Civil and Environmental Engineering News Archive

AUGUST 29, 2007
McMahon selected for NAE's 2007 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Assistant Professor Katherine (Trina) McMahon is one of eighty-three young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering 13th Annual US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. The participants — from industry, academia, and government — were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from more than 260 applicants. The symposium will be held Sept. 24-26 at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, and will examine trustworthy computer systems, safe water technologies, modeling and simulating human behavior, biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, and the control of protein conformations. McMahon's research interests in water quality and environmental biotechnology are well aligned with the symposium topics.

JUNE 20, 2007
Alumnus Pat Fox receives award for paper
Alumnus Prof. Patrick Fox, Ohio State University, has received the the 2006 Practical Paper Award for the paper entitled “Large Dynamic Direct Shear Machine for Geosynthetic Clay Liners” that was published in the September 2006 issue of the ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal. The award selected by the ASTM Committee D-18 on Soil and Rock, the ASTM editorial staff, and the ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal editorial board recognizes an outstanding article on the practice of geotechnical engineering testing. Prof. Fox received his doctorate from UW-Madison in 1992 under the supervision of Prof. Tuncer B. Edil.

JULY 15, 2005
Students Biringen and Staab win paper competition
The winner of the 3rd Annual Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Student Paper Competition is Emre Biringen of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison for his submission titled "The Effects of Cylindrical Pile Insertion on the Vertical Stiffness and Strength of the Surrounding Soil". Mr. Biringen, who is supervised by Prof. Tuncer B. Edil, will present his winning entry during Session II of DFI's 30th Annual Conference on September 22-24, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. David Staab, a former graduate student of Prof. Tuncer B. Edil was the runner-up of the 2nd Annual DFI Student Paper Competition for his submission titled "Non-Destructive Geophysical Evaluation of Deep-Mixed Soil: A Computer Modeling Study" in 2004.

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