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Dr. Charles Nmai SPEAKERS Gary Mass SPONSORS Dr. Charles Nmai, Ph.D., PE, FACI Gary graduated from South Dakota was recently honored with the Civil School of Mines & Technology - Rapid GCC of America Engineering Alumni Achievement City, South Dakota in 1964 with a award by the faculty of the Purdue Michael Schneider BSCE. He is a registered Civil Engineer Dakota Chapter of ACI University School of Civil in California, Oregon, Washington, Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Schneider has a bachelor’s degree Colorado, and Wyoming. Gary began South Dakota Ready Mix Concrete civil engineering from Purdue in personnel management from his career with the California Association Department of Water Resources, Design University in 1987. Since then he has been employed Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Croell Redi-Mix Inc. by BASF Construction Chemicals, where he currently as well as a degree in construction and Construction Branch, during serves as engineering manager responsible for management from the University of construction of the State Water Project. During his career Hills Materials Company providing technical leadership and strategic guidance Cincinnati in 1978. He has been Gary worked on numerous water resource projects in the marketing of admixtures and high-performance with Baker Concrete Construction, worldwide, including construction of a 380-ft high roller- Pete Lien & Sons Inc. concrete technologies. In addition to his work at Inc. in Monroe, Ohio for over 30 compacted concrete dam on the border between Jordan BASF, Nmai is very active in industry associations. years and is currently the Sr. Vice President and and Syria and the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Project in Cretex West He is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute Chief People Officer. Mike served as President of China. Gary was concrete specialist/airfield pavements for LAFARGE-NA (ACI), an honorary member of ASTM Committee ASCC in 2005-2006 and has been an active member the project management team during construction of the C09 and currently chairs subcommittee C09.23 on since 1999. He was named one of the 10 Most airfield at Denver International Airport (DIA). He SDSM&T, CEE Department, & ASCE Chemical Admixtures. In 2009, he was honored at the Influential People in the Concrete Industry by continues to be active in the American Concrete Institute Student Chapter Ninth ACI International Conference on Concrete Construction magazine in 2005. (ACI) as a member for over 50 years and past chairman of ACI Committee 211 on Mixture Proportioning and ACI Superplasticizers and Other Chemical Admixtures for Registration Fee: Advance payment is $145 outstanding and sustained contributions in this field. Committee 207 on Mass Concrete. (Retirees and Students are $30.) This fee includes refreshments during the coffee breaks and lunch. Cody Schellinger Chris Shearer Continuing Education: Each participant Cody is a senior civil engineering Dr. Chris Shearer is an Assistant Pro- student at South Dakota School of attending (Entire Day) will receive a certificate fessor in the Department of Civil and of 7 PDH’S or 0.7 CEU. Mines and Technology with a Environmental Engineering at South structural emphasis. He is a mem- Dakota School of Mines and Technol- Information: For further information contact ber of ASCE, ACI, and AISC along ogy. His research investigates the SDSM&T Civil Engineering Department at with Engineers and Scientists chemical, physical, and mechanical Abroad, and Circle K. He is cur- properties and durability performance (605) 394-2439 rently the ASCE Student Chapter of infrastructure materials, with a focus on sustainable Or M.R. Hansen at Historian and the ESA Secretary as well as an active concrete materials technology. He has worked as a Email: [email protected] member of concrete canoe and steel bridge. Through structural engineer at the Ohio Department of Transpor- Engineers and Scientists Abroad, Cody has travelled tation and at URS Corporation, and has consulted for Hotel Accommodations: to Bogota, Colombia and Mongolia. In Bogota, he industry on materials-related issues. He is the recipient The Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, worked on a slope stability project as well as a rain- of the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate $77/night, 1-605-348-4000 water harvesting system. His most recent trip to Mon- Fellowship, the Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship, Group Code: ACI golia was spent repairing a failing commuter bridge and the American Concrete Institute Presidents’ Fellow- six miles east of Darkhan, Mongolia with six fellow ship and Scholarship. He received his BS in civil engi- Tax Deduction or Expenses: An income tax engineering students. The project included raising the neering from Ohio Northern University, and his MS and deduction is allowed for expenses of education deck of the Argylin Garam Bridge and preventing the PhD in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of (including registration fees, travel, and lodging) piles from continuing to sink. His current research is Technology. undertaken to maintain or improve professional on self-healing concrete with Dr. M.R. Hansen. skills (See Treas, Reg, 1.162-5, Coughlin vs. Commissioner 203F2D 307)