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Chen’s robotic bridge inspection system wins ASCE’s 2025 Pankow Award
Dr. Genda Chen, the Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Chair in Civil Engineering and director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure and the INSPIRE University Transportation Center, has developed a robotic system to make bridge inspections faster, more comprehensive and safer. His invention, called the Bridge Inspection Robot Deployment System, or BIRDS, has been selected for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation.
Read More »Attend webinar about structural inspection automation
The INSPIRE University Transportation Center will host a webinar, titled “Structural Inspection Automation: Research Challenges and 3D Machine Vision Techniques,” 11 a.m.-noon Tuesday, Dec. 13.
Read More »“Let’s Talk Research” zoom scheduled for Friday, November 13
Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis, vice-chancellor of research, invites the campus research community to join the next “Let’s Talk Research” event on Friday, Nov. 13, 3-4 pm. Dr. Genda Chen, Director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure and INSPIRE UTC, and Dr. Kamal Khayat, Director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies will be presenting about the […]
Read More »INSPIRE University Transportation Center annual meeting and poster session winners
The INSPIRE UTC held its 2020 annual meeting in a teleconference on August 3-4, 2020. Activities included technical research presentations by the INSPIRE UTC faculty, an executive meeting with the INSPIRE UTC director, external advisory committee, INSPIRE UTC principal investigators, and pooled-fund study and department of transportation members, a graduate student poster session, and awards […]
Read More »Grad students win poster contest at INSPIRE meeting
The INSPIRE University Transportation Center (UTC) held its annual meeting in a teleconference format Aug. 3-4. A graduate student poster session was open to graduate students from all INSPIRE consortium institutions.
Read More »Free webinar on the assessment of bridge performance
The INSPIRE University Transportation Center will present a free webinar with guest speaker Dr. Iris Tien, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology on Wednesday September 25 from 11:00-12:00 p.m. The topic will be “Data to Risk-Informed Decisions through Bridge Model Updating.” Across the country, bridge structures are aging with […]
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