Spring 2013 Civil Engineering Seminars

Civil Engineering CE 5990 Seminars, Spring 2013

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are from 4:00–5:00 PM in Room 641 of the Dow Building.

Date	Presenter and Affiliation	Title	Place
Jan 24	Dave Reed, Vice President for Research, Michigan Tech	University’s Commitment to Research	Dow 641
Jan 31	Kiko de Melo e Silva, Research Engineer I	Summary of the Experimental Equipment Available for Civil Engineering Research and the Rules Associated with Their Use	Dow 642
Feb 14	Bill Bulleit, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Thinking About Engineering:  Is Philosophy Useful?	642 Dow
Feb 21	Mary Christianson, PhD candidate	Geopoly-what? Part II: Developing glass-based geopolymer mortars	642 Dow
Feb 28	Hamed Pouryousef, Ph.D. candidate	Railway Capacity and Evaluating the Results and Features of Two Capacity Simulation Tools on the Shared-use Corridors	642 Dow
Mar 7	William Sproule	Copper Country Streetcars	642 Dow
Mar 28	Michael Billmire	The Mineral Occurrence Revenue Estimation and Visualization Tool, MOREV	642 Dow
Apr 4	Aaron Mazeika, PE, SE, AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP	Design / Construction of a 413 meter highrise building at Kuwait City Sculpted High-Rise – The Al Hamra Tower	642 Dow
April 11	Professor Stan Vitton, Michigan Tech	Assessment and Location of the Abandoned Underground Coal Mines Near Jackson, Michigan and Their Impact on Interstate I-94	642 Dow
April 18	Aboelkasim Diab Ahmed Ali	1)  A Mathematical Approach Bridging Resilient Moduli to Dynamic Moduli for the Mechanistic Empirical Design of Asphalt Pavements, and 2)  Rheology Evaluation of Unaged Foam-based Warm Mix Asphalt Modified with Nano Hydrated Lime.	642 Dow