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GeoEngineering Alumni Yesiller receives paper award
Dr. Nazli Yesiller has received the 2005 Practical Paper Award for the paper entitled “Determination of Surface and Thickness Characteristics of Textured Geomembranes Using Image Analysis.” The paper was published in the May 2005 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. Dr. Yesiller received her doctorate from UW-Madison in 1994 under the supervision of Prof. Craig H. Benson. She is now an independent consultant in San Luis Obispo, California.
Prof. Edil receives prestigious international award
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey has announced the recipients of 2007 awards on July 24, 2007. Prof. Tuncer Edil of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geological Engineering Program received the Special Science Award for “his internationally recognized outstanding research on construction technologies over soft ground and use of recycled materials as construction materials.” The award will be presented in a ceremony in December, 2007 in Ankara, Turkey.
Benson is the new GLE program chair
After five years as the GLE chairman, Prof. Tuncer Edil stepped down last June. The new program chair is Prof. Craig H. Benson. The GLE program commends Prof. Edil for his many accomplishments as the program chair and wishes new chair Benson best of luck in continued growth of this interdisciplinary program.
Alumnus Pat Fox receives award for paper
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.
Dr. HiKweon Lee, a former PhD student of Prof. Bezalel Haimson wins the 2007 ARMA Ph.D. Thesis in Rock Mechanics Award
Dr. HiKweon Lee (PhD-GLE 2005) is announced to be the recipient of the 2007 ARMA Ph.D. Thesis in Rock Mechanics Award. The award will be given to him at the North American Rock Mechanics Symposium in Vancouver BC, which convenes on May 27-30, 2007. Dr. Lee is the last PhD student of Prof. Bezalel Haimson who has announced his retirement this summer after a long and successful career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prof. Bezalel Haimson named ARMA Fellow
Emeritus Professor Bezalel Haimson has been appointed as a Fellow in the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA). The Fellows Program is a new initiative of ARMA to reward individuals who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in the area of rock mechanics, and have been of exceptional service to ARMA and the rock mechanics community. Professor Haimson's appointment as an inaugural member of this program makes this accomplishment particularly important.
Tuncer receives geotechnical education award
The United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and
Research (USUCGER) has awarded Prof. Tuncer B. Edil the 2007 USUCGER
Distinguished Service Award in recognition for his dedication,
contributions, and service to the USUCGER community. USUCGER was founded in
1985 to provide advocacy for the continued development and expansion of high
quality geotechnical engineering research and education by US academic
institutions.
Benson commended for editorial service
During the 2007 ASCE GeoInstitute's National Conference, Prof. Craig H.
Benson received the "Commendation for Service as Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering". Prof. Benson has
just stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal in the field of
geotechnical engineering.
Alumnus Prof. Ahmet Aydilek receives professional development award
UW-Madison alumni, Prof. Ahmet Aydilek (CEE - University of Maryland), has
received the 2006 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award from the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Prof. Aydilek received his
doctorate from UW-Madison in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Tuncer B.
Edil. The Casagrande Award is the highest ASCE research award given to a
junior researcher and was established to provide professional development
opportunities for outstanding young practitioners, researchers, and teachers
of geotechnical engineering.
Peter Kottke, a junior geological engi
neering major at the University of Wisconsin at Madison saved a
lost camper
Peter Kottke, a Geological Engineering Program is featured in the news after he rescued a lost camper.
Chang and Haimson receive Rock Mechanics Research award
Dr. John Hudson, U.K., the President of the International Society of Rock
Mechanics, announced that his nomination of a paper entitled "Non-dilatant
deformation and failure mechanism in two Long Valley Caldera rocks under
true triaxial compression" by Dr. C. Chang (former UW-Madison PhD student
and Post doc) and Prof. Bezalel Haimson (published in 2005 in the Intl. J . of Rock
Mechanics) for the 2006 American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
Rock Mechanics Research award, has been successful. The award will be
presented at the Annual U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, June 18-21, 2006.
PCA Education Foundation Fellowship Awarded to Baugh
GeoEngineering graduate student Jeremy Baugh received one of the six Portland Cement Association Education Foundation Fellowship Awards in the amount of $20,000. This competitive fellowship supports a wide variety of educational activities that increase public knowledge regarding appropriate uses of cement and concrete. The title of Baugh's research project is “Investigation into the Use of Cement Kiln Dust for Reconstruction of Bituminous Roads”. The project will be supervised by Professor Tuncer B. Edil.
Cope receives prestigious fellowship
GeoEngineering graduate student Daniel Cope has been selected to receive a 2006 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Mr. Cope was selected by the Army Research Office (ARO) from nearly 3,600 applications that were received this year. The NDSEG Fellowship will cover Mr. Cope's tuition and required fees, and will provide yearly stipend for three years at any accredited U.S. college or university. This very prestigious fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). Its goal is to provide the United States with talented, doctorally trained individuals who will lead state of the art research projects in disciplines related to national defense. Dan Cope's research advisor is Professor Craig Benson.
Fratta paper receives special commendation
The Technical Organizing Committee of GeoCongress2006 on Geotechnical
Engineering in the Information Technology Age, Atlanta, Feb 26-March 1,
2006 selected the following paper for special
commendation — in the SENSING METHODS AND DEVICES track (one of the four
major conference tracks) by Prof. Dante Fratta (GLE and CEE):
"The Use of Low-Cost MEMS Accelerometers for the Near-Surface Monitoring of
Geotechnical Engineering Systems,"
Keith Hoffman, Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA, USA;
Richard Varuso, USACE, New Orleans, LA, USA; and
Dante Fratta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
2006 GeoCongress Conference — Student Competition
The 2006 GeoCongress Conference Student Competition has concluded and the winners were announced.
The UW-Madison team formed by the Geo Engineering students including Craig Schuettpelz, a GLE senior.
Other team members were Ake Sawangsuriya, Emre Biringen and Victor Damasceno.
Nineteen teams from Europe, Asia and US (including three teams from UW-Madison) participated of this challenging event.
The contest was entitled "Information Mining and Geotechnical Site Characterization Design" and involved researching the Hurricane Katrina's time line and proposing engineering solutions for the
collapsed levee system in New Orleans.
The submitted papers were reviewed by an international panel of experts.
The second placed teams received $500.
All participating students will also receive flash cards to reward their efforts.
Prof.
Dante Fratta
(GLE and CEE) was the advisor to the team.
A scientist who works at the interface of geology and engineering was elected on February 10 to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
April 14, 2004: "Carving Crazy Horse: Art and Engineering of Blasting Massive Rock Monuments," presented by Prof. Charles Dowding