Spring 2012 Seminars

Challenges and Inovations Seminar Series

Nature’s Influence on Tall Building Design
Mark Sarkisian, P.E., S.E., M.ASCE
Director of Structural Engineering, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP
Thursday, January 26, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

Reframing Wind Engineering: New Climate and New Tools
Horia HANGAN, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Project Leader, The Wind Engineering, Energy and Environment (WindEEE) Dome; Professor and Director, The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory,
The University of Western Ontario
Thursday, February 2, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

Projecting Infrastructure Renewal Needs and Future Asset Conditions in the Context of Fiscal Constraints While Optimizing Strategic Goals
Robert L. Peskin, Ph.D.
Senior Consulting Manager, Transportation, AECOM
Thursday, February 9, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

London 2012: Extreme Engineering
Michael A. Szomjassy
President, Environmental Services, CH2M Hill
Thursday, February 23, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

From Super-Simple to Complex 3D: Building Meaningful Models of Coupled Physics and Biology in Tidal Aquatic Systems
Lisa V. Lucas
Research Engineer, Ecohydrodynamicist, US Geological Survey
Thursday, March 12, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

Airborne Lasers for Coastal Subsea Mapping, Regional Shoreline
Characterization and Assessment

Jennifer M. Wozencraft
Research Physical Scientist, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, USACE Engineer Research and Development Center
Director, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise
Thursday, March 22, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

Burying Our Problems – Innovative Underground Solutions to Vexing Societal Problems
Michael G. Vitale, P.E.,
Senior Vice President, Midwest Tunnel Practice Leader
Hatch Mott MacDonald
Thursday, March 29, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

Engineering Wood-frame Buildings for Wind and Seismic Loading
David Rosowsky
Professor, Dean of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, April 12, 2012
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
140 DeBartolo Hall

 


                                    
                                    

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Past Seminars


Challenges and Inovations Seminar Series

Carcinogens in Drinking Water: From Natural Precursors to Disinfection Byproducts in the Home
David Reckhow
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thursday, September 8, 2011
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall

Battery Park City
Edward Fitzpatrick
Retired, President of Fitzpatrick Construction
Thursday, September 15, 2011
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall

Quo Vadis Wavewatch III: A Career in Living on the Beach
Hendrik L. Tolman
Physical Scientist, NCEP/EMC/Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch, NOAA
Thursday, September 29, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall

Unraveling the Mysteries of Tornadoes: The Quest for Safer Communities
Fred L. Haan, Jr.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 6, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall

Light Water Reactor Severe Accident R&D at Argonne Related to the Nuclear Accident in Japan
Mitchell T. Farmer
Section Manager, Engineering Development Laboratories, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, October 27, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall

Earthquakes, Hurricanes and other Disasters: A View from Space
Ronald T. Eguchi
President and CEO, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA
Thursday, Novemeber, 10, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall

Building Hoover Dam
Paul Giroux, P.E., M.ASCE
District Quality Manager, Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
138 DeBartolo Hall

Environmental Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series

Fluid dynamics and morphometric based approaches for city management and sustainability
Silvana Di Sabatino
University of Lecce, Italy
Tuesday September 6th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

Hydrologic Controls on Soil Nutrients: the role of soil moisture, stoichiometry and topography
Amilcare Porporato
Duke University
Tuesday September 13th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

Experimental study of the initial stages of wind waves' spatial evolution
Dan Liberzon
Tel Aviv University/University of Notre Dame
Tuesday September 20th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

High-resolution nearshore wave and flow modeling: infrastructure, numeric and physics
Andre Van der Westhuysen
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tuesday September 27th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

The Challenge of Fully-Predictive Hydrologic Models Supported by Observations:
Recent Experiences and Prospects in Semiarid Systems

Enrique Vivoni
Arizona State University
Monday October 3rd, 2011
3:00 p.m.
The Oak Room, 2nd floor of South Dining Hall

Carbon storage: caught between a rock and climate change
Herbert Huppert
University of Cambridge
UK Fellow of Royal Society London;
Member of US National
Academy of Sciences. 
Murdy Family Lecture
Tuesday October 11, 2011
11:00 a.m.
The Oak Room

The City of Chicago's Science-Driven Sustainability Initiatives
Lyndon Valicenti
City of Chicago
Tuesday October 25th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

The Role of Physical Modeling in Understanding Environmental Flows
Don Boyer 
Arizona State University
Tuesday November 1st, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

Near-Inertial Poincare Waves in Lake Michigan: Observations and Consequences
Carey Troy
Purdue University
Tuesday November 8th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

Fractional Calculus in Hydrology and Geophysics
Mark Meeschaert
Michigan State University
Tuesday November 15th, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick

 

 

 

Development of Reliable Hydrologic Data Sets in Difficult Environments: Case Studies from Benin, West Africa
Dr. Stephen E. Silliman
2011 Darcy Lecturer
Thursday, January 20, 2011
4:00 p.m.
118 DeBartolo Hall

Hydraulics In The Time Of Cholera: The Chicago River, Lake Michigan and Public Health
Marcelo H. Garcia
University of Illinois-Urbana
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
11:00 a.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall


Challenges and Inovations Seminar Series

The Engineering Profession - Leadership in Motion
Bud Ahern
Retired Senior Executive, CH2M HILL Ltd.     
Thursday, January 27, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo

Hurricane Winds: Inside the Storm and at the Laboratory
Kurtis Gurley
Associate Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida
Thursday, February 3, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo

Evolutionary Dynamics and Ecophysiology of Microbial Reductive Dehalogenation
Dr. Alfred Spormann
Stanford University
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
4:00 p.m.
120 DeBartolo Hall

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disaster
Bruce Parker
Retired Chief Scientist of the National Ocean Service in NOAA, Director of the Coast Survey Development Lab, Director of the World Data Center for Oceanography; Presently Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevenson Institute of Technology
Thursday, February 24, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo

Reaching Beyond 1 Kilometer: Nakheel Super Tall Tower
Ahmad Rahimian, Ph.D., PE, SE
President, WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineers
Bart Sullivan, PE
Vice President, Director, Middle East, WSP Cantor Seinuk Structural Engineers
Thursday, March 31, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo

Engineering Great Architecture
Dave Eckmann
Principal, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Thursday, April 7, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo

The Quest for Pure Water…From Atoms to Oceans
Harry F. Ridgway
Consulting Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Director, AquaMem Consultants, Rodeo, New Mexico
Thursday, April 14, 2011
3:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo

 

 

2010

Challenges and Innovations Seminar Series

Integrated Water and Resource Management for Increased Urban
Sustainability: Cities of the Future
Glen T. Daigger, Ph.D., PE, BCEE, NAE
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
CH2M HILL
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall

Important Design Considerations for a Modern Office Tower
Robert McNamara, Founding Principal
McNamara/Salvia Inc. Consulting Engineers, Boston
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall

Design and Construction of Earth Retaining Structures
Dennis Murphy, Retired President
Kiewit Engineering Company
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
4:30 p.m
129 DeBartolo Hall

Battling the Bad Vibes: Fluid-Structure Interaction Phenomena in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Michael Tognarelli, Ph.D.
Floating Systems and Risers Engineer
Deepwater Facilities Technology, BP America, Inc.
Wednesday, Febfruary 24, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall

Small Scale Structures in Coastal Flows: Observations and Modeling
Philippe Fraunie
University of Toulon, France
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

The Outfall Sewer Story
Edward B. Fitzpatrick Jr., PE, Retired, President
Fitzpatrick Construction
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall

Global Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and the Sustainability of our
Nation’s Beaches
Robert G. Dean, ScD, NAE
Graduate Research Emeritus
Civl and Coastal Engineering Department
University of Florida
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall

Philosophy of Structural Engineering for the Burj Dubai – The World’s Tallest Structure
Lawrence Novak, SE, SECB, Leed AP
Director, Engineered Buildings
Portland Cement Association, Skokie, IL
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
4:30 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall

Haiti Earthquake: Lessons Learned and Hope for the Future
Tracy Kijewski-Correa
Associate Chair and Linbeck Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Alexandros Taflanidis
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, September 2, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo

Five Decades of Tall Buildings Design: Historical and Engineering Perspectives from Fazlur Kahn’s Era
to Present
Joseph Colaco, NAE       
President, CBM Engineers Inc.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo

Engineering in 2030: How the Engineering Profession is Changing
Jorg Imberger, NAE Foreign Associate
Professor of Environmental Engineering,
Director, Centre for Water Research, University of Western Australia
Thursday, September 23, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo

Lessons Learned about Offshore Production Facilities in Recent Hurricanes
Robert Gilbert
Brunswick-Abernathy Professor in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, October 7, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo

Assessing the Impact of Future Sea Level Rise and Climate Change on Hurricane Flood Level Statistics
Jen Irish
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Thursday, October 28, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo

Bigger is Better: The Multiple Benefits of Modularization in Heavy Industrial Construction
and Maintenance
Shaun A. Sipe, P.E.
Vice President of Organizational Development,Barnhart Crane & Rigging
Thursday, November 4, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo

Huffing and Puffing and Blowing It Down: Can we mitigate damage to houses in severe
storms?
Gregory Kopp
Professor, University of Western Ontario
Thursday, November 18, 2010
3:30 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall

Environmental Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series

Small Scale Structures in Coastal Flows: Observations and Modeling
Philippe Fraunie
Director, Laboratoire de Sondages Electomagnetiques de l'Environnement Terrest;
CNRS; and University of Toulon, France     
Tuesday, March 2, 2010                    
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Jets, Wakes and Dipolar Eddies in Stratified Fluids:
Laboratory experiments, theoretical modeling and possible applications
Sergey Voropayev
University of Notre Dame     
Tuesday, March 16, 2010                  
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Coupled Waves and Storm Surge in Southern Louisiana
Casey Dietrich
University of Notre Dame     
Tuesday, March 23, 2010                  
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Air Entrainment into Partially Filled Branching Pipes
Jeffrey A. Brown - Senior Engineer
Arizona Public Service
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
Tuesday, April 6, 2010                      
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Vertical Contraction Scour
Dennis Lyn,
Professor of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Tuesday, April 13, 2010                    
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Carbon Dioxide Dispersion in the Ocean, with Applications to Carbon Sequestration
Gil Stegan, Vice President (Rtd)
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)       
Tuesday, April 13, 2010                    
3:00-3:30 p.m.
302 Cushing Hall

Multi-phase flow Interactions in Rapidly Filling Sewer Systems
Steven Wright
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Michigan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010                    
12:00-1:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Remote Sensing of the Environment
 Jonathan Malay
President-Elect, American Meteorological Society 
Director, Civil Space & Environment Programs, Lockheed Martin Corp. Washington Operations
 Tuesday, May 4th,
12:00 noon
138 DeBartolo Hall

The Large Lakes Observatory and an example of lake research: Paleoenvironmental records from Lake Qinghai, China.
Steven M. Colman
Professor of Geological Sciences
Director, Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Tuesday, August 24, 2010                 
11:00- noon
Notre Dame Room, 202 Lafortune Student Center

Risk Assessment of Windborne Debris and Hurricane Storm Surge:
Two Applications of Poisson Theory
Ning Lin
Postdoctoral Fellow,
MIT Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Tuesday, August 31, 2010                 
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick Hall


Dr. Eliezer Kit,
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, September 7, 2010              
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick Hall


Dr. Diogo Bolster,
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, September 14, 2010            
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick


Jorg Imberger
Professor of Environmental Engineering,
Director, Centre for Water Research
University of Western Australia
Tuesday, September 21st,
11:00 am
Notre Dame Room, 202 LaFortune Student Center

Long Waves Through Emergent Vegetation
Dr. Chiang Mei,
Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus, MIT
Tuesday, September 28, 2010            
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Specifics of Ocean Turbulence Influenced by Topography
Dr. Iossif Lozovatsky,
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, October 5, 2010                  
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Development of New Tools for Urban Fluid Mechanics: A Travel Report from a Long Journey
Dietmar Rempfer
MMAE Dept., IIT Chicago
Tuesday, October 12, 2010                
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Theoretical and numerical modeling of two-phase flows of environmental importance
Fabian Bombardelli
University of California, Davis
Tuesday, October 26, 2010                
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Modeling the Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere of Our Planet in a Changing Climate: Mathematical and Physical Challenges
Mauricio Santillana
Jim Henson Fellow,
Harvard University
Tuesday, November 2, 2010              
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

A New Model for Turbulent Dispersion
Benoit Cushman-Roisin
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Tuesday, November 9, 2010              
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Water, Energy and Insatiable Human Demands- A Call for Creative and Responsive Stewardship
Bryan W. Karney
Associate Dean, Applied Science and Engineering
University of Toronto
Tuesday, November 16, 2010            
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Thin Shear Layers - The Key to Turbulence Structure
Professor J.C.R. Hunt, FRS
(Lord Hunt of Chesterton)
Professor of Climate Physics,
University College London, UK
Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
Tuesday, November 30, 2010            
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Surge, Waves and Damage During Hurricane Ike
Andrew Kennedy
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, December 7, 2010              
11:00-12:00 noon
258 Fitzpatrick

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar Series

Transport Phenomena of Chemotactic Bacteria: Diffusion and Dispersion
In Porous Media
Dr. Roseanne Ford
University of Virginia
Thursday, March 4, 2010
4:00 p.m.
208 DeBartolo Hall

Inventories and Triggers of Biogenic Nitrous Oxide from Biological Wastewater
Treatment Processes
Dr. Kartik Chandran
Asst. Professor and Director CUBES Program Columbia University
Thursday, March 18, 2010
4:00 p.m.
208 DeBartolo Hall

Groundwaters Associated with Coalbed Methane: Geochemistry and Environmental Issues
Dr. James Drever
University of Wyoming
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
3:00 p.m.
214 DeBartolo Hall

Nutrient Removal Upgrades in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Dr. Charles Bott
Hampton Roads Sanitation District
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, April 15, 2010
4:00 p.m.
258 Fitzpatrick Hall

Predicting Pathways and Rates of Biochemical Reactions with Geomaterials
Alan T. Stone
Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering
John Hopkins University
Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 p.m.
208 DeBartolo Hall

High-Rate Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal in a Novel Biofilm Geometry:
Bridging Microbial Ecology and BioReactor Technology
Barth F. Smets
Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK
Eshbach Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, IL
4:00 p.m.
119 DeBartolo Hall

Where did Martian Water Go?
Dr. Carrick M. Eggleston, Ph.D
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Friday, October 1, 2010
3:30 p.m.
116 DeBartolo Hall

Need and Challenge of Alternative Water Sources for Use in Electric Power
Geologic Sequestration of CO2: Evaluating and Monitoring Seal Rock
David Dzombak
Carnegie-Mellon University
Thursday, October 14, 2010
11-Noon
127 Nieuwland Science Hall

Emergent Environmental Issues and Potential Solutions for Produced Water Management
During Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale for Natural Gas Production
Dr. Kelvin Gregory, Ph.D
Carnegie-Mellon University
Friday, November 5, 2010
3:00 p.m.
207 DeBartolo Hall

Big World, Unlimited Opportunities: A Veteran Engineer’s Journey of Four Decades in Industry
Calvin Chien, Ph.D
DuPont Fellow, DuPont Company
Thursday, November 11, 2010
3:45 p.m.
131 DeBartolo Hall

Legacy Contaminants in Soils-Their Nature, Properties and the Risk they Pose
Dr. Eric Suuberg
School of Engineering
Brown University
Friday, December 3, 2010
3:30 p.m.
213 DeBartolo Hall  

Edison Lecture Series

Mr. Jonathan Malay, President-elect of the American Meteorological Society and Director of Civil Space & Environment Programs in Lockheed Martin Corporation Washington Operations
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
12-1:00 p.m.
138 DeBartolo Hall

Structures Seminar Series

Integral Design of Controlled Resilient Structures
Dr. Andrei M. Reihorn, Ph.D, P.E.
Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor (of Structural Engineering)
University at Buffalo-The State University of New York
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
4:30 p.m.
117 DeBartolo Hall

Morphological Complexity of Material Microstructures: From Stochastic Models to Fracture Estimation
Kazimierz Sobczyk, Ph.D
Dr. Habil Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
3:30 p.m.
117 DeBartolo Hall

Effect of Vertical Earthquake Ground Motion on Reinforced Concrete Structures
Dr. Amr S. Elnashai, Ph.D
Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor
Head Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
University of Illinois
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
4:30 p.m.
117 DeBartolo Hall

On predicting long-term loads for utility-scale onshore and offshore wind turbines
Dr. Lance Manuel
Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellow in Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
4:30 p.m.
356A Fitzpatrick Hall

The Flight of Wind-Borne Debris in Extreme Wind Storms
Dr. Gregory Kopp, Ph.D
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
4:30 p.m.
210 DeBartolo Hall

Assessment and Refinements of Conditional Mean Spectrum
Erol Kalkan
U.S. Geological Survey
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
4:30 p.m. 209 DeBartolo Hall

2009

Design of Deepwater Offshore Production Systems
A.N. WIlliams
P&TD Hull Manager
SBM Atlantia
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Structural Design Innovation: Russia Tower and Other Tall Collaborations
Robert A. Halvorson, SE, PE, FASCE, FIStructE
Principal
Halvorson and Partners
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Options for Improving Recovery from Inland Brackish Water Desalination Systems
Desmond F. Lawler
University of Texas-Austin
Thursday, October 29, 2009

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

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

Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Surface Waves From Deep to Shallow Water
Q. Jim Chen
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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

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

Physiology of Bacterial Biofilms
Philip S. Stewart
University of Montana
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Microbial Transformation of Actinides
Toshihiko Ohnuki
September 18, 2009

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

Intelligent Integrated Microfluidic-Molecular Recognition and Catalysis in Single Nanopores and Nanopores Arrays
Dr. P.W. Bohn
University of Notre Dame
September 3, 2009

Recent Advances in Tracking Nutrient Sources in the Mississippi River Basin: Implications for Managing Gulf of Mexico Hypoxi
Richard B. Alexander
Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey
February 25, 2009

Design and Construction of Drilled Shafts
Dennis Murphy
Retired, President of Kiewit Engineering Company
March 25, 2009

Design of Deepwater Offshore Floating Oil and Gas Production Platforms
A.N. Williams
Atlantia Offshore Limited, Houston, Texas
April 1, 2009

Inovation in Infrastructure for Disaster Mitigation
Don Resio
Senior Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Engineer Research and Development Center
April 15, 2009

Groundwater System Responses to Paleoclimatic Changes During Late Pleistocene, Black Mesa Basin, Arizona
Chen Zhu
Indiana University
January 22, 2009

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

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


2008

Characterization of Biogeochemical Processes Following Sediment Capping: Redox Zone Development and Microbial Colonization
Joseph Hughes
Georgia Institute of Technology
December 4, 2008

The Influence of Microbial Ecology and Physiology in the Biotransformation of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater
Nancy Love
University of Michgan
December 11, 2008

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

Microbial Communities in Chloraminated Drinking Water Distribution Systems
Daniel Noguera
University of Wisconsin
November 20, 2008

Ethics of Resource Utilization
Daniel Lynch
MacLean Professor of Engineering Sciences
Dartmouth College
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Adventures in the Structures, Properties, and Environmental Impact of Actinide Materials
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
Auburn University
Monday, October 27, 2008

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

Still Oxides Run Deep: Results from an Fe Isotope Tracer Experiment
Michelle M. Scherer
The University of Iowa
Thursday, October 30, 2008

World of Trouble: Voyaging Through Stressed Ecosystems
H.J.S. Fernando
Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Arizona State University
Friday, October 31, 2008

Exploring Subsurface Contaminant Fate and Transport Processes at Multiple Scales
Philip M. Jardine
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Uniquely Constructed Bridges
Dave Lamoureux, P.E.
Design Engineer
Kiewit Engineering
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Offshore Wind Farms
Vagner Jacobson
Vice President
Offshore Technology, DHI
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Building the Brooklyn Bridge
Paul Giroux
Sr. Project Engineer
Kiewit Pacific Co.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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

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

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

Hydrology as a “Driver” of Headwater Catchment Processes
Roy C. Sidle
Disaster Prevention Research Institute
Kyoto University, Japan
Friday, April 18, 2008

Foundation Problems in Sinking Cassions for the Tacoma Narrows Expansion
Dennis Murphy
Vice President
Kiewit Corporation
Thursday, April 17, 2008

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

Forces and Anchoring of Caissons for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Dennis Murphy
Vice President
Kiewit Corporation
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Trump Tower
Jeremy Kirk
Structural Engineer
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Thursday, March13, 2008

Tsunamis
Tony Dalrymple
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
John Hopkins University
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Perdido Development Project
Dale Snyder
Shell Oil
Thursday, February 7, 2008

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


2007

High Temperature Oxide Melt Solution Calorimetry: Classical Method for Modern Challenges
Tatiana Shvareva
University of California/Davis
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Multihazard Performance-Based Approach for Progressive Collapse Analysis
Mehrdad Sasani
Department of Civil Engineering
Northeastern University
Monday, December 3, 2007

Mixed Cultures to Generate Bioenergy from Waste
Lars Angenent
Dept. of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
Washington University in Saint Louis
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Environmental Implications and Applications of Nanotechnology: Fullerene-Bacterial Interactions
Pedro J. Alvarez
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Rice University
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Mitigation of the Surface Fault Rupture Hazard
Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E.
University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Mass Transfer Performance of Membranes in Biologcally Active Environments
Michael J. Semmens
Department of Engineering
University of Minnesota
Thursday, October 18, 2007

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

Progressive CollapseResistance of RC Structures
Mehrdad Sasani
Department of Civil Engineering
Northeastern University
Monday, October 29, 2007

Novel Microsensors for Water Pollution Control
Paul L. Bishop
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Thursday, November 1, 2007

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