption feedback mechanisms Career Goals: My objective is to pursue my enabled by extensive sensor networks. - tion engineering at Virginia Tech. This conforms to my vision of my future career as a successful researcher and investigator for transportation engineer- ing projects.
50 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Rebecca A. Halvorson Andrew B. Hardyniec Jordan A. Jarrett Hometown: Whitewater, Wisc. Hometown: Bringhurst, Ind. Hometown: Littleton, Colo. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Michi- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Colo- sity of Wisconsin-La Crosse gan Technological University rado State University Awards/Recognitions: EPA STAR; EAPSI Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Chi Epsilon Sec- Fellowship; Ray Heath Scholarship in Awards/Recognitions: Summa Cum Laude; retary; Colorado State University CEE Chemistry; UW-La Crosse Undergradu- Michigan Tech Civil and Environmental Structural Engineering Scholarship; ate Research Grant Engineering Outstanding Achievement Colorado Distinguished Scholars Award; Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Award; MTU Alumni Legacy Award; Back–to–back Intern of the Year Award, Water Resources Class of ’49 Endowed Scholarship; S A. Miro, Inc. Outside Work Experience: REU summer Presidential Excellence Scholarship; Primary Area of Interest: Structures intern, Mercury research lab at UW-La Dean’s List for all semesters at Michigan Outside Work Experience: Structural Crosse Tech; MTU Research Scholar; Valedicto- intern at S. A. Miro, Inc. in Denver, Col.; Career Goals: Following graduation rian of High School class research and teaching assistantships at from Virginia Tech, I will seek out a Primary Area of Interest: Structures Colorado State University position at a research institution, a Outside Work Experience: Federal Highway Career Goals: My goal is to become - Administration, California Division, in- a practicing engineer who designs tional service organization. Whether as vestigated soil retaining structures built interesting and unique buildings with a a career or an annual summer vacation, in response to landslides and presented focus on seismic design. After gaining I also hope to use my understanding of my work at the First North American many years of engineering experience, water quality engineering in developing Landslide Conference in Vail, Colo.; I would also be interested in teaching nations to improve their basic quality of California Department of Transportation, engineering classes at a small teaching life through their source of water. investigated bridge support structures – focused university. and was involved in bridge inspections; resident assistant, three years; research assistant at Michigan Tech Career Goals: I hope to obtain a research position, preferably at an academic institution. I foresee myself teaching one day so I can share my knowledge of engineering with others.
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Johnn P. Judd Ronald D. Kent Samuel Lasley Hometown: Watsonville, Calif. Hometown: Omaha, Neb. Hometown: Chillicothe, Iowa Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Brigham Young University Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Location of Master’s Studies: Brigham Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Young University Awards/Recognitions: Member of Tau Beta Awards/Recognitions: BYU Heritage Awards/Recognitions: Research published Pi; Edwin S. Hinckley Scholar; recipient Scholar, Tau Beta Pi, BYU Cum Laude in Journal of Structural Engineering, of Brigham Young Scholarship three Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Journal of Composites for Construction, years in a row; graduated Magna Cum Outside Work Experience: Internship with and Forest Products Journal; Brigham Laude Terracon Consultants, Inc. Young University Research Presenta- Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Career Goals: I want to practice sound tion Award; Civil and Environmental Water Resources Engineering Department Scholarship; engineering, serve the greater good, Outside Work Experience: Aquaveo, LLC, Lee and Connie Wimmer Scholarship; provided technical support for users of College of Engineering and Technology be an inspiring mentor for younger en- the Watershed Modeling System (WMS), - gineers, become a trusted and valuable Groundwater Modeling System (GMS), ative Activities Undergraduate Mentoring source of advice for my colleagues, and and Surface Water Modeling System Grant; and B.S. Cum Laude (SMS); Brigham Young University, Primary Area of Interest: Structures worked as a research assistant on a wa- Outside Work Experience: Licensed ter quality study of Deer Creek Reservoir structural engineer, Utah; profes- in Utah sional engineer, Pennsylvania; senior Career Goals: After I graduate, I am going structural engineer, Acute Engineering, to obtain my professional engineer Inc.; consultant engineer for IntegriCo Composite, Recycle Technologies Inter- the water/wastewater industry. national, and Karren & Associates, Civil/ Structural Engineers Career Goals: My goal is to perform meaningful research that advances the way we construct and protect our built academic concepts in real-life situations. I also enjoy teaching students and help- ing them to develop forward-thinking skills.
52 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Emily Dawn Lipscomb Brett Mauer Jennifer H. Miller Hometown: Swanton, Md. Hometown: Geneva, N.Y. Hometown: Sayre, Penn.; Tucson, Ariz. Location of Undergraduate Studies: West Location of Undergraduate Studies: Syra- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Buck- Virginia University cuse University nell University Awards/Recognitions: National Science Location of Master’s Studies: Syracuse Location of Master’s Studies: University of Foundation Graduate Research Fellow- University Arizona ship; Summa Cum Laude graduate of Awards/Recognitions: National Science Awards/Recognitions: Licensed Profes- WVU; WVU Foundation Outstanding sional Engineer (State of Arizona) Senior poster, ASCE Geo-Congress; Interna- Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Primary Area of Interest: Environmental tional Association of Foundation Drilling Water Resources (ADSC) Industry Advancement Scholar; and Water Resources Outside Work Experience: Project engineer, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award; Outside Work Experience: Undergradu- Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., Tucson, Arizona; Most Outstanding Graduate Student in ate research intern at West Virginia Water/Wastewater project engineer, Civil and Environmental Engineering; SU University; engineering intern, City of MWH New Zealand, Ltd., Wanganui, New Morgantown, Zealand Nunan Poster Symposium; Summa Cum W.Va.; intern, Highland Engineering & Career Goals: I envision that an academic Surveying, Inc., Oakland, Md. Laude graduate; SU Golden Transit Award; Chi Epsilon President; Tau Beta career will offer the opportunity to gen- Career Goals: Upon completion of my Pi erate interest and aid in the development degree, I would like to use my acquired of future industry professionals, pursue Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical knowledge and skills in environmental my own research and professional engineering applications to pursue re- Outside Work Experience: Staff engineer, - search opportunities either in academia Passero Associates, Rochester N.Y.; tribute to applied projects in the public or industry. teaching assistant, research assistant, or private water/wastewater sectors. and lecturer, Syracuse University Upon completion of the Ph.D. degree, Career Goals: I would like to continue to my preliminary thoughts are that I would be active in academia as a researcher, like to continue in academics (research educator, and mentor. I am particularly and teaching in a faculty position) and interested in addressing geotechnical consult within my research area. issues pertaining to energy, emerging materials, and the environment.
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Maria E. Nieves- Adam Phillips Ross Powers Meléndez Hometown: Chesapeake, Va. Hometown: Fairfax, Va. Hometown: Arecibo, Puerto Rico Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Virginia Tech sity of Virginia sity of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Magna Awards/Recognitions: Graduated from UVA Awards/Recognitions: Etienne Totti Gradu- Cum Laude; Virginias-Carolinas with distinction, Dean’s List ation Award for the most outstanding Structural Steel Fabricators Association Primary Area of Interest: Transportation and student in the civil engineering depart- Scholarship; Garst-Walker Academic Infrastructure Systems Scholarship ment, 2012 Outside Work Experience: Graduate Primary Area of Interest: Construction Primary Area of Interest: Structures research assistant, Virginia Center for Outside Work Experience: Summer intern- Outside Work Experience: Intern with Transportation Innovation and Research; ship with The Boeing Company, Everett, Retanaur Design Associates, summers intern, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commis- Wash., 2009; summer undergraduate of 2007 and 2008; engineering intern sion, three consecutive summers, helped research in engineering program (SURE) with Waterway Surveys & Engineering, at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga., 2011; sum- summer, 2009; engineering intern with application reviews for new nuclear mer internship with Nieves & Nieves, Collins Engineers, summers of 2010, plants, helped support the agency’s Engineers and Contractors, Inc., Lares, 2011, and 2012 program of physical security inspections Puerto Rico, 2013 Career Goals: After graduation, I plan to of existing nuclear plants Career Goals: I want to become a profes- work for a top tall building structural Career Goals: The possibilities abound. My primary interest within transportation and to the problems of everyday related to would like to continue publishing work infrastructure systems is air transporta- engineering. I would like to become that furthers the structural engineer- tion. I am exploring options such as re- a college professor to inspire young ing profession. My long term goal is to maining in academia and becoming a pro- generations in their development as new one day be a lead design engineer on a fessor, working for an aviation consulting engineers. building over 300m tall. Most importantly, I always want to be do- ing meaningful work that leads to positive results beyond the workplace, and I hope to become a trusted source of advice for younger students and colleagues.
54 | CEE | VIA REPORT | 2013 Alexander Reeb William Joseph Rhoads Colin Richards Hometown: North Wales, Penn. Hometown: Joplin, Mo. Hometown: Tucson, Ariz. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Purdue Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- sity of Rhode Island University sity of Arizona Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Undergraduate Awards/Recognitions: Arizona Board of Re- Awards/Recognitions: EIGER Fellow; Grad- University Honors; Undergraduate gents High Honors Endorsement Award, uated Summa Cum Laude with BS in Civil Engineering Honors; Dean’s List, Dean’s List every semester, award for civil engineering and BA in German from all semesters at Purdue; president of best chemical engineering senior design the International Engineering Program, the Virginia section of the American Wa- project, Tau Beta Pi minor in mathematics; DAAD Scholar; ter Works Association at Virginia Tech Primary Area of Interest: Environmental Nelson C. White Award; member of Chi Primary Area of Interest: Environmental and Water Resources Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi and Water Resources Outside Work Experience: Undergraduate Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Outside Work Experience: Undergradu- research assistant at the University of Outside Work Experience: Private consult- ate research on green roofs; intern at Arizona on contaminants of emerging ing; Ed. Züblin AG, Stuttgart, Germany; Olsson Associates in Joplin, Mo.; civil concern; Advanced Functional Mem- Institute für Grund und Bodenmechanik engineering ambassador at Purdue branes REU at Clemson University; (Geotechnical Research Institute), University Center for Energy and Sustainability Technical University of Braunschweig, Career Goals: After earning my doctorate, REU at Cal State - Los Angeles Germany; Schnabel Engineering, West I would like to gain practical experience Career Goals: I plan to pursue a career at Chester, Pa.; U.S. Army Evaluation before pursuing my desire to teach at a national research institution or as a Center, APG, Md. the college level. Career Goals: I plan to obtain my profes- or wastewater treatment. sional engineer status. I would like to edge geotechnical projects worldwide.
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Craig M. Shillaber Stephanie Smallegan Daniel R. Vanden Berge Hometown: Hometown: Savannah, Ga. Hometown: Ada, Michigan; Wickliffe, Ohio Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Geor- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Michi- University of New Hampshire gia Tech, Savannah gan Technological University Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Location of Master’s Studies: Georgia Location of Master’s Studies: Michigan Tech Tech, Savannah Technological University Awards/Recognitions: Graduated Awards/Recognitions: NSF GRFP Fellow, Awards/Recognitions: Summa Cum Laude Summa Cum Laude from the Univer- Summa Cum Laude graduate, CREATE at MTU; Dean’s list all semesters at MTU; sity of New Hampshire; University of program mentor, member Tau Beta Pi, Outstanding Achievement Award from New Hampshire Presidential Scholar; ASCE, and SAME MTU CEE department; member ASTM University of New Hampshire Alumni Primary Area of Interest: Environmental and ASCE; registered Professional Engi- Association Legacy Scholar; Univer- and Water Resources neer – Ohio and Pennsylvania sity of New Hampshire Civil Engineer- Outside Work Experience: Lead teams of Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical ing Graduate Achievement Award; Tau students in research projects involving Outside Work Experience: Project engineer, Beta Pi renewable tidal energy, heavy metals as- EDP Consultants, Inc., Kirtland, Ohio; Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical sessment, and hydrodynamic measure- part-time faculty, Lakeland Community Outside Work Experience: Staff geotech- ments using remote sensing and in situ College, Kirtland, Ohio; graduate teach- nical engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff, instrumentation ing assistant, Michigan Technological Inc. New York, N.Y.; intern at Ap- Career Goals: I want to become an inde- University pledore Engineering, Inc. Portsmouth, pendent and successful researcher and Career Goals: After completing my doctoral N.H.; lab assistant at the University of - degree, I hope to teach at a research New Hampshire ing. university and share my love and knowl- Career Goals: After completion of my edge of geotechnical engineering with doctorate, I plan to obtain profes- the next generation of civil engineers. I sional licensure. I also hope to hold a position in academia so I can pass my of slope stability and shear strength and knowledge of geotechnical engineer- also pursue applications of geotechnical ing on to the next generation of civil engineering and geohazard mitigation in engineers, and continue to conduct the developing world. research.
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UNDERGRADUATES Degree Awarded: Elliott Robert Wheeler Employer: Suzanne Ayres Angelo Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Employer: Shannon P. Hapuarachy Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Doran J. Bosso Ryan Willey Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: The following students also received Benjamin Hays their undergraduate degrees while Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Chris English on a Via Scholarship and elected to pursue their master’s degrees at Employer: Year Graduated: Virginia Tech, also as Via Scholarship Employer: recipients. Their complete listings can John Hildreth Previous Employer: be found in the alumni student section Year Graduated: of this publication. These students Degree Awarded: are: Randall Boe, William Scott Employer: Brian P. Felker Dewhirst, II, Charles M. Dietz, Jr., Year Graduated: Greg Hensley, Peter D. Kauffmann, Current Status: Angel Ho Jeffrey Kuttesch, Matthew Moore, Year Graduated: Kathryn Firich John D. Riley, John Stephen Siczka, Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Jeffrey Snow, and Marcia Votour Employer: Employer: Prowell, Claire McKenzie White GRADUATES Jennifer Firman McConnell R. Andrew Goodwin Year Graduated: Year Graduated: CONSTRUCTION Degree Awarded: Current Status: Employer: Frank Arcuri Chris Kaldahl Year Graduated: Joshua P. Middleton Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Stephen O. Meininger Mary Jane Contos Bartlett Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Francis Pesce Employer: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Joshua Mouras Employer: Year Graduated: Janet Sparks Chandler Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Joseph Schmitt Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Allan D. Chasey Employer: Current Status: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Paul Taylor Jeffrey Snow Employer: Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Current Status: Degrees Awarded: Kirsten Davis Employer: Henry J. Theiss Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Robert C. Williams Employer: Year Graduated: Jennifer Verwest Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Martha Gross Employer: Current Status: Year Graduated:
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Employer: Mary Facciolo Terry L. Williams Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Bradley M. Coffey Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: Ryan M. Fedak Employer: Year Graduated: ENVIRONMENTAL & WATER Degree Awarded: RESOURCES Employer: Nancy Lade Anderson Joel Cohn Jamie Fettig Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: David Azinheira Cynthia Crane Scott A. Forsling Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Jason L. Beck Andrea Crowe Hargette Year Graduated: Year Graduated: John Fripp Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Christina Clarkson Davis Randall Boe Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Degree Awarded: Wesley Geertsema Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Jason Davis Degree Awarded: Employer: Elizabeth Claire Booth Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Kevin R. Gilmore Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: William Scott Dewhirst, II Degree Awarded: Years Graduated: Employer: Charles B. Bott Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Degree Awarded: Aimee E. Greyshock Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Charles (Chuck) Dietz, Jr. Employer: Years Graduated: J. Steven Brauner Degrees Awarded: Year Graduated: Matthew Gwaltney Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Daniel Dorsel Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Deceased Randi Lieberman Brazeau Degree Awarded: Orrick (Rick) Haney Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Mark Dougherty Employer: Year Graduated: Lee Davis Bryant Degree Awarded: David Holbrook Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Laura Duncan Employer: Suzanne Ciavola Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer:
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Edward Brian Houston Erika Lubkowitz Bailey Jocelyn Fraga Muller Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Donald C. Marickovich Caroline Nguyen Victoria Wheaton Hoyland Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Becki Marshall Rosenfeldt Julia Novak Kari Husovitz Foy Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Deceased Employer: Katherine McArthur Leitch Jeff Parks Year Graduated: Year Graduated: 2005 Angela Iatrou Simon Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: John E. Petrie Employer: Colleen McCloskey Rossmeisl Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Joshua A. Joseph, Jr. Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Kristina Perri Employer: Brian McCormick Year Graduated: Richard T. Kelly, II Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Carrie Adam Phipps Employer: Year Graduated: Laurie S. McNeill Degree Awarded: Wendell O. Khunjar Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Noreen Poor Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Eduardo Mendez, III Employer: Lashun K. King Thomas Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Diana Rashash Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Peter B. Merkle Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: William J. Kingston Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Heather Veith Rectanus Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Matthew C. Moore Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Rebecca Lattyak Degree Awarded: Sandra Robinson Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Christopher D. Muller Jason Rushing Katherine Linares Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer:
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Mary Rust Sadler Employer: Krista Rule Wigginton Year Graduated: Year Graduated: James H. Stagge Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Emily A. Sarver Year Graduated: Christopher A. Wilson Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Jonathan Stathis Degree Awarded: Paolo Scardina Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Christopher Wolfe Employer: Year Graduated: Dipankar Sen Melissa Stewart Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Jennifer Wright Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: Amanda E. Strickhouser Degree Awarded: Vickie L. Singleton Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Kevin D. Young Employer: Year Graduated: Chris Tadanier Degree Awarded: Brad Shearer Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Anna Zaklikowski Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Dan Waddill Degree Awarded: Holly Shorney-Darby Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Lauren Zuravnsky-Wilson Employer: Diane Waters Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: John S. Siczka Degree Awarded: Employer: Years Graduated: Employer: Degrees Awarded: GEOTECHNICAL Edwin W. Watkins Employer: Year Graduated: Tiffany E. Adams Aaron B. Small Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Katherine L. Weidner Amanda Barngrover Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Sheryl D. Smith Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: William Bassett Employer: David Whichard Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Employer: Jeffrey A. Sparks Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Diane Yamane Baxter Claire McKenzie White Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Justin St. Clair Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded:
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Craig Benedict Russell Green Scott Mackey Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: George Filz David Bentler Year Graduated: Jessica R. Marshall Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Rachel T. Finch Employer: Kyle Blakley Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Michael P. McGuire Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Brendan Fitzpatrick Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: G. Allen Bowers Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Christopher L. Meehan Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Laura Henry Degree Awarded: Jeremy Britton Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Clark Morrison Employer: Wayne Herring Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Pete Chenevey Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Randall Hickman Bob Mokwa Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Jaime Colby Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Michelle Hoy Michael Navin Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Megan Cole Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Kenneth A. Huber David Nevius Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Jeramy Bruyn Decker Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Laura M. Kosoglu Michael Nolden Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Adam DePoy Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: James Parkes Degree Awarded: Andrew Kost Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Patricia (Trish) M. Gallagher Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Maysill G. Pascal Employer: Samuel Lasley Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer:
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Craig Petranka Sasha Bajzek Year Graduated: Craig M. Shillaber Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Michael Pockoski Employer: Kirsten A. Baldwin Metzger Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Matthew Sleep Degree Awarded: Employer: Years Graduated: Employer: Degrees Awarded: Jonathan Porter Employer: Anthony Barrett, Major, USAF Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Joel A. Sloan Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Marcia Votour Prowell Employer: James Wescott (Wess) Bott Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Edward R. Ware III Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Susan Bowers Susan Rafalko Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Kord Wissman Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: Alan Rauch Employer: Adam G. Bowland Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degrees Awarded: Employer: STRUCTURES Employer: Alexander Reeb Year Graduated: Mary Sue Mouchka Abel J. Christopher Carroll Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Nathan Reeves Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Shainur Ahsan Jason Cawrse Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: John D. Rice Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Chad C. Alander Kevin R. Collins Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Andrew T. Rose Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Nick Amico Luke T. Cronin Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Jennifer A. Schaeffer Employer: Year Graduated: Kevin Aswegan Degree Awarded: Benjamin T. Cross Employer: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Kurt J. Schimpke Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer:
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Kacie C. D’Alessandro Hunter Hodges James David Martin Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: William P. Jacobs, V Timothy W. Mays Amy Dalrymple Ryan Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degrees Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Jared B. Jamison Laurie Mazursky D. Brad Davis Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Bernard L. Kassner David McGowan Kyle Richard Dominisse Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Sean Molloy Richard Drumm Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Ann E. Jeffers Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Employer: Degree Awarded: Keith Grubb Employer: Michael Motley Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Stephanie A. Koch Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Linda Morley Hanagan Employer: Michael C. Neubert Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Maria W. Lang Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Matthew D. Harlan Employer: Charles (Chuck) Newhouse Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Degree Awarded: Adam R. Lease Degrees Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Devin K. Harris Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Stephen Van Nosdall Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Greg Hensley Degree Awarded: Patricia Seay O’Neil Years Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Degree Awarded: Marc J. Maguire Employer: Employer: Year Graduated: Jason D. Perry Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Anne Himebaugh Employer: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Justin D. Marshall Employer: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer:
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Jason Piotter Michael W. Seek Steven J. Tschetter Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Bruce Shue Christopher J. Waldron Robert T. Prince Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degrees Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Michael Sladki Joseph A. Wallenfelsz Bruce Queen Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Frank Smith J. Ashley Warren Michelle Rambo-Roddenberry Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Paul Spears Christopher Werner Nicholas Redmond Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Maurice W. White Sean Robert Sullivan Years Graduated: Clint Rex Year Graduated: Degrees Awarded: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: John Whitlow Employer: Emmett A. Sumner Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Elias A. Rivera Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Gregory Williamson Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Matthew K. Swenty Degree Awarded: Cheryl Rottman Year Graduated: Employer: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Eric J. Wishart Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Anthony B. Temeles Employer: John C. Ryan, Jr. Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Michael Woodworth Degree Awarded: Employer: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Angela Sellars Terry Employer: Richard A. Saunders Year Graduated: Mustapha Zmerli Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Bradley Toellner Deceased Year Graduated: Donald P. Scholz Degree Awarded: Year Graduated: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer:
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TRANSPORTATION Joshua (Josh) Diekmann Employer: INFRASTRUCTURE AND Year Graduated: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Degree Awarded: Jeffrey Kuttesch (TISE) Employer: Years Graduated: Kelly M. Donoughe Degrees Awarded: Zaeinulabddin M. Adam Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Employer: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: John D. Riley Years Graduated: Sudarshana C.S. Bhat Erin Walsh Donovan Degrees Awarded: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Kevin M. Siegel Douglas R. Bish Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: James M. Bryce Anthony Ingle Eric J. Siess Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer: Employer: Edgar David de León Izeppi Peter D. Kauffmann Christopher Tomlinson Year Graduated: Years Graduated: Year Graduated: Degree Awarded: Degrees Awarded: Degree Awarded: Employer: Employer:
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CONTRIBUTING CORPORATIONS The following organizations support The following organizations support AND BUSINESSES CEE through their membership in CEE through their sponsorship of the department’s Land for Geotechnical Practice and Development Design Initiative: Research: CREDITS ...... W. Samuel Easterling ...... Lynn Nystrom ...... David Simpkins .....Michael Kiernan, Jim Stroup, Logan Wallace, Anne Wernikoff ...... Shelly Key, Allie Rubio
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