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CEE IN FOCUS

SCHOOL OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

SUSTAINABILITY: A CALL TO ACTION

CYCLING AND POLITICS IN THE SUMMER OF 70

SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

PRODUCTIVE REUSE OF THE BY-PRODUCTS FROM BIOFUEL ENERGY GENERATION


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IN THIS ISSUELETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Dr. Joseph B. Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability: A Call to Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cycling and Politics in the Summer o 70 . . . . .

Sustainable Transportation Systems . . . . . . . . . .

Productive Reuse o the By-products rom

Biouel Energy Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

GT STRUDL and the Nuclear Power Industry. . . .

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS

Uzun & Case Engineers Recognized or Gold-LevLEED Certifcation Project in Gwinnett . . . . . . . .

Hasan Nouri Makes an Impact in Environmenta

Humanitarian Eorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Deepwater Development: Navigating a Career

Oil and Gas Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Greg Koch Leads Coca-Cola Global Eorts or

Water Conservation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Decision-support Tools or Sustainable Sanitatio

Systems in Developing Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Challenging Projects in Georgia Techs Chapter o

Engineers Without Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

CEE Endowments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Take Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Stay In Touch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Dr. Reginald DesRoches talks wit h government of cials

o Haitis Ministry o Justice about structural damage to

buildings caused by the January 12th earthquake.

DesRoches is co-leading the NSF proposal Urban

Systems Under Stress: Multiscale Decision Support orResilient and Sustainable Inrastructure 2100 (UDS

2100)that will eectively adapt educational strategies

in urban sustainability elds to attract underrepre-

sented groups in science, technology, engineering, and

mathemati cs. For more inormation about USD 2100,see page 6.


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CEE In Focus, Spring 2010

CEE In Focus is published annually by the School

o Civil and Environmental Engineering at the

Georgia Institute o Technology.

CEE ADMINISTRATION

Joseph B. Hughes, Ph.D., P.E., DEE

Karen and John Huf School Chair

and Proessor

Reginald DesRoches, Ph.D.

Associate Chair and Proessor

Kenneth M. Will, Ph.D.

Associate Chair or Graduate

Studies and Associate Proessor

Don Webster, Ph.D.

Associate Chair or Undergraduate

Studies and Proessor

Paul Work, Ph.D.

Associate Chair, Georgia Tech Savannah

and Associate Proessor

Laurie SomervilleDirector o Development

Andrea Be

Administrative Manager

Ruth Gregory

Communications O cer and

Managing Editor

Colleen Jordan

Designer

School o Civil and Environmental Engineering

Georgia Institute o Technology

790 Atlantic Drive

Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0355

PHONE: 404-894-2201

FAX: 404-894-2278

E-MAIL: [email protected]

WEB: www.ce.gatech.edu

The 21st century brings with it new challenges and op

tunities or civil and environmental engineers. It is cur

estimated that the human population will reach seven

by 2011. Thats a growth rate o about 1.3%, which re

sents a doubling time o 54 years. The reality is that w

becoming more crowded, more consuming, more po

more connected, and in many ways less diverse than a

time in history.

As a result, engineers o the uture must be educated

intelligent decisions that will protect and enhance the

o lie in new and innovative ways. They must also ma

communicate decisions in a proessional environmen

people rom both technical and nontechnical discipli

ucating engineers to be leaders in global eforts or su

able development, applying new appropriate techno

and leading socio-economic change represents the g

challenges aced by the engineering proession today

As engineers, we have an obligation to meet the basic

o all humans or water, sanitation, ood, health, and e

as well as to protect cultural and natural diversity. The

o Civil and Environmental Engineering and Georgia T

committed to sustainable development and we are m

this challenge head on.

Go Jackets!

Joseph B. Hughes

Karen and John Huf School Chair and Proessor

L E T T E R F R O M T H E C H A I R

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SUSTAINABILTY: A Call To ActionSustainability means diferent things to diferent people. Forome, it is how we live, or others, it is how we do business,

and or still others, it is a call to action. A popular deni-ion given by the World Commission on Environment and

Development describes sustainability as development thatmeets the needs o the present without compromising theability o uture generations to meet their own needs. Tisconcept has been receiving increased attention over the pastdecade, or signicant reasons, however, it is not a new idea.Te rapid rise in population means that there will be greatercompetition or increasingly scarce resources, while at theame time a diminished capacity to handle waste. We are

now at a point in time where more people reside in urbanareas rather than in rural ones, putting increasing pressureon municipal inrastructure around the world. In addition,global climate change poses multiple threats, requiring uso develop new ways to provide energy and to reduce our

carbon ootprint. All o this means that we need to trainengineers in new ways to respond to these new challenges.Te National Academy o Engineering (NAE) publicationTe Engineer of 2020addresses this issue. Although NAEargues that engineers o the uture must still posses strongechnical skills, there are several important new attributesuch as an emphasis on practical integrity, public service

and its place in society, creativity, and the ability to considerssues o a global scale.

Georgia ech and the School o Civil and Environ-mental Engineering (CEE) are committed to educationand research that make a positive impact on how peoplehink about and use the planets raw materials. We are also

working to incorporate sustainable development into educa-ion and business practices. According the 2010 Princeton

Review, Georgia ech is one o the nations leading universi-ies in sustainable development and green technologies, and

CEE contributes to this efort. Georgia ech continues to

emain a leader in sustainability, said President G.P. BudPeterson. We were an early adopter o the LEED standardor buildings, and have implemented numerous water con-ervation eforts resulting in substantial savings. In additiono winning many environmental awards or our eforts on

campus, we are working to make a diference throughouthe world. For example, the Georgia Water Resource

Institute (GWRI) is helping to shape local, state and na-tional policy. Georgia ech is committed to responsibleresource management.

At the oreront o Georgia echs eforts in sustainabilityis the Brook Byers Institute or Sustainable Systems (BBIS).BBIS is under the direction o CEE Hightower Chair andGeorgia Research Alliance Eminent ScholarJohn Crit-tenden. BBIS is premised on the grand challenge or ourspecies: how do we develop the part o the environmentthat is made or modied by humans or use in humanactivities, i.e., the human anthrosphere, to live within themeans o nature? In other words, humans must demand

no more resources than nature can provide and generateno more wastes than nature can assimilate. BISS embodiesGeorgia echs commitment to a sustainable and prosperousuture through a comprehensive and innovative systems-based approach to creating technological, management, andpolicy solutions to societal challenges in the 21st century. Inact, BBIS is really a center o centers that integrates institu-tions, objectives, and disciplines. Georgia echs Dr. GarySchuster stated We continue to take an interdisciplinaryapproach to learning, providing international experiences orour aculty and students and creating a culture o innova-tion and entrepreneurship, all while raming our values andprinciples around concepts o sustainability.

BBIS integrates education, research, and service inthe areas o engineering, science, management, comput-ing, architecture, and liberal arts. It is organized aroundthe intersecting programs o: Sustainable Energy Systems,Climate and Environmental Stewardship, Water, SustainableEnterprise, and Sustainable Urban Systems. Tese programsalign with the Grand Challenges dened by NAE: i) makesolar energy economical, ii) manage the nitrogen cycle, andiii) provide access to clean water.

Currently, Georgia ech has twenty-our centers engaged

in sustainable research that all under the BBIS umbrella,and CEE aculty and students are actively involved. Mostrecently, Georgia ech submitted a $40 million proposal tothe National Science Foundation to secure an EngineeringResearch Center (ERC) entitled, Urban Systems Un-der Stress: Multiscale Decision Support or Resilient andSustainable Inrastructure 2100 (UDS 2100). Led by

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Proessors John Crittenden and Reginald DesRoches, UDS 2100 will create a deci-sion support tool or managing and understanding urban system and urbanizationprocesses to build more sustainable and resilient cities.

CEE ProessorAris P. Georgakakos serves as director o GWRI, an institutededicated to improving water resources management in Georgia, the U.S., and theworld through innovative research, education, technology transer, and inormationdissemination. Researchers develop inormation and modeling tools or sustainablewater resources planning and management as well as training and technology transerprograms. In Georgia, GWRI is collaborating with the Georgia Environmental Pro-tection Division to develop a sustainable water resources planning and managementramework or the state.

Another example is the Air Resources Engineering Center (AREC). AREC is di-

rected by CEE Georgia Power Distinguished Proessor o Environmental EngineeringArmistead Russell. Te center is an institute-wide catalyst or research in air qualityand its efects, air pollution and its control, as well as climate change and its regionalimpacts. CEE Associate Proessor Mike Bergen also works with AREC and is cur-rently studyinghow particles in the atmosphere directly modiy the surace radiationbalance o the Earth, which is critical to the planets climate.

Te Center or Geograph ic Inormation Sys tems (CGIS) is another a liated cen-ter made up o researchers rom several schools. CGIS serves as a leader and catalystor the advancement o GIS technology or academic institutions, private industry,and the public sector. CEE Associate ProessorJames sai works withCGIS and theGeorgia Department o ransportation (GDO). Dr. sai successully implementeda large-scale GIS-based pavement preservation and management system that helpsGDO efectively preserve and manage its 18,000-centerline miles o highway.

A ourth a liated cente r is the Center or Quality Growth and Regiona l Devel-opment (CQGRD), which helps society achieve a sustainable, equitable, superiorquality o lie through sound planning, policy, and design. CEE Proessor MichaelMyers and CEE Associate ProessorAdjo Amekudzi have worked with CQGRDDirector Catherine Ross and other researchers to develop a strategy or exploringthe potential o the megaregion as a value-added structure that will guide nationaltransportation policy and investment, while explicitly addressing the relationshipsamong demographic change, land resources, inrastructure investment, and econ-omic development.

Proessor Crittendon describes the importance o collaboration in research and

education. echnology that works well, but isnt green, will be no more acceptablethan technology that is green, but doesnt work well. We need products and servicesto be whole to perorm well at their primary intended unction, and to t well intothe larger socioeconomic and ecological contexts in which they belong. BBIS is atthe oreront o cross-disciplinary research and education in sustainability, bringingtogether industry, government, and academia to identiy challenges and research solu-tions or generations to come.

Georgia Tech is one

countrys greenest sch

cording to The Prince

view and U.S. Green

Council (USGBC). It is

teen schools to be

to the 2010 Green Hon

a distinction it has earn

years in a row. Enviro

sustainability has becom

component o the Geor

academic experience, w

es, research, and majors

ing various aspects o t

and stretching across a

Institutes colleges and

Sustainable practices a

grated in all aspects o

operations, maintaining

o natural gas powered

using local and organ

in the dining halls, r

and using non-toxic cl

buildings. GT also mai

rigorous building code

renovations and new

ings to meet LEED st

GEORGIA TECH

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Sustainable Transportation Systems

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oday, more than 19% o the nations electricity is createding nuclear power. In Georgia alone, over 22% o the elec-city is generated by nuclear power plants. Nuclear powerll play a key role in helping the United States and the

orld not only reduce their dependence on ossil uel ando reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Currently, there areore than 30 new nuclear power plants under consideration

y utilities in the United States.

Since 1983, the School o Civil and Environmentalngineerings Computer-Aided Structural Engineering

CASE) Center directed by Proessors Leroy Emkin andenneth (Mac) Will has been providing the nuclear indus-y with the G SRUDL structural analysis and designtware. In the U.S. alone, more than eighteen utilities,ree government agencies, and twenty consultants use G

RUDL or the analysis and design o existing and utureuclear power plants.

T STRUDL and the Nuclear Power IndustryDr. Kenneth M. Will

Above: Dr. Leroy Emkin works with the GT

STRUDL sotware in the CASE Center.

Let: A structure in the STRUDL sotware.

STRUDL is one o the most widely used structural design & analysis

tware programs or Architectural - Engineering - Construction

EC), Computer-Aided Engineering and Design (CAE/CAD), as well as

lities, ofshore, industrial, nuclear and civil projects. The program

ly integrates graphical modeling and result display, rame and nite

tic, dynamic, and nonlinear analysis, nite element analysis, struc-

ral rame design, graphical result display, and structural database

anagement into a powerul, menu-driven inormation processing

stem that is capable o supplying engineers with accurate and com-

ete technical data or design decision-making. GT STRUDL is used on

egular basis by thousand o engineers in more than thirty countries,

d it remains one o the most widely accepted computer-aided engi-

ering and design tools or structural analysts and structural design

gineers around the globe.

The CASE Center team (L-R): Joan Incrocci, Hamid Zand, Michael

Swanger, Julian Diaz-Ospina, Robert Abernathy, Marjorie Jorgenson,

Leroy Emkin, Stacy Stringer, Kenneth M. Will, and David Key.

G SRUDL support and quality assurance s tandardsofered by the CASE Center are among the most rigorous inthe industry. G SRUDLs sotware certi cation proce-dures are in ull conormance with the applicable provisionso the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission quality assuranceand quality control regulations as well as the more recentISO9000-3. Support provided by the CASE Center includessotware verication and certication, quality control andassurance, program updates, enhancements, perormanceimprovements, and telephone hotline support (providinginstallation assistance, systems support, and advice on theefective uses o G SRUDL).For additional inormation aboutGT STRUDL, visit: www.gtstrudl.gatech.edu.

By the year 2030, the popula-tion o the greater Atlantaregion is projected to growto close to seven millionpeople, an increase o 65%over the equivalent popula-tion in 2000. Tis will putsignicant pressures on Atlantas inrastructure includ-ing its transportation systems.It could also lead to large

increases in air pollution,carbon emissions, and waterand uel consumption. Glob-ally, projections point to

increased urbanization. While there was only one megacity (acity with a population greater than 10M) in 1950, today thereare twenty. By 2030, it is expected that two out o every threeindividuals will live in urban areas.

School o Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)PhD students Christy Jeon andJhotin Khistyalong withtheir advisor and Dr.Adjo Amekudzi have been working onseveral projects to incorporate sustainability into planningor transportation systems. In addition, the researchers havedeveloped tools to evaluate and assess progress towards systemsustainability. One o their goals has been to develop visualtools that are easy to use in practice by decision makers ingovernment and industry.

One o the important tools that Jeon and Amekudzihave developed is the sustainability diamond. Te toolallows decision makers to visualize sustainability across ourdimensions: economic sustainability, environmental sustain-ability, social sustainability, and transportation systems efec-tiveness. Decision makers that use this tool can easily iden-tiy dominant plans based on the prevailing priorities and

objectives. In addition, it allows or assessment o tradeofsalong the diferent sustainability dimensions. Finally, the toolis dynamic in that it reects changing sustainability prioritiesover time.

Te researchers have applied their tool to the AtlantaMetropolitan Region, and identied perormance measuresbased on sustainability issues and regional goals. In addition,they were able to evaluate proposed transportation and landuse alternatives.

Khisty and Amekudzi developed a visual tool callSustainability Footprint. Tis tool is used to help anthe impact that transportation and other inrastructusystems have on regional sustainable development. Fexample, transportation systems impact the quality othe population that they serve. It is important to unhow the quality o lie changes with the ecological olet by these systems in the orm o waste generation emissions) and resource usage (such as ossil uel contion. Te researchers have applied this tool to the AtChicago metropolitan areas. One o its real values is

ent exibility, which helps stakeholders with very difpriorities to reach a consensus or sustainable developIn addition to developing tools to dene and me

sustainable inrastructure and alternative transportatining, the team has helped to bring these important cinto the classroom, at both the graduate and undergrlevel. At the undergraduate level, CEE 3000 (Civil ing Systems) introduces students to a sustainable engapproach or planning, design, implementation, opeand renewal o civil engineering systems. At the gradlevel, CEE 8813 (Inrastructure, Megacities, and SusDevelopment) is a problem-based learning course thintroduces methods or addressing inrastructure systin urban environments.

Although it appears that rapid growth in urban ais inevitable, the research results rom Jeon, Khisty, aAmekudzi will help planners develop inrastructure stransportation systems that use les s resources and emwaster, ultimately in a better quality o lie or all o u

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chool o Civil & Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute o T

Productive Reuse o the Byproducts rom

Biouel Energy Generationy Dr. Susan E. Burns and Dr. Kimberly E. Kurtis

Applications o biomass as a renewable uel source have recently gained interestas supplements to existing energy supplies. Biomass energy, commonly known as

biouel, derives rom living organisms (e.g., trees, switchgrass), and is an attractive

alternative to traditional uel sources due to the ability o living organisms to xCO2 rom atmospheric sources. Carbon dioxide xation results in carbon cycling,

and a zero net output o CO2 to the atmosphere. Additionally, biouels are renew-able energy sources, in contrast to ossil uels, making them attractive options or

long-term energy supplies.

Recently, Dr. Susan Burns and Dr. Kimberly Kurtis o the School o Civiland Environmental Engineering at Georgia ech, with support rom the Southern

Company, have initiated an investigation o the engineering properties o y ashproduced rom the burning o biomass-derived uel sources. Fly ash is the light

weight residual material resulting rom the combustion o a uel source, with coalcombustion being the most well known and prevalent source o y ash. Te ma-

terials resulting rom the high temperature combustion o uel are highly oxidized

and can be reactive components o a variety o construction materials like concrete.Combustion o biomass uels also produces a biomass-derived y ash, and the

engineering properties o this material are less well-dened when compared to theproperties o coal-derived y ash.

CEE doctoral students Chris Shearer and Nortey Yeboah are working under

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Above: A 3000x magnication o coal y ash.

Drs. Burns and Kurtis to quantiying the engineering proper-ties o biomass y ash which is produced when the biomass

is burned as the sole uel source, or when the biomass is

co-red with coal as the primary energy input. Biomassy ash is being characterized in terms o type o uel source

(hardwood versus sotwood), size o the biomass input (chipsversus whole tree), and geographical and environmental

characteristics o the biouel such as rainall and growing

temperature. Understanding o these properties will allowthe researchers to identiy trends in the undamental y ash

particle characteristics, including mineralogy, surace area,surace charge, particle size distribution, and carbon char-

acteristics that result rom the combustion o biomass andco-red biomass/coal.

Ultimately, Dr. Burns and Dr. Kurtis will examine appli-

cations or the productive reuse o the biouel-derived waste.Approximately 60% o the y ash (more than orty million

tons) currently produced as a by-product o electricity genera-tion in the U.S. is disposed in landlls, making reuse applica-

tions an especially appealing alternative to land disposal.

A sample o 5% biomass, 95% coal y ash.

Concrete bricks made with coal y ash. Diferent mixtures ar

or their weight and tensile strength.

Fly ash is collected rom a power plant outside o Atlanta.


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the summer o 1970, the Atlanta Constitution mentioned drat

gislation in both the Georgia and Florida assemblies to provide

dget set-asides or their respective state Department o rans-

rtation to construct our-oot wide bicycle lanes on key routes.

eorgias then-Gov. Lester Maddox was well-known or his support

cycling. His regularly held Peoples Day on Wednesdays in the

mmer at Georgias gold-domed capitol was a avorite venue or his

ess stunt o riding his at-tired cruiser inside the capitol rotunda as

sat backward on the handlebars!

Tat year, I stayed in Atlanta ater my sophomore year at

eorgia ech to earn some cash rather t han go back home to south-

ntral Florida. Te intermittent odd jobs that I struggled to string

gether let me with time on my hands, some o which I spent at

y raternity house with the guys attending summer

sion. As I read the bike lane article in the paper, I thought

What a great idea! Cycling, which gave me my rst real sense o

edom and mobility, had always been important to me.

My raternity brother, Ron Currens, also rom south Florida,ggested that we go to the capitol the next Wednesday. As the

vernor made his way greeting everyone, Ron and I stepped up to

troduce ourselves. When the governor shook my hand, I told him

at i hed write a letter to Florida Governor Claude Kirk support-

g this bicycle lane set-aside legislation, that Id deliver it by bicycle.

ll clasping my hand he looked me straight in the eye or a split

cond, and then, with a grin, told both o us to wait in his o ce,

at he wanted to speak to us with his press secretary.

Fast orward a week to July 31, 1970 and Im back in the capitol

tunda, now being interviewed by Atlantas major radio, V and

print media outlets as I prepared to take the governors letter to

allahassee. Te owner o a local bike shop had provided me a

10-speed Schwinn road bike, along with a pump, patch kit, spare

tube, and one olded spare tire. In the rear deck bag, I had an extra

pair o cut-of jeans, two pair o socks and underwear, a couple o

tie-dyed t-shirts, and a blue bandana or a headband. I strapped a

big, clunky FM radio over the handlebar bag that held my canteen,

and the guys at the raternity tossed in $40 they had collected.

Governor Maddox and I rode around part o grounds outside

the capitol or the press, him on his handlebars and me alongside.

We stopped, he shook my hand, I ipped down my Rayban Avia-

tors, and I was of, riding away rom downtown at exactly noon.

I made it to Tomaston the rst night, where I stopped at the

police station to ask where I could nd a sae place to camp. Rec-

ognizing me rom the days news, they invited me in or a shower,

a meal, and a bed in an air-conditioned cell. Tey had a good time

taking mug shots and a picture with me and my bike in ront o

the entire night shit.Governor Maddox had alerted the Georgia State Patrol o my

planned route to allahassee, so occasionally a blue and gray cruiser

would come alongside and the o cer would ask rom beneath his

brim, You that boy carrying a letter rom the governor down to

allahassee? Yes, sir. You need anything? Well, I could use

some more water, I once replied, whereupon the o cer stopped and

produced a gallon jug rom his trunk and relled my canteen. We

chatted a bit as he escorted me a mile or so beore he waived good-

bye and moved on.

Te trip had its tense moments. I was run of the road several

Cycling and Politics in the

Summer o 70y J. Paul Oxer, P.E., DEE

Paul Oxner, BSCE 74, is managing director or McDaniell, Hunter

Prince, Inc. and serves on the CEE External Advisory Board. While

rolled as a student at Georgia Tech, J. Paul played a pivotal role with

gard to the 1970 legislation to create our-oot wide bicycle lanes on

y routes throughout in the states o Georgia and Florida. He is truly

isionary in terms o sustainable development, and we are honored

share his inspiring story.

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J. Paul withAbove: J. P

his journey

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Florida.

times, sufering minor cuts and bruises; hit by one o several beer

cans thrown at me; and regularly scared witless by tractor tr ailers

passing too close and too ast as I hugged perilously close to edge

o the pavement. I even spent one night under a concrete table at

a roadside park. But it wasnt all harsh. Once I asked an elderly

gentleman sitting on his porch somewhere along Georgias old

Highway 3 i I might ll my canteen rom his yard hydrant. As I

did, he recognized me rom the story that had run two days earlier

in his local paper and invited me to come sit on the porch and rest

a bit, out o the August heat. I did, grateully. Several owners o lo-

cal restaurants in small towns gave me lunch or dinner when I told

them what I was doing. I stayed hal-price in a small motel ater

my longest day o riding 140 miles! And one morning I crested a

hill just as the sun was breaking above the trees, gliding several miles

and simply enjoying the ride.

When I reached allahassee a local V station lmed my

approach up the hill in tra c along Appalachee Parkway to Floridas

capitol . I delivered the lett er to Governor Kirks o ce (he wasnt in

at the time); and two days later, I set of again, nally arriving at my

home our days later ater logging another 375 miles by mysel.

Ater I returned to Atlanta or school that all, the Georgia Parks

Department invited me to speak o my adventure at a number o

events in support o the pending legislation. Ultimately it passed in

both states, and soon new bike lanes with their distinctive marking

began to appear along highways, giving cyclists a little more room

and showing them a little more courtesy and recognition.

Te next summer, I worked on a construction crew in Atlanta,

building a hotel at 590 West Peachtree within site o echs

campus, and riding a bike six miles to work each day. Out with

some raternity brothers one weekend in July, a drunk driver ran a

red light at 70 miles per hour, plowing straight into the right side o

the car. I was sitting in the backseat o the car, and the accident let

me with internal injuries, a massive concussion, a broken jaw and

let cheekbone, and a right leg broken so badly that the doctors ac-

tually considered amputating it. Te end o that discussion resulted

in a 1/4 diameter pin drilled laterally across my tibia just below the

patella that supporting eighty pounds o sand attached via a pulley

system as I prayed or the bone to knit su ciently to allow me to

walk again.

Ater six weeks in traction, much o it with my jaw wired shut

rom two major operations to repair the damage, I let the hospital

more than sixty pounds lighter, hobbling on crutches with a big,

ugly boot-to-hip metal brace holding my right leg in alignment as it

continued to heal. I managed to get back in school that all, takinga minimum ull-time load, and scheduling at least an hour between

classes to give me time to poke across campus with a cane. Months

later, when I could walk unaided again, I got a bike to aid in my

rehabilitation. I still remember my rst tentative turns on the

cranks and how good it elt to be ree again.

Ill be 60 this year, 2010, which is the 40th anniversary o my

adventure. Cycling is still very important to me. Even now, I get a

joyous rush o enthusiasm when I rst clip into the pedals and make

the rst ew turns on a ride. Ater shopping around or a couple

o years, I nally bought a custom-built 62-cm rek Madone 5.2

several years ago during the companys our Sale in July

pretty bike, one that still draws comments rom other par

in the rides or the charities that I support and the occasio

ters competition I can manage. Im thirty years, thirty p

our knee reconstructions past being anything like compet

at least Im out there hammering away at it, though even n

struggling with the lingering ater afects o that accident i

As I write this, the Boys o Summer are preparing or thei

struggle to climb the Alps and the Pyrenees in the our de

Interest in cycling is high and continues to grow, and Im

that I had a small part in helping to create saer places or

ride in Georgia and Florida.


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Hasan Nouri (BSCE67) serves as stormwa-

ter engineering manager or URS Corpora-

tion in Santa Ana, Caliornia. URS ofersa broad range o planning, design, envi-

ronmental review, development programs,

and construction management services,

including a ull range o environmental

compliance, urban planning, and entitle-

ment services or various public agency and

private sector clients.

Nouri has extensive proessional

engineering experience in the elds o water

resources engineering, wetland restora-

tion, ood control, drainage, and sediment

transportation. Prior to joining URS, he

ounded Rivertech Inc. and served as the

companys president or seventeen years. His

areas o expertise include hydraulics, hydrol-

ogy, water resources, sediment transport,

drainage and wetland restoration. He has

directed and managed numerous planning

and design projects in these areas. Some o

his major projects in hydrology, hydrau-

lics and sediment transportation include:

Ballona Wetland, Newport Coast Planned

Community Development, Central ArizonaWater Control Study, Aliso Creek, Santa

Ana River, Santa Clara River, San Diego

Creek, rabuco Creek, San Juan Creek

and numerous other water courses in South-

ern Caliornia.

He has updated Chapter II o ASCEs

Sedimentation Engineering Manual 54,

edited by the late Proessor Vito Vanoni.

He is the winner o six awards by ve

national engineering societies. In 1996,

ASCE awarded Nouri the Hoover

or great, unselsh civic and hum

services. He is only the ty-sixtho this medal, and other recipients

Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhow

Jimmy Carter. Tat same year, he

named Engineer o the Year by the

Los Angeles Section. He is the co-

o the ASCE/Los Angeles Section,

ogy & Hydraulics echnical Grou

as the inventor o the Hydraulic O

Diverter, a device that diverts urba

to a treatment acility while permi

pass o clean water and sand to the

and beaches. He is also an author

technical papers, and has chaired s

proessional committees.

Nouri came to Georgia ech i

rom Aghanistan on a scholarship

though he has lived in the U.S. or

years, he is very active in humanita

eforts in his homeland. For exam

ounded the nonprot Internation

cal Corps (IMC) with Dr. Robert

IMC provides health services to w

countries such as Aghanistan, whthan ty M*A*S*H-style medical

were erected. Nouri and Smith ar

the source notes o the bookChar

Waror providing the author with

insight into the Cross Border Hum

ian Aid project. Nouri is also ou

chairman o Board o Internation

Care, a not-or-prot organization

provides nancial, medicinal and e

al assistance to the orphans o Ag

Hasan Nouri Makes an Impact in

Environmental and Humanitarian Eforts

water runof is directed to a wetlands

area to control pollutants. As a result o

the acilitys sustainable design strategies,

there will be no additional storm water

runof on the site, a 35% energy use

savings and a 50% water use savings or

the project.

Te project made creative and

sustainable use o wood, steel, and

concrete. Te previously mentioned

roo was constructed o wood due to its

sustainability and economy. Te weight

o the roo was supported by a combi-

nation o preabricated wooden trusses

and attached wooden cladding. High

strength steel made o recycled materials

was used to support the wooden trusses.

Te thinness o the support columns al-

lowed the day lighting to be maximized.

Te oor o the bridge structure or the

project was designed to make use o steeland concrete in such a way that elimi-

nated the need or ductwork but instead

used an in-oor air distribution system.

Te concrete used in the project was also

sustainable in that high-y ash was used

in the mixture.

Uzun & Case has a staf o ty-three

engineers, which is more than any other

structural engineering o ce in Atlanta.

Tey are lead by ve principals, three

o whom are alumni o CEE at Georgia

ech. Tey includes amer Uzun (MSCE

70), Lawrence McDowell (BSCE 76),

and George Briglevich (BSCE 89,

MSCE 92). A ourth principal, Martin

Cuadraalso attended Georgia ech or

graduate studies.

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zun & Case Engineers Recognized or Goldlevel LEED Certicationroject in Gwinnett

Uzun & Case Engineers, one o the larg-

structural engineering rms in Atlanta,

s received numerous awards or their past

ojects. Te rm specializes in large com-

ercial buildings, which include the Geor-

a Aquarium and Atlantic Station, both in

lanta, Georgia. A recent project that has

en recognized by many organizations is

e Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage

enter (GEHC) in Buord, Georgia. Since

winnett County has been one o the ast-

growing counties in the US, the GEHC

s constructed to help to educate people

the critical role that water plays in all

pects o our lives. Tis project has won

e 2009 Outstanding Project Award by the

ructural Engineers Association o Georgia

EAOG), anassociation o approximately

0 Proessional Engineers practicing struc-

ral engineering in the state o Georgia,

rst Place in 2006 Environmental Category

m the Georgia Chapter o the American

Concrete Institute, and the 2008 State

Award rom the American Council o Engi-

neering Companies o Georgia.

Te Center also received gold-level

LEED certication. LEED certication

was developed by the U.S. Green Building

Council (USGBC), and is an internation-

ally recognized green building certication

system. Te certication ensures that the

project was designed and built using

strategies aimed at improving perormance

across the ollowing important metrics:

energy savi ngs, water e ciency, CO2

emissions reduction, improved indoor

environmental quality, and stewardship o

resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

GEHC, which includes exhibits on envi-

ronmental awareness and hands-on science,

was recognized or both the sustainability

and complexity o the project. It includes

a 59,000-square-oot classroom and theater

building, which is part o a complex that

includes several miles o trails, a wetlands

area, and several outdoor classrooms.

In the submission o the project or

SEAOG Award consideration, the rms

stated that the driving orce behind t his

LEED Gold project was environmental edu-

cation and conservation. Tere are several

examples o how the Gwinnett project satis-

ed this mission. For example, a cascading

stream that serves as a water eature unc-

tions as a heat exchanger and is an integral

part o the buildings mechanical system.

Tis eature uses very clean reuse water rom

a nearby water treatment acility rather than

potable water, which saves approximately a

million gallons annually o potable water.

In addition, a 40,000 square oot vegetated

roo was installed to reduce storm water

runof. Te native plants used require no

irrigation. Pervious pavement is used

throughout the site in order to minimize

storm water runof. Any resulting storm


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Greg Koch (CEE90, MSCE92) is director o GlobalWater Stewardship in the Environment & Water ResourcesDepartment at Te Coca-Cola Company (CCC) inAtlanta, Georgia. He works with CCCs system o over300 bottling partners worldwide to advance an integratedglobal water strategy.

Greg has been instrumental in establishing theCompanys commitment to the CEO Water Mandate, aprivate-public initiative which seeks to build an internationalmovement o companies working to develop strategies andsolutions to positively afect the emerging global water crisis.He notes that water is our business and is the basis or all

the products the company makes. O all the environmentalissues, water is paramount to us. Between 2002 and 2007,CCC improved globa l water e ciency by over 20 % whilesales volume increased over 21%. Tey have set a target toimprove water e ciency by an add itional 20% by 2012.

CCC has the goal o returning to communities andnature an amount o water equivalent to what they use inall o our beverages and their production through reduction,recycle, and replenishment eforts. Reduction is achieved bysetting speci c water e ciency targets or glob al operations.Recycle is achieved by treating wastewater in accordance withapplicable laws and regulations. Replenishment is accom-plished by expanding support o healthy watersheds andsustainable community water programs to balance the water

used in CCCs nished beverages. In 2007 Greg oa partnership with WWF, the worlds largest multinaconservation organization, and manages the multi-ymillion project to protect seven key reshwater river bWith WFF, CCC developed an interactive, plant-lee ciency toolki t to harvesting best practices throughtheir system. Teir objectives with WWF or 2010 imeasurably conserving seven key reshwater river basdecreasing the companys carbon dioxide emissions aenergy use, and inspiring a global movement engaginindustry and individuals to support conservation o ter ecosystems, species and water resources.

Prior to joining Te Coca-Cola Company, Greg environmental consultant on engineering design. Hetributed to design elements related to buildings or tAtlanta Summer Olympic Games, including the OlyStadium, the Centennial Olympic Park and the CocaOlympic City. Greg has a Bachelor o Science in Maics rom Columbus College, (now Columbus State Usity) as well as a Bachelor o Civil Engineering and ao Science in Civil Engineering, both rom the GeorInstitute o echnology. He currently serves on the EAdvisory Board or the School o Civil and EnvironmEngineering at Georgia ech. He resides in Atlanta,with his wie and two children.

Greg Koch Leads CocaCola Global Eforts or Water Conservatio

Let: People washing dishes andclothing at Lake Niassa, Metan-

gula, Mozambique (photograph

by Greg Koch).

Above: Greg Koch

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Let: The Perdido is the deepest ofshore

development in the world. Theplatormsthree decks include living quarters or 150people. Above: Sally Jabaley working as a

construction engineer or Mobil Exploration

Norway in the Stratord ofshore eld.

Deepwater Development: Navigating a Career in the Oil andas Industry

ally Jabaley (BSCE 74) is originallyrom LaGrange, Geor-a and has spent the majority o her career working in the oild gas industry. Its a business she knows extremely well ande has the expertise to prove it.Ater graduating rom Georgia ech, Sallys rst job wasa construction engineer with Chevron Oil. She worked

fshore in the Louisiana Gul o Mexico, upgrading acilitesn aging ofshore structures to comply with new ederal regu-ions. Ater Chevron, she worked as a project engineer with

RCO Oil & Gas in Dallas, exas, then moved to Norway1979 to work with Mobil Exploration Norway, in theatord ofshore eld. She worked a rotation, two weeks of-ore and two weeks of-duty, which allowed her time to visitanzania, climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, trek the Indian Himalayas,well as most o the countries in Europe, Israel, and Russia.Ater Norway, Sally worked as an oil and gas consultant

th Gafney, Cline and Associates (GCA), a system plan-ng engineer or the Mass Rapid ransit Corporation ongapore, and has worked with inert nitrogen systems or

eneron Systems, a joint venture o Dow Chemical and Brit-h Oxygen. However in 1994, she returned to the oil ands industry as a project manager and business unit managerr Production Operators, Inc., later purchased by Schlum-rger. In her role, she managed a group o individuals whorormed production optimization studies on mature oild gas elds. Sally joined Shell International Explorationd Production in 2005 as a project assurance manager. Shevises a portolio o Shell projects in the Western Hemi-here, as they proceed to execution and start-up, and saysat Shell considers biodiversity very early in its new projects,

developing action plans and collaborating with experts tohelp protect areas with rich and delicate eco-systems.

Biodiversity conservation has risen rapidly up the envi-ronmental and political agenda and it now represents oneo the most important challenges o the 21st century. Sallyrecognizes this challenge and states In reality, every projectmust review its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and watertreatment in order to minimize efects on the environment.Every step o what we do has the potential to create consider-able contaminates in the environment, and considerable careis taken or both the saety o personnel and the saety o theenvironment. Sallys projects at Shell include deepwater de-velopments in the Gul o Mexico and Brazil and unconven-tional oil shale and oil sands projects in Canada and the U.S.One o her rst projects with Shell was the Perdido located inthe Gul. Te Perdido is the deepest ofshore development inthe world and it just recently started production. During theconstruction phase, Sally visited this platorm many times be-ore it went ofshore, assuring proper specications or saety

and quality. She also teaches project management courses orShell Project Academy at Shell locations around the worldand mentors young engineers in the oil and gas industry.

Sally serves on the Boards o the Houston Georgia echClub, the Georgia ech Alumni Board o rustees, and theSchool o Civil and Environmental Engineering AdvisoryBoard. She also serves as vice-chair o the Society o Petro-leum Engineers, Gul Coast Section, Projects, Facilities andConstruction committee in Houston. She was inducted intothe Georgia ech Academy o Distinguished EngineeringAlumni in 2008.


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Te Georgia Chapter o Engineers without Borders is livelythis spring semester with multiple projects and events tobenet underdeveloped countries and bring much neededresources to those without. Members are traveling, research-ing, and donating to assist in this progression and the interna-tional community is benetting signicantly rom it.

Te big news right now is the Mungoangoa project inCameroon. Instead o partying in Cancun or hitting thesunny beaches o Miami this spring break, our EwB memberstraveled to the Arican village o Mungoangoa with acultyadvisor, Dr. Gleason, to work with the developing communitythere. Te primary efort or this project was to puriy the wa-ter and create a mechanism to pump it to the upper one-thirdo the hillside village. EwB also helped with trash collection,health education, and study ways to implement electricity,and research technology or cooking stove improvements.

Te main purpose o the spring break trip was to surveythe land so that a plan or the water pump can be designed.Te club also looked into the local skills and materialsavailable to implement the uture pump. EwB took on thisproject just one year ago and is already making signicantstrides towards improvements or the village.

EwB is also travelling to La Lima, Honduras or the endo the semester. Tis project was developed about ve yearsago at the orming o G s chapter o EwB. Te projectinterested EwB students because the current system o puriy-ing and distributing water to the community was developedin the 1940s when the village was a mere one-th o its sizetoday. Te community is now made up o more than 250households and the system currently in place has becomelargely insu cient. Goals o the project include establishing

better community relations, studying the current pumsystem, and contacting local pipe suppliers to preparpump implementation.

A particularly exciting project in terms o sustainis the solar latrine project headed up by Kevin Caravthe Georgia ech Research Institute. Te design collerom an outhouse and heats it to a high enough tempas to kill harmul bacteria so it can be used as ertilizproject was rst implemented in Bolivia several yearsis now being developed urther to reduce cost o maning and implementation, increase the durability o thproduct, and research urther the optimum temperatsanitizing the waste.

EwB member and Georgia ech graduate studenWall, is leading an efort on outreach. He travels witEwB members to local middle and high schools givin

sentations on the clubs purpose and promoting intercommunity development as well as sustainability.

Lastly, EwB spends much o its time undraising and projects. A single plane ticket to Cameroon is a$3,000 and the budget or the piping plan in Hondu$50,000. With numbers as large as these, its necessacontinue undraising whenever possible.

I you are interested in making a monetary donation, memb

simply volunteering or an EwB project, please email Chris D

[email protected].

Challenging Projects in Georgia Techs Chapter o

Engineers Without Borders (EwB)by Alex Stewart, 2nd year Mechanical Engineering Student

Students in Georgia Techs chapter

travelled to Cameroon in Spring 20

proessionals, civil and environmental engineers representmall set o individuals that actually know what happens

hen a toilet is ushed. We are ortunate to live in industrial-ed countries, as our daily lives are not impacted by the lackproper sanitation options. Yet, over one-third o the worldspulation does not have access to adequate sanitation toeet their daily needs.

Insu cient sanita tion can lead to poo r water quali ty,ublic health concerns, and gender disparity. Drinking waterurces contaminated with human excreta jeopardizes the

uality o the source. In 2000, the World Health Organiza-on estimated that 2.2 million people die annually romarrheal diseases that could be prevented by providing cleanater supplies and adequate sanitation. Te United Nationstimates that as o 2002, 2.6 billion people do not have ac-ss to adequate sanitation; they primarily live in developinguntries, mainly in Arica, Asia and Latin America. At thender level, women and girls are most impacted by the lacksanitation. By the time they reach puberty, girls typicallyop out o school as a result o the lack o adequate andivate sanitation options. Oten, women choose to deecatenight to escape harassment and assault concerns as well ashave some privacy.With eforts to halve this underserved population by

15, the United Nations established the Millennium De-lopment Goals. As o 2008, it appears that Latin Ameri-n and Asian countries are on target to increase sanitationverage to at least 50 percent o their regions; unortunately,e majority o countries in Sub-Sahara Arica are not. Tisallenge o providing adequate sanitation presents an oppor-nity or civil and environmental engineers.

Sanitation, as we know it, is a complex system ollection, treatment, and disposal o human waste. Tisonventional approach works in developed nations, as waterappropriately deemed wastewater is used as the primaryode o transportation. Combinations o excreta, industrialaste, and commercial waste are aggregated via wastewater

pipelines and transported to a acility where appropriate (andoten regulated) physical, biological, and c hemical treatmentsoccur. Following treatment, solids let are disposed o prop-erly and treated e uent ows to a rece iving body o wat er.

Several challenges exist when attempting to implementa conventional approach to sanitation in developingcountries. In most areas, water is too precious o a resourceto be used to transport human excreta. Oten times, opendeecation is the main orm o human excretion, making itlikely that cross -contamina tion into drinking e cient excre-tion, making it likely that cross-contamination into drinkingsources will occur. Financing and regulatory mechanismsneeded just dont exist in developing countries. Chemical orenergy needed or treatment may not be available on anadequate consistent basis. For these reasons, implementationso conventional approaches to sanitation in developing coun-tries oten ail. A more sustainable approach to sanitation indeveloping countries is needed.

From a sanitation approach, sustainable systems indeveloping countries are loosely dened. In general, systemsshould allot or exibility in scaling and nancing mecha-nisms. As waste is not treated aggregately, complex collec-tion and distribution systems are not necessary. Fundingmay come rom a variety o sources, including governments,

nonprot organizations, nancial institutions, and se l-pay.Since socio-political conditions and regulatory institutionsmay not be conducive to sanitation systems, determiningappropriate treatment technology can be di cult. Myresearch ocuses on the development o decision-support toolsthat will aide in sustainable sanitation system selection. Myhope is that providing this assistance will increase the imple-mentation success rate o sanitation systems. With only veyears remaining, achieving the Millennium DevelopmentGoal by 2015 is quite a loty goal. Providing mechanismsthat support e cient decision-making is one method to helpachieve this goal.

Decisionsupport Tools or Sustainable Sanitation Systemsn Developing CountriesZakiya A. Seymour, E.I.T. and 4th year Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering

Let: Zakiya on a

recent trip to Puebla,

Mexico, unded by

the Mundy Global

Endowment Fund.

Top: Child awaiting

his turn at a school

latrine in Chikwawa,

Malawi. Source:

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Dr. Joseph B. Hughes has been namedthe initial holder o the Karen and JohnHuf School Chair in Civil and Envi-ronmental Engineering. Te prestigious

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Karen and John Huf School Chair in Civil and

Environmental Engineering

endowment will have a proound, long-term efect on the School, the College,and the Institute. Hughes states, ForCEE to sustain and advance its role asone o the worlds leading programs,efective, strong, and visionary leader-ship is essential. Te establishment othis chair is a testament to the Karenand Johns commitment to Georgiaech, and also to their recognition othe importance o leadership in success-ul organizations.

Dr. Hughes is a recognized leaderin the treatment and remediation ohazardous wastes and has served aschair o CEE since 2003. He earnedhis Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civiland Environmental Engineering romthe University o Iowa and a B.A. romCornell College in Chemistry. Hisesteemed career includes being electedto the American Academy o Environ-mental Engineering as a Diplomate byEminence in the eld; the Jack EdwardMcKee Medal rom the Water Environ-ment Federation or achievement ingroundwater protection, restoration,and sustainable use; the CH2MHillOutstanding Doctoral DissertationAward rom the Association o Environ-mental Engineering and Science Proes-sors; and an invitation to Yale Univer-sity as the John McClanahan HenskeDistinguished Lecturer to discuss his

work in environmental nanotechnology;and the ASCE 2005 Walter L. HuberCivil Engineering Research Prize givento members or notable achievements incivil engineering research. In addition,he serves as chair o the Science Advi-

Above let

John Huf

the Rambl

Let: Karen

Huf Schoo

Joseph B. H

dowed chairs enhance the quality o programs in higher

ucation through the recognition and contributions o the chair

lder. The position is among the highest and most prestigious

pointments in academe, and honors scholarly achievement and

ademic excellence. These positions attract the most dynamic

dividuals in the civil and environmental engineering proession,

enabling the School to maintain and build upon its strong

leadership and to sustain its position as one o the worlds

leading programs. The School o Civil and Environmental

Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech is pleased to ann ounce the

ollowing endowments recently established within the School:

Associate ProessorJaehong Kim wasrecently named aCarlton S. Wilder Junior FacultyProessor inEnvironmentalEngineering.

Dr. Michael D.Meyer has beenappointed to theFrederick R. Dick-erson Chair inUrban ransporta-tion Systems.Tis distinguish-

Te Wilder Junior Faculty Proes-rships in CEE are awarded to theost promising junior aculty membersenvironmental engineering whomonstrate excellence in teaching andsearch ocusing on the study o wateruality, as well as atmospheric condi-ons and other environmental mediaat afect both water quality and quan-y. Te proessorship has a term o 5ars and is awarded at the discretion oe CEE school chair.

Proessor Joseph Hughes, the Karend John Huf School Chair, recognizedr. Kim or his achievement stating,aehong, this is a signicant accolade,d in my opinion, it is well deserved.ongratulations!

Dr. Kims research interests are ine area o physicochemical processes ininking water treatment such as chemi-l disinection or pathogen inactiva-on, membrane ltration or removal

organic and inorganic contaminants,sinection by-product ormation con-ol, reverse osmosis technology o seaater desalination, and application omulsion-liquid membranes. He earneds B.S. and M.S. in Chemical echnol-

ed git serves as a oundation or major

interdisciplinary research, education,and service initiatives to advance thetechnological sophistication o urbantransportation systems, particularlythe use o advanced communicationsand computing to acilitate congestion

CEE Endowments

rlton S. Wilder Junior Faculty Proessor in

vironmental Engineering

ogy rom Seoul National University inKorea and his Ph.D. in civil and envi-ronmental engineering at the Universityo Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr.Kim joined Georgia ech as an assistantproessor in environmental engineeringin 2002. He ofers courses includingPhysicochemical Processes, Design oDrinking Water reatment Facilities,Membrane Process, and Special opicso Water Science and Engineering.

Frederick R. Dickerson Chair in Urban

Transportation Systems

reduction and energy e ciency.Dr. Meyer is considered one o the

worlds oremost experts in transporta-tion systems. He has written more than180 technical articles and authored orco-authored multiple texts on trans-portation planning and policy. Heis the recipient o numerous awardsincluding the 2009 ransportationResearch Boards W.N. Carey Jr. Awardor Distinguished Service, the 2006Wilbur Smith Distinguished Educatoraward rom the Institute o ransporta-tion Engineers, the 2000 Teodore M.Matson Memorial Award in recognitiono outstanding contributions in the eldo transportation engineering, the 1995Pyke Johnson Award o the ranspor-tation Research Board, and the 1988Harland Bartholomew Award o theAmerican Society o Civil Engineers.Dr. Meyer earned a B.S. in civil eng-neering rom the University o Wiscon-sin, an M.S. in civil engineering romNorthwestern University and a Ph.D.in civil engineering rom M.I.. He isa registered proessional engineer in thestate o Georgia.

Te Dickerson Chair was estab-lished in 2006 through the generosityo Georgia ech Emeritus Proessor Ste-phen L. Dickerson and his wie, Jane.It is the rst endowed chair to reside inCEE, named in honor o Dr. Dicker-

sons late ather. Steve Dickerson was amember o the Mechanical Engineeringaculty (1965-1996) who worked inthe area o transportation planning. Healso spent a year with the o ce o theSecretary or the U.S. Department o

Above let:

Dr. Carl S. Wilder.

Let: Dr. Jaehong

Kim, Carlton S.

Wilder Junior

Faculty Proessor.

Previous page:

Dr. Frederick R.

Dickerson.

Let: Dr. Michael

Meyer, Frederick R.

Dickerson Chair in

Urban Transporta-

tion Systems.

ransportation, started a successul busand vanpool service in metro Atlantain 1975, and taught a graduate coursein urban transportation in CEE. Stevesather, Frederick R. Dickerson, was bornin 1915 in Rockord, Illinois. He andhis wie Margaret Alice Nelson had vesons, all but one o whom are connectedto Georgia ech. Fred Dickersons entirecareer was with Roper Industries inRockord and Commerce, Georgia. Heretired as Chairman in 1980, and passedaway in 1998.

sory Board or the EPAs West Hazardous Substances Researcha member o the U.S. EPA stanscience advisory committee on ronmental Engineering, and hoadjunct aculty appointment atUniversity in ianjin, China.

John Huf received his B.S.rom Georgia ech in civil engin 1968 and is currently ChairCEO o Huf International, ansory and capital management cinvesting in new technology oenergy industry. He also is Chao the Board or Oceaneering Itional, Inc. Huf was inducted Engineering Hall o Fame in No 2007. Also in 2007, he receiOfshore echnology DistinguiAchievement Award. An active energy industry spokesman, Mis a past member o the Nationleum Council and a past DirecNational Ocean Industries AssoInternational Association o DrContractors, and served on thepartment o ransportations NOfshore Saety Advisory Comm


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Students

Chris Shearer, a Ph.D. student in theStructural Engineering, Mechanic andMaterials program is the recipient o the2010 Department o Energy Fellowshipand the 2010 American Concrete Institute(ACI) Presidents Fellowship. Both o theseawards are nationally competitive andvery prestigious.

Four Ph.D. students in the CEEransportation Engineering programwere individually awarded 2010 NationalScience Foundation (NSF) Graduate Re-search Fellowships. J.P. OHar,BrittanyLuken, Donny Katz, and Brent Weigelare among the 2000 national awardees re-centlypublished by NSF. In addition, JosieKressner and om Wall received Honorable

Mentions. According to Dr. MichaelMeyer, the Frederick R. Dickerson Chairand Director o the Georgia ransportationInstitute, In the collective memory otransportation aculty, we cannot recallwhere one transportation program hasreceived this many NSF Fellowships inone year. It is truly unprecedented.

om Wall, a doctoral student inransportation Engineering, and HunterCausey, a masters student in Environmen-tal Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources,have been named 2010-2011 FulbrightScholars. Each was selected or this honorby the J. William Fulbright Foreign Schol-arship Board, composed o twelve educa-tional and public leaders appointed by thePresident o the United States. Out o therecord number o applicants this year, t hreeGeorgia ech students in all were awardedFulbright grants or international research,and two o them are in CEE.

Elise Barella,Josie Kressner and om

Wall, Ph.D. students in the ransportationEngineering program, were awarded nation-ally competitive Eisenhower Fellowships toconduct transportation research.

Georgia echsASCE Student Chapter competed in the 2010 Carolinas Coner-ence, taking 3rd place overall. Te G teamwon 1st place in the Balsawood Bridge,Construction Management, and -shirtDesign competitions, and 2nd or 3rd placein the Earthquake Challenge, Quiz Bowl,

and ug-o-war. Te Concrete Canoe teamplaced second, the highest nish ever orGeorgia ech. As a result, the ConcreteCanoe team will be invited to the nationalchampionship at UC Berkeley.

Yiwei Cheng, a third year doctoral studentin the Environmental Fluid Mechanics andWater Resources program was awarded aFellowship rom the Everglades Founda-tion or his proposed research HowNatural and Anthropogenic PerturbationsImpact the Ridge and Slough System othe Everglades.

An aviation research group rom CEE putconcepts into practice at Air Canadas NorthAmerican headquarters in Quebec.Undergraduate student Susan Hotle,

doctoral students Donald Katz, BrittanyLuken, Stacey Mumbower, om Wall,and post-doctoral researcher Misuk Leediscussed how Air Canada is makingdecisions in the areas o route planning,pricing, and resource allocation, gaining anunderstanding o how the airline unctions.

CEE graduate student Brittany Bruder atthe Georgia ech Savannah (GS) campuswas admitted to the Summer Program inEarth System Science ofered by the NASAGoddard Space Flight Centers (GSFC)Earth Sciences Division. She will work atthe NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) ona Regional Earth Modeling System (REMS)to simulate coastal processes to betterunderstand them and predict their behaviorin the ace o human interventions. Herprimary research involves novel sustainabledevices to harness energy rom tidal streamsin coastal Georgia.

Seventy-nine undergraduate students inCEE were extended an invitation to the

prestigious 2010 Georgia ech Women inEngineering Excellence Awards Banquet.Invitations to the event are only distributedto emale earning an overall GPA o 3.35or higher. Te ollowing students were alsorecognized with scholarships at the event:Melissa Allardyce (Wilmer), ChristinaBarry(StreetSmarts), Christine Beazley(Wilmer), Emma Bones (CH2MHill),Lindsey Bray(StreetSmarts), Emily Cadic(StreetSmarts), Meredith Freeman(StreetSmarts), Heather Hill (Halliburton),

essi Ludena(Shell), Alyson Pig(Halliburton),Katelyn Randall (SLaura Schultz(Halliburton),Am

Wall (StreetSmarts), and StephanZinner (Alcoa).

Joseph Tomas was selected by tho Engineering as a 2010 OutstanUndergraduate Researcher. He isin the BS/MS program in CEE anpleted his BSCE in December 200working with Ph.D. candidate Joarahondo. As an undergraduate rJoseph perormed many t ests or Jresearch in the efects o chemicaling on soil properties (specically,ence o iron-oxide coatings), and tunderneath the Savannah River si

Amal Jayapalan , third year doctostudent in the Structural EngineeMechanics, and Materials programthe 2010 Robert H. Kuhlman MeScholarship rom the Georgia Chathe American Concrete Institute (

EnvE undergrad Bailey WrightaASCE international conerence inIndia with the help o the Joe S. MInternational Experience Fund. Tconerence ocused on the ollowiWater Resources Planning & Mament, Water and Wastewater anManagement, and Global Wateand Hydrology & Hydraulics.

Lokesh Padhye, a th year gradustudent in Environmental Enginerecognized by the Environmental Division o ACS as one o the org2010 Graduate Student Award wi

CEE masters student Rachel Lanwas recently awarded the 2009 SE

Scholarship rom the Structural Eing Association o Georgia (SEAOSEAOG scholarship is awarded toengineering masters students whodemonstrated an aptitude and pasthe practice o structural engineer

CEE undergrad Katherine DAmattended the European ransport ence (EC) through the Joe S. MGlobal Learning Experience Fund

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TAKE NOTE: Academic Year 2009-2010

EE External Advisory Board Membersbert D. Bernstein

nsulting Transportation Engineer

bert Bernstein, Inc. PS

lliam R. Calhoun Jr.ecutive Vice President

rk Construction Group, Inc.

mes W. Case, PEnior Principal Engineer

un & Case Engineers

ward A. Clarkairman (Retired)

dan Jones and Goulding, Inc.

ederick C. Donovan Sr., PE, PLSairman and CEO

skerville-Donovan, Inc.

ott Emmons, PEe Engineer

wton County Water & Sewer

thority

omas D. Gambinoesident

me Engineering, Inc.

mund C. Gloverairman and CEO (Retired)

tson-Cook Company

Robert G. GrahamPresident

Cone & Graham, Inc.

John A. Grant III , PEPresident and Owner

Grant Engineering Company

Lauren Hildebrand, PEDirector o Utilities

Department o Public Works

Public Utilities Division

City o Charlottesville, Virginia

Douglas R. HookerVice President and District Director

Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan, Inc.

Charles H. HulingVice President, Environmental Afairs

Georgia Power Company

Selma A. (Sally) Jabaley Project Assurance Manager

Shell International

Birdel F. Jackson IIIPresident and CEO

B&E Jackson & Associates, Inc.

Sharon JustPresident

Just Engineering & Associates, Inc.

Greg KochManaging Director

Global Water Stewardship

Environment & Water Resources

The Coca-Cola Company

James MaughonPresident (Retired)

Hayes James & Associates, Inc.

Michael MessnerPartner

Seminole Capital Partners

J. Paul Oxer, PE, DEEManaging Director

McDaniell, Hunter & Prince, Inc.

Joseph P. Palladi, PEO ce o Planning (Retired)

Georgia Department o Transportation

Blake Van Leer PeckPresident and COO

McDonough Bolyard Peck Inc.

Andy PhelpsPrincipal Vice President

Bechtel Corporation

S. Brent ReidPresident and CEO

The Winter Construction Company

Richard C. Tucker Sr.Chair, External Advisory Board

President and CEO (Retired)

Environmental Resources

Management, Inc.

G. Ben TurnipseedPresident and CEO

G. Ben Turnipseed Engineers, Inc.

Frank E. Williams IIIPresident and CEO

Williams Industries, Inc.

Frank E. WyattPresident

Pinnacle Homes

Carolyn D. Wylder, PEVice President and Principal

Project Manager

David Evans and Associates, Inc.

hool o Civil & Environmental Engineering External Advisory Board, Fall 2009


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acey Mumbower, a second year graduateudent in civil engineering was selected as009 Eno ransportation Foundationllow and participated in the Annualadership Development Program inashington, D.C.

urel Paget-Seekins, a second year Ph.D.udent, received a three-year Eisenhowerllowship and a Presidential Fellowshipm Georgia ech. She is examining designd operation characteristics o publicnsit systems that increase social andvironmental sustainability.

ise Barrella, a Ph.D. candidate ineorgia echs ransportation Systemsoup, was the recipient o a 2009 Georgiaepartment o ransportation scholarship.

ent Weigel, a Ph.D. student in theansportation Systems Engineeringoup, received the 2009 Georgia Powernergy Fellowship.

anklin Gbologah, received the Nationalciety o Black Engineers Board o

orporate A liates $3,000 scholarship.

ittany Luken received a $10,000 Airportorporative Research Program (ACRP) oe ransportation Research Board.

ise Barrella, Brittany Luken,Alekochowski and Nick Woodwere awardedholarships rom the Georgia Departmentransportation.

arlos Campo, andYi Lin Pei were award-scholarships rom the Georgia Intelligentansportation Systems (IS) chapter.

anzhi (Ann) Xu was awarded scholarshipsm the Georgia IS chapter and the

09 Womens ransportation SeminarWS) Overly Scholarship with theanta Chapter.

hris Barrow, a senior in CEE, waswarded the ransportation Engineer oe Future scholarship rom the Georgiaepartment o ransportation (GDO).

ephen A. (Alex) Crotty, masters studentthe Structural Engineering, Mechanicsd Materials research group, was awarded

the Clayord . Grimm, P.E. StudentScholarship by Te Masonry Society.Alexs research topic is Creating Brickrom Savannah River Dredge Materials.Te ocus o his project is to determinewhether the material dredged rom theSavannah River can be used to producebrick conorming to ASM C62 orASM C 216.

Graduate student Jamie M. Fischer travel-ed to Kenya or one week in October withthe help o the Joe S. Mundy Global Learn-ing Experience Endowment Fund to attendthe 8th International Conerence on UrbanHealth (ICUH). It covered a wide range othemes related to Urban Health, includinginrastructure systems and urban health,which relates directly to Jamies research.

Doctoral student Juan Manual JimenezChongrecently nished th in a photocontest specically or structures. Hisphoto o the New River Gorge Bridge wasrecognized by the International Associationo Bridge and Structural Engineers in itsstructures photo contest.

Te American Institute o Steel Construc-tion (AISC) recognized CEE graduatestudents Roger Mockand Laura Schultz.Roger received with the AISC/W&WAFCO Steel Scholarship or $5000 andLaura received the AISC/SouthernAssociation o Steel Fabricators Scholar-ship or $2500.

CEE graduate students competed in theStudent Poster Competition at the 2009Review o Progress in Quantitative Non-destructive Evaluation (QNDE) conerenceheld at the University o Rhode Island.Martin Mueller won rst prize or hisposter entitled On the Excitability o

Second Harmonic Lamb Waves in Iso-tropic Plates. Natalie Darraugh wasawarded second place or her poster AirVoid Characterization in Cement Pastethrough Ultrasonic Attenuation using anImmersion Procedure.

Ph.D. student Shandra Justicia Leon wasselected to receive the prestigious AmericanSociety or Microbiology (ASM) Robert D.Watkins Graduate Fellowship.

Faculty

Te American Society o Civil Engineers(ASCE) recognized the accomplishmentsoBruce R. Ellingwood, Ph.D., P.E.,N.A.E., by electing him as a DistinguishedMember o ASCE. Proessor Ellingwoodis internationally recognized as an author-ity on structural load modeling and loadcombination analysis, structural reliabilityand risk analysis o engineered acilities, andas a leader in the technical development andimplementation o probability-based codi-ed design standards or building structures.He deserves signicant credit or the prog-ress made in the past thirty years in bridgingthe gap between research and practice inimplementing novel concepts rom the newand rapidly evolving eld o structural reli-

ability theory into engineering practice.

Dr. Paul Mayne and his ormer studentAlec McGillivrayhave been granted aU.S. Patent No. 7, 650, 962 or a devicethey developed called Rotary ActuatedSeismic Source and Methods or Continu-ous direct-Push downhole Seismic esting.Te invention is a remotely operated deviceor generating horizontally polarized verti-cally propagating shear waves or usein down-hole shear wave velocity measure-ment systems.

Dr.James sai is one o ve recipientso the National Research Demonstrationawards rom the US DO Research andInnovative echnology Administration(RIA). RIA is designed to promoteand validate new sensing methods, toolsand systems or monitoring the quality oconstruction and condition o the physicalinrastructure cost efectively.

Dr. Leroy Emkin has been named the 2010

Engineering o the Year in Education by theGeorgia Engineering Alliance. Dr. Emkinsnomination or this honor was selected byengineers representing various engineeringorganizations and educational institutions.In act, this is the second year in a row Pro-essor Emkin has held this title.

Dr.Armistead (ed) G. Russell was electeda Fellow o the American Association othe Advancement o Science (AAAS). Dr.Russell serves as the Georgia Power Distin-

TAKE NOTE (Continued)guished Proessor in Environmental Engi-neering. His area o expertise is air qualityengineering, with particular emphasis in airquality modeling, and air quality monitor-ing and analysis.

Associate Proessor Kimberly E. Kurtishas been named a 2010 Fellow o theAmerican Concrete Institute (ACI). She isa member o the Structural Engineering,Mechanics, and Materials research group,and her research and teaching interests arein construction materials, with a strongemphasis on microstructure and durabilityo cement-based materials.

Proessor Donald W. White was selectedto receive the 2010 Raymond C. ReeseResearch Prize rom ASCE or his paper

entitled Unied Flexural Resistance Equa-tions or Stability Design o Steel I-SectionMembers: Overview which appeared inthe September 2008 issue o Journal oStructural Engineering. In selecting Dr.White or this award, the ASCE commit-tee particularly noted the papers uniedapproach or the design o both buildingsand bridges in a ormat that can be readilyadopted into specications.

Associate Chair and Proessor ReginaldDesRocheswas recently appointed tothe Disasters Roundtable o the NationalAcademies. He is one o our new membersapproved by the National Academies inOctober. Proessor erry Sturm was recentlynamed editor o the Journal o HydraulicEngineering (JHE) by the ASCE Environ-mental and Water Resources Institute.

Dr. Reginald DesRoches was one o ouryoung engineers rom the U.S. selected toco-chair and organize the rst NationalAcademy o Engineering (NAE) China-

America Frontiers o Engineering program.Tis rst-time event brought together 40young engineers (between the ages o30-45) who perorm exceptional researchand technical work in a variety oengineering disciplines.

Dr.Adjo Amekudzi, associate proessor,has been elected to serve on the Leader-ship Committee o the American PublicWorks Association Center or Sustainability.Formed in 2008, the Center or Sustain-

ability addresses sustainability challengeso public works organizations across theUnited States and Canada.

Dr.Jaehong Kim was awarded the 2009Paul L. Busch Award rom t he WaterEnvironment Research Foundation WERF).Trough the award, the Endowment rec-ognizes outstanding individuals or teamswhose ongoing eforts contribute signi-cantly to water quality research and its prac-tical application in the water environment.

Dr. Ioannis Brilakis, assistant proessor,was named the recipient o the 2009 Ameri-can Society o Civil Engineers (ASCE)Associate Editor Award. Dr. Brilakiscurrently serves as associate editor o theJournal o Computing in Civil Engineering

and the Journal o Construction Engineer-ing and Management.

Proessor Roberto Leon is the newly ap-pointed president o the Board o Governorso the Structural Engineering Institute(SEI). SEI is one o seven Institutes withinthe American Society o Civil Engineers(ASCE) charged with coordinating allASCE activities related to the establishment,use, or discontinuance o standards in thearea o buildings.

Dr. Reginald DesRoches was elected tochair the Executive Committee o the Amer-ican Society o Civil Engineerings echnicalCouncil or Lieline Earthquake Engineer-ing (CLEE). Te purpose o the councilis to advance the eld o lieline earthquakeengineering, including the development ostandards or the eld, prioritizing researchneeds, serving as a key resource or associ-ated practitioners, and assisting with theeducation and technology transer o lielineearthquake engineering issues.

Dr.Jaehong Kim , associate proessor, wasrecognized by Environmental Science andechnology journal, earning the 2009 Excel-lence in Review award. Tis award recogniz-es the signicant contributions that review-ers provide to the scientic community andto the publication o scholarly research.

Proessor Don White was awarded the 2009.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, makinghim the third winner o this honor in CEE.

ProessorJim C. Spain honored bAmerican Society o Microbiology2009 Proctor & Gamble award inand Environmental Microbiology.

Proessor Bruce R. Ellingwoodwed the Senior Research Prize in thRisk Analysis and Decision MakinInternational Association or StrucSaety and Reliability. Te award cwas held in September at the 10thInternational Conerence on StrucSaety and Reliability (ICOSSAROsaka, Japan.

Alumni

Tree CEE alumni with Uzun & ticipated in the award winning ren

o the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta. Tey include: Robert We(Project Manager, BSCE 90, MSCDaniel Kuemmerle (Engineer, Mand Rees Culpepper (Engineer, B05, MSCE 09). Tis innovative pinvolved repurposing a signicanto the interior and resulted in saviportions o the building rom demTrough creative reconguration aing innovation, Uzun & Case has ollowing awards: NCSEA 2009 Ein Structural Engineering Award (Council o Structural Engineeringtions), SEAOG 2009 Excellence itural Engineering Award (Structurneers Association o Georgia), and2009 Engineering Excellence AwaAward (American Council o EngCompanies, Georgia Chapter).

In Memoriam

With heavy hearts, the School o CEnvironmental Engineering (CEE

Georgia Institute o echnology mloss o CEE Emeritus Advisory Bober Henry Hammond (Buck) StiBSCE 59. Buck passed away at hiSeptember 2009 ater a long and cbattle with cancer. He was a true champion who will be sorely misssurvived by his wie, Mary Ann, adaughter, Susan Stith Miller, and h


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