FACULTY NEWS
Associate
Professors Gregory W. Harrington and Daniel
R. Noguera have been selected to receive the 2004 Publications Award
of the American Water Works Association (AWWA). The award honors the
most notable contribution, scientific or practical, to the public water
supply profession, as published in the Journal AWWA. The paper, “Pilot-Scale
Evaluation of Nitrification Control Strategies,” was also selected
as the best paper of the Engineering and Construction Division of AWWA
in 2004. Co-authors of the paper were Alicia Kandou McMahon and David
VanHoven.
Professor
Larry Bank has been elected a vice president of the recently incorporated
Inter-national Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC), head- quartered
in Hong Kong, China. The IIFC held its official conference, The Second
International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering, in
December in Adelaide, Australia.
Two department faculty members have received Industrial
and Economic Development Research Program Technology Transfer Grants
from the Graduate School. They are Professor
Larry Bank and Assistant
Professor Katherine McMahon. Their efforts will focus on technically
innovative research that has high potential to benefit near-term industrial
and economic development in Wisconsin. The grants, which carry a maximum
of $35,000 of funding for one year, often allow investigators to generate
additional public and private sector support for their research programs,
engage in inventive research, and promote technology transfer between
the university and industry.
Two dozen UW-Madison faculty and students, most of
them from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, authored
or co-authored papers that were presented at the Transportation Research
Board Annual Meeting held last January in Washington, D.C. The annual
meeting is the largest transportation research conference in the world,
attracting more than 9,000 participants. In addition, Professors
Teresa Adams, Larry
Bank, Tuncer
Edil, Jeffrey
Russell and Alan
Vonderohe, Associate
Professors Hussain Bahia, Mike
Oliva, and Bin
Ran, and Assistant
Professors Keith Knapp and
David Noyce
led sessions and presented research at committee meetings.
Assistant
Professor Dante Fratta has joined the department
as an assistant professor. Fratta comes to the department from Louisiana
State University, where he has been an assistant professor of civil
and environmental engineering since 2000. Fratta will work with the
department’s geological engineering program. Fratta earned his
PhD (’96) in geotechnical engineering from the Georgia Institute
of Technology.
In addition, the department has announced the promotion
of Associate
Professor James Schauer to associate professor. Schauer specializes
in air resource management, with a focus on air pollutants and the impact
of pollutants on human health and the ecosystem. In 2002, Schauer was
been named the Walter A. Rosenblith Young Investigator of the Year by
the Health Effects Institute, a Boston-based non-profit organization
funded jointly by government and industry sources to research and evaluate
the affects of air pollution.
A new program called WisconsinView will soon provide
Wisconsin’s citizens with ready access for the first time to digital
satellite images of any location in the state. Leading the effort will
be Professor
Thomas Lillesand, with the Environmental Remote Sensing Center and
the State Cartographer Office at UW-Madison. The U.S. Geological Survey
will also support the project. The program will establish an on-line
satellite image archive for the entire state. Recent users of satellite
imagery in Wisconsin have applied these data to tasks as diverse as
measuring the clarity of the lakes in Wisconsin, mapping stands of different
tree species in the north woods, and forecasting potential nighttime
frost in commercial cranberry bogs. To learn more about WisconsinView
and to see satellite imagery of Wisconsin already available online in
preliminary format, visit www.
wisconsinview.org/. The archive is expected to be completely operational
by early fall.
Xiaodong
Wang, an instrumentation technologist with the department,
has received a Richard S. Ladd Standards Development Award from Committee
D18 on Soil & Rock of the American Society for Testing and Materials.
The award recognizes the work of Wang, along with Professor
Craig Benson, on preparing ASTM Standard Designation: D6836-02 “Standard
Test Methods for Determination of the Soil Water Characteristics Curve
for Desorption Using a Hanging Column, Pressure Extractor, Chilled Mirror
Hygrometer and/or Centrifuge.”
Assistant
Professor Chin-Hsien Wu and teaching assistant Rebecca
Wuellner were named the department recipients of the college’s
annual Polygon Teaching Awards. Recipients were chosen by engineering
students.
Professor
Craig Benson (also a professor of geological engineering) has been
appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geotechnical
& Geoenvironmental Engineering (JGGE) published by the American
Society of Civil Engineers. JGGE is the leading international journal
in geoengineering and publishes fundamental developments as well as
practical advances in geoengineering.
Assistant
Professor David Noyce has received the 2003 Institute of Transportation
Engineer’s (ITE) Coordinating Council Award. The award recognizes
Noyce’s leadership as chairman of the 300-member Pedestrian and
Bicycle Council, which developed the report, “Innovative Bicycle
Treatments.” ITE is a 15,000-member international organization
focused on transportation engineering issues.
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