CEE Seminars

2011

Periodically the CEE department sponsors seminars in the Engineering School complex. Friday seminars are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. in Olsson Hall 120 unless otherwise noted. Thursday seminars are scheduled for 3:30-5:00 p.m. All seminars are free and open to the public.

September 9

Inkyu Lim Ph.D., Virginia Department of Transportation
Virginia’s Highway Safety Improvement Programs - High Risk Rural Road (HRRR) Program
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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September 14

Kyle Lomax Wine to Water, International Projects Manager
Brad Ponack Filter Pure Filters, Director of Operations
NGO Implementation of International Water Projects and Appropriate Technologies
005 Olsson Hall 3:30 PM
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September 23

Lindsay Ivey Burden Ph.D. candidate, Georgia Tech
Earthquake Risk Assessment in Container Port Systems
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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September 30

Young Ho Chang P.E., Executive Vice President ATCS, P.L.C.
Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation: Capital Beltway and I-95 HOT Lanes Experience in Virginia
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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October 7

Nii O. Attoh-Okine Ph.D., Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware
Perspectives on the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and the Hilbert Huang Transform (HHT
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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October 14

Lance Dougald Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research
Altering Driving Behavior with Pavement Markings: The Zig-Zag Experiment
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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October 21

Cristopher D. Moen Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Computational Mechanics-Based Analysis and Design in Structural Engineering
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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October 28

John Kim Ph.D., P.E., Senior Professional Associate / Supervising Bridge Engineer of PB Americas, Inc.
World’s First Bridges Made of Recycled Plastics
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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November 4

Mathias J. Collins Hydrologist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Restoration Center, Gloucester, MA
Restoration Monitoring Integrated with Project and Program Planning: the case of the Merrimack Village Dam
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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November 7

Osman E. Ozbulut Post Doctoral Research Associate, Texas Transportation Institute
Smart Civil Infrastructure Systems Using Shape Memory Alloys
D221 Thornton Hall 3:30 PM
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November 14

Devin K. Harris Ph.D.,The Donald F. and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University
A Framework for Evaluating Bridge Infrastructure Condition and Service-Life Extension
D221 Thornton Hall 3:30 PM
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November 18

CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING and MATERIAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING JOINT SEMINAR
Professor Braden Allenby Ph.D., Founding Director, Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Engineering, Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering,
and Professor of Law, Arizona State University
The Challenge of Sustainable Engineering
Olsson Hall 120 2:00 PM
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2012

January 6

Kurt R. Rhoads Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University
Using Continuous-Flow Chemostat Bioreactors to Investigate Microbial Metabolism
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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January 20

Noah J. Goodall P.E., Research Scientist, Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research,
Ph.D. Candidate University of Virginia
Traffic Signal Control with Connected Vehicles
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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February 3

Daniel Dailey Ph.D., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Intelligent Transportation System Distributed Sensors; or Some ITS Sensors I have known….
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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February 10

Manousos Valyrakis Ph.D., Research Associate, Virginia Center for Coal & Energy Research,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Episodic Entrainment of Coarse Particles by Energetic Flow Events for Low Mobility Flows
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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February 17

Richard B. Coffin Ph.D., Section Head for Marine Biogeochemistry, Naval Research Laboratory
Global Carbon Issues: Studying Natural to Anthropogenic Cycles
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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March 2

Patrick G. Hatcher PH.D., Batten Endowed Chair, Physical Sciences, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Executive Director, Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium,
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Algaenan as an Important Co-product from Certain Algae: a New Source of Hydrocarbon-based Fuels
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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March 16

Dianjun Ren Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
Silver Nanoparticle Transport in Saturated Sandy Porous Media
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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March 23

Julia Reis Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
Integrating Health and Livelihood Management into Reservoir Operation
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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March 30

Frank Dukes PH.D., Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia
The Revitalization of Money Point: Restoration and Community Building on an Industrialized River
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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April 6

Chenxi Li Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
Quantitative molecular similarity analysis for predicting environmental properties and prioritizing emerging contaminants research
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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April 13

Burcu Akinci PH.D., Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Big Data: Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility Operations
120 Olsson Hall 1:30 PM
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April 20

John Mobley Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
Simulation-Optimization Approach for the Design of Outlet Control Structures for Ecological Detention Ponds
120 Olsson Hall 2:00 PM
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April 27

Wenqiong Tu Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials via Finite-volume Micromechanics
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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May 4

Lu Tan Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia.
A comparison of turbulent flows over clusters of varying density
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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May 11

Jon Mellor Ph.D. Candidate Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia
Modeling the Complexities of Water, Hygiene and Sanitation in Limpopo Province South Africa
D221 Thornton Hall 2:00 PM
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Civil Engineering, U.Va.