civil architectural and environmental engineering
Faculty recognized at regional ASEE meeting
Missouri S&T was well represented at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section annual meeting and conference Sept. 25-27 in Manhattan, Kansas. S&T earned the Faculty-Mile award for attendance. The section includes states of Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Read More »Outstanding Paper Award goes to Aljazaeri, Myers
Zena Aljazaeri, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering, and Dr. John Myers, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, received the Outstanding Paper Award at the fourth International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT4) in Las Vegas in August. Their paper is titled “Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete One-Way Slabs for Flexure Using Composite Materials: Evaluation of Different Composite Materials.”
Read More »Holmes named ASCE Fellow
Dr. Robert Holmes, adjunct professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE Fellows are decided by their professional accomplishments and election. Less than 3.5 percent of ASCE members are named Fellow.
Read More »Oerther receives fourth Fulbright award
Dr. Daniel Oerther, professor of environmental engineering, has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate from 2016-2021. The Fulbright Specialist Program is a recent innovation that promotes links between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas through short-term exchanges of two to six weeks in duration with up to three exchanges to different countries occurring in a five year window.
Read More »Sneed improves ACI building codes
Dr. Lesley Sneed, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has been recognized by the American Concrete Institute for moving building codes forward. Sneed served as principle investigator of a project titled “Interface Shear Transfer of Lightweight Aggregate Concretes with Different Lightweight Aggregates.” The findings from this research proposed revisions to the next edition of the ACI 318 code and PCI Design Handbook for shear-friction design provisions of a smooth interface condition.
Read More »Oerther earns AAEES award
Dr. Daniel B. Oerther, the John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has earned the Superior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) for his work to improve water quality in the Ixcan region of Guatemala. The award will be presented April 14 at the academy’s annual Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science celebration at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Read More »Burken named Curators’ Professor
Dr. Joel Burken, a professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering and director of the Missouri S&T Environmental Research Center, has been named Curators’ Professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering. He will be honored during the commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 19.
Read More »Khayat presents at FLOW-3D
Dr. Kamal Khayat, the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies, recently presented at the 2015 FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference. His talk, presented in collaboration with Masoud Hosseinpoor and Ammar Yahia of the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, was titled “Numerical simulation of dynamic segregation of self-consolidating concrete in L-Box and T-Box test setups using FLOW-3D.”
Read More »Schonberg lectures on space debris
Dr. William Schonberg, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri S&T, presented a guest lecture about space debris in the physics department of the University of the West Indies on Wednesday, Oct. 7. While there, he also met with students from Our Lady of Fatima High School Astrophysics Club along with their principal.
Read More »Funeral arrangements for Dr. John Best
Dr. John Best, former professor of civil engineering at Missouri S&T, died Tuesday, Oct. 6. Visitation will be held 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, with a memorial service beginning at 1 p.m. at James and Gahr Mortuary, 1651 E. Highway 72 in Rolla. Memorial contributions are suggested to Shriner’s Children’s Hospital.
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