Marc Edwards named MacArthur Fellow for drinking water safety efforts. See page 4.

the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2007 Via Report • No. 21 table of contents

Department Head’s Message...... page 1 “We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be”...... page 2

Research News Edwards named MacArthur Fellow for drinking water safety efforts...... page 4 A 51-year career in civil engineering...... page 6 Could your vinyl flooring contribute to indoor air pollution?...... page 9 Assessing efficiency of road maintenance and improvement contracts leads to less risk, more innovation....page 11 How does one insure all right of way issues are found before construction commences?...... page 12 CSTI works to improve your roads...... page 15

Faculty Honors New Faculty...... page 18 Faculty Achievements...... page 19

Student News Scholarship recipients...... page 20 Graduate scholarship and fellowship recipients...... page 21 Ph.D. degrees awarded...... page 22

Alumni News CEE Alumni Board...... page 23

Program Areas CEE Faculty...... page 24 Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management...... page 25 Environmental and Water Resources Engineering...... page 28 Geotechnical Engineering...... page 32 Structural Engineering and Materials...... page 35 Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering...... page 39 Via Scholars...... page 43 Via Alumni: Where are They Now?...... page 59 Donors...... page 66

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We will move forward but we will not forget It is once again that time of year in the CEE Department over the prior when my objective is to prepare this year. This year’s report again contains a message to alumni and friends of the Via wealth of information regarding the im- Department of Civil and Environmental portant activities that our faculty, staff and Engineering (CEE) that will introduce the students have been engaged in across 2007 edition of the Via Annual Report. our multiple mission areas. I do hope you William Knocke One would think that after having writ- will take time to read through the report ten 13 prior versions of this message the and familiarize yourself with all that is oc- task would be relatively easy at this point. curring here in CEE. will seek to honor the memory and the However, the events of the past several In this message I want to focus on passion for learning and discovery that months have made this like no prior year our department’s collective future in re- characterized Dr. Loganathan and each in our department’s history. As such, find- sponse to the tragedy that occurred on of the eight young men who died that day. ing the right words to convey our collec- April 16. The CEE Department lost nine Their dreams will be molded into our col- tive feelings to alumni and friends of the members of our family with the tragic lective vision for the future. The journey department is a substantial challenge that deaths of Dr. G.V. Loganathan and eight remains challenging as we go forward I hope that I am up to. of our students. Each of them had their day by day, but we know that with our Normally my message serves as an own life story filled with hope for the fu- collective will and dedication coupled with introduction to the many aspects of the ture and with passion for their chosen the continued support of many alumni annual report that talk about the accom- career paths. and friends we will prevail. plishments and ongoing major activities We were blessed as a department to have had each of them as a member of our family. In the days and weeks fol- lowing this tragic and senseless act of violence our faculty, staff and students responded with many acts of love and dedicated service to those injured and the families of those who were killed. We likewise were humbled by the outpour- ing of care and support that came to us literally from around the world. In the midst of so much pain and tragedy we still found ourselves surrounded by love and compassion from those who called, sent letters, came to share a hug, etc. We will be forever grateful for all of the help and kindness that was extended to us in our time of need. As we approach the future we will move forward, but we will not forget. We

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 1 In the university’s convocation ceremony on April 17, professor and poet Nikki Giovanni gave a speech that brought strength to the community and the knowl- edge that Virginia Tech will prevail following the April 16 massacre that left 33 students and faculty dead. The deaths included G.V. Loganathan, an esteemed professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) and eight CEE students. In the middle of Giovanni’s speech was this statement: “We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be.”

This statement remains true. As you When CEE held its memorial on April bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, read this Via report and learn more about 27 for the nine men in the department from the CEE department, with a con- the accomplishments of our students, who died that day, some 500 CEE alumni centration in environmental and water friends, and alumni, you will come to returned to campus for the event. Former resources engineering, in 2005. As a realize that “we are better than we think” department head and current president graduate student he taught CEE laborato- because of the support CEE has. And be- of Georgia Tech, Wayne Clough, was ry classes and was conducting research cause of this support, CEE is that much among those who traveled to Blacksburg on storm water management. He was closer to “what we want to be.” to pay their respects. passionate about sports, and a master of As College of Engineering Dean In his comments that day, Bill sports trivia and statistics. Richard Benson said at the Commence- Knocke, department head, said, “It is ment Ceremony on May 12, “All who died indeed unfortunate that we collectively Jeremy Michael Herbstritt that day were incredibly talented and ac- know them much better after their death Jeremy Michael Herbstritt held two complished. Many wondered aloud: How than we ever knew them in life. These bachelor’s degrees: a BS in biochemistry could it be that on an ordinary day, at an were all men whose lives contained many and molecular biology and a BS in civil ordinary hour, in an ordinary building, passions –– passions for sports teams, engineering, with honors, from Penn so many extraordinary people would be for music, and other creative forms of ex- State. He was enrolled as a CEE gradu- gathered together? What were the odds? pression, passions for family and friends, ate student where he was a teaching “The answer to that question: the an- passions to teach and to learn, and assistant and recipient of the Sussman swer is 100 percent. The people in Nor- above all, a strong passion for life.” Scholarship for summer 2007. He worked ris Hall and West Ambler Johnston Hall A brief bio of the incredibly talented, for the Guided Path Dairy Farm in Belle- weren’t there by chance. They were there accomplished and passionate members fonte and for the Centre County, Pa., Ex- because they chose to work or study of the CEE family members who died on tension office where he collected mosqui- at Virginia Tech. And they were there April 16 follows: toes to be tested for the West Nile virus. because Virginia Tech was fortunate An avid runner, a memorial 5K will be run enough to choose them. On any day, at Brian Roy Bluhm annually by his friends and family. any hour, in any Virginia Tech building, Brian Roy Bluhm earned his bach- you will find incredible people gathered elor’s and master’s degrees in CEE from Jarrett Lee Lane together. This doesn’t happen by chance Virginia Tech in 2004 and in 2007, respec- Jarrett Lee Lane was a CEE senior at a great university, most especially not tively. The latter was awarded posthu- who had been the valedictorian of his at a Land Grant university. Virginia Tech mously. He focused on water resources, Narrows, Va., High School class. In high is both a great university and a great and had accepted a position with the school he was the school’s top tennis Land Grant university. engineering firm Hatch Mott MacDonald in player, and he earned all-district honors “Sadly, 32 members of this Virginia Hunt Valley, Md. He was a member of the in football, basketball, and track. He was Tech family, 14 of them engineers, have Virginia Tech Alumni Association, American also a graduate of the Southwest Virginia had their lives cut short. What deeds of Society of Civil Engineers, and the Baptist Governor’s School. At Virginia Tech he unselfish service might they have contrib- Collegiate Ministries, among other organi- played intramural sports, was a member uted in the years ahead? At the College zations. He would want to be remembered of the Campus Crusade for Christ, and Memorial Service on April 25th, Paul Torg- for his love of God, family and friends, the held the Stanley and Frances Cohen ersen, our former president and dean, Detroit Tigers, and Virginia Tech. Scholarship. He had been accepted at called on us all to do a little more in our the University of Florida’s Coastal Engi- lives; to make up for the lost service of Matthew Gwaltney neering Graduate Program. our fallen friends and to honor their mem- Matthew Gwaltney was a second ories. I personally accept that challenge, year master’s student who wanted to G.V. Loganathan and I ask every person in this coliseum – improve awareness and education about The high regard and fondness that not just the graduates – to do the same.” environmental issues. He had earned his students felt for Dr. G.V. Loganathan is a 2 | VIA REPORT | 2007 “These were all men whose lives contained many passions –– passions for sports teams, for music, and other creative forms of expression, passions for family and friends, passions to teach and to learn, and above all, a strong passion for life.”

reflection of the fact Dr. Loganathan held Partahi M. “Mora” Lumbantoruan politics and was active in drama produc- them in high regard. Phrases such as Mora Lumbantoruan, a native of tions and variety shows. In high school he “the best professor I ever had,” “the kind- Indonesia, earned his bachelor’s and competed on the cross country and track est person I’ve ever met,” and “incredibly master’s degrees in civil engineering at teams. At Lafayette he was vice president wise and gentle” are common among the Parahyangan Catholic University. He of the Arts Society and a member of the tributes paid to Dr. Loganathan by un- came to America in 2004 to earn his Marquis Players acting group. He lived in dergraduate and graduate students. G.V doctorate at Virginia Tech. He enjoyed the Arts Houses where he was an adviser joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in the football, grilling sate for the international and played guitar and piano. His friends spring of 1982 and embarked on a re- street fair, taking road trips, and engaging plan to produce a CD of his music. markable career as one of the university’s in spiritual and intellectual discussions. most accomplished educators and one He was a member of the Indonesian Juan Ramón Ortiz-Ortiz of the nation’s most respected research- community on the Blacksburg campus. Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz graduated ers in the fields of hydrology and water As a true hero, he spent his final mo- from the Colegio Nuestra Senora de resources systems. ments sacrificing his life to save that of Belen in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, where another. he was a member of the basketball, baseball, and track teams, as well as Daniel Patrick O’Neil the national honor society. In 2005, he Daniel Patrick O’Neil earned a bach- completed his civil engineering degree at elor’s degree in civil engineering from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico Lafayette College, and was working on where he was the chapter president of his master’s degree in environmental en- the American Society of Civil Engineers. gineering. He loved music, theatre, and Juan and his wife, Liselle, both started the master’s program in CEE in August 2006. He was a research and teach- ing assistant, and Professor Lo- ganathan was his mentor.

Waleed Shaalan Waleed Shaalan of Zagazig, Egypt, was a doctoral candidate in CEE. Shaalan, 32, was married to Amira, and they had a one-year old son, Khaled, who lived in Egypt. At Virginia Tech he was a member of the Blacksburg Muslim com- munity. Among those mourning his death were his two roommates, Fahad Pasha and Irfan Waseem, who looked to him as an academic and spiritual mentor. He was following in the footsteps of his father in his pursuit of a CEE degree.

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dwards named MacArthur EFellow for drinking water safety efforts

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In 2004 Time magazine dubbed Edwards “The Plumbing Professor” and featured him as one of the nation’s leading scientific innovators.

Marc Edwards, the Charles P. urban water supplies in the U.S., he has his own family’s money to force officials Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environ- made significant advancements in a num- to release documents critical to his inves- mental Engineering at Virginia Tech, was ber of areas, including arsenic removal, tigation. Up to now, he said, he and his named a MacArthur Fellow for 2007 by coagulation of natural organic material, wife, Jui-ling, had written off the expense the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and the causes and control of copper and as an act of charity. Foundation. Edwards receives a five-year lead corrosion in new and aging distribu- In 2004 Time magazine dubbed grant of $500,000 from the foundation to tion systems.” Edwards “The Plumbing Professor” and use in any way he chooses. While investigating the Washington, featured him as one of the nation’s lead- The 24 new MacArthur Fellows were D.C. area’s water supply in 2003, Ed- ing scientific innovators. selected from among hundreds of nomi- wards and his graduate students discov- He is now expanding his research to nees for their creativity, originality, and ered that the addition of chloramine dis- other cities, defining better ways to test potential to make important contributions infectant in tap water increased the inci- local water and predict the risk of chemi- in the future. dence of lead leaching in residential and cal contamination in urban infrastructure. “As a group, this new class of Fel- commercial aqueducts. This research “Through his exhaustive research efforts,” lows takes one’s breath away,” said Dan- linked several cases of lead poisoning, according to the MacArthur Fellows bi- iel J. Socolow, director of the MacArthur earlier thought to be caused by lead ography, “Edwards is making critical con- Fellows Program. “As individuals, each paint, to local tap water. The findings also tributions to the health of individuals and is an original. To the person, they confirm revealed systemic weaknesses in the re- communities throughout the U.S. in an that the creative individual is alive and gional water testing program, prompting often-neglected area of domestic public well, at the cutting edge, and at work sin- the Washington Area Water Authority to safety.” gularly and powerfully to make our world replace lead service lines throughout the Earlier this year he received the a better place. They are people who will district. Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, change and influence our times.” According to a story in the Richmond the Commonwealth’s highest honor for Edwards was cited by the MacArthur Times Dispatch about the announcement, faculty, from the State Council of Higher Fellows program for “playing a vital role in Edwards said he plans to pay off some Education for Virginia. ensuring the safety of drinking water and of the debt he incurred in 2003 when he Edwards came to Virginia Tech in in exposing deteriorating water-delivery uncovered the high levels of lead in the 1997 from the University of Colorado at infrastructure in America’s largest cities. drinking water. Edwards recalled he had Boulder, where, in 1996, the National Sci- An expert in the chemistry and toxicity of to spend tens of thousands of dollars of ence Foundation (NSF) selected him as one of only 20 young engineering faculty in the nation to receive a Presidential Edwards and his graduate students discovered that the addition of Faculty Fellowship. He completed his chloramine disinfectant in tap water increased the incidence of lead master’s degree and Ph.D. in environ- leaching in residential and commercial aqueducts. Edwards recalled he mental engineering at the University of Washington and earned his bachelor’s had to spend tens of thousands of dollars of his own family’s money to force degree in bio-physics from the State Uni- officials to release documents critical to his investigation. versity of New York at Buffalo. The inaugural class of MacArthur Fellows was named in 1981. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant-making institution. With an endowment over $6.4 billion, the Foundation makes grants totaling approximately $225 million each year. For more information, visit www. macfound.org. By Liz Crumbley

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Mike Duncan’s first engineering job, as a Georgia Tech co-op student in 1956, was as a surveying rod man working for the Jacksonville District of the Corps of Engineers. “It was great,” Duncan says, “I got to travel all around Florida with the crew I was assigned to. We worked on water most of the time, and I got paid about $20 a day, counting salary and travel expenses. What more could a 19-year old ask for? “I didn’t know much about engi- neering at that time, but I learned first- hand how to use a machete, and how to measure elevation and position in rivers and on beaches. I think there is no better place to start a civil en- gineering career than working in the field.” Duncan returned to surveying with a private company in Tampa after he got his bachelor’s degree, but quit at noon one day when told to falsify his time Mike Duncan works with a Berkeley lab class in 1969 – hand au- sheet, and charge one client for time he’d guring to obtain undisturbed samples of San Francisco Bay mud. spent working on another’s job. “I had a wife, a one-year-old daughter, a mortgage, and $300 in the bank, Dun- From skiff boats and machetes can recalls. As fate would have it, a friend who stayed on as a graduate student at

to chalk boards and computers – Georgia Tech called him a day later and said that Professor Vesi had a research assistantship in geotechnical engineering for him if he wanted to go back to school. a 51-year career Duncan says that at the time, “I didn’t like geotechnical engineering very much, but it would be better than being out of a job, in civil engineering and I accepted.” Fifteen months later Duncan had a master’s degree and was headed to Vicks- burg, Mississippi to work at the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experimental Sta- tion. After eight months there, he went on to study for a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. “Berkeley was an exciting place in 1962, both in the streets and in the class- room. The faculty – Harry Seed, Jim Mitchell and others – were world-class, and my fellow graduate students came from all over the world, with top academic

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credentials, and many of them had a lot of at Virginia Tech, to move to Blacksburg as Jimmy Martin, Matthew Mauldon, Marte engineering experience. I felt under-qual- the W. Thomas Rice Professor. The two Gutierrez and Joe Dove. ified to be there, and half expected to be worked together until 1995, when Clough His interests in practical geotechnical shipped home any day,” Duncan recalls. left for the University of Washington. Elev- problems have involved Duncan in con- The Berkeley program was growing en months later Clough moved to Georgia sulting projects that include many of the by leaps and bounds at that time. Dun- Tech as President. world’s largest embankment dams, the can was offered a chance to teach the Duncan says, “I told him he was mov- first offshore platform in the North Sea, required undergraduate geotechnical en- ing from one place to another so fast that and the Panama Canal. With colleague gineering course during his last two se- it was beginning to look like he couldn’t Brandon, he investigated the failures of mesters as a graduate student. That led hold a job.” levees and floodwalls in New Orleans to a faculty position at Berkeley after he To fill the vacancy left by Clough’s during Hurricane Katrina. finished his Ph.D. departure, the Virginia Tech geotechnical “It is amazing how often a project I “I didn’t plan to be a professor,” he group was able to persuade Jim Mitch- am consulting on coincides with the topic says, “but just couldn’t turn down the ell, who had accepted early retirement at I am lecturing on in class,” Duncan says. chance to work with Harry Seed, Jim Berkeley, to move to Virginia Tech as the “It’s great to be able to bring these expe- Mitchell, Clarence Chan, Carl Monismith, first Via Professor of Civil Engineering. riences into the classroom. When I stop John Lysmer, Dick Goodman, and Tor Duncan and Mitchell, both Univer- to think about how well my research, my Brekke. The program was booming, and sity Distinguished Professors Emeritus teaching and my consulting have blended we all had exciting research and con- now, stay active with their geotechnical together, I can hardly believe how lucky I sulting projects. Geotechnical engineer- colleagues Tom Brandon, George Filz, have been.” ing was developing very fast. Research money was easily available. We had lots of highly talented graduate students. I knew I had stumbled into a dream job,” he says. The finite element method was new when Duncan began his research, and he thought it had potential for geotechnical engineering problems. With graduate stu- dent C-Y Chang, he developed what has come to be known as the “Duncan-Chang model” for approximating nonlinear stress- strain behavior of soil. In short order this model was used to analyze stresses and movements in soils by Duncan’s students Peter Dunlop, Wayne Clough, Fred Kul- hawy and many others since. This and Duncan’s other research interests – soil strength, slope stability, seepage, and foundations – have led to publication of more than 300 reports and papers, most co-authored with his more than 40 Ph.D. students. In 2005 he wrote the John Wiley book “Soil Strength and Slope Stability” with former student Steve Wright, now a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, Duncan was invited by for- mer student Wayne Clough, then the Duncan drawing a flow net on the chalk board, something he says he has done head of the Civil Engineering Department “about ten thousand times,” and now he will officially retire.

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 7 Ying Xu, a doctoral candidate working with John Little, professor of civil and environmental engineering, inspects samples of vinyl flooring to determine emission characteristics.

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Gas samples are en- closed in these tubes, loaded in a carousel that is heated, allow- ing target compounds to be desorbed, and the engineers in the laboratory can deter- mine their volatility. Could your vinyl flooring contribute to indoor air pollution? In the 1970s the sick building syn- term, low-level exposure to phenol include everyday items such as toys, medical drome phrase was coined when a signifi- increases in respiratory cancer, heart dis- equipment, paints, inks, vinyl flooring, cant number of people inside a structure ease, and effects on the immune system. hairsprays, deodorants, nail polish, per- reported various health problems rang- “Because we spend most of our time fumes, and shampoo. ing from constant headaches to nasal indoors, exposure to indoor air pollutants Flame retardants are found in com- congestion to eye irritation. Most public may be orders-of-magnitude greater than mon place office articles such as comput- health officials speculated these medical that experienced outdoors,” Little says. ers, electronics, electrical equipment, conditions resulted from poor building de- “Volatile emissions are a probable cause cables, and foam furniture. sign, inadequate ventilation or improper of acute health effects and discomfort Research reported at the 9th Interna- maintenance. among building occupants and are known tional Conference on Indoor Air Quality Today, environmental engineers are to diminish worker productivity.” and Climate suggested that phthalates looking at other sources of indoor air pol- Architects and builders are making may have a wide range of adverse af- lution such as the building materials used our buildings more energy efficient by fects on reproduction and development, in construction. sealing them up tightly, but this practice including decreased fertility, birth defects, John Little, a 1996 National Science exacerbates the problem of indoor air hormone disruption, and reproductive Foundation (NSF) Career Award recipi- pollution, Little asserts. malformations, particularly in the male ent for his work on indoor pollution and After using his model to predict VOC reproductive tract. a professor of civil and environmental emissions from vinyl flooring, he is now When a phthalate or other SVOC engineering (CEE) at Virginia Tech, has turning his attention to semivolatile or- sorbs onto other airborne particles, and identified a method for predicting the ganic compounds (SVOCs) such as plas- is subsequently inhaled, the particle “may rate that specific volatile organic com- ticizers, flame retardants, and biocides. lodge deep in the lungs and exert a more pounds (VOCs) are released from one “These constituents are added to a severe health effect,” Little explains. such material – the commonly used vinyl variety of products to enhance perfor- “It is critical to understand indoor flooring. He is now using his investigation mance and are often present at consid- emissions of SVOCs and their partition- technique to determine if other types of erably higher concentrations than their ing between gaseous and particulate building materials made from polymers more volatile counterparts. There are phases,” he adds. are also releasing VOCs and, if so, at serious health concerns associated with Little believes his preliminary stud- what rate. SVOCs in general and with phthalate ies, using the process he developed for The three contaminants Little identi- plasticizers in particular,” he adds. A determining the rate of volatile emissions fied in vinyl flooring are pentadecane, plasticizer represents any of a variety of from vinyl flooring, are showing signs of tetradecane, and phenol. According to the substances added to a plastic or other success at predicting the emission rate of Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease material to keep it soft and pliable. SVOCs from polymeric materials. Registry, potential health effects of long- Phthalates are found in numerous By Lynn Nystrom

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Assessing efficiency His new investigations are looking at both the driver’s as well as the mainte- of road maintenance and nance provider’s views on the efficiency of the work. It is also taking into account safety and other societal goals, as well improvement contracts leads as uncontrollable considerations such as climate and location. to less risk, more innovation He believes the efficiency measure- ment model will be able to identify the The most recent survey of the na- tion methods he wishes to carry out,” de relative efficiency of different VDOT dis- tion’s highway infrastructure, conducted by la Garza adds. tricts in performing maintenance services, the American Society of Civil Engineers in de la Garza, who specializes in the reasons for the efficiency differences 2005, indicated that the U.S. road system construction engineering and highway between districts, the effects of the envi- is in poor condition, a marked contrast infrastructure management and who ronmental and operational factors on the from the 1988 survey by the National is a member of the University’s Myers- road maintenance efficiency of districts, Council on Public Works Improvement. At Lawson School of Construction, says the and the benchmarks and best practices that time, the nation’s roads were cited to nature of the performance-based contract that pertain to the inefficient districts. be in better than fair condition. leads to two significant results. First, it im- Since the PPTA pilot program began In Virginia, the state’s Department poses the risk of deficient design on the in 1996, VDOT has now privatized 100 of Transportation (VDOT) is working with contractor, and second, it often makes percent of the interstate maintenance a number of private companies in order the contractor seek innovative construc- activities, and CHAMPS is responsible for to provide a timely and less costly solu- tion methods. performing the baseline asset condition tion to its improvement and maintenance “Thus, the term performance-based assessment and the annual asset evalu- of the Commonwealth’s infrastructure contracting is used interchangeably with ations to determine the extent to which needs. The passage of the 1995 Public- innovative contracting,” de la Garza as- maintenance contractors are achieving Private Transportation Act (PPTA) of serts. the performance-based targets. Virginia authorized VDOT’s partnerships The CEE professor is assisting Anderson and Associates, Inc., a with private firms. VDOT in its assessment of the perfor- Blacksburg, Va., based engineering firm, Within three months of the passage mance-based contracts it issues. For is providing data collection services to of PPTA, the private contracting firm of the past seven years, de la Garza has CHAMPS. Virginia Maintenance Services (VMS) led efforts to identify innovative ways CHAMPS is also assisting VDOT in was awarded a contract to administer to measure the effectiveness of the the development of its biennial needs- and maintain some 250 miles of Virginia’s performance-based road maintenance based overall maintenance budget by interstate highways along I-81, I-77, I-95, contracts VDOT awards. The evaluation conducting a random assessment of as- and I-381. At that time, the contract pro- for effectiveness focuses primarily on the sets located in all three highway systems vided coverage for some 20 per cent of physical level of service of the interstate. –– interstate, primary, and secondary –– the state’s highways. He has developed an effectiveness throughout the Commonwealth. “A very important part of the con- model to perform these evaluations, ex- VDOT has awarded some $9.3 mil- tract between VDOT and VMS was its tending back to the first PPTA pilot project lion to CHAMPS since these projects performance-based nature,” says Jesús with VMS. He is now in the process of started, and in June 2007, the National M. de la Garza, the Vecellio Professor of developing a unique efficiency measure- Science Foundation announced a two- Civil and Environmental Engineering at ment model. year $200,000 grant to help fund de la Virginia Tech. “Not knowing how efficient state Garza’s efficiency framework. “A performance-based contract DOTs are in being effective can lead to In addition to his cadre of graduate specifies the desired outcomes rather excessive and unrealistic maintenance students, six undergraduate students than the desired processes to reach budget expectations,” de la Garza says. have worked with de la Garza on this those outcomes. A performance-based His work is conducted through Vir- project, and have since joined the School contract leaves the contractor free, in any ginia Tech’s Center for Highway Asset of Construction’s graduate program. sense, to choose and apply the construc- Management ProgramS (CHAMPS) By Lynn Nystrom

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Kathleen Hancock

ow does one insure all Hright-of-way issues are found before construction commences?

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When a potential public agency buyer conducts a title search in the state of Texas, as many as six different countries of origin may appear on the deed: the U.S., the Confederate States of America, the Republic of Texas, Mexico, France, and Spain. The result can be a quagmire.

An equally difficult situation for public Hancock, who works at the Universi- case studies. agencies that wish to purchase property ty’s National Capital Region office in Alex- With Hancock’s case studies, she might result because of the various types andria, has recently completed a study on was able to provide ROW professionals of taxing agencies. Their numerous ways the integration of geospatial technologies with information about current systems of conducting business may also cause into the ROW data management process, that they might use or with data they can right-of-way (ROW) issues that can cause and her findings were the topic of an arti- offer to decision makers to support the project delays and increased costs in cle published by the National Cooperative implementation of a system. She also transportation construction projects. Highway Research Program. provided a list of data elements required For example, Maryland has a central- Although computer-aided drafting and for a geospatially enabled enterprise-wide ized taxing authority and information for design (CADD) is often used to draft ROW information management system. the entire state is available from a single plans, they are often manually recorded Hancock argues that by using GIS source. Conversely, tax authority for Mas- and filed on paper or mylar, and “vulner- or another information management sys- sachusetts is local, “meaning that obtain- able to damage or destruction,” Hancock tem in conjunction with ROW processes, ing parcel information for the state would cautions. states will receive a number of benefits: require establishing agreements with over The associate professor of civil and reduced staffing and/or improved staff ef- 350 entities,” explains Kathleen Hancock environmental engineering would like to ficiency; improved scheduling; improved of the Center for Geospatial Information see electronic management of this infor- access to information; improved customer Technology at Virginia Tech. mation, thus providing “fast, convenient, service; improved documentation and and consistent access to all users, reduc- reporting uniformity; increased manage- tion of the time and expense needed to ment flexibility; reduced redundancy, and ship documents, the elimination of repeti- improved oversight activities. tive entries, the minimization of data entry As an example she cites Illinois where errors caused by multiple formats, and the a single person is now able to oversee the saving of money for transportation agen- ROW activities associated with a multimil- cies.” lion dollar airport project. “Without the use To obtain this colossal data bank of of the information management system, information, Hancock surveyed partici- this would be impossible,” Hancock says. pants of a ROW directors’ meeting to de- Furthermore, the use of a single ap- termine states that were using some type plication within Maryland’s Office of Real of Geographic Information System (GIS). Estate has allowed them to cut their re- She received information from 24 states, search staff in half “because researchers 18 of which indicated they used GIS. have desktop access to parcel informa- “Only a very few have an operational tion without having to physically go to the ROW information management system courthouse, locate the appropriate par- that incorporates geospatial technology for cels, and manually extract the necessary one or more business activities. Although information,” she adds. Similar results can many states have strategic plans that in- be found in New Mexico and Pennsylva- clude incorporating GIS capabilities into nia. an enterprise ROW system, none currently “Virginia measures the benefits that it have one in operation,” Hancock says. has realized from its information manage- Consequently, she expanded her study to ment system through improved schedule include consideration of innovative enter- commitments, reduced staffing costs, and prise information management systems, increased productivity,” Hancock asserts. and ultimately selected six systems for her By Lynn Nystrom

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CSTI works to improve your roads

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) spends $500 million a year on maintenance of roads. “If we can save just one per cent of that, that would result in significant savings for the agency, and more importantly to the highway users,” says Gerardo F. Flintsch, director of the Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure (CSTI) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and an associate pro- fessor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Virginia Tech.

The CSTI (http://www.vtti.vt.edu/csti. Wang’s focus is pavement materials and html#), formerly the Roadway Infrastruc- advanced sensing and modeling technol- ture Group, is charged with improving ogy applications. pavement and infrastructure technologies Together, they have numerous and practices. The center is organized in projects in conjunction with multiple two groups: infrastructure management agencies: VDOT, Virginia Transportation and sensing, modeling and simulation. It Research Council (VTRC), the Federal focuses its research efforts in the areas of Highway Administration (FHWA), the pavement design, analysis, rehabilitation Department of Defense and the Na- and safety, infrastructure management, tional Science Foundation (NSF) and are civil engineering materials, nondestructive leading the creation of a multi-agency testing, and life-cycle cost analysis. program in cooperation with the Via “Transportation decision makers Department of Civil and Environmental are faced with competing investment Engineering, VTRC and the University of demands and must distribute limited Virginia. resources so that the transportation The cooperative pavement engineer- systems are effectively and efficiently ing and research consortium focuses on preserved and renewed to meet soci- optimizing research for developing and ety’s expectations and needs,” Flintsch implementing better pavement and mate- says. “Our center is striving to develop rial testing, assessment, design, analysis new and improved materials, evaluation and management tools. An example of technologies, analytical approaches, and collaboration between government, aca- engineering and decision support tools demia and industry, the consortium will to facilitate the effective preservation and focus on pavement materials research, renewal of the transportation infrastruc- performance, design, maintenance and ture systems.” management and it will provide an ex- Flintsch and CSTI associate director cellent partnership to pursue national

s Linbing Wang are working on improving and international funding opportunities (From left to right) the design, evaluation, analysis, pres- and leverage the resources available for Christopher Harris and ervation, and renewal of transportation pavement and infrastructure research in Dong Wang, both civil infrastructure and systems. Flintsch’s Virginia. The consortium has developed a engineering graduate students, are preparing focus is on pavement design and evalua- five year research program and is funded hot-mix asphalt samples tion infrastructure asset management and at $300,000 per year. for laboratory testing. pavement surface characteristics while By Susan Dickerson

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Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure: Current Projects Pavement Surface Properties Research Application of LADAR in the Analysis of into the road system provides a versatile en- Pooled-Fund Investigation at the Virginia Aggregate Characteristics vironment to develop computational models Smart Road This $500,000 National Highway Coop- and validate them with full-scale live tests. The $1-million collaborative project will erative Research Project (NHCRP) is devel- The Pavement Evaluation Laboratory establish a research program focused on en- oping and evaluating a 3D aggregate char- provides access to a wide range of equip- hancing roadway transportation system ser- acterization system and analysis method ment for evaluating the functional and struc- vices by optimizing pavement surface tex- using LADAR (laser detection and ranging) tural condition of pavement. The group has ture characteristics, including friction, splash for aggregate characterizations, which are a dynamic friction tester and a digital video and spray and tire-pavement noise. Other an important component in asphalt concrete, system for asset management data collec- organizations participating are the FHWA, cement concrete, granular base, and treated tion and has access to several other pave- and Georgia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, base. ment evaluation devices, including a falling Mississippi and Virginia DOTs. Compared to X-ray Computerized To- weight deflectometer (FWD), laser profiler, The program will evaluate laser-based mography (XCT), LADAR method costs less skid trailer, contriouns friction measuring de- equipment for measuring pavement surface and can be portable for field-testing more vice (Griptester), British friction pendulum, properties and any other emerging technolo- conveniently. This approach is expected to high-speed laser texture-measuring device, gies that show promise for improving mea- overcome some of the limitations of current and a circular track meter, thanks to a coop- surements as well as innovative pavement 2D and semi-3D methods (i.e., the 2.5D). eration agreement with VDOT. surfaces and pavement preservation treat- The project’s objective is to develop CSTI utilizes the Macro Mechanical ments. The collaborative research program and evaluate a LADAR system capable of Asphalt Testing Laboratory at VTTI. The provides an accessible and efficient way for precise and accurate measurement of the asphalt lab houses three close-loop servo highway agencies and other organizations aggregate characteristics of shape, volume, hydraulic testing systems: two MTS test- to conduct research on pavement surface angularity, surface texture, specific surface ing frames and an Interlaken testing frame texture and smoothness and helps them the area, and volumetric gradation. equipped with updated controlling software participant verify the operation and accuracy The anticipated results include a proto- and latest testing fixtures. This lab has the of the equipment used for pavement evalua- type of portable LADAR system that allows capacity to conduct the full set of SuperPave tions and road construction quality control. for 3D characterization of aggregates, a draft binder and mixture tests for asphalt mixtures AASHTO method on how to use the system and asphalt binders and to develop new Development and Implementation of and software to perform 3D aggregate char- tests to evaluate the fracture properties and Digital Specimen and Digital Tester Tech- acterizations, a list of requirements for the characterize the microstructures of materials nique for Infrastructure Materials system that allow others to build similar sys- in civil engineering. The almost $600,000 project funded by tems, and a database documenting all the In addition, a model mobile load simu- NSF and the Partnership for Innovation will relevant results that other researchers may lator is also available at CSTI. This system use X-ray computerized tomography (XCT) share. Therefore the anticipated results can in conjunction with the asphalt pavement to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) digi- be directly adopted for applications and use- analyzer at the VTRC allows simulative tests tal representations of asphalt concrete mi- ful to future research. being conducted. The CSTI asphalt lab also crostructure. The project works on further provides state-of-the-art surface texture and developing tomography to develop a digital The CSTI has several unique facilities road profile measurements. specimen and to various simulations of the of different scale to conduct its research and The Microstructure Characterization behavior of asphalt concrete on the digital testing, which cover full-scale testing facili- Laboratory, also located at VTTI uses vari- specimens using modeling and computa- ties to laboratories to determine microscopic ous “microscopes” to “see” and characterize tional techniques. structures of the materials. the microstructure of civil engineering mate- “This testing is much cheaper than full- The two-mile Virginia Smart Road at rials. A Skyscan desktop X-ray tomography size field testing,” Wang says. Once the VTTI is a unique test facility for transportation imaging system is available that applies tomography methods are established, this research and evaluation that includes 12 flex- tension, compression and torsion to a speci- project will implement the same testing tech- ible pavement test sections, a continuously men. This system has a high resolution of up niques at other partnering organizations, find reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), and to 38µm. The QICS laboratory also houses avenues for commercializing the method, a jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP). a High Speed Imaging System (up to 1 mil- develop a training course for undergradu- A variety of flexible and rigid pavement sur- lion frames per second), an Infrared imaging ate and graduate civil engineering students faces are available for conducting pavement system, a high resolution laser scanner, and and conduct professional seminars on how surface measurements, such as tire/pave- an atomic force microscope. Other micro- to use the method. This innovation will help ment noise under controlled conditions. As scopes including Scanning Electron Micro- evaluate and design enhanced pavement the most unique feature, the smart road fa- scope, Nano Indentor and Compound Opti- materials that has the capability to resist cility can control the weather and investigate cal Microscopes are accessible. These mi- rutting, fatigue cracking, low temperature the influences of surface texture, structures croscopes can characterize the microstruc- cracking and moisture damage, and that will and pavements, ice control, and vehicle dy- tures of materials at different length scales ultimately last longer. namics. The integration of testing equipment ranging from nanometers to millimeters.

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Examples of CSTI’s recently completed etrating radar, and digital imaging are very for individual assets types separately that projects to improve roads in the Common- useful tools to assess the condition of exist- support decisions within their corresponding wealth include: ing pavements. silos.

Field Investigation of High Performance Asset Management Data Collection for Soft Computing-Based Life-Cycle Cost Pavements in Virginia Asset Manage- Supporting Business Decisions Analysis of Transportation Infrastructure ment The objective was to investigate how Investments This study evaluated 18 different pave- state DOTs are linking their data collection This project was targeted at exploring ment sections located in high-traffic highways policies, standards, and practices to their as- the use of soft computing systems for devel- in the Commonwealth of Virginia in order to set management decision-making process- oping life-cycle cost analysis tools to support find a premium pavement design with a life es, especially for project selection. transportation infrastructure asset manage- span of 40 years or more using current and Using collected information, the re- ment. past field experience. The selected pavement search team identified four states for in- The specific objectives defined for the sections were thought to perform well. Eight depth case studies. The research team project are the following: (1) develop an flexible pavements, six composite pave- then met with these agencies to explore in overall framework for the incorporation of ments, two continuously reinforced concrete detail the linkages between data collection soft computing techniques in the life-cycle pavements, and two jointed plain concrete and decision process and to document their cost analysis of infrastructure assets; (2) pavements were investigated. The analysis practices. The case studies indicated that formulate a prototype hybrid soft computing of the collected data suggests that premium there is no one-size-fits-all approach for as- algorithm for life-cycle cost analysis; and (3) pavement designs can be obtained. set management data collection. The most compare the algorithm against traditional The field investigations suggest that all appropriate approach will depend on the life-cycle cost analysis tools using simple the tested sites are performing satisfactorily agency’s needs and culture as well as the examples to assess its practical potential. and show very low structural distress. Lim- availability of economic, technological, and This exploratory research project identified ited material-related problems were found in human resources. A gradual implementation a general modular framework for an infra- some sites, which induced non-load related of the data collection efforts appears to be structure management system considering distresses. It was also confirmed that the the most appropriate approach. Most of the its relationship with asset management and falling weight deflectometer, ground pen- data collected is currently being allocated the different levels of decision-making.

(From left to right) Christopher Harris and Dong Wang, both civil engineering graduate stu- dents, are measuring the pavement surface texture at the Smart Road. VIA REPORT | 2007 | 17 new faculty

Since 2001 Sunil Sinha has held a joint Deborah Young earned her doctorate appointment as an assistant professor in in industrial and systems engineering (ISE) the departments of civil and environmental from Virginia Tech in August of 2007. She engineering and computer science and engi- also received her master’s degree in ISE from neering at Penn State. He is also an adjunct Virginia Tech, as well as a master’s in ecol- professor of systems design engineering at ogy from North Carolina State University. She the University of Waterloo, Canada. He joined Virginia Tech in fall, was awarded her bachelor’s degree in biology from Virginia Tech. 2007. She is a primary faculty member of the Myers-Lawson School of Sinha is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CA- Construction and affiliated with the Via Department of Civil and REER Award for research in the area of sustainable water infra- Environmental Engineering. structure management system. He received an NSF International Young is certified as an industrial hygienist, a safety profes- Research and Education in Engineering (IREE) Award to visit Eu- sional, and a hazardous materials manager. She is a member of rope and Australian research institutions for six months in the area Alpha Pi Mu, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, American of water infrastructure systems. He is currently supervising four Industrial Hygiene Association, Academy of Industrial Hygiene, Ph.D. students and seven master’s candidates. American Society of Safety Engineers, National Safety Council, He received his Ph.D. in civil and systems design engineering Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Associa- in 2000 from the University of Waterloo where he also earned a tion, and the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing master’s degree in civil engineering in 1997. He received a bache- Conservation. lor of engineering degree specializing in civil engineering from Birla Among her honors, she was a National Institute for Occupa- Institute of Technology, Ranchi, Bihar, India in 1986. tional Safety and Health (NIOSH) fellowship recipient for 2006-07. From 1987 until 1996, he was a project engineer for the Indian She led a pilot project in the Virginia Tech Center for Innova- government’s World Bank Cell at Patna, Bihar. He was responsible tion in Construction, Safety and Health on the evaluation of dust for investigative planning, scheduling, qualitative and quantitative control technologies for drywall finishing operations. She also monitoring of highway and bridge construction projects that are received a NIOSH training grant from Johns Hopkins University to funded by the World Bank under the civil infrastructure program. enhance her work on this topic, which served as the background He spent a year with Liqui-Force Services Ltd., and the City of Wa- material for her dissertation. Her research interests are in indoor terloo, Ontario as a research engineer after receiving his master’s environmental quality, volatile organic compounds and fungal con- degree. taminants in the built environment, and respiratory disease among Sinha’s current research activities address problems in the construction workers. area of assessment technologies and decision-making methodolo- While a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Young also worked gies for the rehabilitation of large-scale civil infrastructure systems, as the co-director of the Environmental, Health and Safety Servic- especially municipal water and wastewater infrastructure systems. es office. She was responsible for occupational health compliance He is currently working on seven funded research projects, services for the university. totaling some $2.5 million. Young was also an adjunct instructor to the Grado Department He is in the process of developing a sustainable water infra- of ISE. She developed new curriculum and taught coursework in structure management system. His research includes the develop- industrial hygiene and occupational safety. She created laboratory ment of an integrated water and wastewater pipe management and lecture instruction. Young also served on the faculty commit- system with recent sensor technologies and non-destructive testing tee to coordinate the NIOSH Training Grant Program. She served tools. This research has the potential to change the utilities’ ability on graduate student thesis committees in the safety engineering to rate the condition and performance of its pipeline infrastructure degree option, and provided leadership to senior design teams. system and to develop a rational repair, rehabilitation and replace- She served as a faculty co-advisor for student section of American ment program. Society of Safety Engineers. He has authored more than 70 technical publications in refer- At Virginia Tech, she has served on many of its professional eed journals, conference proceedings, and reports. committees. These included the University’s Biosafety Compliance He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Committee; Biotechnology Oversight Committee; Environmental American Society of Engineering Education, American Society of and Laboratory Safety Committee, ex-officio member; Americans Testing Materials, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, and the with Disabilities Act (ADA) Advisory Committee; University Plan- North American Society for Trenchless Technology. ning Task Force on Total Quality Management; and the Facilities Design Review Task Force. Locally, she has been active in the Unitarian Universalist Fel- lowship as a youth adviser, and as a volunteer at the Humane Society, Tekoa Inc., (A residential treatment and educational facility in Floyd), and the Lyric Theatre. She was a mentor for the human factors society and the undergraduate students in the College of Science. She is also an avid cyclist and rock climber. 18 | VIA REPORT | 2007 faculty achievements

Greg Boardman Elected to rank of Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers; received College of Engineering Award for Outreach Excellence

Tom Brandon Dean’s Award for Excellence in Public Service

Mike Duncan BOARDMAN BRANDON DUNCAN Dean’s Award for Excellence in Public Service; received the Civilian Service Medal from the U.S. Department of the Army

Sam Easterling Elected to rank of Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers; elected to West Virginia CEE Department Academy of Distinguished Alumni

George Filz Received the Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers; received the Wine Award for Excellence in Teaching EASTERLING FILZ FLINTSCH from Virginia Tech; received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Gerardo Flintsch Elected as a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Engineering for Uruguay

Michael Garvin Selected as a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow

Linsey Marr GARVIN MARR MURRAY Selected as a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow

Tom Murray Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute for Steel Construction; received the Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering from Iowa State University

John Novak Received the Simon Freeze Lectureship Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers

NOVAK RAKHA ROBERTS-WOLLMAN Hesham Rakha Received a Dean’s Award for Research Excellence

Carin Roberts-Wollman Received a College of Engineering Certificate of Teaching Excellence

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 19 student news Scholarships

CE Alumni Board Scholarship Vickie Graham Scholarship Stewart Scholarship Matthew Werder Stephen Holmes II Nick Kehoe Daniel Keppeler Seth Williamson Elaine Huffman Harry S. & Patsy V. Williams David Wagner II Zachary Stutts Scholarship Francis Pinckney John Bergman John Edwards Balzer & Associates Scholarship Kellen Neuberger Alex Vandyke Matthew Kamstra Adam Summers Anthony Christian Hankins & Anderson Scholarship Jonathan Sproul Angel Velasquez Lindsey Hatcher Brian Petruzzi Charles Stanton Ian Cozens Jeremy Berg William A. Caruthers Scholarship Joseph Shutt Christopher Dianora Kelso Baker Scholarship Robert Kalbach Thomas Lueking Bryan Higgs Karla Young Carrie Hargraves Chelsea Green Class of ’58 Scholarship Jeffrey Wary Gary Riggins Clint Schueler Robert Olivet Patrick DiRoma Trent Cox Lingerfelt Family Foundation John Draminski Ross Millikan Scholarship Elizabeth Moreton Sherri Cook SMC Concrete Scholarship Kyle White Tracy Gusukuma Christopher Houpos Nathan Fox Warren F. Cline Scholarship Brian Wells Jonathan Emenheiser Michael Werder Hersie B. & Ethel G. McCauley Scholarship Virginia Concrete Scholarship Stanley and Francis Cohen Scholarship Stephanie Shupe James Newbold Tyler Austin Joshua Pratt Panos Andonyadis Kendall Blanding William Bucciantini Ian Cozens Samantha Kurtz Lauren Gagen-Cheeney John DeBell Scholarship Joseph Arrowsmith Andrew E. “Tripp” McDavid Memorial Joshua Jedlicka Scholarship Vecellio Scholarship Delta Airport Scholarship Leonard Abadam Andrew Lewis Jason Lieb Alexandra Davis Kenton & Liliana Meland Scholarship Erin Burdick Ignaci Roca Ashley Colbassani Stefanie Naden Dewberry Scholarship Michael Baker Scholarship Via Scholarship Da Jung Cho Alex VanDyke Mindy Pancoast Claire McKenzie Joseph Arrowsmith Peter Kauffmann Golf Tournament Scholarship Erin Rooney L.J. Turner & W.S. Dewhirst Scholarship Da Jung Cho Dick Walker Scholarship Kelsie Ostergaard Newport News Shipbuilding Julie Everd Walter & Mary Ruth Duncan Scholarship Scholarship Williams Industries Scholarship Chun Wong Tyler Haak Brynn Ishler Jacob Hilton Pruitt Scholarship Shane Cochran Andrew Baum Chelsey A. Godfrey Scholarship Verne & Jewel Williamson Scholarship Ashley Severin Myles Killar

20 | VIA REPORT | 2007 student news Graduate scholarships and fellowships

AdvanceVT Ph.D. Fellowship Korea Water Resources Corporation Vecellio Graduate Fellowship Fellowship Krista Rule Andrew Campbell Chang-Hyun Jo Chris Strock Alpha Lambda Delta Graduate Fellowship National Water Research Institute Virginia Tech Engineering Dean’s (NWRI) Fellowship Teaching Fellowships Stephanie Koch Christina C. Davis J. Christopher Carroll American Water Works Association Ahmet Pinto (AWWA) Larson Aquatic Research National Science Foundation (NSF) Aly Tawfik Support (LARS) Scholarship Fellowship Virginia Tech Waste Policy Institute Christina C. Davis Caroline Nguyen (WPI) Graduate Fellowships Emily Sarver American Water Works Association Amanda Strickhouser William Benni (AWWA) Thomas Camp Fellowship Jose Manual Cerrato National Science Foundation (NSF) Christina C. Davis Christina C. Davis IGERT Fellowships Krista Rule Bland / Delta Air Fellowship Tiffany Adams Virginia Water Resources Research Laura Hannum Julio Roa Perez Center Walker Research Fellow Award Matt Hull Pinar Omur-Ozbek (Associateship) Christina C. Davis Construction Management Association Caroline Nguyen of America (CMAA) Scholarships Andrew J. Whelton Walter P. Moore Graduate Research Sercan Akyildiz Fellowship in Structural Engineering Noah Yates Philanthropic Educational Organization D. Brad Davis (P.E.O.) Scholar Fellowship Cunningham Fellowships Krista Rule J. Christopher Carroll Matthew Swenty Pratt Engineering Fellowships Sudhir Dahal Davenport Fellowship Zhe Liu

Alison St. Clair Raymond and Madeline Curry Diversity Fellowships Fellowships Kacie Caple Ahmed Amer Lashun King Stephanie Surgent Lee Vanzler Edna Bailey Sussman Fellowships U.S. Department of Agriculture National Sairta Banjade Needs Fellowship for Water Science Jeff Coyne (Third Year) Samuel Hardin David Liu T.J. Murphy Rachel Methvin Michael Mobile U.S. Department of Education GAANN T.J. Murphy Fellowships Dominic Schuler Paul Gantzer Sabine Sibler Wendell Khunjar John Templeton Mike McGuire Eduardo Mendez Fulbright Fellowships Vathana Poev U.S. EPA STAR Fellowships T. Andres Sanchez Lee Bryant Dwight Thornhill Christina C. Davis

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 21 student news 2006-07 CEE Ph.D. Degrees Awarded The following doctoral degrees were Name: Ning Liu Name: Ronald L. Shope awarded to CEE students between July Dissertation Title: Soil and Site Character- Dissertation Title: Response of Wide 2006 and June 2007: ization Using Electromagnetic Waves Flange Steel Columns Subjected to Advisor: James K. Mitchell Constant Axial Load and Lateral Blast Name: Qasem M. Abdelal Load Dissertation Title: Methodology for Using a Name: Zihong Liu Advisor: Raymond H. Plaut Non-Linear Parameter Estimation Tech- Dissertation Title: Testing and Analysis nique for Reactive Multi-Component of a Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Name: Sean Sullivan Solute Transport Modeling in Ground- Bridge Deck Dissertation Title: Construction and Be- Water Systems Co-advisors: Tommy Cousins and John J. havior of Precast Bridge Deck Panel Advisor: Mark A. Widdowson Lesko (Engineering Science and Me- Systems chanics) Advisor: Carin Roberts-Wollmann Name: Senanu Ashiabor Dissertation Title: Modeling Intercity Mode Name: Christopher D. Muller Name: Sotirios Vardakos Choice and Airport Choice in the United Dissertation Title: Shear Forces, Floc Dissertation Title: Back-analysis Methods States Structure and their Impact on Anaerobic for Optimal Tunnel Design Co-advisors: Antonio Trani and Hojong Digestion and Biosolids Stability Advisor: Marte Gutierrez Baik Advisor: John T. Novak Name: Gregory S. Williamson Name: Anthony R. Barrett Name: Jocelyn Fraga Muller Dissertation Title: Service Life Modeling of Dissertation Title: Dynamic Testing of In- Dissertation Title: The Role of Multidrug Virginia Bridge Decks Situ Composite Floors and Evaluation of Efflux Pumps in the Stress Response of Advisor: Richard E. Weyers Vibration Serviceability Using the Finite Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Organic Element Method Contamination Name: Bing Zhang Advisor: Thomas M. Murray Co-advisors: Nancy G. Love and Ann M. Dissertation Title: Digital Test of Compos- Stevens (Biological Sciences) ite Material Using X-Ray Tomography Name: Douglas R. Bish and Finite Element Simulation Dissertation Title: Demand Management Name: Jon T. Obenberger Advisor: Linbing Wang in Evacuation: Models, Algorithms, and Dissertation Title: Methodology to Assess Applications Traffic Signal Transition Strategies Em- Co-advisors: Antoine G. Hobeika and ployed to Exit Preemption Control Hanif D. Sherali (Industrial & Systems Co-advisors: John Collura and Shinya Engineering) Kikuchi

Name: Jeramy B. Decker Name: Andrei Ramniceanu Dissertation Title: Building, Updating and Dissertation Title: Investigation of Param- Verifying Fracture Models in Real Time eters Governing the Corrosion Protec- for Hard Rock Tunneling tion Efficacy of Fusion Bonded Epoxy Advisor: Matthew Mauldon Coatings Advisor: Richard E. Weyers Name: Edgar David de León Izeppi Dissertation Title: Non-Contact Methods Name: Heather Rectanus for Detecting Hot-mix Asphalt Nonunifor- Dissertation Title: Sustainability of Re- mity ductive Dechlorination at Chlorinated Advisor: Gerardo W. Flintsch Solvent Contaminated Sites: Methods to Evaluate Biodegradable Natural Organic Name: Amr El Sayed Carbon Dissertation Title: Numerical Modeling for Co-advisors: John T. Novak and Mark A. the Solute Uptake from Groundwater by Widdowson Plants-Plant Uptake Package Advisor: Mark A. Widdowson Name: John C. Ryan Dissertation Title: Analytical and Ex- Name: Bryan J. Katz perimental Investigation of Improving Dissertation Title: Peripheral Transverse Seismic Performance of Steel Moment Pavement Markings for Speed Control Frames Using Synthetic Fiber Ropes Advisor: Hesham A. Rakha Co-advisors: Raymond H. Plaut and Thomas M. Murray

22 | VIA REPORT | 2007 alumni news CEE Alumni Board Members (Fall 2007) Michael A. Alto Clark Construction Group, LLC Bethesda, MD David S. Anderson Roseland Development Corp. Midlothian, VA Courtney A. Beamon Delta Airport Consultants, Inc. Richmond, VA Michael N. Biscotte HSMM, Inc. Roanoke, VA Gary P. Bowman Bowman Consulting Chantilly, VA Douglas W. Burks Old and new members traveled to town for the 2007 Advisory Board meeting Hankins and Anderson, Inc. held in September. Glen Allen, VA H.D. Campbell, Jr. Campbell & Paris Engineers CEE Alumni Board celebrates 20th year Chantilly, VA In 1987, Wayne Clough, currently continues to maintain strong ties to the the President of Georgia Tech, founded CEE alumni at Virginia Tech. Derrick B. Cave Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. the Via Department of Civil and Envi- After Clough became Virginia Tech’s Vero Beach, FL ronmental Engineering’s (CEE) Advisory Dean of Engineering in 1990, he was Board as one of his accomplishments as succeeded by David Kibler who contin- Raymond G. Curry, Jr. the CEE Department Head. ued fostering strong relationships with SMC Concrete Construction, Inc. Annandale, VA “The department had an enormous the department’s alumni. array of talent among its alumni. We had As the board matured, a primary Lisa Decker practicing engineers, entrepreneurs, goal became securing and retaining the The Whiting-Turner Construction Co. CEOs of major companies, talented CEE department’s status as a top 10 Baltimore, MD consultants, and impressive scholars. CE program in the country. In the past Carolyn P. Dimmick It was apparent to me that we needed decade, the department has remained HDR Inc. to tap into those resources as they had close to this number, and its global rec- Pittsburgh, PA so much expertise to provide,” Clough ognition is flourishing. Richard M. DiSalvo, Jr. recalled. The board also continually strives Draper Aden Associates “The most immediate problem was to: provide perspective on CE practice Blacksburg, VA how to choose a small number from the including global competitiveness; serve T.A. (Tim) Groover 1000s of successful alumni. We also as a strong sounding board for new Wiley and Wilson, Inc. wanted to keep them engaged after ideas; promote excellence through pro- Lynchburg, VA they rotated off the Advisory Board,” he fessional, society and engineering prac- Robert F. Jansen added. tice; assist in fundraising; aid the faculty KB Home Mid-Atlantic, Inc. Clough’s vision succeeded, and in marketing research and consulting Vienna, VA although his primary involvement today services, and help with space needs, to Jimmie D. Jenkins is with the Atlanta University’s alumni, he name a few priorities. Public Works, Fairfax County, VA Fairfax, VA Anthony J. Moraco Brian L. Ramaley Jack E. Rinker SAIC Newport News Waterworks Rinker Design Associates Chantilly, VA Newport News, VA Manassas, VA Carl W. Pugh, Jr. Glenn W. Rehberger Philip A. Shucet New Millennium Building Systems CH2M Hill The Dragas Companies Salem, VA Newport News, VA Virginia Beach, VA

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 23 program areas

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty by Program Area Vecellio Construction Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Program and Management Program • Thomas L. Brandon, Associate Professor • Jesus M. de la Garza, Vecellio Professor • Joseph E. Dove, Research Assistant Professor and • Michael J. Garvin, Assistant Professor Program Coordinator • Anthony D. Songer, Associate Professor • J. Michael Duncan, Emeritus Professor • Sunil K. Sinha, Associate Professor • George M. Filz, Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor • Michael C. Vorster, David Burrows Professor and • Marte S. Gutierrez, Professor Program Coordinator • James R. Martin, II, Professor • Deborah E. Young, Assistant Professor • Matthew Mauldon, Associate Professor • James K. Mitchell, Emeritus Professor Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Program Structural Engineering • Gregory D. Boardman, Professor and Materials Program • William Cox, Assistant Department Head and Professor • Finley A. Charney, Associate Professor • Andrea M. Dietrich, Professor • Thomas E. Cousins, Professor • Panayiotis Diplas, Professor • W. Samuel Easterling, Assistant Department Head and • Randel Dymond, Associate Professor Professor • Marc A. Edwards, Charles Lunsford Professor • Donald A. Garst, Emeritus Professor • Daniel L. Gallagher, Associate Professor • Siegfried M. Holzer, Emeritus Professor • Adil N. Godrej, Research Associate Professor (NV) • Thomas M. Murray, Montague-Betts Professor • Thomas J. Grizzard, Jr., Professor (NV) • Raymond H. Plaut, Daniel H. Pletta Professor • Robert Hoehn, Emeritus Professor • Carin L. Roberts-Wollmann, Associate Professor • David F. Kibler, Professor • Kamal B. Rojiani, Associate Professor • William Knocke, Department Head and W. Curtis English • Elisa D. Sotelino, Professor and Program Coordinator Professor • Richard E. Weyers, Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor • John C. Little, Professor • Nancy G. Love, Professor Transportation Infrastructure • Linsey C. Marr, Assistant Professor and Systems Engineering Program • John T. Novak, Nick Prillaman Professor • Montasir Abbas, Assistant Professor • Clifford W. Randall, Emeritus Professor • Thomas A. Dingus, Newport News Shipbuilding/Tenneco • Peter J. Vikesland, Associate Professor Professor • Mark Widdowson, Professor and Program Coordinator • Gerardo W. Flintsch, Associate Professor • Kathleen L. Hancock, Associate Professor (NV) • Antoine G. Hobeika, Professor • Shinya Kikuchi, Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor (NV) • Pamela Murray-Tuite, Assistant Professor (NV) • Hesham A. Rakha, Professor and Program Coordinator • Dusan Teodorovic, Emeritus Professor (NV) • Antonio A. Trani, Associate Professor • Linbing Wang, Associate Professor

NV – Northern Virginia Program

24 | VIA REPORT | 2007 vecellio construction engineering and management program

Combined efforts lift construction program to new heights Since the members of the Vecellio displayed by the 35 Vecellio fellows/schol- Academic Committee, which is the primary family endowed the Vecellio Construction ars and to the exceptionally high caliber forum for the academic community within Engineering and Management Program of the distinguished speakers it brings to CII to provide its wisdom and expertise to (VCEMP), it has become ever so more visi- campus. CII. Among its duties are designating sub- ble and respected by academic peers across As for the faculty, the following para- ject matter experts, providing input to the the U.S. and by the industry firms that hire its graphs offer some insights into their recent research process, identifying and grooming graduates. Since 2001, the endowment has activities. new academics to serve as effective CII enabled VCEMP to award 21 undergraduate Jesús M. de la Garza, the Vecellio researchers, integrating CII research and scholarships and 14 graduate fellowships. Professor of CEE, has had a full load since products into the undergraduate and gradu- Furthermore, the endowment sponsors returning from his stint at the National Sci- ate curriculums and offering insights for the annual Vecellio Distinguished Lecture ence Foundation (NSF). He was invited new directions for CII. every fall semester. Through this lecture, to join an international panel to review the de la Garza’s research in the area of VCEMP has been able to invite seven CEE Department at Helsinki University of highway infrastructure asset management nationally and internationally renown indi- Technology in Finland. He has become the has continued to grow with the establish- viduals to visit and share their wisdom with associate editor of the American Society ment of the Center for Highway Asset Man- faculty, students, staff, and members of the of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Journal of Con- agement ProgramS (CHAMPS) recently Blacksburg community. (See related story struction Engineering and Management, funded by the Virginia Department of Trans- about the 2007 Vecellio Distinguished Lec- acknowledged as the most prominent schol- portation (VDOT) with an inaugural award ture presented by Linda Figg on page 27.) arly publication in the field. valued at $4.7 million (see related research The accrued visibility and respect are de la Garza is also the co-chair of story on page 10.) This summer he received directly attributed to the high-performance the Construction Industry Institute’s (CII) See Construction, page 26

The Natchez Trace Parkway Arches in Tennessee combines functionality with distinction.

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 25 vecellio construction engineering and management program construction (from page 25) an additional $200,000 NSF award. In the area of teaching, de la Garza has offered for the first time the graduate level course Construction Schedule Visu- alization, which introduced the students to the concept of 4D scheduling (CPM plus 3D). Graduate students used state-of-the- art software to develop 4D schedules. 4D technology has been in R&D over the last 20 years. VCEMP is proud to begin produc- ing graduates versed in this cutting edge technology. As a result of the tragic events of April 16, CII’s Board of Directors offered to teach CII Best Practices in the fall, which de la Garza has coordinated. This course has brought eminent subject matter experts from industry to teach modules on con- structability, safety, project preplanning, and technology interoperability. Mike Garvin once again taught his graduate level course, facility delivery and financing strategies. He also introduced a new graduate course, decision-making in the built environment, which provided students an overview of normative deci- sion theory and its applications to problems within the construction industry. In addition, The Penobscot Narrows Bridge he taught over 130 undergraduates in the and Observatory in Maine is construction management course. the tallest public observatory bridge in the world. Garvin continues his NSF Career Award research efforts developing deci- sion support systems for portfolio-level infrastructure investment and procurement. An important component of this work is fellow by the College of Engineering in May, he taught CEE 4804, professional and the development of case studies where 2007. This award provided him with $5,000 legal issues in construction, in the fall and innovative delivery strategies are utilized, to further support his research and scholar- spring, and the CEM graduate seminar in such as public-private partnerships (PPP). ship efforts. the spring. Also during the spring, Songer Several of these cases are available from Sunil Sinha is the newest member of advised the graduate scholars seminar his research group’s web-site. Currently, the the construction faculty. Sinha held a joint on poverty reduction. During the summer, PPP market in the US is in tremendous flux, appointment as an assistant professor in Songer taught a service learning course en- so the lessons learned from these cases the CEE and computer science and engi- titled project management in the global vil- could be quite important to stabilizing this neering departments at Penn State. He is lage. This course took place in the Mekong domain. He has also recently partnered with also an adjunct professor of systems design Delta region of Vietnam. Students from six Stanford’s Center for Research on Global engineering at the University of Waterloo, different Atlantic Coast Conference schools Projects, led by Professor Ray Levitt, to Canada. Sinha’s current research activities spent time in the Village of Hoa and built develop a series of white papers about address problems in the area of assess- two “mercy” houses and worked on a small PPP’s. He also recently published results ment technologies and decision-making bridge to link local farmers to markets. from an NSF-sponsored project to develop methodologies for the rehabilitation of large- Songer continues work in the area of and assess the utility of real option models scale civil infrastructure systems, especially project delivery systems investigating the for infrastructure. A notable outcome of this municipal water and wastewater infrastruc- implications of collaborative systems among work is a new and credible technique for ture systems (see related story in the new multi-organizational partners. Additionally, determining the economic value of a gov- faculty section). Songer is studying leadership in construc- ernment-sponsored revenue guarantee in a Anthony D. Songer introduced a tion. He is engaged in a CII project investi- privately financed infrastructure project. new graduate course on leadership and gating project site leadership and its impact Garvin was recognized as a faculty professional skills in the fall. Additionally, See Construction, page 27

26 | VIA REPORT | 2007 vecellio construction engineering and management program construction (from page 26) on safety. Songer co-chaired the ASCE laboratory. Students studied construction duction system and applying these to the Construction Research Conference. cycles and productivity by operating, video- challenges presented by field construction. Michael C. Vorster, the David H. Bur- taping and analyzing equipment simulators Instruction on this course was shared with rows Professor of CEE, taught four courses and by attaching GPS tracking devices to Mike Casten, a nationally recognized expert this past year: estimating production and various items of mobile equipment. They in reactive analysis, operations engineer- cost engineering, construction means and were introduced to the fascination and chal- ing and field operations improvement who methods, estimating production and cost lenge of planning and sequencing complex presented three periods of intensive instruc- engineering, and construction performance field operations by developing their own tion based on his ongoing involvement with improvement. solutions to case studies drawn from indus- leading construction companies. The means and methods class was try and comparing their solutions to those Vorster continued with research activity presented in an entirely new format with actually used by contractors in the field. through the VDOT-Virginia Tech Partnership students working in three groups throughout The construction performance improve- for Project Scheduling which seeks to im- the semester to provide an opportunity for ment class also broke new ground by re- prove scheduling and schedule attainment them to conduct experiments and perform quiring that students learn about and study on transportation projects in Virginia. His field work using tools and technologies the benchmark performance improvement work focused on three areas: the mentor developed in the field operations analysis principles established in the Toyota pro- See Construction, page 29

Award-winning bridge designer combines form and function Linda Figg, president and CEO of bridge’s identity, encouraging communi- Figg Engineering Group, presented the ties and owners to share their visions of 2007 Vecillio Distinguished Lecture on how they want the world to see them. In- “Creating Bridges as Art.” spiration comes from the heart and soul Her presentation was a review of of the community. Each bridge combines how aesthetically pleasing, world-class functionality with distinction, and con- bridges are created with precise en- structibility with aesthetic appeal, to cre- gineering and timeless artistry. FIGG- ate a bridge that celebrates connections designed bridges from around America between people and provides an uplifting were showcased with beautiful photog- visual experience to those around it. raphy and film clips. These bridges have Some of the bridges discussed were won 259 design awards including three the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway in Ohio presidential awards through the National (a pylon made of glass), the Penobscot Endowment for the Arts. They have been Narrows Bridge & Observatory in Maine featured in books on the world’s most (the tallest public observatory on a bridge famous bridges and have become icons in the world), the Smart Road Bridge for communities. in Virginia (piers with Hokie Stone), the There is a growing public demand Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway for beautiful infrastructure to express in Florida (building six lanes in six feet a community’s quality of life and their with curved shapes), the Natchez Trace future aspirations. The public desires Parkway Arches in Tennessee (first 582’ structures that are in context with their Linda Figg precast arch), the Blue Ridge Parkway environment, create landmarks and visu- Viaduct in North Carolina (built to protect ally add to the landscape. the environment), the Sunshine Skyway Figg explained how functional engi- resulting in new methods and technology. Bridge in Florida (longest precast span neering and creative design comes to- Form and beauty are applied with the tech- in America with several firsts), and many gether to develop bridges that tell a story nical solution to express the individuality of others. and reflect a community’s vision. Each the people and places the FIGG-designed The audience explored bridges that bridge is created through a comprehen- bridge will serve. cross major waterways, travel around sive engineering process that values Figg shared how a special bridge de- mountainsides, fly over traffic and thread form and function equally, creating beau- sign charette process is used to gain insight delicately through the environmentally ty and efficiency simultaneously. This from those who will own and use a bridge. sensitive sites. From remote natural en- design process inspires innovative solu- The natural environments and human re- vironments to established cityscapes, the tions for engineering challenges, often lationships are drawn upon to define the art of the bridge was enjoyed.

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Jennie Ward Robinson, seated, executive director of the Institute of Public The environmental and water resources Health and Water Research, presented a $200,000 grant from the Institute of engineering program is a two-time recog- Public Health and Water Research to examine the problems of foul flavored water. Andrea Dietrich, Virginia Tech professor of civil and environmental engi- nized program in the 2008 surveys by U.S. neering, back left, is the principal investigator (PI) on the project, and Brenda News and World Report. The undergraduate Davy, assistant professor of human nutrition, food, and exercise, is a co-PI. environmental program ranks 14th while the graduate program ranks 11th in the country. Over the past year, Greg Boardman was engaged in five research projects, several short courses, his regular university Environmental program builds courses, and preparations for a large con- ference. The research projects are ongoing and related to aquaculture, oxygen transfer upon previous advances and in wastewater systems, and the production of disinfection by-products. All have proved strengths to be interesting, but the oxygen transfer experiments, in particular, have generated some challenging twists for the graduate student. The project consists of field experi- ments that were initiated in S.C., and have now been moved to a local treatment plant. Storms, bugs, odors and heat have been is- sues at both locations, but it was the visit of an alligator that had the student really won- dering about the project. Fortunately, things appear to be going more smoothly now, and the alligator stayed in S.C. See Environmental, page 29

28 | VIA REPORT | 2007 environmental and water resources (ewr) engineering program environmental (from page 28) The aforementioned conference is the and Water Resources Congress. Other ac- sentations and secured two new research biennial research and education conference tivities in EWRI included membership on the grants. The team of graduate students of the Association of Environmental Engi- technical executive committee and several Heather Johnson and David Clark, along neering and Science Professors (AEESP). other committees. with undergraduates Rory Polera and Owen EWR at Virginia Tech will host the confer- Cox continued to serve as CEE as- Gallagher, improved relining of water mains ence at the Inn at Virginia Tech in late July sistant department head, and associated with cement or polymers by understanding 2007. Boardman serves as chairman of the administrative duties were a major em- the impacts that these materials have on conference, expected to attract some 300 phasis during the year. The department’s drinking water quality. participants. He also serves as president of assessment program required substantial Other graduate research in distribution the Aquacultural Engineering Society. For attention since an ABET inspection visit was infrastructure include Andrew Whelton’s his outreach efforts over the past few years, scheduled for fall of 2007 until the decision project which evaluates chlorine degradation Boardman received the 2007 College Award was made by the College of Engineering of HPDE and Juneseok Lee’s project on wa- for Outreach Excellence. to request a one-year postponement of the ter hammer and also an assessment of con- Bill Cox continued to focus on water visit. Preparation of necessary documents sumer attitudes towards plumbing materials, supply planning and management issues and supporting materials was well underway safety, and health. Chang-Hyun Jo is simul- in research and teaching. A newly initiated prior to the announcement of the postpone- taneously solving problems with drinking activity is the coordination of a pilot study of ment. Assistant department head responsi- water contaminants and odorants through shared vision planning for the James River bilities also included substantial involvement his investigation of advanced oxidation for Basin. This research, funded by the Corps in CEE curriculum development efforts and his dissertation research. The “metals in of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources, undergraduate advising, especially for stu- water” research group includes graduate is investigating the potential for planning that dents with special difficulties in completion student Pinar Ömur-Özbek and undergradu- involves interaction among diverse stake- of degree requirements. ate Corey Tucker who are uncovering the holders in building river basin models for Andrea Dietrich spent part of March causes of metallic flavor and the impact it analysis of alternative management strate- “writing in Paris” with French and American has on consumers, including chemotherapy gies. This interest in water supply planning experts who are authoring a book on emerg- patients who are plagued by this issue. José was also reflected in authorship of a paper ing issues in drinking water. The camarade- Cerrato, assisted by undergraduate Christo- for the American Society of Civil Engineers’ rie, cuisine, sights and weather were great. pher Burrell, isolated bacteria that can redox (ASCE) Journal of Water Resources Plan- Back in Blacksburg, it was an excellent year cycle manganese and either cause or elimi- ning and Management and co-authorship of for her research group as it published 11 nate this metal in drinking water. a paper for the EWRI 2007 Environmental peer-reviewed journal articles, made 18 pre- See Environmental, page 30 construction (from page 27) based training program where VDOT per- Vorster worked with Dick Harshberger funded with a research grant and fellowship sonnel work in the partnership to develop in university leadership development and awards from the National Institute for Oc- their own skills and produce training materi- with faculty in VCEMP to present the 19th cupational Safety and Health of the National al for use throughout VDOT; the activity per- Transportation Construction Management Institutes of Health. In her doctoral research formance time database where field records Institute at the Inn at Virginia Tech in Febru- she conducted a systems analysis of the are processed and input in a database of ary. This two week long career development drywall finishing industry and designed use in developing pre-advertisement sched- program was attended by over 500 leaders interventions to reduce worker exposure to ules and reviewing post award contractor from the transportation construction com- dust. submittals; and the scheduling policy and munity in Virginia and it has contributed Her research interests include con- guideline initiative where a series of policy substantially to building relationships and struction worker occupational health, indoor and procedure documents to assist in pre- improving performance in the industry. environmental quality, and control of fungal paring and reviewing project schedules Deborah E. Young is the newest and volatile organic chemicals in the built have been produced. faculty member joining the Myers-Lawson environment. She is currently pursuing Vorster continued with research in School of Construction whose home is the grant funding to use geographic informa- the area of construction equipment. He co- civil and environmental engineering depart- tion systems and parametric modeling to authored two papers dealing with the history ment. Young received a master of science evaluate national fungal distribution trends, and development of equipment published in degree in ecology from North Carolina climatic conditions, and epidemiology of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineer- State, and a second master of science building-related health effects. She also ing and Management. He continued to publish degree and doctorate in industrial and sys- hopes to build upon her doctoral work in her monthly in Construction Equipment, a leading tems engineering from Virginia Tech. She future research endeavors. industry journal in its field. Vorster presented is a certified industrial hygienist, certified On a personal note, she enjoys cycling, the keynote address at the 2006 Chevron safety professional, and certified hazardous mountain biking, running, SCUBA and rock Construction Symposium in Tucson, Az. materials manager. Her doctoral study was climbing.

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 29 environmental and water resources (ewr) engineering program environmental (from page 29) Although many of these projects are Aquatic Research Fellowship from AWWA. zard has been succeeded by Professor “small steps” they all contribute to improv- Former group member (and Via scholar) Shinya Kikuchi. Grizzard has continued ing drinking water infrastructure, safety, and Laurie McNeill won the Robins outstanding his position as the NCR coordinator for the palatability for society. teaching award from Utah State University EWR program area. He has also continued Randy Dymond has been very ac- where she is a tenured faculty member. in his position as director of the OMWL, tive in both teaching and research efforts in Eight members of the group including which he has held for 33 years. the areas of land development, floodplain Yan Zhang, Christy David, Rebecca Lattyak, He also completed six years of service mapping, urban stormwater, hazard mitiga- Jeff Parks, Jeff Coyne, Amanda Strickhous- to the Commonwealth as a gubernatorial tion, and geospatial information technology. er and Simoni traveled to Toronto, Canada appointee to the Board for Waterworks and Dymond teaches classes in land develop- and made five presentations on premise Wastewater Works Operators. In that capac- ment design, water resources, GIS, and plumbing problems, coagulation, legionella, ity, Grizzard participated in two revisions computer applications. This past year, he copper pitting corrosion, and lead in water. of the certification regulations, as well as a also coordinated volunteer professional Yan Zhang and Jeff Parks research propos- number of regulatory actions that affect the engineers in teaching an advanced land als were selected for funding by AWWA operations of the environmental infrastruc- development design course as part of a new Research Foundation and EPA, and Carolyn ture in the Commonwealth. curricular effort called the Land Develop- Nguyen re-joined the group in pursuit of her Along with other Virginia Tech col- ment Design Initiative (LDDI). LDDI is a new Ph.D. after a few years in consulting. leagues, Grizzard has continued his re- effort to involve practitioners in promoting In the past year, Adil Godrej’s students search into a wide range of issues affecting the career of land development design to have continued to update and improve the the management of water quality in urbaniz- CEE undergraduates and to expand the Occoquan Watershed and Reservoir Model. ing watersheds. In concert with Adil Godrej, learning opportunities for our students in this A master’s student developed a document Grizzard has been responsible for over $2 area. More information is available at www. to perform the identification of lake zones. million in sponsored activity in fiscal year vtlanddevelopment.com. This work was done for the Virginia Depart- 2007. As the co-director of the Center for ment of Environmental Quality and a draft For the fourth year, Grizzard has also Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT), version is being used by its regional offices continued as a member of an advisory panel Dymond continues to focus on numerous in the April-October 2007 period to help the to the Public Utility Board (PUB) of the Re- research projects such as floodplain map- staff, most of whom are not lake experts, public of Singapore. The panel meets semi- ping, urban stormwater systems, hazard perform lake zonation. Virginia’s new lake annually, and advises the Singaporean gov- mitigation planning, and infrastructure op- standards for water quality will require lake ernment on a wide range of issues related to erations. Dymond had one paper published zonation to be performed on each lake be- the management of the island nation’s vital in the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineer- cause the standards only apply to one zone water resources. ing, and a second paper published in the (lacustrine, the lake-like zone) of lakes. This past year David Kibler conducted Journal of the American Water Resources Godrej works with Tom Grizzard on research on improved stormwater manage- Association. Two papers were presented at most research projects at the Occoquan ment facilities and improved design methods the annual American Society for Engineering Watershed Monitoring Laboratory (OMWL), for retrofitting large regional detention struc- Education (ASEE) and two different papers located in Manassas, Va. Their projects are tures as enhanced water quality facilities. were presented at the annual Virginia GIS typically sponsored by local, regional and He continues to work on problems of urban- Conference. Eleven proposals were funded state agencies, such as the Virginia Depart- izing watersheds in terms of flood hazard within the last year in which Dymond was a ment of Environmental Quality, the Metro- increase, drought severity and in-stream PI or co-PI. Teaching and unique activities politan Washington Council of Governments, habitat impacts. A currently funded project such as LDDI and CGIT keep Dymond on the Fairfax County Health Department, the with the Virginia Transportation Research the go. City of Manassas, the Northern Virginia Re- Council is intended to develop new analysis Marc Edwards’ research group had a gional Commission, Prince William County, tools for the selection and design of storm- very productive 2007. (See article, page 4.) and the Loudoun County Sanitation Author- water management facilities for controlling The group continues to emphasize research ity. Godrej serves on the Metropolitan Wash- pollutant releases in a highway setting. on home plumbing problems, applied aquat- ington Council of Governments’ Regional Kibler is collaborating with Tamim ic chemistry and water treatment. Simoni Monitoring Subcommittee, the EPA Chesa- Younas, Randel Dymond, and Kevin Young Triantifyllidou (M.S.) wrote four research pa- peake Bay Program Analytic Methods and on a new USEPA grant directed at the pers on her work related to lead poisoning of Quality Assurance Workgroup, and Prince evaluation of stormwater impacts in Virginia children from drinking water. Her M.S. thesis William County’s Chesapeake Bay Preser- and an improved tool for the selection and was selected for a first place national award vation Area Review Board, among others. placement of stormwater control facilities by the Association of Environmental Engi- In the past year, Grizzard completed in residential watersheds. Kibler has been neering and Science Professors (AEESP) over 25 years of service to the CEE depart- an invited speaker at stormwater design and the American Water Works Association. ment as the director for graduate programs workshops sponsored by the ASCE Nor- Christy Davis won the prestigious LARS in the National Capital Region (NCR). Griz- See Environmental, page 31

30 | VIA REPORT | 2007 environmental and water resources (ewr) engineering program environmental (from page 30) folk Branch and by the Lehigh, Pa., Valley Engineers conference in Minneapolis; and Robert Rebodos, and Krista Rule, and M.S. Planning Commission. This past year he the American Association of Environmental student John Templeton. Laura Duncan, a presented papers with Kevin Young (former Engineering and Science Professors confer- former M.S. Via student, graduated in the Via Scholar and now research associate) ence in Blacksburg. spring of 2007. Duncan’s M.S. thesis was at the Virginia’s Environment Conference John Novak and his students con- entitled “Characterization of C60 Nanopar- and the Virginia Engineers Conference on tinued their research in wastewater, biore- ticles in Aqueous Systems.” BMP design. He continues as an instructor mediation and solid waste management. In June of 2007, Vikesland gave a plat- in the Penn State University short course Three papers were presented at the annual form presentation at the International Water on computational methods in urban drain- Water Environment Federation meeting in Association (IWA) Leading Edge Technolo- age design and stormwater management, Dallas, Tex., by his students, Chris Wilson gies conference held in Singapore. Vike- a short course that has run each summer and Nitin Verma. Novak and Chris Muller sland’s presentation highlighted the work his since 1984. Kibler also continues as faculty presented papers at the Residuals and Bio- group has been doing to develop a simple, advisor to the Virginia Tech ASCE student solids Management Conference in Denver, yet robust method to detect the pathogenic chapter. He is one of two faculty advisors to Col. Heather Rectanus presented a paper organism cryptosporidium in treated drinking the Virginia Tech chapter of the American at the 9th International In Situ and On-Site waters. Water Resources Association. Bioremediation Symposium in Baltimore. In addition to this presentation, Vike- Linsey Marr’s research in air quality Novak presented two papers at the Interna- sland and his students gave presentations engineering focuses on improved quantifica- tional Sludge Conference in Antalya, Turkey at the fall 2006 and spring 2007 meetings tion of air pollutant emissions, characteriza- in March. He also presented a paper at the of the American Chemical Society, the 2006 tion of airborne nanoparticles, and prediction International Water Associate Conference AIChE annual conference, and the 2007 of the fate and transport of air pollutants. in Beijing, China in September and his post- annual conference of the American Water Three of her master’s students recently doc, Yuan Fang, presented two papers at Works Association. completed and successfully defended their the same conference. Mark Widdowson and his colleagues theses. Behnoush Yeganeh Talab character- Research continued with project sup- recently completed a four-year research ized nanoparticle exposure in manufacturing ported by the Washington Suburban Sani- project on the sustainability of monitored facilities and developed methods for testing tary Commission, Siemens Corporation, natural attenuation funded by the Depart- nanoparticles’ fate in the environment. Ful- D.C. Water & Sewer Authority, CH2M-HILL ment of Defense Strategic Environmental bright Scholar Dwight Thornhill measured and Waste Management, Inc. In addition, Research and Development Program. The carcinogenic particles in Mexico City and joint projects with Mark Widdowson on culmination of this work was selected by the calculated emissions of various pollutants groundwater remediation for SERDP contin- U.S. Geological Survey for special publica- from motor vehicles there. The goal of Via ued. Ten papers were published in research tion in USGS Circular 1303. Widdowson’s Scholar Jeff Sparks’ research was to recom- journals and 13 papers were included in research expanded into the area of fate mend feeding and waste treatment practices conference proceeding. Novak served as and transport of polychlorinated biphenyls to minimize ammonia emissions from dairy the advisor for 14 graduate students this (PCBs) in contaminated river and harbor cow operations. past year. sediments. This work is funded by the U.S. Continuing master’s students Gaurav Novak continued his service on the Army Corps of Engineers. Bansal and John Linford both contributed Board of Directors of the Water Environment Three of Widdowson’s Ph.D. students to a modeling project that is assisting the Federation and is the editor of the Journal of received their degrees during 2006-07: Shenandoah Valley with reducing its air Residuals Science and Technology. He also Heather Rectanus, Qasem Abdelal, and Amr pollution. Ph.D. student Tim Moore and un- serves as an associate editor for the journal, El-Sayed. He and his students presented dergraduate assistant David Doughty spent Water Environment Research. papers at the Ninth International In Situ and the summer measuring air pollutant emis- Peter Vikesland’s research group On-Site Bioremediation Symposium and sions in the Flux Lab for the Atmospheric continues to develop a national and inter- the conference on Managing Ground Water Measurement of Emissions (FLAME) in national reputation in the area of environ- Systems. Widdowson presented an invited Worthington, Kentucky and the Shenan- mental nanotechnology. Within this general talk on the Natural Attenuation Software doah Valley. New graduate students Andrea area, the group has ongoing projects ex- (NAS) at the Federal Remediation Technolo- Dunker and Ilija Miskovic are setting up amining the potential use of nanotechnol- gies Roundtable meeting in May 2007. He experiments to study the emissions of en- ogy enabled sensors for the protection of presented short courses on groundwater docrine disrupting chemicals from building drinking water quality, the use of iron oxide remediation to EPA, the National Ground materials and the reactions of air pollutants nanoparticles for environmental remedia- Water Association and professional organi- with nanoparticles. tion, and, in collaboration with Linsey Marr zations in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Over the past year, various group mem- and her research group, the fate of carbo- In addition, Widdowson continued as coor- bers presented results at MILAGRO meet- naceous nanomaterials in the environment. dinator of the EWR engineering graduate ings in Boulder and Mexico City; the Ameri- The group currently consists of four Ph.D. program. can Society of Agricultural and Biological students, Xiaojun Chang, E. Matthew Fiss,

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The Merrill Creek Reservoir, Harmony, N.J., is impounded by a 290-foot-high earth and rockfill dam and three earth dikes. Geotechnical engineers designed these earth structures using informa- tion from field investigations, laboratory tests, and engineering analyses.

Geotechnical engineering program excels in applications of teaching and research

Faculty, staff and students within the conducting research for the Becker Con- Urban Forestry Advisory Council, Dove Geotechnical Engineering Program contin- struction Company, the U.S. Bureau of continued his interdisciplinary work in sus- ued to excel in teaching and research, and Reclamation, the U.S. Department of Agri- tainable development with Professors Su- have applied their technical expertise in culture, the U.S. Air Force, and the National san Day of the department of forestry and solving pressing national and international Science Foundation (NSF). His involvement Roger Harris of the department of horticul- issues. Brief descriptions of each faculty with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ ture on the use of “structural soil” to reduce member’s activities are presented below. post-Katrina effort has been ongoing from stormwater runoff from paved areas. Four This year marked an important mile- the previous year. He currently is a member papers were either published or in review stone with the retirement of Mike Duncan. of the four-person Mississippi Valley Divi- and specifications are being developed. He came to Virginia Tech 1984 and led the sion Geotechnical Quality Assurance Team, An NSF supported collaboration with building of a program known for its excel- which provides oversight for the drilling, master’s student Brain Badillo of computer lence in teaching and research, and for its sampling, and laboratory and field testing science, Via Ph.D. Fellow Jeramy Decker, contributions to geotechnical engineering for projects in the New Orleans area. He undergraduate Justin Sommerville of geo- practice. He will continue to be very active also is a member of the team in charge of sciences, master’s Via student Ed Ware, in the program and in the Center for Geo- conducting a load test on the London Ave- and Matthew Mauldon developed software technical Practice and Research (CGPR). nue Canal, which is slated to occur this fall. that allows remote characterization of rock We are pleased that Professor Russell Joe Dove completed a NSF funded masses using terrestrial LiDAR scans. Green will join the program in August 2008. project with Ph.D. student Jianfeng Wang Dove and Ware are developing a method He is presently an associate professor of and Marte Gutierrez that developed a meth- to permit rapid, remote characterization of civil and environmental engineering at the odology to predict the strength of interfaces soil and rock properties. A novel method to University of Michigan and is a former Ph.D. between sands and construction materials. improve the engineering behavior of soil Via fellowship recipient from Virginia Tech. Four journal papers have been published is being developed in collaboration with Tom Brandon has been involved in on this work. With support from the National See Geotechnical, page 33

32 | VIA REPORT | 2007 geotechnical engineering program geotechnical (from page 32) Patricia Dove, professor of geosciences, on the subject “Landslides in the Panama 2007. While at ENPC, he conducted re- and her Ph.D. student Adam Wallace, and Canal.” search on unsaturated soil behavior and undergraduate Steve Donaldson of chemi- George Filz continues his work with on constitutive modeling of chalk and other cal engineering. John Little, Jim Mitchell, and others across porous rocks under high pressures and Dove began his two-year assignment the university in a large NSF-funded study temperatures. In addition to conducting as the geotechnical group coordinator this of interfaces in nature, including interfaces research, Gutierrez envisions that his visit year following the term of Gutierrez. He also between soil particles, and to develop will lead to closer long-term collaboration serves the department as an undergraduate new approaches for integrating education including exchange of students between academic advisor for over 90 majors and is and research for doctoral students. In a ENPC and Virginia Tech. a member of the curriculum committee. separate NSF-funded study, Filz is col- He continued to work on several new Mike Duncan and Ph.D. student John laborating with Ray Plaut to investigate and ongoing research projects together with Rice continued their study of the long-term column-supported embankments. Filz also faculty and students across the university. performance of seepage barriers in dams, continues his research with Brandon and One new project, in collaboration with Lin- and published two papers on their work, Mitchell on subgrade stabilization methods. bing Wang and Elisa Sotelino, was funded in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ The U.S. Air Force supports his research by NSF, and concerns the multiscale mod- Geotechnical Special Publication No. 161, on rapid stabilization of soft clay subgrades eling of infrastructure materials. Another and in the proceedings of the U.S. Society for airfield pavements. The JH Becker new project with support from the Army Re- on Dams conference in San Antonio. With Company supports his research on the per- search Office and also in collaboration with Ph.D. student Matthew Sleep, he revised manence of lime stabilization to reduce the Wang will acquire a gas gun for exploring the Corps of Engineers’ Engineering Man- expansion potential of clays from northern high strain rate loading of materials. ual on Design and Construction of Levees. Virginia. Working with Duncan on a new In November 2006, he returned to the They also wrote CGPR reports on design project sponsored by the Virginia Transpor- site of a major rockslide in the Philippines, and installation of filters in dams, and seep- tation Research Council, he will investigate which took more than 1500 lives, to con- age monitoring techniques and practices. integral bridge abutment interactions with tinue his field study on the causes and the Duncan and master’s student Andrew MSE wall backfill. Altogether, this funding consequences of the slide. Another project Bursey wrote four CGPR reports on expan- permits Filz to work with many outstanding with a strong field work component is on sive soils, settlement of valley fills, soil and students and post-docs, including: Tiffany bank erosion along the Lower Roanoke rock modulus correlations, and managing Adams, Jamie Colby, Liselle Vega Cortes, River downstream of the Roanoke Rapids construction noise and vibrations. Working Jessa Corton, Mike Greenfield, Laura Han- Dam. This project is in collaboration with with Tom Brandon, visiting scholar Wenx- num, Crysta Highfield, Mike McGuire, Mike Panos Diplas and is supported by Dominion ing Jian, and students Genevieve Smith Navin, Susan Rafalko, and Lee Vanzler. Electric. Two continuing major projects, both and Jessa Corton, he finished work on a Filz and his students made presentations of funded by NSF, are concerned with the ap- two-year study of the strength properties their research results in Denver, New Or- plication of information technology in geo- of gravels with standard gradations 57 leans, Washington, Athens, and Prague. logical engineering problems and in under- and 21B. With Brandon and former Ph.D. Filz continues to serve the university ground space development. With Dove, he student Chris Meehan, he finished work on and the profession. In 2007, Filz received successfully completed a research project tests to measure residual strength of clay, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teach- sponsored by NSF on the micromechanics and with Brandon and former Ph.D. student ing and the W.E. Wine Award for Excellence of soil and construction material interfaces Youngjin Park, he completed a study of fil- in Teaching. He is co-director of Virginia and it resulted in several journal publica- ters for dams containing cracks. Tech’s Center for Geotechnical Practice tions. Gutierrez made research presenta- During the past year, Duncan won two and Research (CGPR), member of VDOT’s tions in Yamaguchi, Japan; Denver, Col., awards for study of the failure of floodwalls Geotechnical Research Advisory Commit- and Paris, France. He continues to serve as in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. tee, member of the ASCE Geo-Institute Soil editorial board member of the ASCE Jour- The first was the Outstanding Civilian Improvement Committee, and chairman of nal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Service Medal from the Department of the the CEE Curriculum Committee. Filz also Engineering and as a member of ASCE and Army, for service as the co-leader of the continues to provide consulting engineer- ASME technical committees. Interagency Performance Evaluation Team ing services for projects involving the deep While the last academic year was high- investigating the conditions responsible for mixing method and other geotechnical lighted by achievements with the successful the failures. For work he and Brandon did construction. He is assisting the U.S. Army completion and graduation of several grad- on investigating the failures, they earned Corps of Engineers with design of levee uate students including Sotirios Vardakos, the Dean’s Award for Service from the Vir- repairs and improvements in Louisiana. Panagiota Asprouda, and Jianfeng Wang, ginia Tech College of Engineering. Marte Gutierrez was on research it was also marked by a heartbreaking and In June 2007, Duncan presented the leave and was a visiting professor at the horrific incident. Among the 33 persons keynote lecture at the First North American École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées who died during the tragic event of April Conference on Landslides in Vail, Colorado, (ENPC) in Paris, France, during spring See Geotechnical, page 34

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 33 geotechnical engineering program geotechnical (from page 33) 16, 2007, two were graduate students who were being co-advised by Gutierrez and Diplas. One student was Jeremy Herbstritt who was doing his research on river bank erosion along the Lower Roanoke River. Another was Partahi Mamora “Mora” Lum- banturoan who was preparing for his Ph.D. qualifying exams. Both students will be sorely missed and will always be remem- bered. Jimmy Martin spent a significant portion of the year working with the World Institute for Disaster Risk Management at Virginia Tech (DRM@VT), an Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) center that Martin directs. DRM is a network for applied research, imple- mentation, and dissemination in the field of disaster risk management. The organization is an initiative of the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and Vir- ginia Tech in conjunction with the ProVen- tion Consortium of the World Bank. Martin This photo shows the completion of four drilled shaft foundation elements to support worked closely with Virginia Tech President a bridge pier. The cofferdam provides a dry area for workers. Charles Steger to establish the Virginia Tech center in 2004. DRM@VT is the pri- new funding sources. Among these were projects including serving as lead seismic mary catalyst, platform, and forum that ties a $6.5 million congressional FY08 funding consultant on the $200 million Wachovia together risk management-related activi- proposal for Department of Defense fund- First Street Development in Charlotte, N.C., ties at Virginia Tech. The center provides ing submitted through Representative Rick Catawba Dam in Morganton, N.C., U.S. leadership through innovation, research, Boucher’s and Senator John Warner’s of- Embassy in Ecuador, and retrofit of historic outreach and education. This year, Martin fices. Of particular importance, DRM@VT Grace Church in Charleston, S.C. traveled to Switzerland and developed a also developed a $5 million proposal for the Matthew Mauldon teaches courses number of new international collaborations. Department of Homeland Security entitled and conducts research in the areas of He met with the newly appointed Swiss “The Public-Private Partnership (P3): An engineering geology and applied rock me- Secretary of Education and established col- Executive Leadership Development Pro- chanics, and serves on the editorial board laborative agreements between DRM@VT gram.” The proposal will provide disaster- of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineer- and Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI) related executive leadership training to ing. Last summer, together with graduate and Scoula Universitaria Professionale 4,800 top-level U.S. business executives student Alex Rutledge, Mauldon taught a della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI). Martin also who manage critical facilities and key re- short course on geotechnical applications of established new working relationships with sources needed for disaster response and geophysical methods, under the auspices the International Disaster Reduction Con- recovery — roughly 85 per cent of these of the Center for Geotechnical Practice and ference (IDRC), which is a United Nations- assets are controlled by private companies Research at Virginia Tech. He also spent sponsored disaster organization. DRM@VT (telephone, power, shipping, etc.). The several weeks in South Korea, and gave will likely host a regional IDRC conference. training will integrate government response invited lectures at Hong-ik University and at Martin secured funded proposals efforts with private capabilities to facilitate Samsung Engineering & Construction’s Re- from NSF and other federal agencies for the development of sustainable networks of search and Development Center, while find- earthquake engineering research. His NSF public and private leaders in support of re- ing time to visit numerous sites of technical work involved soil and site improvement gional preparedness and risk management interest with a Korean colleague. Mauldon’s for mitigation of earthquake-related dam- related to major all-hazards incidents. student (and Via Scholar) Jeramy Decker ages, and he traveled to Switzerland and Martin also participated in a number of completed his Ph.D. research this year on Greece to present findings from this work. professional engineering shortcourses and predicting rock mass features during tun- This work led to a number of refereed pub- seminars with ASCE (national), the CGPR, neling, and has undertaken a new major lications. DRM@VT also developed major and other regional ASCE societies, such challenge related to engineering a tunnel proposals to other funding agencies and as the Delaware Valley Geo-institute. He bypass of Devil’s Slide on the California organizations, several of which represented served on a number of important consulting See Geotechnical, page 36

34 | VIA REPORT | 2007 structural engineering and materials program

Structural engineering program celebrates year of highlights There were numerous highlights this past year for the Structural Engineering and Materials (SEM) Program. Tom Mur- ray received the Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award, Col- lege of Engineering, Iowa State University. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in special recognition for many years of exceptional service to AISC and to the Structural Design, Construction, and Aca- demic Committees of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Chicago, Illinois. Finley Charney was invited to participate as a voting member of two committees that are preparing the latest update of the ASCE 7-05 Standard: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. Ray Plaut was appointed to be a member of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division’s Technical Committee on Stability. Carin Roberts- Wollmann led a group of 19 students on a trip to Switzerland where they visited inter- esting civil engineering works and structural engineering laboratories. Elisa Sotelino presented an invited keynote lecture at the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earth- quake Engineering COMPDYN 2007 in Crete, Greece. Finley Charney continues to work in the area of applied structural analysis, with emphasis on nonlinear dynamic analysis, dynamic stability, and damping in struc- tures. He received several grants related to this work. These include awards from Taylor Devices (a damper manufacturer) to deter- See Structural, page 36

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 35 structural engineering and materials program structural (from page 35) mine if viscous fluid dampers can be used held in Vancouver, B.C., in 2008. He also Virginia Transportation Research Council to control dynamic stability in buildings, a participated in continuing education courses (VTRC) is a sub-contractor on the project grant from the National Institute of Build- in earthquake engineering for ASCE and for and as such will aid in development of mix ing Science to determine if building code the U.S. Corps of Engineers. designs, material property testing, and code procedures for seismic stability analysis are Charney is active in several profes- development. appropriate, and a grant from a metal build- sional organizations and committees. He Through funding received from the ing manufacturer (with Professor Murray as was recently invited to participate as a Federal Highway Administration (FHA), the co-PI) to analytically and experimentally as- voting member of two committees that are Virginia Transportation Research Council sess the inelastic buckling strength of steel preparing the latest update of the ASCE (VTRC) and the Virginia Cooperative Center frames with web-tapered columns and raf- 7-05 Standard: Minimum Design Loads for for Bridge Engineering (for which he serves ters. A National Science Foundation (NSF) Buildings and Other Structures. He is also as the director), Cousins (along with co-PI project on modeling inherent damping in working with ASCE publications to develop Roberts-Wollmann and Via Scholars Chris structures is on the short list for receiving a comprehensive guide to the use of the Carroll and Bryon Loflin) are investigating funding in 2007. seismic load provisions that are incorpo- the material and structural properties of a He is currently advising two Ph.D. stu- rated into the ASCE 7-05 standard. new, higher strength prestressing strand dents and several M.S. students. Two M.S. Tommy Cousins continues to of- (grade 300). Use of the grade 300 strand students, Pratik Shah and Stephanie Kruep, fer prestressed concrete and structural will save VDOT money through reduced completed their degree requirements in the masonry design courses, and to focus his material and labor costs and provide more past year. research efforts on challenges associated efficient use of prestressed girder cross Charney continues to manage the with bridge performance and longevity. He sections. Center for Extreme Load Effects on Struc- has concentrated his research efforts on During the summer and fall of 2006 tures (CELES). In October of 2006 the 2nd the projects described below which are all three bridges in Virginia were built with CELES Lecture was held, with Peter Irwin, related to the development and use of high fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite an internationally recognized wind engineer, performance materials in bridges. decks. One of these decks was installed in speaking on wind tunnel tests of super-tall Cousins is co-PI with Carin Roberts- a historically significant though truss bridge buildings. As part of the CELES industrial Wollmann on a recently funded National in Covington, Va., and the other two were outreach program, Charney presented a Cooperative Highway Research Program built on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake lecture on damping at the headquarters of (NCHRP) project that involves a com- Bay. These projects were funded by grants Irwin’s firm, RWDI, in Guelph, Canada. prehensive investigation of lightweight, from the FHA and the VTRC. The Coving- Over the past year Charney has had high performance concrete for bridges. ton through truss bridge has a reinforced several journal papers accepted for publi- This project will last 36 months, involves concrete deck and a low posting. The light- cation. In addition, he presented a paper extensive material and structural testing, weight FRP deck (which has 1/3 the weight and participated in a panel discussion and will develop changes to the AASHTO of the reinforced concrete deck) will allow at the ASCE/SEI Structures Congress in LRFD Bridge Design Specification that take the posting to be increased so that emer- Long Beach, Ca. He is co-chair of the 18th advantage of the material properties of gency vehicles can use the bridge. The two Analysis and Computation conference to be lightweight, high performance concrete. The See Structural, page 37 geotechnical (from page 34) coastal highway. meetings throughout the U.S. and China, Performance of Engineered Waste Contain- Jim Mitchell continues to pursue an including the C.W. Lovell Lecture at Purdue, ment Systems.” He served as a member active academic and professional agenda the James M. Hoover Lecture at Iowa State, of the ASCE External Review Panel for during his retirement. His 75th Ph.D. stu- the EIGER Distinguished Lecture at Virginia the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Inter- dent, Ning Liu, received his degree in May, Tech, the Lymon C. Reese Lecture at the agency Performance Evaluation Task Force having completed fundamental research on University of Texas at Austin, and the Ken- for evaluation of the performance of New the application of electrical property mea- neth L. Lee Lecture in Long Beach, Ca. He Orleans flood protection system during surements to site and soil property charac- was awarded the Rensselaer Alumni As- Hurricane Katrina. His consulting activities terization. sociation Fellows Award for 2006 from his include seismic remediation studies for four He participated in research on the undergraduate alma mater. embankment dams and the Bay Area Rapid rapid stabilization of cohesive soils and Mitchell’s professional service activities Transit system in California, and as a mem- serves as the chair of the advisory com- included chairing a National Academies’ ber, along with Mike Duncan, of the Blue mittee for the interdisciplinary NSF IGERT study under the joint sponsorship of the Ribbon Panel for review of the Eastward at Virginia Tech on exploring interfaces in Environmental Protection Agency, the Expansion of Craney Island and the Port of graduate education and research. He pre- Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regu- Virginia’s Proposed Craney Island Marine sented 15 special invited lectures during latory Commission, and NSF that led to Terminal. 2006-2007 at universities and professional the report, “Assessment of the Long-Term

36 | VIA REPORT | 2007 structural engineering and materials program structural (from page 36) Tangier Island bridges are incorporating During the year, he received a Profes- ing the behavior of girders constructed with FRP composite bridge decks because of sional Achievement Citation in Engineering self-consolidating lightweight concrete, and their light weight and durability. The island (PACE) Award from the Iowa State Uni- the issues associated with implementation is remote with only boat or plane access versity College of Engineering, Iowa State of grade 300 prestressing strand in precast so transportation costs for construction University, bridge girders. Cousins and Roberts-Woll- materials are high. Also, inspections and He also continued his involvement with mann also have a contract with FHWA to maintenance are challenging as well. The the American Institute of Steel Construction, implement precast concrete deck panels in research is being conducted in collaboration the American Iron and Steel Institute, the a bridge in southwest Virginia. This project with Elisa Sotelino and Jack Lesko of engi- Research Council on Structural Connec- will include both laboratory studies and field neering science and mechanics. tions specification committees, as well as tests of the bridge after construction. With Sam Easterling continues to work on the AISC Manual and Textbook Committee. Cousins and Sotelino, she has a project various aspects of composite floor systems Ray Plaut continued research on a to optimize I-girder shapes for use with in steel-framed buildings and cold-formed grant from the NSF with George Filz, on the Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC). steel building components. Easterling’s use of geosynthetic layers over columns in UHPC has compressive strengths of 23 to teaching focuses on steel design at both soft soil to strengthen embankments. Dur- 50 ksi, and has the ability, through the ad- the undergraduate and graduate levels. He ing the past year, John Ryan, a graduate dition of small steel fibers, to carry tension remains actively involved in University gov- student co-advised by Plaut and Tom Mur- across open cracks. The tensile capacity ernance, serving as a faculty senator from ray, completed his Ph.D. on the potential allows for the elimination of mild reinforce- CEE and as a member of the University use of ropes to mitigate responses of struc- ment in some applications. Athletics Committee, Commission on Fac- tures to earthquakes. A highlight of the year was leading ulty Affairs and University Council. Likewise, Also, Ron Shope completed his Ph.D. a group of 19 students to Switzerland to he remains active with a variety of depart- on the effect of compressive loads on blast visit interesting civil engineering works and mental tasks associated with his role as an response of structures, Anne Himebaugh structural engineering laboratories. Aided assistant department head. finished her master’s work on a finite ele- by co-leaders Cousins and Vickie Mouras, Easterling is serving his second year ment model of insulated railroad joints, and she took the students to the ELSA structural as chair of the Structural Stability Research Matt Turner defended his experimental labs in Ispra, Italy and the structural lab Council. During 2007, he gave a number research project on the use of adhesives to of ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. They also of continuing education lectures, on behalf reduce the chance of roof uplift failure dur- visited one of the worksites of the Gotthard of the American Institute of Steel Construc- ing hurricanes. Base Tunnel, and took a bus tour to view tion, to engineering groups and companies Plaut has taken over supervision of famous bridges designed by Christian Menn around the country. The program focused Pranitha Gottipati, a Ph.D. student of ESM and Robert Maillart. The tour was enjoyed on the 2005 AISC Specification for Struc- professor Kevin Granata who died in Norris by all, and a return trip will be planned for tural Steel Buildings and the 13th Edition of Hall on April 16. This research will involve the summer of 2009. the Manual of Steel Construction. Addition- development of a computational model of Roberts-Wollmann continues to teach ally, Easterling remains active with the AISC the spine, focusing on the causes of low- undergraduate and graduate classes in Task Committees on Composite Construc- back pain. reinforced and prestressed concrete, and tion and Subcommittee for Modular Com- Plaut presented a paper on the failure remains active advising the ASCE Concrete posite Construction, ASCE Committees on of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge at Canoe team and Concrete for Kids com- Composite Construction, Cold-formed Steel the 15th National Congress of Theoretical mittee. She was very pleased to receive a and LRFD and the American Iron and Steel and Applied Mechanics in Boulder, Colora- College Certificate of Teaching Excellence. Institute Sub-Committees on Education, do. Plaut was appointed to be a member of She continues in her role as the secretary Diaphragm Design and Seismic Design. the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division’s of the Prestressed Concrete Committee of In recognition of his service to the profes- Technical Committee on Stability. the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and sion, he was inducted into the West Virginia Plaut continued as faculty advisor of continues to serve on other technical and Academy of Civil of Engineers by the WVU the student Chi Epsilon chapter. Plaut has board appointed committees of ACI, the Department of Civil and Environmental En- been a faculty member for 40 years (32 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute and gineering. at Virginia Tech), and will retire in summer the Transportation Research Board. Tom Murray continued his research 2008 (if his replacement will be able to be- Elisa Sotelino continued her research on vibrations in buildings and bridges due gin work in fall 2008). on finite element analysis and modeling of to human activity, including an analytical/ Carin Roberts-Wollmann focuses structures and on the development of new experimental study of long span deck floor her research on methods for improving numerical algorithms for high performance systems. He also worked with Cousins bridge durability and performance, and computing. This past year, she has col- on sandwich plate system bridge deck re- reducing bridge construction time. This laborated in the development of several search and with Charney on the strength year she is collaborating with Cousins and research proposals with faculty from the of tapered members used in metal building Elisa Sotelino on several bridge research College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, as frames. projects. With Cousins, she is investigat- See Structural, page 38

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 37 structural engineering and materials program structural (from page 37) well as with colleagues from other universi- Winston Cheuk-Wai Yaw, were master’s the validated model to demonstrate the in- ties. She is co-PI on a NSF research grant students and two, Gregory Williamson and fluence of low permeable concrete and rein- with Linbing Wang (TISE) and Marte Guti- Andrei Ramniceanu, were doctoral stu- forcing steel type, MMFX-2, galvanized, and errez (geotechnical program) on “Unified dents. stainless steel, on the service life of bridge Approach for Multiscale Characterization, Smolinski’s research work demonstrat- decks in Virginia. The result showed that Modeling, and Simulation for Stone- Based ed the influence of time and configuration low permeable concrete using the current Infrastructure Materials.” This grant is sup- of bridge deck reinforcing steel, cover depth cover depth specifications will provide at porting two Ph.D. students co-supervised and bar scheduling, on the formation of the least 100 years of maintenance free service by the PIs. passive layer in concrete. The information life. Thus, a secondary corrosion protection She is also co-PI on a Federal Highway will be used in assessing the efficiency of as reinforcing steel type is to be selected on Administration grant with Roberts-Wollmann corrosion protection systems in chloride the basis of low first cost where such redun- and Cousins on “Modification of Existing laden environments. She returned to con- dancy is required. Prestressed Girder Cross Sections for the tinue her service commitments in the U.S. Williamson developed the cost effec- Optimal Use of Ultra-high Performance Coast Guard and is stationed in Arizona as tive analysis procedure that is used in the Concrete.” Sotelino continues to collaborate the project engineer on the construction of program submitted to VDOT. Using VDOT with Cousins and Jack Lesko of ESM on electronic monitoring towers. bid data he developed cost charts for poly- research related to the incorporation of FRP Cheuk-Wai’s work consisted of up- mer concrete and Portland cement concrete composite bridge decks on two Tangier Is- grading a computer program for corrosion overlays for the next 50 years. The charts land bridges. During the past year, Sotelino service life estimate and cost effective identify the least cost solution of maintain- has supervised three graduate students, one analyses. The program, delivered to VDOT, ing bridge decks and provides a schedule of Ph.D. (Ann Jeffers) and two master’s candi- will be used to assess the remaining service costs to be incurred by VDOT. He has taken dates (Scott Cirmo and Devendra Mahajan), life of bridge decks relative to scheduling a job with Exxon-Mobile in its Northern Vir- and co-supervised two other Ph.D. students bridge deck maintenance and rehabilita- ginia structures office. (Ashley Warren and Sudhir Dahal). In ad- tion methods. The life cycle cost analysis Ramniceanu completed the last phase dition, she supervised two Ph.D. students component of the program will identify the of the investigation of the corrosion protec- from Purdue University (Marcelo Machado least life cycle cost and VDOT schedule tion efficiency of epoxy coated reinforcing and Ammar Al-Sayegh), both of whom have costs for selected maintenance and reha- steel. He used advanced chemical analyses recently graduated. During the fall semester, bilitation methods. The program is capable of bar samples extracted from 27 bridge she taught the undergraduate course, Theo- of assessing the influence of the severity decks throughout the six environmental ry of Structures I and in the spring semester, of the various chloride corrosion exposure regions within Virginia. Analysis consisted she taught the graduate course on Finite climates within the Commonwealth of Vir- of differential scanning calorimetry to de- Element Analysis of Structures. ginia and the influence of as built conditions termine the degree of curing of the epoxy Sotelino continues to serve as the from the 1970s to current construction. In coating, thermo-gravimetric analysis to SEM program area coordinator. Besides addition, the least life cycle costs for various determine the moisture content of the coat- serving as member of the geotechnical chloride corrosion protection systems for ing, energy dispersive x-ray micro-analysis faculty search committee, her other service new construction can also be determined. to determine the corrosion products under activities include being one of the CEE de- He has taken a job as a programmer for a the coating and the field-emission scanning partment representatives in the university’s firm in Los Angeles. electron microscopy to visually assess the faculty senate, a member of the College of Williamson’s research completed the condition of the steel surface and the coat- Engineering Diversity Committee, and the final phase of the chloride corrosion service ing. Ramniceanu showed that the epoxy faculty senate representative in the Com- life model for reinforced concrete structures. coating is not fully cured, has small and mission for Equal Opportunity and Diversity. He developed the theoretical probability large voids throughout coating, moisture She is also the chair of the Graduate Stu- based model which Cheuk-Wai’s program- content of the coating is about one per cent dent and Post-Doctoral Seminars Commit- ming is based on. Most importantly he and thus increases the conductivity of the tee for the AdvanceVT program and was validated the model using actual field data coating, and corrosion takes place under recently selected to participate as cohort in that was collected in the summer of 2004 the coating without the presence of chlo- the AdvanceVT Leadership Development and the subsequent laboratory analyses of ride. In addition, he showed that the epoxy Program. Sotelino continues to be active field surveys and samples was completed debonds from the steel surface in moist in the profession and in particular within in early 2006. The probability chloride cor- concrete and the surface of the epoxy coat- ASCE. She is an associate editor for the rosion model uses Monte Carlo simulation ing is cracked and thus the cracking and ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering to estimate the corrosion initiation time. Wil- voids in the coating provide a conductive and is past-chair of the ASCE committee on liamson then developed an algorithm for the pathway through the coating. emerging computing technology. period from initiation to cracking and spal- The cracking of the epoxy coating on Richard Weyers guided four graduate ling of the cover concrete. Based on field the field samples was correlated to the loss students through the completion of their deterioration rates, the model prediction of the epoxy coating adhesion to the steel degrees in 2007. Two, Laura Smolinski and time was within one per cent. He then used See Structural, page 40

38 | VIA REPORT | 2007 transportation infrastructure and systems engineering program

Virginia Tech’s Air Transportation Systems Laboratory conducts re- search to test the New Generation Aviation System of the future.

Transportation program plans to remain national and global leader The Transportation Infrastructure and and implement practical positive transporta- Linbing Wang and his colleagues Systems Engineering Program (TISE) tion changes. have acquired four research grants from the conducted several retreats and developed The Virginia Tech Student Transpor- National Science Foundation (NSF), De- a strategic plan that established its vision, tation Alliance (VTSTA) has continued to partment of Defense (DOD) and the Virginia mission, and goals and will guide the pro- be active and several students obtained Transportation Research Council (VTRC). gram effort as it consolidates its position awards and recognitions. The VTSTA or- The NSF grant is for a “Unified Approach for as one the top transportation programs in ganized technical and social events, par- Multiscale Characterization, Modeling, and the nation and a global leader in the field. ticipated in conferences, and organized a Simulation for Stone-Based Infrastructure The group will continue to (1) provide high- technical visit to Washington D.C. Materials,” and the researchers are Wang, est quality education in a wide range of Antoine Hobeika has continued his Marte Gutierrez and Elisa Sotelino. The transportation fields; (2) create an excellent work on use of video imaging to detect and DOD grant is for “Modeling, Simulation, environment for students to learn transpor- warn drivers who violate the no-passing Visualization and Damage Characteriza- tation engineering and systems concept zone on two lane rural roads, and testing tion for Penetration into Concrete Target,” and to develop critical thinking; (3) advance and refining the Federal Highway Admin- led by Wang. The VTRC grant is “Pocket knowledge about transportation infrastruc- istration’s (FHWA) newly developed trans- Computer Applications for Aggregate Evalu- ture and systems that sustains its global portation planning software TRANSIMS. He ations,” also led by Wang. Another DOD leadership in research and technology de- taught classes on transportation planning grant is “Acquisition of a Gas Gun for High velopment; and (4) conduct outreach and and land use and Intelligent Transportation Speed Phenomena,” and Wang is working service activities to disseminate knowledge Systems (ITS). See Transportation, page 40

VIA REPORT | 2007 | 39 transportation infrastructure and systems engineering program transportation (from page 39) with Marte Gutierrez and Jack Lesko on this project. Wang and his colleagues have suc- cessfully organized the International Work- shop, Microstructure and Micromechanics of Stone Based Infrastructure Materials sponsored by NSF, the Civil and Environ- mental Engineering (CEE) Department and the Transportation Institute of Virginia Tech, and Virginia Transportation Research Coun- cil (VTRC). Three papers were published in peer reviewed journals and three papers were published in the peer reviewed Geo- technical Special Publication (GSP). Wang and his colleagues have also co-organized the Minisymposium on the Mechanics of Flexible Pavements, and co-edited the GSP on “Emerging Methods in Simulation, Modeling, and Experimental Characteriza- Figure 1. Flight trajectories of aircraft arriving and departing into the New York City tion of Asphalt Concrete,” Wang and Eyad area in one day are studied by the faculty in this program area. Masad (editors), ASCE, 2007, in press. Dur- ing this period the International Research ogies needed to support a New Generation in the system. The FAA is very interested and Educational Experience Program of Aviation System (NextGen) in the future. in the analysis because an increase in the NSF supported him and one of his graduate Trani, CEE associate professor, and his col- number of flights creates added workload for students for a few months visit for research leagues Hojong Baik, Nick Hinze, Howard air traffic controllers. According to the analy- collaborations with the University of Cam- Swingle (ATSL staff) and graduate students sis performed by Virginia Tech, unless sub- bridge of UK, and the Delft University of Senanu Ashiabor, Yue Xu, Anand Sheshad- stantial gains in productivity are achieved Technology of the Netherlands. Wang has ri, Nola Shen, Jeff Henderson, and Dong with the deployment of new air traffic man- taught one graduate class and two under- Sohn perform large-scale studies using the agement tools, the system will present chal- graduate classes. He has also attended and Transportation Systems Analysis Model lenges by the year 2020 time frame. given presentations at several professional (TSAM) — a model developed for NASA. Part of the studies for NASA involves conferences, served on two NCHRP project Some of the salient points of this re- the development of enhancements to the panels, and one NSF project panel. search effort are the estimation of flight Transportation Systems Analysis Model Antonio Trani of the Air Transporta- delays resulting from added traffic into large (TSAM) developed for NASA three years tion Systems Laboratory (ATSL) at Virginia metropolitan areas such as New York and ago. This past year, Trani and his group de- Tech, has conducted research for the Na- Los Angeles. Figure 1 illustrates the flight veloped an international passenger model tional Aeronautics and Space Administra- trajectories of 3,200 arriving and departing to estimate the number of international pas- tion (NASA) and for the Federal Aviation New York’s five largest airports in one day. sengers flying from the U.S. to 10 regions of Administration (FAA). The work performed ATSL is currently doing a study for the FAA the world (including Canada and Mexico). includes nationwide analyses of various air to study the effects of new communication This module allows TSAM to forecast inter- traffic alternatives with twice and thrice the technology used by air traffic controllers to national passenger demand that is expect- number of flights in the system. These stud- reduce the congestion experienced when ed to grow by six per cent per year in the ies are conducted to test the set of technol- pilots and air traffic controllers communicate next 25 years. Today, there are more than 60 million passengers traveling to the U.S. every year. With the development of ultra- structural (from page 38) long range aircraft such as the Boeing 777- surface, percent moisture in the coating, components. 200LR and the Airbus A340-500, airlines and the amount of chloride at the bar level. Ramniceanu has elected to continue at are serving many airport origin destination Thus, the results help explain earlier results Virginia Tech as a post-doc and will lead the pairs impossible to fly just five years ago. of only five years of extended corrosion pro- research effort for a new project supported Today, there are many international flights tection provided by epoxy coated reinforc- by the Virginia Transportation Research of more than 15 hours flown routinely. ing steel. Furthermore, it provides additional Council on minimizing the cracking of con- Gerardo Flintsch, associate profes- evidence that supports our recommendation crete bridge decks. The project is a joint sor and director of the Center for Sustain- to VDOT to discontinue the use of epoxy effort between David Mokarem at VTRC able Transportation Infrastructure (CSTI) at coated reinforcing steel in concrete bridge and Weyers and Ramniceanu. See Transportation, page 41

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Education Workshop and the 2007 National Pavement Management Conference: Meet- ing the Needs of Today and the Challenges of Tomorrow in Norfolk, Va. Pamela Murray-Tuite has expanded her work in evacuation, transportation re- silience, risk, and network analysis. She developed a methodology for optimally selecting protective measures against threats of terrorism with respect to multiple hazards. In conjunction with her students, Murray-Tuite developed a path prediction methodology for hazardous materials trans- ported by malicious entities and investigat- ed strategies for improving transportation network resilience to traffic incidents. Her work has been presented at conferences and published in journals and conference proceedings. Figure 2. Flight trajectories of aircraft arriving and departing into the Los Angeles city In the area of education, Murray-Tuite area in one day are shown. taught classes on transportation networks VTTI, and his research group, integrated by pers, three research reports, and one hand- analysis and optimization techniques and Amara Loulizi, Edgar de Leon, Billy Hobbs, book chapter, delivered 16 presentations decision making and developed a new and students Chen Chen, Samer Katicha, at national and international conferences, course “Transportation Risk, Reliability, and Zheng Wu, Hao Wang, Orlando Nuñez, and hosted the third annual Inter-university Security.” She currently supervises one full Oscar González, and Andrea Fonseca Infrastructure Management (ASIM) sym- and one part time Ph.D. student, and one continued to contribute to the advancement posium. In addition, several of the center’s full and two part time master’s students. of pavement engineering and transporta- students received awards and recognitions She is also in the process of establishing tion asset management. This past year the this year. Nuñez was selected to participate a research internship for high school stu- group’s efforts focused on investigating in the 2007 International Road Federation dents. pavement surface properties and establish- (IRF) Executive Leadership Program, Wang Murray-Tuite has served as a reviewer ing the Virginia Pavement Engineering and received one of the best paper awards at for the Institute For Operations Research Research Program (PERP). A Pavement the second annual Inter-university Sympo- and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Surface Properties Consortium of federal sium on Infrastructure Management (AISIM) Winter Simulation Conference, and Trans- and state agencies led by Virginia Tech in Newark, De., and de Leon was awarded portation Research Record. She has been is aiming to optimize pavement surface the 2006 Transportation Applied Technology a session chair for the Winter Simulation characteristics to provide maximum safety, Student Paper Award at the 55th Virginia Conference 2006. comfort and durability while reducing noise Transportation Conference (VTC). Shinya Kikuchi, Via Professor of Civil and other negative traffic impacts. The Flintsch taught classes on civil engi- and Environmental Engineering, works PERP is a cooperative effort of the CSTI, neering materials and pavement design and at the Falls Church campus and he is the the CEE department, the VTRC and the participated in 12 ASCE, TRB, and VDOT director of CEE Department in National University of Virginia for developing and technical and professional committees Capital Region (NCR), which has six faculty implementing better pavement and mate- (one as secretary and one as vice-chair). members and over 30 graduate students. rial testing, assessment, design, analysis He integrated the steering committees for The programs are environmental engineer- and management tools. The PERP focuses four large national and international confer- ing, geospatial engineering, and transporta- strategically on high-impact research proj- ences, reviewed papers for four journals tion engineering. The NCR CEE program is ects on pavement materials, performance, and three conferences and delivered one expanding in the past two years, particularly design, maintenance and management and of the keynote speeches at the Second in the subjects that deal with problems in provides an excellent partnership to pursue Ibero-American Symposium on Pavement the urban area. Since the fall of 2007 the national and international funding opportuni- Engineering in Quito Ecuador in July 2006. NCR CEE faculty directly reports to the de- ties and leverage the resources available He also co-instructed a workshop on perfor- partment in Blacksburg. This structure has for pavement and infrastructure research in mance-based highways maintenance con- made the department more unified and re- the Commonwealth. tracting at the World Bank’s Transport Fo- sponsive to deal with various urban related The group has produced five journal rum and Learning Week 2007, and chaired problems. papers, 11 peer-reviewed conference pa- the Fifth Infrastructure Management and See Transportation, page 42

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Kikuchi has been active in teaching, In-Vehicle Driving Behavior and Crash Risk Arlington County and the Virginia Depart- research, and service. For research, he Study. This project lays the foundation for ment of Transportation (VDOT); character- obtained a project from Federal Transit the most significant program of highway izing driver behavior within a signalized ap- Administration about citizen participation safety research in the last 30 years and proach decision/dilemma zone; developing in transit planning, and also NASA on opti- beyond. Successful completion of this re- characterizing traffic stream behavior during mization of air space. He has been elected search will produce a database of pre-crash, inclement weather; developing techniques to be the chair of TRB’s Artificial Intelligent crash, driving behavior, driving performance, for the screening of high emitting vehicles; and Advanced Computation Committee for vehicle state, and kinematic data that will al- developing crash prediction models sensi- the next three years. In this capacity, he low substantial progress to be made in both tive to access road lengths; and developing develops a network of people in the growing the crash-causation and crash-countermea- crash prediction models based on the time- area of AI application in transportation engi- sure domains. In addition, VTTI researchers to-collision of a vehicle. neering. He was instrumental in organizing conducting the 40-Teen Study continue to In the area of education Rakha re- the first Helsinki Summer School of Urban gather new information about the driving designed the traffic engineering (CEE4604) Transportation in May 2007. It was held at behaviors of teens. This study, sponsored and traffic characteristics and flow course Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, by the National Institutes of Health, is an 18- (CEE5604). In collaboration with his re- Finland. Three Virginia Tech students were month study to better understand the issues search staff and students, Rakha and his among the students from different parts of associated with newly licensed teen drivers team published eight peer-reviewed journal the world. The summer school was a 10 who are at a much higher crash risk when publications, had five peer-reviewed jour- day concentrated course on various facets compared to other drivers. VTTI continues nal publications accepted for publication, of urban transportation. to be recognized as a world leader for offer- published 17 peer-reviewed conference Thomas Dingus, Newport News Ship- ing a “one-stop shop” for transportation-re- proceeding publications, and made 17 con- building Professor and human factors and lated research and testing both on Virginia’s ference presentations. Rakha also served safety transportation researcher, continues Smart Road as well as in the growing field of as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on to direct the Virginia Tech Transportation naturalistic driving research. ITS, the Journal of Transportation Engineer- Institute (VTTI) which is comprised of eight Hesham Rakha and the Center for ing, the Transportation Research Record, transportation research centers. VTTI contin- Sustainable Mobility research faculty the Journal of ITS, and the Transportation ues to be one of the largest university-level (Kyoungho Ahn, Mazen Arafeh, Alejandra Research: Part B. In addition, Rakha served research centers at Virginia Tech with over Medina-Flintsch, Ihab El-Shawarby, and as an editor for the 9th IEEE International $16.5 million in expenditures in FY 2007. Montasir Abbas), and students (Sangjun Conference on Intelligent Transportation VTTI continues to operate and manage Park, Huanyu Yue, Hossam Hablas, Bryan Systems in Toronto, Canada and is serving the Smart Road research facility, a closed Katz, Ali Tawfik, Dhruv Dua, Ahmed Amer, as an editor on the special issue of IEEE test-bed track built to state and federal high- and Jason Kennedy) continued work on Transactions on ITS and special issue of ways specifications and designed specifi- various projects within the Mid-Atlantic the Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and cally for transportation research. This year University Transportation Center, the ITS Infrastructure Engineering on Traffic Com- represents the first time that VTTI conduct- Implementation Center, an FHWA project putational Models. Finally, Rakha served as ed research as the National Surface Trans- on intersection collision avoidance systems, a member of the TRB committee on traffic portation Safety Center for Excellence, an FHWA project studying the effect of in- flow theory. which is tasked with using research to im- clement weather on traffic stream behavior, prove driver safety in both rural and urban and a NHTSA project quantifying the safety communities. During this fiscal year, VTTI impacts of a forward-collision warning sys- was awarded over 25 sponsored projects tem. In addition, Rakha together with Abbas including an award for the development of and other research faculty at the VTTI are the Center for Vehicle and Roadside Safety developing guidelines for VDOT for access Product Development which specializes in management in the vicinity of freeway off- assessing technologies developed at VTTI and on-ramps and are conducting a field for their potential to be commercialized and evaluation for the FHWA of the Detection- applied to improve roadway and driving Control System (D-CS). The research safety. In addition, VTTI is continuing work activities that Rakha is leading include on several very exciting studies related to developing and modeling vehicle energy teen driving, intersection collision avoidance and emission models to quantify the energy projects, several heavy vehicle research and environmental impacts of Intelligent projects, and a simulator driver training Transportation System (ITS) applications; study project. developing and evaluating alternative adap- Further, during FY 2007, VTTI was tive traffic signal control and transit signal awarded $3 million for the Design of the priority algorithms in collaboration with the

42 | VIA REPORT | 2007 Meet the Via Scholars The following pages highlight some of the country’s most exceptional students and alumni, the Via Scholars. The motiva- tion and aspirations of this group reflect a profound curiosity and desire to improve the quality of life around the world — from helping municipalities manage growth, to the aesthetics of struc- tures, the quality of water, and international development. The Via scholarships are made possible through the gener- osity of the late Mrs. Marion Bradley Via of Roanoke, Va., and her family. In 1987, Mrs. Via contributed $5 million each 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’s deceased father, Harry Lynde Bradley, and the CEE department in honor of her late husband, Charles E. Via, Jr. 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. The Via endowment is now worth more than $15 million.

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Undergraduates

Peter D. Claire N. Erin A. Kauffmann McKenzie Rooney

Hometown: Richmond, Va. Hometown: Midlothian, Va. Hometown: Covington, La. Academic Level: Junior Academic Level: Sophomore Academic Level: Junior Awards and Recognitions: Chi Epsilon Awards and Recognitions: Eleanor Dav- Awards and Recognitions: Udall Scholar- Webmaster; ASCE Web page Director; enport Leadership Scholarship; Pamplin ship; Chevron REACH Scholarship; Rob- Hillcrest Honors Community; Residence Leader; Robert A. Belz Scholarship; ert C. Byrd Scholarship; Dean’s Scholar Life Campus-Wide Student of the Year. Charles Sheffield Scholarship; High Scholarship; Alumni Presidential Scholar- Primary Area of Interest: Transportation & School Valedictorian. ship. Infrastructure Systems Primary Area of Interest: Land Development Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Outside Work Experience: Draper Aden Outside Work Experience: Timmons Group Water Resources Associates, Site Planning and Engineer- – Economic Development Outside Work Experience: Jacob’s Engi- ing Team. Career Goals: Having grown up in a rapidly neering, ARCADIS, Summer Coastal Career Goals: This past year, our nation expanding suburban community near Wetlands Exploration Program. was made painfully aware of the state of Richmond, my goal is to be involved in Career Goals: I plan to work to rebuild our decaying transportation infrastructure. the planning processes for areas like this southeastern Louisiana and protect the I want to work towards remedying this in order to make the area more accom- people, cultures, and environments of the situation, and hope to see that the even- modating and appealing to its residents. area. tual solutions include integrated, efficient mass transit systems.

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Master’s Students

Jason L. Adam G. Andrew B. Beck Bowland Hardyniec

Hometown: Danville, In. Hometown: Oak Hill, W.Va. Hometown: Bringhurst, In. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Purdue Location of Undergraduate Studies: Carn- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Michi- University egie Mellon University gan Technological University Awards and Recognitions: Purdue Soci- Awards and Recognitions: Member of Chi Awards and Recognitions: Summa Cum ety of Professional Engineers and John Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi, Graduated with Laude; CEE Outstanding Achievement Deere Outstanding Senior Engineer Honors; Recipient of the Alumni Asso- Award at MTU; Valedictorian of High Award; Purdue Student Engineering ciation Academic-Athletic Achievement School class. Foundation Outstanding Senior Civil Award given to the male senior athlete at Primary Area of Interest: Structures Engineer; American Concrete Institute Carnegie Mellon with the highest GPA; Scholarship; National Asphalt Paving As- Second-Team All Conference (Football). Outside Work Experience: FHWA, Califor- nia Division, one summer; California De- sociation Scholarship; CSEMS Scholars Primary Area of Interest: Structures Undergraduate Research Program. partment of Transportation, one summer; Outside Work Experience: West Virginia Resident Assistant, three years. Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & DOH, Lewisburg, W.Va., worked with Water Resources Career Goals: I would like to own a struc- state inspectors during the construction tural engineering company. Outside Work Experience: Greeley and of a 500 foot steel bridge over the New Hansen Environmental Engineers, May River; GAI Consultants, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2004 – April 2005, Environmental Engi- designed transmission lines and trans- neer: Norfolk, Va.; Engineering Ministries mission structures using computer aided International, May 2003 – August 2003, design software and worked on the reha- Civil Engineering Intern: Mussoorie, In- bilitation of a small concrete dam in Fort dia; Marathon Ashland Petroleum, August Wayne, In.; Kimley-Horn and Associates, 2002 – January 2003, Retail Engineering Virginia Beach, Va., involved in the struc- Co-op: Indianapolis, In.; Marathon Ash- tural rehabilitation of a railroad underpass land Petroleum, January 2001 – August bridge in Norfolk, Va., and assisted in 2001, Terminal Engineering Co-op: Ash- consulting efforts for the construction of a land, Ky.; Marathon Ashland Petroleum, highway interchange. May 2000 – August 2000, Asphalt District Career Goals: After graduation, I plan to Co-op: Findlay, Ohio. work towards earning my professional li- Career Goals: My career goal is to work censure. Through past experience I have as a project manager in the water and found that I enjoy working in consulting, wastewater treatment sector of environ- and I want to work at a firm where I will mental engineering. More specifically, be exposed to projects involving both I would like to work abroad on environ- bridge and building design. mental engineering projects in developing nations.

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Master’s Students

Stephanie A. Bryan J. Nicholas Koch Loflin Redmond

Hometown: Columbus Grove, Ohio Hometown: Denton, N.C. Hometown: Columbia, S.C. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Ohio Location of Undergraduate Studies: N.C. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Northern University State sity of South Carolina (Cum Laude) Awards and Recognitions: Alpha Lambda Awards and Recognitions: Member of Chi Awards and Recognitions: Departmental Delta Fellowship; American Society of Epsilon; the National Society of Colle- Scholarship (two years); Department Civil Engineers Fellowship; Ohio North- giate Scholars; Phi Kappa Phi; Graduated Outstanding Senior; Vice President, Chi ern University Class Honors (Maintaining Summa Cum Laude from N.C. State. Epsilon; Vice President, ASCE; Dean’s a 4.00). Primary Area of Interest: Structures Honor list; President’s Honor list. Primary Area of Interest: Structures Outside Work Experience: Internship with Primary Area of Interest: Structures Outside Work Experience: Summer Intern- N.C. Department of Transportation. Outside Work Experience: Structures and ships: Ohio Dept. of Transportation, Career Goals: I would like a structural engi- Materials Lab Assistant, USC, Fall 2005- Columbus, Ohio; Corna/KoKosing Con- neering position in bridge design or struc- Spring 2006; Geotechnical Lab Assistant, struction Company, Columbus, Ohio; Figg tural forensics. USC, Fall 2004; Finish Carpenter and Engineering Group, Tallahassee, Fl. Painter for eight years with Carolina Career Goals: I would like to pursue a ca- Hues, Inc., Cottage Reconstruction, LLC, reer in the design of concrete bridges. and as sole proprietor of Redmond Car- pentry. Career Goals: I look forward to working as a structural design consultant. I hope to contribute meaningfully to the body of engineering knowledge through ingenuity in practice, and perhaps one day through teaching and research.

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Master’s Students

Elizabeth A. Amanda E. Edward R. Skvarenina Strickhouser Ware III

Hometown: West Lafayette, In. Hometown: Manassas, Va. Hometown: Weare, N.H. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Purdue Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Location of Undergraduate Studies: Nor- University Tech wich University, Northfield, Vt.; New Awards and Recognitions: National Merit Awards and Recognitions: National Science Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord, Scholarship Winner for undergraduates; Foundation Graduate Research Fellow- N.H. Member of Chi Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi. ship. Awards and Recognitions: Graduated Nor- Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & wich University, Bachelor of Science in Water Resources Water Resources Civil and Environmental Engineering, Summa Cum Laude; Norwich University Outside Work Experience: Summer 2005, Outside Work Experience: Research Assis- David Crawford School of Engineering’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fel- tant, Virginia Tech Civil & Environmental Walter D. Emerson Award, given to the lowship at Purdue, worked with faculty Engineering; Intern, Prince William Coun- senior in engineering who has shown and graduate student mentors doing re- ty Public Works. the greatest interest and demonstrated search on the Assessment of Surfactants Career Goals: I am undecided. the greatest effort toward professional- Biodegradability During Graywater Recy- ism in engineering; Six semesters on the cling for Advanced Life Support Applica- Norwich University Dean’s List; Elected tions; 2005-2007, worked as an under- member of the Vermont Beta chapter graduate researcher assisting in various of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor projects and tasks in the laboratory. Society. Career Goals: I want to obtain my master’s Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical and Ph.D., and then obtain a position as a professor. Outside Work Experience: JGI Eastern, Manchester, N.H., Geotechnical/Environ- mental Field Inspector Summer 2005; City of Concord, N.H., Engineering Ser- vices Department, Construction Inspec- tor, Summer 2004; Keach-Nordstrom Associates, Bedford, N.H., Construction Inspector, Summer 2003. Career Goals: After earning my master’s degree I plan to get my Professional En- gineer’s License and gain a few years of practical experience in the geotechnical engineering industry. Ideally I would like to work in geotechnical design and spend a significant amount of time in the field.

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Doctoral Students

Zaeinulabddin M. Tiffany E. Lee D. Adam Adams Bryant

Hometown: Khartoum, Sudan Hometown: Portland, Or. Hometown: Knoxville, Tn. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Oregon Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- sity of Khartoum, Sudan State University sity of Tennessee, Knoxville Location of Master’s Studies: Utah State Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech University, Logan, Utah Awards and Recognitions: EIGER Fellow- Awards and Recognitions: Chi Epsilon; Tau Awards and Recognitions: Dean’s Lists. ship; ASCE J. James R. Croes Medal, Beta Pi; Golden Key; GAANN Fellowship; Primary Area of Interest: Transportation & 2006; Oregon State University Council of Sussman Scholarship; EPA Science to Infrastructure Systems Early Career Engineers; ASCE Edmund Achieve Results (STAR) Fellow. Friedman Young Engineer Award for Pro- Outside Work Experience: Project Engineer, Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & fessional Achievement, 2004; Registered Water Resources George Butler Associates, Inc. Kansas Professional Engineer, (Washington and City, Ks.; Project Manager, Engineering Colorado). Outside Work Experience: Co-op with En- Airwaves, Khartoum, Sudan. tergy Operations, Inc., New Orleans, La., Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Career Goals: I plan to pursue a career in 1997-1999; AmeriCorps Water Quality academia besides doing consulting in Outside Work Experience: Project Geotech- Team, Knoxville, Tn., 2001. the area of infrastructures and transport nical Engineer, PanGEO, Inc, Seattle, Career Goals: I plan to pursue a teaching engineering Wa., 2001-2005; Geotechnical Engineer career that allows me to work with the URS Corp., Denver, Co., 1997-2001. development of environmentally sustain- Career Goals: I hope to teach and conduct able engineering systems. research at the university level.

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Doctoral Students

Kacie D. J. Christopher Benjamin T. Caple Carroll Cross

Hometown: Easley, S.C. Hometown: Elizabethton, Tn. Hometown: Hamilton, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Clem- Location of Undergraduate Studies: The Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- son University University of Tennessee, Knoxville sity of Delaware Location of Master’s Studies: Clemson Uni- Location of Master’s Studies: The University Location of Master’s Studies: University of versity of Tennessee, Knoxville Delaware Awards and Recognitions: Precast/Pre- Awards and Recognitions: College of Engi- Awards and Recognitions: E.C. Davis stressed Concrete Institute Daniel P. neering Teaching Fellow; Phi Kappa Phi; Scholar Award (UD Graduate School); Jenny Research Fellowship; American Chi Epsilon; GT STRUDL User’s Group, Full Football Athletic Scholarship (UD Society of Civil Engineers S.C. Section Award of Excellence for Presentation; Undergraduate); Dean’s List every en- Scholarship; W.M. Thames Jr. Engineer- Engineer Intern Certification; Duggan rolled semester at UD; four Varsity Foot- ing Scholarship; General Electric Wom- Scholarship; Tennessee Road Builders ball Letters at UD; 2004 CoSida 1st Team en’s Networking Scholarship; Legislative Scholarship; Civil and Environmental En- and 2003 CoSida 2nd Team Football Incentive for Future Excellence Scholar- gineering Alumni Scholarship; Selected Academic All-American; 2003 Atlantic 10 ship; Chi Epsilon; Tau Beta Pi; Calhoun to host of an episode of “Lost Worlds” Football Scholar Athlete of the Year; 2002 Honors College, Clemson University. entitled “U.S. Secret Bunkers” on the and 2004 UD Civil Engineering Scholar Primary Area of Interest: Structures History Channel, working as a structural Athlete of the Year; Member of 2003 I-AA engineer to explore the construction of National Championship Football Team as Outside Work Experience: Wind Engineer- various Cold War nuclear bunkers across well as 2003 and 2004 Atlantic 10 Cham- ing and Structures Laboratory Research the country. pions. Assistant, Clemson, S.C.; Florence & Hutcheson, Inc. Internship, Columbia, Primary Area of Interest: Structures Primary Area of Interest: Structures S.C. Outside Work Experience: Tennessee Val- Outside Work Experience: University of Career Goals: After completing my doctoral ley Authority, Graduate Intern; W.A. Tay- Delaware Center for Composite Materials degree, I plan to enter academia and be- lor Construction Co., Inc., Field Engineer/ Internship, 2002-2003; Delaware Engi- come a professor at a research universi- Intern; J.A. Street and Associates Gen- neering and Design Corporation Intern- ty. I want to teach future engineers along eral Contractor, Laborer. ship, 2004-2005. their path to success by motivating and Career Goals: I would like to teach and con- Career Goals: I plan to most likely go into guiding them throughout their academic duct research at the university level while practice right out of college, possibly journey. Additionally, I want to become a consulting on the side. obtaining a research-oriented position. leading researcher with the capability of However, I would eventually like to pur- combining my interests in both concrete sue a career in academia. materials and structures.

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Doctoral Students

D. Brad Christina C. Morgan A. Davis Davis Eddy

Hometown: Raven, Va. Hometown: Rocky Mount, Va. Hometown: Fairfax, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Tech Tech Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards/Recognitions: Member of AISC Awards and Recognitions: Registered Awards and Recognitions: One of three fi- Committee on Manuals and Textbooks; Professional Engineer; EPA Science to nalists for the 2006 United States Society Registered P.E. in Virginia and Tennes- Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship; of Dams Student Scholarship; Received see; Registered S.E. in Illinois. AWWA LARS and Thomas R. Camp a 2004 Paul E. Torgersen Virginia Tech Primary Area of Interest: Structures Scholarships; NWRI Fellowship; VWRRC College of Engineering Award. William R. Walker Graduate Fellow- Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Outside Work Experience: Research Engi- ship; WPI Graduate Fellowship; AEESP neer, American Buildings Company; Eight Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award; ASCE Outside Work Experience: Two summer years of building design experience at Thompson Award for Outstanding Under- internships with the United States Bu- HSMM, Stanley D. Lindsey, and Struc- graduate; Tau Beta Pi; Chi Epsilon. reau of Reclamation working on seismic tural Design Group, Project highlights risk analysis of several large earth dams include Beaufort High School, Vanderbilt Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & in the Western United States; Perform Children’s Hospital, StoneCrest Medical Water Resources seismic consulting work with Dr. Jimmy Center, and Parrish Medical Center; Ex- Outside Work Experience: Environmental Martin and Dr. Guney Olgun from Virginia tensive experience in the design of struc- Engineer, CDM, 2000-2003; Intern, Mont- Tech on projects located in South Caro- tural steel, cold-formed steel, convention- gomery Watson Harza, 1997; Co-op En- lina, New York, Washington, D.C., and ally-reinforced concrete, post-tensioned gineer, RR Donnelley Printing Company, Nepal. concrete, and wood structures. 1994-1995. Career Goals: I would like to contribute Career Goals: I wish to hold a teaching and Career Goals: I would like to contribute to towards the development of systems research position at the university level. the field of environmental engineering to reduce economic and human losses through teaching, research, and consult- resulting from earthquakes. In particular, ing. my interests are geared towards prepar- ing the Central and Eastern United States for a seismic disaster.

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Doctoral Students

Kevin R. Martha E. Kathryn A. Gilmore Gross Gunberg

Hometown: Cary, N.C. Hometown: Norfolk, Va. Hometown: Ada, Mi. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Location of Undergraduate Studies: Penn- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Tech sylvania State University sity of Michigan Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Pennsylvania Location of Master’s Studies: University of Awards and Recognitions: Registered State University Michigan Professional Engineer (Virginia, North Awards and Recognitions: Fulbright Schol- Awards and Recognitions: Chi Epsilon, F.E. Carolina); Member-American Academy of ar, Stuttgart, Germany; Licensed Profes- Richart Fellowship, UM, 2006; Greene Environmental Engineers (AAEE); Water sional Engineer Fellowship, UM, 2006. Environment Federation (WEF); Ameri- Primary Area of Interest: Construction Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical can Water Works Association (AWWA); Outside Work Experience: Leonhardt, Outside Work Experience: Soils & Struc- VWEA Sonny Roden Memorial Scholar- Andrä und Partner, 1999; The Citadel, tures, Inc., during summer 2006; City of ship, 2005; Virginia Water Resources 2004; Skanska, 2000-2007. Ann Arbor, May 2004 -November 2005. Research Center (VWRRC) William R. Walker Graduate Research Fellow Career Goals: I look forward to working in Career Goals: Whether in academia or in- Award, 2005; Waste Policy Institute (WPI) transportation infrastructure development dustry, I hope to teach others about geo- Fellowship, 1998; Edna Bailey Sussman to explore innovative financing options technical engineering and to continue to Foundation Internship, 1997; Marshall to construct roads and bridges, and then broaden my knowledge and experience Hahn Engineering Scholarship, Virginia eventually returning to teaching. in the field. Tech, 1992-3. Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Water Resources Outside Work Experience: Project Engineer, Stearns & Wheler, LLC, Roanoke, Va., and Raleigh, N.C., 1999-2004; Project Engineer, CH2M Hill, Atlanta, Ga., 1999. Career Goals: Through teaching and re- search in the application of membrane technologies, I hope to strengthen the commitment of future generations of en- gineers to sustain our water resources.

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Doctoral Students

Rebecca A. Laura M. Devin K. Halvorson Hannum Harris

Hometown: Whitewater, Wi. Hometown: Cherry Hill, N.J. Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Lehigh Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- sity of Wisconsin-La Crosse University sity of Florida Awards and Recognitions: Ray Heath Location of Master’s Studies: Lehigh Uni- Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Scholarship in Chemistry, 2006; UW-L versity Awards and Recognitions: NSF IGERT Fel- Undergraduate Research Grant, 2005; Awards/Recognitions: NSF IGERT Fel- lowship; MS Via Fellowship; ExxonMobil National Deans List, 2003-2007; Ameri- low; Sigma Xi: International Scientific Scholar; University of Florida Presidential can Legion Award for Citizenship, 2003, Research Society; ADSC: International Scholar; URS/Griner Scholar. Chosen for two seniors from Whitewater Association of Foundation Drilling Schol- Primary Area of Interest: Structures High School demonstrating courage, arship; Lehigh University President’s honor, leadership, patriotism, scholarship Scholar; John B. Carson Award; Tau Beta Outside Work Experience: June 2001 – No- and service. Pi; Chi Epsilon. vember 2002, ExxonMobil Development Company, Sr. Project Engineer, Business Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Water Resources Planning; December 1999 – June 2001, Outside Work Experience: American Water ExxonMobil Development Company, Proj- Outside Work Experience: REU summer Engineering Co-Op in Voorhees, N.J., ect Engineer & Business Advisor, Drill- intern, Mercury research lab at UW-La three rotations. ing; July 1999 – December 1999, Exxon Crosse; Subassembly at electronics fac- Company U.S.A., Project Engineer, Drill- tory; Lifeguard. Career Goals: I plan to conduct university research and teaching in geotechnical ing. Career Goals: In the future I hope to apply engineering with international and inter- Career Goals: I wish to complete my de- my knowledge of environmental engi- disciplinary collaboration. gree requirements and develop the skills neering and chemistry to environmental required to become an accomplished issues, particularly with a focus on an- researcher and teacher. Upon completion thropogenic pollutants in water systems. of my degree, I plan to pursue a career This aspiration may lead to a research in academia. My areas of interest include position, a consulting firm, or maybe even bridge structures and innovative material an international service organization. An applications. understanding of water quality engineer- ing could potentially provide great op- portunities for aiding developing countries in improving their basic quality of life through their source of water.

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Doctoral Students

Ann E. Joshua A. Bernard L. Jeffers Joseph, Jr. Kassner

Hometown: Washington, Pa. Hometown: Opelousas, La. Hometown: Laurel, Md. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: South- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia sity of Pittsburgh ern University Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Massachu- Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards and Recognitions: Pratt Fellowship; setts Institute of Technology; Harvard Awards and Recognitions: Via Masters Fel- Joel I. Abrams Fellowship. University; Johns Hopkins University. lowship, 2003; Civil Engineering Alumni Primary Area of Interest: Structures Awards and Recognitions: Ford Fellow; Advisory Board Scholarship, 2002; Truman Fellow; Cunningham Fellow; Chi Virginia Department of Transportation Outside Work Experience: Internship, Penn- Epsilon; AWRA, Virginia Tech President; Engineering Scholarship, 2001; Eleanor sylvania Department of Transportation. ASCE; NSBE; Pi Mu Epsilon; Sussman Davenport Leadership Scholarship, 2001; Career Goals: I wish to teach and conduct Internship; AWRA Herbert Memorial Warren F. Cline Civil Engineering Schol- research. Scholarship; EPA Excellence in Service; arship, 2000; Chi Epsilon, National Civil LANL Distinguished Service. Engineering Honor Society, 2000. Primary Area of Interest: Hydrosystems Primary Area of Interest: Structures Outside Work Experience: Los Alamos Outside Work Experience: Associate Engi- National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National neer, Virginia Transportation Research Laboratory; Environmental Protection Council, Charlottesville, Va., September Agency; Louisiana Department of Envi- 2004 – July 2007; Research Intern, Vir- ronmental Quality; Proctor and Gamble; ginia Transportation Research Council, NIA Corp.; Molten Metal Technology; Charlottesville, Va., May 2002 – August Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. 2002; Scholar Intern, Virginia Department Career Goals: My goals are to forward en- of Transportation, Salem, Va., May 2001 gineering and policy research, teaching, – August 2001; Civil Engineer Intern, The and application. Wilson T. Ballard Company, Owings Mills, Md., May – August 2000 and December 2000 – January 2001. Career Goals: I am currently participat- ing in a National Cooperative Highway Research Program investigating high- performance lightweight concrete. Upon completion of the study and earning my Ph.D., I plan to return to the Virginia Transportation Research Council as a research engineer and continue investi- gating ways to improve bridge design and construction so that bridges last longer yet cost less for the Commonwealth and the rest of the country.

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Doctoral Students

Wendell O. Lashun K. Justin D. Khunjar King Marshall

Hometown: San Fernando, Trinidad and Hometown: Elaine, Ar. Hometown: Orem, Utah Tobago/Miami, Fl. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Ten- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Location of Undergraduate Studies: Howard nessee State University Brigham Young University University Location of Master’s Studies: Tennessee Location of Master’s Studies: Brigham Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech State University Young University Awards and Recognitions: NSF Graduate Awards and Recognitions: Engineering Awards and Recognitions: ORCA Under- Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2004, Scholarship, Fall 2000 - Spring 2006; graduate Research Scholarship; ACI 2005; ASCE National Capitol Section, Dean’s List, Fall 2000 - Spring 2006; Graduate Research Scholarship; Charles National Capitol Section Scholarship, U.S. Geological Survey Headquarters: E. Via Graduate Fellowship. 2003; Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor So- Outstanding Achievement Recognition, Primary Area of Interest: Structural dynam- ciety, Lifetime Member; National Society Spring 2006; 2006 Technical Research ics, structural design, steel structures of Collegiate Scholars, Lifetime Member; Symposium, Presentation Winner, Spring Golden Key International Honor Society, 2006; Alabama American Water Re- Outside Work Experience: Center for Ad- Lifetime Member. sources Association Symposium Winner, vanced Structural Composites, Provo, Fall 2005; Tennessee American Water Utah, Research Assistant, March 1998 – Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & May 1999; Patterned Fiber Composites, Water Resources Resources Association Symposium Win- ner, Spring 2004; Campus Superstar: US Lindon, Utah, Research Assistant March Outside Work Experience: Research As- Black Engineer Information and Technol- 1999 – April 2000; Delta Engineers, PE, sistant, Howard University Biological ogy Magazine, Fall 2004. Binghamton, N.Y., Project Engineer, April Processes Research Group; Assistant 2000 – August 2004; Licensed PE in Engineer, Montgomery Watson Harza; Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & California. Water Resources Petrochemical Engineer Intern, Trinidad Career Goals: I would like to find an aca- and Tobago National Petroleum Market- Outside Work Experience: United States demic position or a research oriented ing Co. Ltd. Geological Survey: South Carolina Water design position in a firm where I can work Career Goals: I’d like to be a professor and Science Center, Summer 2006; United on new and innovative structures. Either international consultant. In this regard, States Geological Survey: Volunteer way I want to be involved in education of I’d like to join/establish a cutting edge for Science Research, Fall 2003-Spring future structural engineers in one form or research facility while influencing envi- 2006; Y-12 National Security Complex, another. ronmental policy in both developed and Summer 2002-2005, National Nuclear developing countries. Security Administration, United States Department of Energy (Q Level Clear- ance). Career Goals: Upon completion of my doctoral degree, I would like to pursue a career as a professor with research and teaching responsibilities. I strongly believe that a career in academia will provide me an opportunity to become directly involved and impact the lives of many motivated students.

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Doctoral Students

Michael P. Eduardo Caroline K. McGuire Mendez III Nguyen

Hometown: Richmond, Va. Hometown: Manchester, N.H. Hometown: Graham, N.C. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: N.C. sity of Pennsylvania sity of New Hampshire State University-Raleigh, N.C. Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards and Recognitions: GAANN Fellow- Awards and Recognitions: National Col- Awards and Recognitions: National Science ship; Faculty Appreciation Award (UP- legiate Engineering Award; All-American Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2003- ENN); Dean’s List. Scholar Collegiate Award; Via Existing 2005, 2007; NSF Computer Science, Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Ph.D. Student Fellowship Award; Depart- Engineering, and Mathematics Scholar- ment of Education GAANN Fellowship. ship, 2002-2003; W.C. Billy Creel Memo- Outside Work Experience: Senior Staff Primary Area of Interest: Software develop- rial Scholarship, 2002-2003; Progress Engineer, Schnabel Engineering, Inc., Energy Scholarship, 2001-2002; CP&L 2001-2004. ment for modeling contaminated ground- water remediation Scholarship, 2000-2001. Career Goals: I’d like to teach at the college Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & level or return to consulting. Outside Work Experience: Private practice in software development; Virginia Tech Water Resources Environmental Health and Safety Ser- Outside Work Experience: Stearns & Whel- vices; United States Geological Survey er, Environmental Engineer, June 2005 Student Appointment. – June 2007; Hazen and Sawyer, Intern, Career Goals: I’d like to work in a private May 2001 – August 2003. practice in specialized, technical software Career Goals: I would like to obtain a PE development. license and become a professor at a re- search university.

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Doctoral Students

John E. John D. Krista L. Petrie Rice Rule

Hometown: Richmond, Va. Hometown: Petaluma, Ca. Hometown: Nampa, Idaho Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Location of Undergraduate Studies: Hum- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Tech, New England Conservatory boldt State University sity of Idaho Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Utah State Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Awards and Recognitions: VCUQ Faculty University Awards and Recognitions: National Sci- Development Grant, 2007; VCUQ Faculty Awards and Recognitions: United States ence Foundation Fellow; 2004 American Research Grant, 2005; Paul Torgersen Society on Dams Scholarship, 2006; Chemical Society Up and Coming En- Excellence in Research Award, 1999; Utah State University Geotechnical Engi- vironmental Chemist Award; 2005 Paul Waste Policy Institute Summer Graduate neering Scholarship, 1987-88; Registered E Torgersen M.S. Award; 2006 WPI Re- Fellowship, 1998. Professional Engineer, California; Regis- search Fellowship; Member of Chi Epsi- Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & tered Geotechnical Engineer, California. lon; AdvanceVT Ph.D. Fellowship; P.E.O. Water Resources Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical Scholar Award. Outside Work Experience: Assistant Profes- Outside Work Experience: Geotechnical Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & sor of Mathematics and Physics, Virginia Engineering Consulting: Kleinfelder, Inc., Water Resources Commonwealth University School of the 1988-1990 and 1996-2004; Woodward- Outside Work Experience: 1999-2001 Un- Arts in Qatar, 2004 – 2007. Clyde Consultants, 1990-1996. dergraduate Research (UI Chemistry De- Career Goals: I want to continue to be ac- Career Goals: After graduation, I plan to partment), 2001-2002 Analytical Chemist, tive as a researcher and an educator. obtain an assistant professor position at a Anatek Labs, Moscow, Idaho. research university where I plan to teach Career Goals: I hope to contribute to the geotechnical related topics and continue scientific understanding of environmental my research on seepage and earth struc- chemistry. ture related topics.

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Doctoral Students

Emily A. Vickie L. Jeffrey A. Sarver Singleton Sparks

Hometown: Richmond, Va. Hometown: Maysville, Ky. Hometown: Fredericksburg, Va. Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Location of Undergraduate Studies: West Location of Undergraduate Studies: Virginia Tech Virginia University Military Institute Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Primary Area of Interest: Environmental Awards and Recognitions: Virginia De- Water Resources Engineering (water quality modeling) partment of Transportation Scholarship and Internship; Three-time recipient of Outside Work Experience: Phelps Dodge Outside Work Experience: Design engineer, the William H. Pettigrew Scholarship; Tau Process Technology Center, Morenci, Az., Black & Veatch Corp., 1998 - 2003. Beta Pi President, Virginia Delta Chapter; July – October 2004, M.S. thesis project Career Goals: I plan to do consulting or Recipient of the Alvin F. Meyer Award, research on reaction kinetics involving teaching. awarded to the first classmen at VMI activated carbon used as a catalyst in showing the highest proficiency in the regenerating key ions in electrolyte for study of Environmental Engineering. hydrometallurgical copper extraction; Phelps Dodge Process Technology Cen- Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & ter, Morenci, Az., May – August 2002 and Water Resources May – August 2003, Process evaluation, Outside Work Experience: Wetland resto- process standards of operation authoring, ration and monitoring with the Virginia and process optimization. Project design, Department of Transportation (VDOT); data collection, analysis and interpreta- Construction site inspection to ensure tion. Lab and field technician work; Tran- erosion and sediment control; Materials sAlta Centralia Mining Company, Centra- lab technician, surveyor, and watershed lia, Wa., May – August 2001, AutoCAD delineation (all intern positions). mapping, drawing, project design. Talpak Career Goals: I would like to work in waste- simulation for production estimates. Basic water treatment plant design, and estab- SAP use for cost accounting and budget- lish systems for wastewater treatment in ing. Haulage time studies, program devel- developing countries. opment, and implications. Core sample interpretation and logging; Luck Stone Corporation, Boscobel Plant, Goochland, Va., May – August 2000, Assistant for shot layout and blasting process. Plant vehicle driver. Assistant for plant equip- ment maintenance and repair; welding assistant. Career Goals: I have interests in mining and minerals processing, with an emphasis on environmental issues in these fields, and I would like to work in academia.

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Doctoral Students

Matthew K. Jennifer A. Christopher A. Swenty Warren Wilson

Hometown: Rolla, Mo. Hometown: Birmingham, Al. Hometown: Struthers, Ohio Location of Undergraduate Studies: Univer- Location of Undergraduate Studies: Tulane Location of Undergraduate Studies: Buck- sity of Missouri-Rolla University nell University Location of Master’s Studies: University of Location of Master’s Studies: Tulane Uni- Location of Master’s Studies: Virginia Tech Missouri-Rolla versity Awards/Recognitions: Bucknell University, Awards and Recognitions: University of Awards and Recognitions: Louisiana Michael D. LaGrega Award for Excel- Missouri-Rolla Chancellor’s Fellowship; Board of Reagents Fellowship, 2006; lence in Environmental Engineering, UMR Civil Engineering Senior Achieve- Spaar Research Fellowship, Tulane 2004; Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation ment Award; ASCE Washington Intern- University, 2004-2005; Frederick H. Fox Internship, 2006; Virginia Water Environ- ship for Students in Engineering (WISE) Achievement Award, Tulane University ment Association (VWEA) Sonny Roden Intern; Missouri ACI Graduate Scholar- Department of Civil and Environmental Memorial Scholarship; Member, Water ship; Member, Tau Beta Pi, Kappa Mu Engineering, 2004; Tulane University Dis- Environment Federation & Association of Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi, & Chi Epsilon tinguished Scholars Award. Environmental Engineering and Science Honor Societies; Member of Chancellor’s Primary Area of Interest: Structures Professors. Leadership Class. Outside Work Experience: Intern at Struc- Primary Area of Interest: Environmental & Primary Area of Interest: Structures tural Design Group in Birmingham, Al., Water Resources Engineering Outside Work Experience: I worked for May-August 2002; December 2002- Outside Work Experience: Bucknell Univer- about a year at the HBE Corporation in January 2003. sity, Lewisburg, Pa., Undergraduate Re- St. Louis, Missouri. While there I helped Career Goals: I would like to begin my ca- search Assistant, Fall 2003-Spring 2004; do structural design of hospitals and reer in industry doing structural design, MS Consultants, Inc., Youngstown, Ohio, financial institutions for design/build specifically bridge design, after comple- Environmental Engineering Intern, Sum- projects. In addition, I worked for over tion of a Ph.D. After a few years in indus- mer 2001-Summer 2004. two years in the bridge division of the try, I plan to pursue a career as a profes- Career Goals: I would like to continue my Missouri-Department of Transportation. sor in structural engineering. research in biosolids and residuals man- During my tenure at MODOT, I analyzed agement, increasing the scientific knowl- and designed bridges for the state high- edge of the biological process that drive way system. advanced anaerobic digestion technolo- Career Goals: My ultimate goal is to obtain gies. Upon graduation, my goal is to work my Ph.D. in civil engineering, so I can as a professional engineer, integrating return to academics. I really enjoy both cutting edge research into the develop- the practical and theoretical sides of civil ment of sustainable wastewater and bio- engineering and hope that my profes- solids management processes. sional experiences along with my educa- tion background will help me in teaching and research.

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Via Alumni: Where are they now?

Undergraduates Paul Taylor Allan D. Chasey Year Graduated: 2004 Year Graduated: 1995 Suzanne Ayres Angelo Current Status: ExxonMobil, Houston, Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2003 Texas Employer: Del E. Webb School of Construc- Employer: Currently pursuing a M.S. degree tion, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Henry J. Theiss Virginia Tech (Northern Virginia campus) Year Graduated: 1994 Kirsten Davis Employer: Unknown Year Graduated: 2004 Doran J. Bosso Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2006 Jennifer Verwest Employer: Wentworth Institute of Technol- Employer: Currently pursuing a M.S. degree Year Graduated: 2001 ogy, Boston, Ma. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Current Status: Currently pursuing a gradu- Virginia Tech ate degree at Texas A&M University, Col- Benjamin Hays lege Station, Texas Year Graduated: 2002 Chris English Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 1994; Master’s 1996, Uni- Elliott Robert Wheeler Employer: L.A. Dept. of Public Works, Los versity of Illinois, Urbana Year Graduated: 1996 Angeles, Ca. Employer: CH2M Hill, St. Louis, Mo. Employer: Operations Management Interna- Previous Employer: 1996-97, Patrick Engi- tional, Inc., Englewood, Co. John Hildreth neering, Springfield, Il. Year Graduated: 2003 Ryan Willey Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Brian P. Felker Year Graduated: 2000 Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Year Graduated: 2001 Employer: Unknown Current Status: Unknown Angel Ho The following students also received their Year Graduated: 1993 Kathryn Firich undergraduate degrees while on a Via Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2007 Scholarship and elected to pursue their Employer: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Ports- Employer: Brown and Caldwell, Alexandria, master’s degrees at Virginia Tech, also mouth, Va. Va. as Via Scholarship recipients. Their com- plete listings can be found in the alumni Jennifer Firman McConnell Richard Andrew Goodwin student section of this publication. These Year Graduated: 2002 Year Graduated: 1996 students are: Randall Boe, William Degree Awarded: Master’s Current Status: Unknown Scott Dewhirst, II, Charles M. Dietz, Jr., Employer: Schoor DePalma, Kulpsville, Pa. Greg Hensley, Jeffrey Kuttesch, Mat- Chris Kaldahl thew Moore, John D. Riley, John Ste- Joshua P. Middleton Year Graduated: 1995 phen Siczka, Jeffrey Snow, and Marcia Year Graduated: 2004 Employer: Appalachian Mountain Club, Gor- Votour Prowell. Degree Awarded: Master’s ham, N.H. Employer: American Infrastructure, Worces- ter, Pa. Stephen O. Meininger Graduates Year Graduated: 1991 Juan C. Pinero Employer: CH2M Hill - OMI, Clarksville, Md. CONSTRUCTION Year Graduated: ˜ 2004 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Joshua Mouras Frank Arcuri Employer: Barrett Hale& Alamo, Consulting Year Graduated: 2006 Year Graduated: 2007 Engineers, San Juan, Puerto Rico Employer: Currently pursuing a M.S. degree Degree Awarded: Master’s in Civil Engineering at University of Texas Employer: Fluor Corporation, New York, Jeffrey Snow at Austin N.Y. Years Graduated: 2000 and 2002 Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (2000) Joseph Schmitt Mary Jane Contos Bartlett and Master’s (2002) Year Graduated: 2001 Year Graduated: 1992 Employer: American Infrastructure, Worces- Current Status: Unknown Degree Awarded: Master’s ter, Pa. Employer: O’Brien & Gere Engineering, Morrisville, N.C.

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Janet Sparks Joel Cohn Mary Facciolo Year Graduated: 2000 Year Graduated: 1993 Year Graduated: 1994 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Tennessee Department of Trans- Employer: Malcolm Pirnie, Norfolk, Va. Employer: Raleigh, N.C., consulting firm portation Cynthia Crane Ryan M. Fedak Robert C. Williams Year Graduated: 1999 Year Graduated: 1999 Year Graduated: 2006 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Hydro Geologic, Herndon, Va. Employer: Hayes, Seay, Mattern and Mat- Employer: Currently pursuing a Ph.D. de- tern, Roanoke, Va. gree in Civil & Environmental Engineering Andrea Crowe Hargette at Virginia Tech Year Graduated: 1997 Jamie Fettig Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 1998 Terry L. Williams Employer: Black & Veatch, Inc., Greenville, Degree Awarded: Master’s, ENE Year Graduated: 1998 S.C. Employer: Parson Engr. Sci., N.Y. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Alan A. Meyers, Inc. Christina Clarkson Davis Scott A. Forsling Year Graduated: 2000 Year Graduated: 1994 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s ENVIRONMENTAL & Employer: Ph.D. student, Virginia Tech, Employer: CH2M Hill, Redding, Ca. WATER RESOURCES Northern Virginia Campus John Fripp Nancy Lade Anderson Jason Davis Year Graduated: 1991 Year Graduated: 1999 Year Graduated: 2000 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Na- Employer: Full-time Mother Employer: Corallo, Eagle, Id. tional Resources Conservation Service, Ft. Worth, Texas Randall Boe William Scott Dewhirst, II Years Graduated: 1991 and 1993 Years Graduated: 1993 and 1997 Wesley Geertsema Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (1991) Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate, 1993, Year Graduated: 1992 and Master’s (1993) and Master’s, 1997 Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: CH2M Hill, Gainesville, Fl. Employer: Newport News Water Works, Employer: Metcalf & Eddy, Honolulu, Hawaii Newport News, Va. Elizabeth Claire Booth Aimee E. Greyshock Year Graduated: 2005 Charles (Chuck) Dietz, Jr. Year Graduated: 2004 Degree Awarded: Master’s Years Graduated: 1989 and 1993 Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Golder Associates, Gainesville, Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate, 1989, Employer: Virginia Department of Health- Fl. and Master’s, 1993 Office of Drinking Water, Culpeper, Va. Employer: Virginia Department of Conser- Charles Briddell Bott vation and Recreation, Dublin, Va. Matthew Gwaltney Year Graduated: 2001 Year Graduated: 2007 (posthumously) Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Daniel Dorsel Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Virginia Military Institute, Lexing- Year Graduated: 1998 ton, Va. Degree Awarded: Master’s, ENE Orrick (Rick) Haney Employer: Cardinal Newman School, Co- Year Graduated: 1994 J. Steven Brauner lumbia, S.C. Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2000 Employer: Haney Associates, Inc., Ander- Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Mark Dougherty son, S.C Employer: Parsons Engineering, Denver, Year Graduated: 2004 Co. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. David Holbrook Employer: Auburn University, Auburn, Al. Year Graduated: 2003 Bradley M. Coffey Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 1990 Laura Duncan Employer: National Institute of Standards Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2007 and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md. Employer: Metropolitan Water District of Degree Awarded: Master’s Southern California, Water Quality Divi- Employer: Strata Environmental, Knoxville, Edward Brian Houston sion Tenn. Year Graduated: 2006 Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Black & Veatch, Gaithersburg, Md.

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Kari Husovitz Foy Brian McCormick Carrie Adam Phipps Year Graduated: 1999 Year Graduated: May 2003 Year Graduated: 2001 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: B.P. Barber and Associates, Inc., Employer: Paciulli Simmons Assoc., Fairfax, Employer: CH2M Hill, Newport News, Va. N. Charleston, S.C. Va. Noreen Poor Richard T. Kelly, II Laurie S. McNeill Year Graduated: 1996 Year Graduated: 2005 Year Graduated: 2000 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: Public Health Engineering, Uni- Employer: Brown & Caldwell, Seattle, Wa. Employer: Utah State University, Logan, versity of South Florida Utah Angela Latrou Diana Rashash Year Graduated: 1991 Peter B. Merkle Year Graduated: 1994 Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 1995 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: Montgomery Watson Engineer- Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: North Carolina State University, ing Employer: Sandia National Labs, Albuquer- Raleigh, N.C. que, N.M. Rebecca Lattyak Heather Veith Rectanus Year Graduated: 2007 Matthew C. Moore Year Graduated: 2006 Degree Awarded: Master’s Years Graduated: 1992 and 1994 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: Malcolm Pirnie, West Lafayette, Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (1992) Employer: Battelle, San Diego, Ca. In. and Master’s (1994) Employer: Sikland Engineering Associates, Sandra Robinson Katherine Linares Van Nuys, Ca. Year Graduated: 2001 Year Graduated: 2004 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Christopher D. Muller Employer: CH2M Hill, Redding, Ca. Employer: HDR Engineering, Inc., Norfolk, Year Graduated: 2006 Va. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Jason Rushing Employer: Brown and Caldwell, Seattle, Year Graduated: 2002 Erika Lubkowitz Bailey Wa. Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 1996 Employer: Parson, Fairfax, Va. Degree Awarded: Master’s Jocelyn Fraga Muller Employer: HDR, Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Year Graduated: 2006 Mary Rust Sadler Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 1998 Donald C. Marikovich Employer: University of Washington, Se- Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 1990 attle, Wa. Employer: Arcadis, Raleigh, N.C. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Draper Aden & Associates, Caroline Nguyen Paolo Scandina Blacksburg, Va. Year Graduated: 2005 Year Graduated: 2004 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Becki Marshall Employer: Ph.D. candidate, Virginia Tech Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Year Graduated: 2004 Degree Awarded: Master’s Julia Novak Dipankar Sen Employer: Hazen & Sawyer, Durham, N.C. Year Graduated: 2005 Year Graduated: 1995 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Katherine McArthur Leitch Employer: Draper Aden & Associates, Employer: Santa Clara Valley Water District, Year Graduated: 1998 Blacksburg, Va. San Jose, Ca. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Jeff Parks Brad Shearer Pa. Year Graduated: 2005 Year Graduated: 2001 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Colleen McCloskey Rossmeisl Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Employer: CH2M Hill, Redding, Ca. Year Graduated: 1995 Degree Awarded: Master’s Kristina Perri Holly Shorney Employer: Companion Animal Clinic, Year Graduated: 1997 Year Graduated: February 1992 Blacksburg, Va. Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: CH2M Hill, Atlanta, Ga. Employer: Black & Veatch, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.

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John S. Siczka Jennifer Wright Jaime Colby Years Graduated: 1994 and 1997 Year Graduated: 2006 Year Graduated: 2006 Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (1994) Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s and Master’s (1997) Employer: Department of Environmental Employer: Sanborn, Head & Associates, Employer: CH2M Hill, Brown Deer, Wi. Quality (DEQ), Richmond, Va. Inc., Westford, MA

Aaron B. Small Kevin D. Young Megan Cole Year Graduated: 1993 Year Graduated: 2006 Year Graduated: 2001 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: AES Consulting Engineers, Wil- Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Employer: GEI Consultants, Winchester, liamsburg, Va. Ma. Anna Zaklikowski Sheryl D. Smith Year Graduated: 2006 Jeramy Bruyn Decker Year Graduated: 2001 Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2007 Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: HDR Engineering, Portland, Ore. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: Camp, Dresser and McKee, Ra- Employer: Kewit Construction Co., Pacifica, leigh, N.C. Lauren Zuravnsky Ca. Year Graduated: 2006 Jeffrey A. Sparks Degree Awarded: Master’s Patricia (Trish) M. Gallagher Year Graduated: 2007 Employer: Greeley and Hansen, Manhattan, Year Graduated: December 2000 Degree Awarded: Master’s N.Y. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: Ph.D. candidate, Virginia Tech Employer: Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa. Jonathan Stathis GEOTECHNICAL Year Graduated: 1998 Russell Green Degree Awarded: Master’s William Bassett Year Graduated: 2001 Employer: Cedar City Corp., Cedar City, Utah Year Graduated: 1990 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Employer: Federal Highway Administration, Employer: University of Michigan, Ann Ar- Chris Tadanier Washington, DC bor, Mi. Year Graduated: 1997 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Diane Yamane Baxter George Filz Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Year Graduated: 2000 Year Graduated: 1992 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Dan Waddill Employer: GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Year Graduated: 1998 Providence, R.I. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Brendan Fitzpatrick Employer: Dept. of the Navy, Norfolk, Va. Craig Benedict Year Graduated: 2001 Year Graduated: 1997 Degree Awarded: Master’s Diane Waters Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: GEOPIER Foundation Co., Inc., Year Graduated: 2002 Employer: Gannet-Flemming, King of Prus- Blacksburg, Va. Degree Awarded: Master’s sia, Pa. Employer: City of Miami, Public Works Laura Henry Dept., Miami, Fl. David Bentler Year Graduated: 1999 Years Graduated: 1993 and 1998 Degree Awarded: Master’s Edwin W. Watkins Degrees Awarded: Master’s; Ph.D. Employer: Haley & Aldrich, N.J. Year Graduated: 1993 Employer: Shaw Stone & Webster, Inc., Degree Awarded: Master’s Denver, Co. Wayne Herring Employer: Ogden Environmental and En- Year Graduated: 2000 ergy Services, Nashville, Tenn. Jerry Britton Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2001 Employer: ARM Group, Hershey, Pa. David Whichard Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2001 Employer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Randall Hickman Degree Awarded: Master’s Portland, Ore. Year Graduated: 2004 Employer: International Paper, S.C. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Pete Chenevey Employer: BP American, Inc., Houston, Christopher Wolfe Year Graduated: 1994 Texas Year Graduated: 1993 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Dames & Moore, Cincinnati, Employer: Semcor, Washington, DC Ohio

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Michelle Hoy Maysill G. Pascal Matthew Sleep Year Graduated: 1997 Year Graduated: 2003 Year Graduated: 2006 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: M.S. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Oregon Dept. of Environmental Employer: Haley and Aldrich Inc., Parsip- Employer: Ph.D. candidate, Virginia Tech Quality, Portland, Ore. pany, N.J. Kord Wissman Kenneth A. Huber Craig Petranka Year Graduated: 1995 Year Graduated: 1997 Year Graduated: 1997 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: GEOPIER Foundation Co., Inc., Employer: Unknown Employer: Unknown Charlotte, N.C.

Scott Mackey Michael Pockoski Year Graduated: 1993 Year Graduated: 2001 STRUCTURES Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Central Connecticut State Uni- Employer: GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., Mary Sue Mouchka Abel versity, New Britain, Ct. Norwood, Ma. Year Graduated: 1993 Degree Awarded: Master’s Jessica R. Marshall Jonathan Porter Employer: EMCS Design Group, Milwau- Year Graduated: 1990 Year Graduated: 1990 kee, Wi. Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Colorado Public Works Authority Employer: U.S. Air Force, Tyndall AFB Chad C. Alander Year Graduated: 1998 Christopher L. Meehan Marcia Votour Prowell Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2006 Years Graduated: 1992 and 1993 Employer: Goodkind & O’Dea, Carlisle, Pa. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (1992) Employer: University of Delaware, Newark, and Master’s (1993) Nick Amico De. Employer: Virginia Geotechnical Services, Year Graduated: 2005 PC, Richmond, Va. Degree Awarded: Master’s Clark Morrison Employer: Figg Engineering, Tallahassee, Year Graduated: 1995 Susan Rafalko Fl. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2006 Employer: North Carolina Dept. of Trans- Degree Awarded: Master’s Kirsten A. Baldwin Metzger portation, Raleigh, N.C. Employer: Reinforced Earth Co., Vienna, Year Graduated: 2006 Va. Degree Awarded: Master’s Bob Mokwa Employer: Laurene & Rickher, P.C., Char- Year Graduated: 1999 Alan Rauch lotte, N.C. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 1997 Employer: Montana State University, Boze- Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Anthony Barrett, Capt., USAF man, Mt. Employer: Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott and Year Graduated: 2006 May Engineers, Inc., Lexington, Ky. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Michael Navin Employer: United States Air Force, Kunsan Year Graduated: 2005 Nathan Reeves Air Base, South Korea Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2000 Employer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Degree Awarded: Master’s James Wescott (Wess) Bott St. Louis, Mo. Employer: S&ME, Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Year Graduated: 2005 Degree Awarded: Master’s David Nevius Andrew T. Rose Employer: HDR Alaska, Inc., Eagle River, Ak. Year Graduated: 2001 Year Graduated: 1995 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Susan Bowers Employer: Terra Costa Cengineering, San Employer: University of Pittsburgh, John- Year Graduated: 2007 Diego, Ca. stown, Pa. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Whitman, Requardt & Associ- James Parkes Jennifer A. Schaeffer ates, Baltimore, Md. Year Graduated: 1999 Year Graduated: 1997 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Kevin R. Collins Employer: Gannett Fleming, Harrisburg, Pa. Employer: CH2M Hill, Seattle, Wa. Year Graduated: 1989 Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Unknown

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Jason Cawrse William P. Jacobs, V Michael C. Neubert Year Graduated: 2000 Year Graduated: 2002 Year Graduated: 1999 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Michael Baker, Jr., Inc., Charles- Employer: Stan Lindsey and Associates, Employer: Unknown ton, W.Va. Atlanta, Ga. Charles (Chuck) Newhouse Amy Dalrymple Ryan Jared B. Jamison Year Graduated: 1994 and 2005 Year Graduated: 1999 Year Graduated: 1998 Degree Awarded: Master’s (1994) and Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Ph.D. (2005) Employer: Starzer, Brady, Fagan Associ- Employer: Hankins and Anderson, Glen Employer: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, ates, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. Allen, Va. Texas

Kyle Richard Dominisse Bernard L. Kassner Patricia Seay O’Neil Year Graduated: 2004 Year Graduated: 2004 Year Graduated: 1998 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Walter P. Moore, Kansas City, Employer: Ph.D. candidate, Virginia Tech Employer: Bechtel, Frederick, Md. Mo. Adam R. Lease Jason D. Perry Richard Drumm Year Graduated: 2005 Year Graduated: December 2003 Year Graduated: 1993 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Cives Steel Company, Win- Employer: Stanley D. Lindsey & Associates, Employer: FHWA chester, Va. Ltd., Nashville, Tenn.

Keith Grubb James David Martin Jason Piotter Year Graduated: 1995 Year Graduated: 2005 Year Graduated: 2001 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s; Ph.D. pending Employer: American Institute of Steel Con- Employer: Walter P. Moore, Tampa, Fl. Employer: Nuclear Regulatory Commission struction, Chicago, Il. Timothy W. Mays Robert T. Prince Linda Morley Hanagan Years Graduated: 1997 and 2000 Year Graduated: 1998 Year Graduated: 1995 Degrees Awarded: Master’s (1997) and Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Ph.D. (2000) Employer: Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, Employer: Penn State University, State Col- Employer: The Citadel, Charleston, S.C. Inc., Roanoke, Va. lege, Pa. Laurie Mazursky Bruce Queen Matthew D. Harlan Year Graduated: 2006 Year Graduated: 1991 Year Graduated: 2004 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Sutton-Kennerly and Assoc., Employer: President, QED Inc., Raleigh, Employer: URS Corp., Tampa, Fl. Asheville, N.C. N.C.

Greg Hensley David McGowan Michelle Rambo-Roddenberry Years Graduated: 2004 and 2005 Year Graduated: 1991 Year Graduated: 2002 Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (2004) Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Ph.D. and Master’s (2005) Employer: Dominion Generation, Glen Al- Employer: FAMU-FSU College of Engineer- Employer: Pinnacle Engineering, Charlot- len, Va. ing, Tallahassee, Fl. tesville, Va. Sean Molloy Clint Rex Anne Himebaugh Year Graduated: 1998 Year Graduated: 1997 Year Graduated: 2006 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Redwine Reizian Structural Engi- Employer: Stanley D. Lindsey and Associ- Employer: Simpson, Gumpertz, and Heger, neers, Avon, Co. ates, Atlanta, Ga. Waltham, Ma. Michael Motley Cheryl Rottman Hunter Hodges Year Graduated: 2004 Year Graduated: 1996 Year Graduated: 2006 Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: The LPA Group, Inc., Tallahas- Employer: Frontenac Engineering, St. Employer: Lane Bishop York and Delahaye, see, Fl. Louis, Mo. Inc., Birmingham, Al.

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John C. Ryan, Jr. Angela Sellars Terry TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE Year Graduated: 2006 Year Graduated: 1994 AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (TISE) Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: StructurTech Construction Sys- Employer: Self-employed Sudarshana C.S. Bhat tems, Charleston, S.C. Year Graduated: 1989 Steven J. Tschetter Degree Awarded: Master’s Richard A. Saunders Year Graduated: 1994 Employer: University of Texas at Austin, Year Graduated: 2004 Degree Awarded: Master’s Austin, Texas Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Suncoast Post-Tension, Inc., Employer: KSI Structural Engineers, At- Woodbridge, Va. Douglas R. Bish lanta, Ga. Year Graduated: 2006 Christopher J. Waldron Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Donald P. Scholz Years Graduated: 2001 and 2004 Employer: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Year Graduated: 2004 Degrees Awarded: Master’s (2001) and Degree Awarded: Master’s Ph.D. (2004) Edgar David de León Izeppi Employer: CVM Engineers, Wayne, Pa. Employer: Figg Engineering, Philadelphia, Year Graduated: 2006 Pa. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Michael W. Seek Employer: Virginia Tech Transportation In- Year Graduated: 2007 Joseph A. Wallenfelsz stitute, Blacksburg, Va. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Year Graduated: 2006 Employer: Walter Seek Engineering, John- Degree Awarded: Master’s Joshua (Josh) Diekmann son City, Tenn. Employer: Traylor Brothers, Inc. and Mass- Year Graduated: 2000 man Construction Co., Golden Meadow, Degree Awarded: Master’s Bruce Shue La. Employer: A consultant in Seattle, Wa. Year Graduated: 1995 Degree Awarded: Master’s Christopher Werner Erin Walsh Donovan Employer: Smislova, Kehnemui & Assoc., Year Graduated: 1997 Year Graduated: 1999 Rockville, Md. Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Stroud Pence, Norfolk, Va. Employer: Unknown Michael Sladki Year Graduated: 2000 Maurice W. White Anthony Ingle Degree Awarded: Master’s Years Graduated: 1991 and 1995 Year Graduated: 2004 Employer: SKA Engineers, Washington, DC Degrees Awarded: Master’s and Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Unknown Employer: DLZ Michigan, Kalamazoo, Mi. Paul Spears Year Graduated: 2004 John Whitlow Jeffrey Kuttesch Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 1995 Years Graduated: 2003 and 2004 Employer: Martin/Martin Consulting Engi- Degree Awarded: Master’s Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (2003) neers, Kansas City, Mo. Employer: Unknown and Master’s (2004) Employer: Rummel, Klepper, and Kahl En- Sean Robert Sullivan Gregory Williamson gineers (RK&K), Baltimore, Md. Year Graduated: 2007 Year Graduated: 2007 Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Ph.D. John D. Riley Employer: HNTB, East Lansing, Mi. Employer: ExxonMobil, Fairfax, Va. Years Graduated: 1997 and 1999 Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate (1997) Emmett A. Sumner Eric J. Wishart and Master’s (1999) Year Graduated: 2003 Year Graduated: 1991 Employer: Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc., Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Degree Awarded: Master’s Richmond, Va. Employer: North Carolina State University, Employer: Civil CADD Services, Inc., Lin- Raleigh, N.C. coln, R.I. Kevin M. Siegel Year Graduated: 2003 Anthony B. Temeles Mustapha Zmerli Degree Awarded: Master’s Year Graduated: 2001 Year Graduated: 1992 Employer: PBS & J, Inc., Newport News, Degree Awarded: Master’s Degree Awarded: Master’s Va. Employer: Modjeski & Master’s, Philadel- Deceased phia, Pa. Eric J. Siess Year Graduated: 1998 Degree Awarded: Master’s Employer: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dalgreen, Va. VIA REPORT | 2007 | 65 via donors

Donors to CEE Department for 2006-07 The donors recognized on the fol- Charles Bott...... 2001 Kevin Collins...... 1989 lowing pages made a contribution to Bryan Bowers...... 1987 Michael Collins...... 1971 the Via Department of Civil and Envi- Gary Bowman...... 1980 Newton Colston...... 1964/1968 ronmental Engineering (CEE) during fiscal year 2007 (7/1/2006-6/30/2007). Michael Bowman...... 2002 Kay Colton...... 1981 Although every effort has been made Robert Braden...... 1990 Darren Conner...... 1983 to ensure the accuracy of this report, Patrick Brady...... 1960 Michael Conner...... 1974 we acknowledge that errors may have Jerry Brammer...... 1968 Steven Conner...... 1983 occurred. If your name has been omit- ted or listed incorrectly, please accept Kenneth Brammer...... 1976 James Corbalis...... 1979 our sincere apologies and send in any Kenneth Brannan...... 1986 Joan Cornwell...... 1950 corrections to the CEE Main Office at William Brittle...... 1969 Steve Cox...... 2001 540-231-6635. Thomas Brockenbrough...... 1942/1946 Thomas Cox...... 1988/2001 Alumni Who Contributed Glenn Brown...... 1963 Thomas Cox...... 1991 to CEE in 2006-2007 Richard Brownley...... 1944 William Cox...... 1966/1968/1976 Christopher Adcock...... 1991 Deborah Bryan...... 1978 Jeffrey Crate...... 1973/1976 William Aden...... 1967 W. Barry Bryant...... 1970/1971 Amy Cresswell...... 2004 Wendy Ahart...... 1985/1986 Kenneth Buchanan...... 1999 Gary Crouch...... 1975 Chad Alander...... 1996 Amy Buehler...... 1994 Douglas Cruce...... 1992 Thomas Albee...... 1978 D. Michael Burk...... 1974 James Cruise...... 1974 Thomas Ameel...... 1984 Charles Burke...... 1996 Raymond Curry...... 1954 Ross Amico...... 2002/2005 Douglas Burks...... 1979 Glenn Custis...... 1971/1973 David Anderson...... 1988 Christopher Burner...... 1995 John Davis...... 1971 S. Kendall Anderson...... 1962/1970 Daniel Bush...... 2001 Robin Davis...... 1999/2001 Charles Armentrout...... 1976 Christy Butler...... 2001 James Day...... 1981 C. Howard Arnold...... 1980 Heather Campbell...... 2001 Shari Day...... 1982 Erol Aydar...... 1990 Kenneth Carlton...... 1979 John DeBell...... 1968 Walter Bailey...... 1972 Valerie Carpenter...... 1999 David Dee...... 1987 Kelso Baker...... 1951 Michael Carrato...... 2001 Charles Delorimier...... 1976 Meredith Baker...... 2003 Roger Carriker...... 1987 Greg Deubler...... 1994 D.J. Balzer...... 1977 Robert Carson...... 1970 W.S. Dewhirst...... 1950 Charles Barnes...... 1964 Derrick Cave...... 1987 Robert Dick...... 1989 Gary Beach...... 1972 Michael Cavell...... 1983 John Downer...... 1990 Edward Beale...... 1964/1967 Ben Chen...... 1973 Michael Dugas...... 1987 Courtney Beamon...... 1995 John Cherundolo...... 2002/2003 Robert Durfee...... 1982 Phillip Beasley...... 1992 Aaron Cheskis...... 1998/2003 Robert Earl...... 1967 George Beasley...... 1964/1968 Giles Childress...... 1981 Steven Eckert...... 1981 Danelle Bernard...... 1985 Trenton Clark...... 1993 R. Scott Ehrhardt...... 1984/1995 Brian Bersch...... 1981 Steven Clark...... 1973/1977 John El-Khoury...... 2003/2005 William Betts...... 1932 Alfred Cline...... 1958 Stephen Elgin...... 1978/1979 Michael Biscotte...... 1980 Richard Coates...... 1983 Anne Ellis...... 1980 Randall Boe...... 1991 John Coffey...... 1986 Williard Emory...... 1977 Harold Bohannon...... 1968 Stanley Cohen...... 1949 Susan Estes...... 1999

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Thomas Evans...... 1964 Kevin Heaslip...... 2003 Debra Lawall...... 1980 Doug Fahl...... 1965 Larry Hedgepeth...... 1976 Scott Lawson...... 2001 Richard Famularo...... 1978 Bufford Heller...... 1975 Jeffrey Lighthiser...... 1977 Dwight Farmer...... 1974 David Hill...... 1978 Charles Linamen...... 1971 Craig Favor...... 1997 Jack Hill...... 1949 Alan Lingerfelt...... 1976 Charles Feagans...... 1972 Peter Hollis...... 1979 James Link...... 1958 Peggy Fersner...... 1982 Daniel Horne...... 1973 Clifford Lissenden...... 1985 Charles Fisher...... 1973 Kimberly Hughes...... 1985 Charles Logan...... 1985 Jeffrey Fisher...... 1995 Jeffrey Hugney...... 1988 Jon Loker...... 1958 James Fitzgerald...... 1999 Robert Hundley...... 1984 Liane Long...... 1986 Jay Fitzgerald...... 1976 Robert Hungate...... 1986/1988 Stephen Long...... 1983 Kiera Fitzgerald...... 1982 Thomas Hunnicutt...... 1959 Brenda Louie...... 2005 Brendan FitzPatrick...... 2001 Ricardo Jacquez...... 1976 Ronald Love...... 1977 Theron Fluker...... 1999 Edward Janney...... 1973 James Lowe...... 1978 Robert Fogg...... 1971 Robert Jansen...... 1980 William Lucas...... 1978 Kathryn Freiberger...... 1991 Benjamin Jarosz...... 1999 R. Bruce Lucas...... 1972 Ernest Fulford...... 1958 Jimmie Jenkins...... 1970 Daniel Lynch...... 1989 William Galli...... 1961 James Johnson...... 1978 Gary Lynn...... 1988 Jason Garafalo...... 2001 Mitchell Johnson...... 1988 David Maloney...... 1991 Lindsey Gardner...... 1960 David Jordan...... 1994 Jeffrey Mann...... 1990 Claude Garver...... 1963 Patricia Jordan...... 1979 Peter Maratta...... 1975 Leslie Gates...... 1940 Williams Joyner...... 1965 Donald Marickovich...... 1990 Gregory Gerling...... 1991 Matthew Kaiser...... 1997 Burton Marshall...... 1958 Anne Germain...... 1989 Dennis Kamber...... 1963 Donald Martin...... 1974 Patrick Gerstner...... 1993 Govindan Kannan...... 1999 Michael Martin...... 1974 Michael Gill...... 1987/1994 Mia Kannik...... 1997 Ray E. Martin...... 1964 James Givens...... 1970 Jeffrey Kapinos...... 1986/1992 Peter Mattejat...... 1984/1985 John Glazebrook...... 1954 Randall Karalus...... 1981/1995 Lisa McAdam...... 1983 Adil Godrej...... 1982/1989 Marc Killingstad...... 1996 Fred McConnell...... 1972 Danny Gray...... 1977 Troy Kincer...... 1982 Timothy McCormick...... 1983/1984 Robert Gray...... 1983 T. Alan Kite...... 1976 Francis McCreery...... 1967 Thomas Gray...... 1973 Stephanie Klaus...... 2006 Samuel McGhee...... 1962 Dixie Griffin...... 1970 Dennis Knight...... 1992 Bryan McIlwee...... 2001 Tim Groover...... 1979 Karen Knight...... 1988 Jeffrey McInnis...... 1996 Leah Grossi...... 1985/1991 John Koenig...... 1991 Charles McKenzie...... 1969 D. Randolph Grubbs...... 1971 Vincent Kohlbecker...... 1961 Richard McLaughlin...... 1973 Michael Guarino...... 1992/1996 Kenneth Kohut...... 1972 Laurie McNeill...... 2000 Charles Hall...... 1970 Gregory Koontz...... 1981 Chester McPhatter...... 1993 John Hall...... 1955 Kevin Krupa...... 1976 Amy Meli...... 1998 Kristin Hanes...... 1988 Jeffrey Kuttesch...... 2003 Peter Merkle...... 1995 Richard Harris...... 1958 Benjamin Lacy...... 1962/1965 Stephen Michalak...... 1984 E. Franklin Hart...... 1967 Charles Lamb...... 1981 Robert Miller...... 1967 William Hase...... 1981 Kevin Laptos...... 1988 Tracy Miller Jackson...... 1992 Jeffrey Haugh...... 1986 Steven Lavinder...... 1984 Colleen Montgomery...... 1990

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Henry Moore...... 1940 Glenn Rehberger...... 1969 Richard String...... 1988 Paula Moore...... 1996 Terrell Reid...... 1970 Karen Sturgis...... 2000/2002 Franklin Moore...... 1959 Jason Reiner...... 1981 Todd Swanson...... 1974 Anthony Moraco...... 1984 Gregory Reisch...... 1983 Richard Swartout...... 1969 Herbert Morgan...... 1975 A. Wayne Reynolds...... 1962 Robert Szukelewicz...... 1982 Marsha Morgan...... 1972 Linvil Rich...... 1947 John Taylor...... 1979 Robert Moser...... 1997 James Richards...... 1968 Michael Taylor...... 2000 Jonathan Moyers...... 1998 Joseph Riding...... 1959 Matthew Thomas...... 2005 Michael Muron...... 1984 Jack Rinker...... 1961 Sean Thorne...... 2003 Eddie Murphy...... 1978 Randolph Rivinus...... 1968 Dominic Tiburzi...... 1974 A. Ross Myers...... 1972 Millard Robbins...... 1956/1965 Monica Tiburzi...... 2003 Soonkie Nam...... 2005 Mark Roberts...... 1995 J. Allan Tice...... 1965 Kelly Nash...... 1995 Joseph Robinson...... 1985/1989 Samuel Tignor...... 1958 Charles Newhouse...... 1993/2005 Larado Robinson...... 1985 John Torell...... 1993 Albert Nichols...... 1962 Steven Rosen...... 1990 Francisco Torres...... 1988 James Nichols...... 1943 Lisa Ross...... 1990/1996 Thomas Traver...... 2000/2002 Kathleen Noonan...... 1992 Richard Rountree...... 1963 Louis Trigg...... 1950 Kerry Nothnagel...... 1965/1968 Richard Ruckman...... 1981 Randall Tritt...... 2002 Robert Notte...... 1997 Aldelmo Ruiz-Santiago...... 1949 Dennis Truax...... 1976 Nathaniel Nottingham...... 1949 Saulio Saleta...... 2002 Steven Tschetter...... 1992 Daniel O’Connor...... 1978/1980 James Schaub...... 1948 Frederick Turner...... 1959 Raymond O’Donnell...... 1980 George Schulte...... 1971/1973 Rod Turochy...... 1991 Morris Oliver...... 1987 Ted Scott...... 1995 Nicholas Turpen...... 2005 David Oshinski...... 1981 William Scruggs...... 1960 Nathan Umberger...... 2005 Robert Painter...... 1948 Anu Shah...... 1990 Harald Van Aller...... 1979 Jeffrey Parks...... 2001/2005 Brett Shankles...... 2002 Lisa VanLandinham...... 1994 Steven Paulovich...... 2000 Philip Shucet...... 1972 Donald Vaughn...... 1958 Mark Perry...... 1995 B. Leon Shumate...... 1951 Leo A. Vecellio, Jr...... 1968 Kimberly Perry...... 1977/1979 Bernard Shumate...... 1980 Matthew Wagner...... 2000 John Peter...... 1980 Michael Siburt...... 2004 Thomas Waldrop...... 1951 Carl Peterson...... 1960 Clyde Simmers ...... 1971 Darryl Walker...... 1988 Lawrence Phipps...... 1960 Howell Simmons...... 1960/1963 William Ward...... 1995 Daniel Phlegar...... 1970 Jennifer Simmons...... 1995/2004 Thomas Washington...... 1953 Warren Poarch...... 1966/1972 Larry Simmons...... 1969 Christopher Weaver...... 2005 Nancy Powell...... 1977 Carol Sinclair...... 1983 Wells Estate...... 1958 Dwight Powell...... 1958 J. Keith Sinclair...... 1975 Edward Westerman...... 1993 Brian Prowell...... 1992 Anthony Sklanka...... 1975 Robert White...... 1950 Marcia Prowell...... 1992 Brian Smith...... 1999 Eric Whitney...... 1997 Archie Pugh...... 1990 Robert Spitzer...... 1981 Ronald Worley...... 1971 Carl Pugh...... 1985 Brian Staak...... 2006 Bruce Wright...... 1980 Michael Quillen...... 1970 David Stader...... 1997 Ker-Jen Ying...... 1991 Marie Raffay...... 1991 Bryan Stevenson...... 1996 Jerzy Zemajtis...... 1998 Michael Ramsey...... 1979 Jack Stewart...... 1953 Jennifer Zinck...... 2005 Robert Rees...... 1986 Harvey Strawsnyder...... 1971

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Friends Who Contributed ARCADIS Margaret Besse to CEE in 2006-2007 Ardaman & Associates, Inc. Nageshwar Bhaskar Michael Abraham Michael Arotis Inder Bhoovaraghan Ronald Abramson H. Pat Artis Peter Bjornberg Accenture Foundation Inc ASCE Metropolitan Los Angeles Black & Veatch Corporation Branch Craig Adams Terri Blackmar ASCE Peninsula Branch Robert Adamski Blacksburg Christiansburg VPI Water Katelyn Asselin Authority Advanced Production Systems Inc. Advanced Structural Concepts ATAC Corporation Arlys Blakey AISC Education Foundation Atlantic Constructors Inc. Lee Block Ann Ainsworth Auburn Student Chapter- ASCE Dennis Bluhm Tracie Akins Baker Properties Group Bradley Bodman Jason Alexander Balzer and Associates, Inc. Bohler Engineering Roberta Alexander Neal Banerjee Michelle Boltz American Council of Engineering Kate Barald Cindy Booth Companies Kristin Barmoy Donald Both ACEC - Virginia Shannon Bartelt-Hunt Bowman Consulting Group American Infrastructure Ross Bassett Jared Bramblett American Institute for Steel Sunanda Basu Diane Briggs Construction Romesh Batra Christopher Brown American Society of Civil Engineers BE&K Government Group, Inc. Kathleen Buchholtz George Anderson Bechtel Foundation Lisa Burge Anderson & Associates, Inc. Philip Berdis Douglas Burt APWA - Suncoast Branch Cafe Right Angle Caliper Corporation Campbell & Paris Engineers Cynthia Cardin Dennis Carper Kathleen Carroll Traci Case Amy Caywood CH2M Hill Foundation Michael Chambers Bhargavi Chavali Loni Chewning Lee Chin Christopher Consultants, Ltd. The Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Achievement Awards for 2007 were Ciesla for Senate presented to five Distinguished Alumni and to three Outstanding Young Alumni. Daniel Clayton Pictured together as one group, from left to right, are: Louis L. Guy, Jr., Steve Mein- inger, Michael C. Brown, J.W. Bonniville, Patrick Shaffner, Don Garst, Anne Ellis, Dan John Clements Carson, and Raymond Curry, Jr.

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CMAA at Virginia Tech Patrick Fite Hayward Baker Company Pamela Colesworthy Edwin Fleischer Thurman Heironimus Joe Collins Fluor Foundation Ann Heltzel Computers and Structures, Inc. JoAnna Fonville Mark Henson Dinshaw Contractor Nancy Forbes Eric Hersh Monica Cook Patricia Forbes Floyd Hetzer Cordilleran Compliance Services, Inc. James Foster David Higie Cortech Systems LC Mark French Len Hill Angela Cottrell Karen Fry Denise Hiner Loran Courpet Rajender Gaddam Thomson Hirst Edwin Cruz Philip Gammon Louise Hoang CSSI, Inc. Gannett Fleming, Inc. Charles Hoke Stephanie Cumbie Don Garst Patrick Holden Lisa Dafoe Teresa Gates Jean Holman William Davidge GE Foundation Henry Holtzmann Janet Davis GeoConcepts Engineering, Inc. Robert Hopson Roy Davis Geopier Foundation Company, Inc. Paul Huang Thomas Decker GeoSyntec Consultants Dodie Hudson Tim Dell Geosynthetic Institute Mary Hughes Sidney Dewberry Mary Gibson M.R. Humphrey Dewberry & Davis, LLC Donald Goldberg Emily Humphreys Robert Diamond Golder Associates, Inc. Troy Hunter Pamela Digges David Good Daniele Huntington Panayiotis Diplas Robert Gore Barry Hurff Draper Aden Associates Serengulam Govindan Salih Iddrisu Lynn Dunaway Laura Grablutz Rosalind Ivory Dana Dykhouse Greenhorne & O’Mara Gopalkrishnan Iyer W. Samuel Easterling Vineela Griddaluru Joan James ECS Corporate Services LLC Julia Groff Bob Jansen The Eddy Group D.J. Hagerty John M. Anderson Construction James Edzwald Shannon Hair Company Corp. Lauren Eskra Haley & Aldrich Gary Johnson Jeffrey Evans Kathleen Hall John Jones Ronald Ewing Maureen Hall Larry Jones Fairfax County (VA) Hannum, Wagle & Cline Engineering Sherry Jones Edward Farquhar Shawn Harden Vijay Kadayam Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Leland Harms Kiran Kambhampati Fund Roswell Harris Edward Kavazanjian George Filz Paula Harrison Stephen Keighton Matthew Findley William Hawes Sid Kere

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Ellen Kerley Mark McGinley Terry Pearson Linda Kessler McKinney & Company Pembroke Construction Co. Theresa Kidwell McMahon Associates, Inc. Richard Pennock Kiewit Constructors, Inc. Kevin McNiff Margaret Perkinson Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc. Andrea McSweeney Marianne Peterson Ronald King Renee Medlin Catherine Piche Gary Kirkbride Michael Baker Corporation Josephine Pillis Deanna Knobelspiesse W.W. Miles Vicki Pillis William Knocke George Miller Pioneer Environmental Assoicates, LLC Marcia Kolankiewicz Ivy Miller Charles Pittinger Deborah Koller Montserrat Mintz Dan Pleasant Lawrence Kroll Jeanne Miraglia Subhadra Ponnada Scott Kroll Pradyumna Misra Precast Prestressed Concrete Institute Kevin Kulick James K. Mitchell Frederick Pribble Kyle LaClair Jean Mitchell John Primm Jill Landsman J.P. Mohsen PSU/ITE Student Chapter Langan Engineering and Environmental Laura Monahan Irwin Radezky Services, Inc. Gerard Mrykalo Deborah Radisch Philip LaRocque Maragret Mueller-Tyler Ramaswamy Raghavan Mary Ann Lees Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers Railroad Mall Properties Ford Legarreta Richard Murch Shrikant Ramdas Brian Leonard National Ground Water Association Ravindra Rao John Leonardis Clifford Nelson R.R. Rasmussen John Leonardis Dani Newcomb Janet Raymond Jennifer Lester Nicholson Construction Company Rodney Redwing Littleton Lewis Dell Nunaley Mark Reiner Lingerfelt Family Foundation NXL Construction Services, Inc. Barbara Rekart Laura Linn Michael O’Leary Christopher Reseigh Janice Lively Lawrence Olinger Donald Reynolds Suzanne Locklair Omega Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Scott Reynolds Nancy and Brian Love Yusuke Orito Marc Richman Malcolm Pirnie Joseph Paciulli Richmond Joint Engineers’ Council Sanjeev Malushte Paciulli, Simmons & Associates, Ltd. Theodore Rieger Paul Manno Subramanian Palaniappan Rinker Design Associates, P.C. Maryland Land Design Daniel Palkovic Louis Robbins David Maxwell Elena Pangilinan Kimberly Roberts Deborah Mayo Mary Parola Rockaway Consulting, Inc. McCandlish & Lillard, PC Priti Patel Rockwell Automation Charitable Richard McCannell Therese Payne Corporation Susan McClean PB Foundation, Inc. Jonathan Roller

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Christopher Romanowski Stanley D. Lindsey & Assoc. LTD Vermont Section ASCE Dennis Rooney Stearns & Wheeler LLC Alan Veverka Derek Rosenberg Cheryl Stockton Virginia Dept of Transportation Patricia Rosensteel Pat Subramanian Virginia Geotechnical Services Matthew Rudolph Julie Sueker Kenneth Wagner Timothy Rudolph Syed Suhaib John Walker Stephen Ryan Zhihui Sun Richard Walker S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation T.J. Willard & Associates, Inc. Walker Title, LLC S&ME Maher Tadros Jennifer Wall Alex Sabo Jason Takacs Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. Robin Sadler Mary Faith Tantillo Eleni Ward Susan Sajadi James Taylor Stephen Webb Lynn Salmon Tellico Village Aen Webster San Diego Younger Member Forum Prabhakar Thaniksasalam T.A. Weigel ASCE The Studio at Cathy’s LLC Justin Weiler Melanie Sattler-Dennis Carlene Thomas Brooke Weinstein Laurence Sauter Kurt Thompson Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Benjamin Schafer Ruth Timpe Inc. Fred Schardein Christine Todd Thirza Whitney Sarah Scharff Charles Tomasch Mark Widdowson Jamie Schiller Rosaleen Tomasch Mildred Wiggert Elizabeth Schmitt Joseph Tomlinson Wiley & Wilson, Inc. Schnabel Engineering Associates Sue Traub Wilkes University Schnabel Foundation Company Rohitkumar Trevedi William L. Berry Family Foundation Tamara Sheldon Treviicos Corporation Brooke Williams David Simon Brenda Tudge Beverly Williges Simpson Strong Tie Company, Inc. Charles Ulrich Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoicates, Inc. Julia Skare URS Mark Witek SME Chicago Chapter 5 Shane Ussery Susan Wolf C.J. Smith U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lisa Wolff Josila Smith USACOE Waterways Exp. Station Sharon Wood Paula Snow U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Liang Wu Bhaskar Sompalli VA AWWA Andrea Yakubovich Gale Sosebee Valentine Engineering Associates, Inc. Jung Yoon Dorothy Spindle Mike Vallancourt Michael Younts Jane Sporleder Van Meter Industrial, Inc. Larry Zimmerman Springdale Community Church Robert Van Vranken Peng Zin Justin Staley Jerry Varnon Petrovic Zlatko Michael Stallings VCC Winifred Stambaugh Vecellio Family Foundation, Inc.

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