Civil Engineering

Dr Zeng explores Lunar Regolith scoop from Surveyor 3 spaceship as part of NASA’s Regolisth Characterization NASA Story

Professor Gasparini and Mullen visited the Gerace Construciton Company in Midland MI. Mr. Gerace is an alumnus of the Department. Pictures of the Gerace precast yard with 100ft+ pre-stressed beams can be found at Pictures of Gerace Trip on Facebook

Professor Gasparini gave a one-week short course on stochastic process models in civil engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece, on June 2-6, 2008. Professor Gasparini also presented a seminar on the design of structures for actively-controlled Maglev vehicles.

Professor Saada’s 2008 Graduation pictures are at Pictures from 2008 graduation

Mark Rokoff an Adjunct Assistant Professor has won the Cleveland Technical Societies Council’s Technical Achievement Award. Mark is also an alumnus of the Civil Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University. Mark will receive his award at the 62nd annual achievement and awards event being held on Wednesday, May 14th at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven 6111 Landerhaven Dr. Cleveland, OH 44124. Banquet Further Information

Mahmoud (Mike) Khoncarly, PhD, P.E., Managing Discipline Engineer for Civil/Structural/Architectural/Environmental Engineeiing at URS Washington Division was selected as the 2008 Civil Engineer of the Year by the Cleveland Section of ASCE. Mike will receive his award at the June 12, 2008 ASCE Dinner Meeting.

Bart Zalewski will give a talk on “Determining Worst Case Errors in Computing Solutions to Partial Differential Equations”. The seminar will be in Auburn Science Building at the University of Akron on April 1 at 11:00.Abstract

Profs. Mullen, Huckelbridge and McGuffin-Cawley let a round table discussion at the 56th Annual Design and Construction Conference on March 12, 2008. The session’s focus was “Desiging and Constructing the Future Engineer.”

Congratulations to Heather Oravec, Case Western Reserve University, on winning first place for her research entitled: “Understanding the Mechanical Properties of Lunar Soil for the Study of Vehicle Mobility”.

Prof. Gasparini will give the opening night talk “Why are 19th century stone arches relevant to 21th century structural engineers?” This National Conference is at Ohio State on April 28-29 2008. Program and Registration

Mr. Zalewski will speak on “Worst Case Bounds on the Point-wise Discretization Error in Boundary Element Method for Elasticity Problem”. Prof. Mullen will talk on “Static Analysis of Uncertain Structures Using Interval Eigenvalue Decomposition”. Prof. Mullen is co-chair for the meeting held on Feb 20-22, 2008 in Savannah Ga. Workshop web site

Min Jian Tao, Ph.D. - Civil Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Andrew T. Metzger, PhD, PE - Civil Engineering Department at University of Alaska - Fairbanks.

Judy Wang, Ph.D. - Civil Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines - Golden Colorado.

Mehdi Modares, Ph.D. - Civil Engineering Department at Tufts University - Boston.

Prof. Panoskaltsis has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the Conference “Plasticity 08”, in Hawaii, January 2008.

Professor Mullen will present “Computing on Sets -Bounds on the Local Error in Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations in Engineering Analysis” at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University on Thursday, November 29th 2007 powerpoint slides

3:30 Reception: Burden Lounge (Anderson Hall 108)

4:30-6:00 Lecture: Anderson Hall 312

Professor Dario Gasparini and Judith Wang received the 2006 Outstanding Paper Award from the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities for their paper:”Battery-Joralemon Street Tunnel,” which appears in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, February, 2006, p92-107. Judith Wang is a former NSF Fellow in the Department who is now Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

October 24, 2007 Simmons

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October 24, 2007

To make life a little more interesting we are holding a dinner meeting next Wednesday (Sept. 19th) night in Bingham Rm. 103. The meeting will be a round table discussion with current civil engineering professionals from the Cleveland area. There will hopefully be representatives from all walks of civil engineering including construction management, geotech, structural, environmental, and water resources. We will be able to ask them questions pertaining to their jobs right after graduation, likes/dislikes of their job, daily tasks, and anything else imaginable. This is a great opportunity to get an idea of what to expect and maybe help steer your academic focus in a new direction. Along with the round table there will also be plenty of pizza, drinks, and a healthy serving of surprise guest Grant Mott. So save the date Wednesday Sept. 19th, 5:15 p.m., Bingham room 103.

12:30 p.m., September 14 in the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, Room 9, lower level of Crawford Hall. Joseph Calabrese, chief executive officer of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority will lead a discussion on the Euclid Corridor Project.

Professor Panoskaltsis gave an Invited talk at the 18th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference at Virginia Tech, June 3-6, 2007 entitled: “Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Modeling Asphalt Concrete and Pavements: An Internal Variable Approach”

Program Information

• The Department of Civil Engineering is pleased to announce that Professor Tony Saada is the recipient of this year’s G. Brooks Earnest Award, given by the Cleveland ASCE Section to recognize the outstanding contributions of renowned civil engineers. Prof. Saada will be the guest of honor at the G. Brooks Earnest Award dinner on the evening of Wednesday, November 1 and will present a lecture entitled “Civil Engineering with a Sense of History: The Stories Behind the Equations.”

• Please join your colleagues and friends in honoring Prof. Saada and learning about his unique perspectives on civil engineering practice and history. Case students are especially welcome and may attend the dinner for only $10 (following partial reimbursement by the department). Reserve your place before October 27 by contacting Ms. Vicki Swidron (lewin@apk.net; 216-696-8151) or me (skubal@case.edu; signup sheet outside 216 Bingham).

• The Civil website has undergone a complete face-lift, some work is still underway.