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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT of GRAPHENE CEE’S DEBORA Rodrigues WINS NSF Career AWARD UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING blueprint SPRING 2012 THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF GRAPHENE CEE’S DEBORA RODRIGUES WINS NSF CAREER AWARD • CEE EnhanCEs graduatE programs with nEw CoursEs • hsu rEgognizEd with aCi’s highEst honor • CEE aCadEmy induCtions DEPARTMENT NEWS contents Chair’s Message Dear CEE Alumni and Friends, Welcome to the Spring edition of blueprint. The Imaging and Testing Lab. We continue to improve Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) our facilities, update our undergraduate and graduate At A Glance department continues to thrive and develop into a curricula, and raise the standards for educating our Tier One department through its talented group of students. In fact, two years ago the admission SAT A quick rundown of the Department of Civil faculty, staff, students, and outstanding alumni. This scores for our undergraduate students was 1100. The and Environmental Engineering’s (CEE) latest facts and figures. newsletter conveys some of what we were able to students admitted for fall 2012 are averaging more 4 News Briefs achieve in the last two years by building on existing than 1300. Research expenditures increased by 25 Abdeldjelil “DJ” Belarbi strengths and looking at new horizons. percent, and this year the department received more than $14 million in new grants and projects. 30 5 Research Highlights Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Two years ago, the CEE department had 13 faculty. CEE DEPTARTMENT 22 Now we are at 22 and heading to a goal of 30 by As you may know, we established the Academy of 6 Research Feature 2014. We had one NAE member; now we have three Distinguished Civil & Environmental Engineers. Faculty 13 and are working on hiring a fourth one. Our Ph.D. Thirteen extremely decorated members have been student population was at 35; now we are at 56 inducted to date; nine in April of 2011 and four 2010 2012 2014* 8 Faculty News and heading to a goal of 100. Our talented faculty, in April of 2012. This new organization of distin- guished alumni will add a new dimension to the working side by side with their graduate students, * projected 9 Student News continues to produce groundbreaking research and CEE department by helping the university and department achieve prominence in civil, and envi- publish their work in respected journals at a rate of 100 three journal papers per faculty per year in addition ronmental engineering. 10 Alumni News to numerous books. We have restructured our staff CEE DEPTARTMENT positions and duties to serve the department more It is my honor to continue serving as the chair of 56 this exceptional department, and we sincerely thank efficiently to support our growth and expansion. PhD Students 35 faculty, staff, students and alumni who continue to support the department in so many ways to achieve 2010 2012 2014* CEE continues to thrive and develop national prominence. Special thanks go to our alumni blueprint is published biannually by the University for being supportive of our many departmental * projected of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Office initiatives. Without their support, we would find of Communications. into a Tier One department through it challenging to continue with our growth and Director Publication Coordinator 2010 Lindsay Lewis Elaine Gildea its talented group of faculty, staff, provide a world class educational experience and AVG. ADMISSION 1100 Editor Graphic Designer environment. We are always happy to hear and share 2012 Esmeralda Fisher Andy Rich students, and outstanding alumni. updates from you, and I look forward to bringing SAT Scores 1300 Photographers Contributing Writer TBS Photography Toby Weber you more success stories in our next edition. Mark Lacy While building on existing strengths in structural, Contact us: Phone 713.743.4220 environmental, geotechnical and hydro-systems 2012 Fax 713.743.8240 Email [email protected] engineering, we have engaged in new research fields Website www.egr.uh.edu including airborne laser mapping, materials and 2011 +4 CEE Dept. Phone 713.743.4251 NUMBER OF ALUMNI 9 CEE Dept. Email [email protected] computational mechanics, have added eight faculty * Those wishing to reprint articles or photographs should contact Academy Inductees the editor. Use the credit line: Reprinted with permission of the in these areas, and have established a new center: University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Clippings are appreciated. The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping * UH Academy of Distinguished Civil & Environmental Engineers The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative (NCALM) and one new lab: Advanced Material Action institution. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 2 blueprint University of Houston | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 3 NEWS BRIEFS RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS CEE Enhances Graduate Programs with New Courses Report Examines Cracking and Fatigue in Highway Illumination Poles New and revamped courses for fall 2012 in Civil and Environmental Mina Dawood, assistant professor of civil and environ- problem through computer simulations and analysis Engineering graduate programs address the needs of current trends in the field. mental engineering, has published a report outlining of existing data. Dawood considered many factors factors that contribute to cracking of high mast illumi- that impact pole life, including pole designs, pole fab- nation poles during fabrication. The report also pro- rication processes, wind speed regimes, the presence SURVEY MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS CONSTITUTIVE MECHANICS New Staff vides strategies to prevent cracks from occurring. High of a ground sleeve that reinforces the pole at its base; This is a core course of the Geosensing Systems Engineering This course covers the mechanics of constitutive mast illumination poles, ranging from 100 to 175 feet and wind and terrain conditions specific to the state’s and Sciences (GSES) graduate program. The course ad- modeling of engineered materials. The main topics The addition of two new staff members tall, are typically used at major highway interchanges five major urban areas of Austin, Dallas/Ft. Worth, El dresses the analysis and adjustment of survey observations are mechanical properties of infrastructure materials contributes to the substantial growth in urban areas. There have been accounts across the Paso, Houston and San Antonio. by least squares technique. Students will be exposed to ba- and their implementation in a “constitutive driver” to of the Department of Civil and U.S. of pole failure, presumably due to wind-induced sic principles of probability, propagation of errors, weights, simulate the material response behavior for general load Environmental Engineering. Mina Dawood fatigue. Most of these failures start with cracks near Dawood’s report identified pole fabrication practices least squares, adjustment, and optimization methods. histories in 3D. the area where the pole is welded to a base plate and that were most and least likely to induce cracking connected to a concrete foundation. These cracks first during fabrication, as well as pole configurations that About the Instructor Besides the fundamental aspects of nonlinear elasticity Elaine Gildea is CEE’s Executive form during fabrication, when poles are galvanized. were most susceptible to wind-induced fatigue in cer- Dr. Ramesh L. Shrestha holds a joint appointment as professor in and plasticity, the course will examine rate dependence Secretary to the Chair. She was tain conditions. The report also identified a signifi- Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth in form of viscoelasticity and creep/relaxation and the born and raised in a suburb of The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) cant factor of the ‘safe’ serviceable life of a pole with and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Natural Sciences and Math- effect of aging in the form of damage of stiffness and Detroit, MI. Her father retired from Ford gave Dawood a one-year $50,000 grant to study the a pre-existing crack: the presence of a ground sleeve. ematics. He is the Principal Investigator and Director of the NSF- degradation of strength due to mechanical and environ- Motor Company the year she graduated funded National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). mental softening. His teaching and research experience include geodesy, adjustment from high school and she moved with her family to Tucson, AZ. She has been computations, LiDAR, and airborne digital mapping. About the Instructor an administrative assistant/executive Dr. Kaspar Willam is a Distinguished Cullen Professor of Engineer- NASA Grant Funds Congo River Basin Research ing with extensive experience in the field of constitutive modeling. secretary for her entire career, working THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS With over 160 publications he is the recipient of several awards, and for laboratories, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Kaman Aerospace, Hyongki Lee, assistant professor in civil and environ- Lee will combine and process unanalyzed data already Classical theories of plates and shells based on Love- serves as Chief Editor of the Journal for Engineering Mechanics of the City of Yuma Planning Department, mental engineering, won a $663,000 grant from NASA collected from satellites operated by the European Space Kirchhoff hypothesis. Solutions for plates with various the American Society of Civil Engineering. He was elected to the and most recently the UH Law
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