Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences






		CURRENT SEMINARS Design of Deepwater Offshore Production Systems A.N. WIlliams P&TD Hull Manager SBM Atlantia Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall PAST SEMINARS Structural Design Innovation: Russia Tower and Other Tall Collaborations Robert A. Halvorson, SE, PE, FASCE, FIStructE Principal Halvorson and Partners Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Options for Improving Recovery from Inland Brackish Water Desalination Systems Desmond F. Lawler University of Texas-Austin Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Challenges of Surge and Wave Modeling for Pacific Islands Jane McKee Smith Research Hydraulic Engineer, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Validating the Seismic Performance of Self-Centering Steel Frames Using Hybrid Simulations Richard Sause, P.E. Director, Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Center Joseph T. Stuart Professor of Structural Engineering, Lehigh University Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Surface Waves From Deep to Shallow Water Q. Jim Chen Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:00 p.m. 118 De Bartolo Hall Phytoremediation: Concept and Science of Plant-Based Pollution Control for the Real "Green" Future Louis Licht, P.E. President Ecolotree, Inc. Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Building a 6-Mile Long Submarine: Large Diameter Tunneling Below the Water Table in Portland, Oregon Bill Mariucci Area Manager-Underground District Kiewit Construction Company Wednesday, October 7, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Physiology of Bacterial Biofilms Philip S. Stewart University of Montana Thursday, October 1, 2009 3:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Microbial Transformation of Actinides Toshihiko Ohnuki September 18, 2009 12:00 p.m. 258 Fitzpatrick Hall The Comforts of Ignorance and the Benefit of Arrogance- Lessons of the Failure Kind for the Practioner 2009 Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Edmund Medley September 16, 2009 4:30 p.m. 118 DeBartolo Hall Intelligent Integrated Microfluidic-Molecular Recognition and Catalysis in Single Nanopores and Nanopores Arrays Dr. P.W. Bohn University of Notre Dame September 3, 2009 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Recent Advances in Tracking Nutrient Sources in the Mississippi River Basin: Implications for Managing Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Richard B. Alexander Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey February 25, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Design and Construction of Drilled Shafts Dennis Murphy Retired, President of Kiewit Engineering Company March 25, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Design of Deepwater Offshore Floating Oil and Gas Production Platforms A.N. Williams Atlantia Offshore Limited, Houston, Texas April 1, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Inovation in Infrastructure for Disaster Mitigation Don Resio Senior Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center April 15, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall The Role of Consulting Engineers in Two Major Projects: Minneapolis/St. Paul LRT Project and Chicago Dan Ryan Construction Project Richard Wolsfeld, PE AICP President, AECOM Transportation February 4, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall The Audacity of Green, Building in the Obama Era Mike McNally President and CEO, Skanska USA Inc. Elizabeth J. Heider, AIA Leed AP Senior Vice President Preconstruction, Skanska USA Building Inc. February 11, 2009 4:30 p.m. 129 DeBartolo Hall Groundwater System Responses to Paleoclimatic Changes During Late Pleistocene, Black Mesa Basin, Arizona Chen Zhu Indiana University January 22, 2009 4:00 p.m. 117 DeBartolo Hall Characterization of Biogeochemical Processes Following Sediment Capping: Redox Zone Development and Microbial Colonization Joseph Hughes Georgia Institute of Technology December 4, 2008 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall The Influence of Microbial Ecology and Physiology in the Biotransformation of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Nancy Love University of Michgan December 11, 2008 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Structure in Motion--Design and Construction of Stadiums with Retractable Roofs and Playing Fields Larry Griffis, Structures Division, Senior Principal Walter P. Moore Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:30 p.m. -5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Microbial Communities in Chloraminated Drinking Water Distribution Systems Daniel Noguera University of Wisconsin November 20, 2008 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Ethics of Resource Utilization Daniel Lynch MacLean Professor of Engineering Sciences Dartmouth College Wednesday, November 5, 2008 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Adventures in the Structures, Properties, and Environmental Impact of Actinide Materials Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt Auburn University Monday, October 27, 2008 4:00 p.m. 120 DeBartolo Hall Land Reclamation Maasvlakte 2 at the Port of Rotterdam Mathijis van Ledden, Ph.D. Vice President, Coastal and Rivers Haskoning Inc. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:40 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Still Oxides Run Deep: Results from an Fe Isotope Tracer Experiment Michelle M. Scherer The University of Iowa Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall World of Trouble: Voyaging Through Stressed Ecosystems H.J.S. Fernando Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics Arizona State University Friday, October 31, 2008 1:00 p.m. 217 DeBartolo Hall Exploring Subsurface Contaminant Fate and Transport Processes at Multiple Scales Philip M. Jardine Oak Ridge National Laboratory Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Uniquely Constructed Bridges Dave Lamoureux, P.E. Design Engineer Kiewit Engineering Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Offshore Wind Farms Vagner Jacobson Vice President Offshore Technology, DHI Wednesday, October 8, 2008 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Building the Brooklyn Bridge Paul Giroux Sr. Project Engineer Kiewit Pacific Co. Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Burj Dubai, the World's Tallest Structure Ahmad Abdelrezaq, S.E Executive Vice President, Samsung Corporation Highrise and Structural Engineering Division Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Innovative Transportation Solutions for the Central Puget Sound Region Joseph P. Gildner, P.E. Deputy Executive Director Sound Transit-Link Light Detail Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 126 DeBartolo Hall Geochemical Controls on Microbial Fe (III) Oxide Reduction Kinetics Eric E. Roden Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday, September 4, 2008 4:00 p.m. 119 DeBartolo Hall Hydrology as a "Driver" of Headwater Catchment Processes Roy C. Sidle Disaster Prevention Research Institute Kyoto University, Japan Friday, April 18, 2008 3:00 p.m. 116 DeBartolo Hall Foundation Problems in Sinking Cassions for the Tacoma Narrows Expansion Dennis Murphy Vice President Kiewit Corporation Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. 138 DeBartolo Hall Tunnel and Resevoir Plan A major sanitary and flood control project in Chicago-109 miles of huge underground tunnels under the city of Chicago-one of the largest rock tunnel bores on record James Lindell Senior Vice President MWH Americas, Inc. Thursday, April 3, 2008 6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. 131 DeBartolo Hall Forces and Anchoring of Caissons for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Dennis Murphy Vice President Kiewit Corporation Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. 138 DeBartolo Hall Trump Tower Jeremy Kirk Structural Engineer Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Thursday, March13, 2008 6:00p.m. - 7:15 p.m. 138 DeBartolo Hall Tsunamis Tony Dalrymple Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor Department of Civil Engineering John Hopkins University Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:00 p.m.- 7:15 pm 138 DeBartolo Hall Perdido Development Project Dale Snyder Shell Oil Thursday, February 7, 2008 6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. 138 DeBartolo Hall Structural Health Monitoring (SHM): From Machine Maintenance to Machine Intelligence M.M. Reda Taha Assistant Professor & Regents' Lecturer Department of Civil Engineering University of New Mexico (UNM) Monday, February 11, 2008 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 258 Fitzpatrick Hall High Temperature Oxide Melt Solution Calorimetry: Classical Method for Modern Challenges Tatiana Shvareva University of California/Davis Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:00 p.m. 216 DeBartolo Hall Multihazard Performance-Based Approach for Progressive Collapse Analysis Mehrdad Sasani Department of Civil Engineering Northeastern University Monday, December 3, 2007 4:30 p.m. 116 DeBartolo Hall Mixed Cultures to Generate Bioenergy from Waste Lars Angenent Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering Washington University in Saint Louis Thursday, November 29, 2007 4-5 p.m. 116 DeBartolo Hall Environmental Implications and Applications of Nanotechnology: Fullerene-Bacterial Interactions Pedro J. Alvarez Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Rice University Thursday, November 15, 2007 4-5 p.m. 116 DeBartolo Hall Mitigation of the Surface Fault Rupture Hazard Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E. University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:00 p.m. 217 Cushing Hall (Engineering Student Lounge) The Mass Transfer Performance of Membranes in Biologcally Active Environments Michael J. Semmens Department of Engineering University of Minnesota Thursday, October 18, 2007 4-5 p.m. 116 DeBartolo Hall Smart Sensing Technology: A New Paradigm for Structural Health Monitoring B.F. Spencer, Jr .Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Friday, October 26, 2007 2:00 p.m. 117 DeBartolo Hall Progressive CollapseResistance of RC Structures Mehrdad Sasani Department of Civil Engineering Northeastern University Monday, October 29, 2007 1:45 p.m. 242 O'Shaughnessy Hall Novel Microsensors for Water Pollution Control Paul L. Bishop Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Cincinnati Thursday, November 1, 2007 4-5 p.m. 116 DeBartolo Hall Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556