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Spring 2007 Structures, Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering Seminar Series

Light refreshments will be served

Seminar Coordinator:

Dr. Jennifer McConnell (righman@udel.edu)

Speaker

Date

Time and Place

A Career in Bridge Engineering: The Experiences of a UD Graduate

William Johnson (BCE99, MCE01), Bridge Engineer, Figg Engineering

Thursday, March 15 3:30 - 4:30
350 DuPont

UD-CEE Graduate Students:

In-Service Monitoring of Bridges
Michael Rakowski (MCE08)

Future Goals for Delaware's First Smart Bridge
Robert Natale (MCE08)

Thursday, April 5 3:30 - 4:30
350 DuPont

UD-CEE Graduate Students:

Distortional Buckling in Steel I-Girders
Geoffrey Burrell (MCE07)

Monitoring the Indian River Inlet Bridge
Patrick Carson (MCE08)

Thursday, April 12 3:30 - 4:30
350 DuPont

UD-CEE Graduate Students:

Delaware's First Smart Bridge
Nicole Reader (MCE07)

Evaluating Ultimate Bridge Capacity Through Destructive Testing of Decommissioned Bridges
Justin Ross (MCE07)

Thursday, April 26 3:30 - 4:30
350 DuPont

UD-CEE Graduate Students:

Evaluation of the Service II Limit State for Elastic and Moment Redistribution
Michael Zettlemoyer (MCE07)

Analysis of the AASHTO Fatigue and Fracture Limit State for Steel
Bridges Using Reliability Theory

Benjamin Cross (MCE07)

Thursday, May 3 3:30 - 4:30
350 DuPont

Arnold D. Kerr Lecture

Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century

David Billington, Professor of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University

Wednesday, May 9 4:00 - 5:00
Mitchell Hall

UD-CEE Graduate Students:

Analytical Modeling to Predict Bridge Performance Under Blast Loading
Renee Cimo (MCE07)

Infrastructure Blast Protection Using Advanced Composites
Evan Brodsky (MCE07)

Strain Gage Instrumentation of a Geogrid Reinforced Mechanically Stabilized Earth Wall
Scott Berkheimer (MCE07)

Thursday, May 10 3:30 - 4:30
350 DuPont

Highlights
Jack Puleo has won the NSF Early Career Development Award
Jack Puleo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study swash zone sediment transport. The swash zone is the area near the shoreline where waves wash up and down the beach face.

The five-year $444,229 award is aimed at developing a broader understanding of the physics of coastal sediment transport in this area, thereby leading to significant improvement in the ability to predict such coastal phenomena as beach erosion and beach nourishment performance.

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