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CEE Professor Participates in Conference |
Prof. Sameh Badie gave a presentation entitled "Extending Shear Connector Spacing to 48.0 Inches" to the AASHTO T-10 Committee on Concrete Bridges and the PCI Committee on Bridges. The meeting took place during the 2009 National Bridge Conference, sponsored by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) and held in San Antonio, TX, September 12th - 15th. The presentation is part of the effort to adopt the finding of the NCHRP 12-65 (previously awarded to GW, with Prof. Badie as the principal investigator) into the AASHTO bridge design specifications. At the same conference, Razaq Ferhadi (CEE doctoral candidate) and Prof. Badie presented a paper entitled "Examining Various
Options to extend Span Range of Precast Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders." |
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CEE Professor Wins Awards on Paper |
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The Water Environment Federation has nominated Prof. Rumana Riffat for two medals for papers she published in its journal, Water Environment Research. She has been nominated for the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal for the 2008 publication of "Influence of Source Characteristics, Chemicals and Flocculation on Chemically Enhanced Primary Treatment." The medal is awarded for research that makes a vital contribution to existing knowledge of the fundamental principles or processes of wastewater treatment. The paper is coauthored by her graduate students Dilli Neupane and Marija Peric. She was also nominated for the George Bradley Gascoigne Medal for the 2008 publication of "Denitrification with Carbon Addition - Kinetic Considerations." The medal is awarded to the author(s) of an article that presents the solution of an important and complicated operational problem within a full-scale, operating wastewater treatment plant. The paper is coauthored by her graduate students Yalda Mokhayeri, Adam Nichols, and Jeneva Hinojosa. |
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CEE Professor Receives Grant |
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Prof. Samer Hamdar and his colleagues, Drs. Vinayak Dixit and Brian Wolshon of Louisiana State University and Dr. Anurag Pande of California Polytechnic State University, have received a three-year, $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their proposal, "New Methods for Measuring, Evaluating and Predicting the Safety Impact of Road Infrastructure Systems on Driver Behavior." GW has been allocated $250,000 of the total grant.
NSF recently funded “NUE: Nano Undergraduate Engineering at The George Washington University (NUE at GWU)” (Award #EEC-0939276). Prof. Baoxia Mi serves as a Co-PI and is responsible for developing undergraduate education in environmental nanotechnology at GW.
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CEE Student works on plug-in automobiles |
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Elham Sahraei is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a CEE Selective Excellence Fellowship holder. She holds a U.S. patent, entitled “Collision Safety Structure,” which is a structure to enhance the safety of drivers in cases of a frontal crash. |
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CEE Professor chairs conference session |
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Professor Azim Eskandarian chaired the Urban Transportation Systems technical session at the Urban Transport 2009 Conference in Bologna, Italy, June 22nd – 24th. As part of the same conference, Prof. Eskandarian’s paper, “Driver Behavior Models for a Driving Simulator-Based Intelligent Speed Adaptation System,” was published. The paper was co-authored by S.A. Arhin. Professor Baoxia Mi co-chaired a session on membrane fouling at the 2009 North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Annual Conference in Charleston, SC, June 21st - 24th. At the conference, she also presented "Gypsum scaling and cleaning mechanisms of forward osmosis membranes," a paper that she co-authored with Prof. Menachem Elimelech (Yale University). |
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CEE Professor presents at conferences |
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Professor Majid Manzari recently attended and made presentations at two conferences. At the Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, held June 8th - 10th, he co-chaired the DiMaggio Symposium, and in a separate session, he presented a paper entitled "Material vs. Structural Response of Saturated Granular Soil Specimens." At the International Conference on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: From Case History to Practice, held June 15th - 18th, Prof. Manzari chaired a technical session on "Soil Liquefaction and Countermeasures." He also presented a paper entitled "An Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential of Sands at Low Confining Pressure." |
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CEE Professor participates in conference |
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Professor Samer Hamdar participated in the "Eighth Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow" at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 22nd - 24th. The talk he presented at the conference is entitled "From Human Perception to Traffic Collisions: Modeling Driver Behavior in a Risk Taking Environment." |
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Research Professor Ken Digges received the prestigious SAE Arnold W. Siegel International Transportation Safety Award during the SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit. The award recognizes a leader who has made an impact in improving transportation safety and whose accomplishments include outstanding international research, innovation and contributions to crash injury protection, crash injury biomechanics and crash injury design. |
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Faculty Position Announcement |
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The George Washington University invites applications for a tenure-accruing faculty position at the Assistant Professor rank in the area of Materials Engineering. For further details, please see our Department Job Opportunities page, at: http://cee.seas.gwu.edu/content/view/60/47/ |
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Professor Haque wins award |
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Professor Muhammad Haque received a Life Member certificate at the 2009 Annual Awards Banquet of the National Capitol Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers on April 21. To achieve this status, a member must have reached their 65th birthday, have paid dues in any membership grade that when added to their age equals or exceeds 95, and have paid dues for at least 20 years. |
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Revised Electronic Theses/Dissertations (ETD) Approval Form |
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This form is part of the graduation clearance package. This same form is to be used with all Doctoral Dissertations (electronic submission only) and for electronic submission of Masters' Theses. |
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