Annual Report Year 2004 - Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Drinking watersleuthsProbing the mysteriouslives of water pipesMost Americans do not realize how muchhousehold plumbing affects their drinkingwater, according to Andrea Dietrich, an expertin drinking water tastes and odors. In fact, asurprising lack of scientific knowledge regardingplumbing materials may threaten the financial and personalhealth of many homeowners.Dietrich leads a multitalented Virginia Tech team studyinghow different water treatments and pipe materials affect corrosionand the resulting impact on health, tastes and odors indrinking water, and consumer decision-making. Initial results,while helping thousands of homeowners, have put the teamin a position similar to storybook detectives: each discoveryhas only increased the mystery.“Plumbing in homes, schools, and commercial buildingsspans 10 times more distance than public utility water linesand has a correspondingly bigger impact,” Dietrich said.“Unfortunately, while indoor plumbing is a basic need, utilitiesand health agencies infrequently extend their considerationbeyond the point where public water transmission linesend and private lines begin. We are just discovering the scopeof the knowledge gap that has resulted from that neglect.”Early cluesThe lack of an interested third party has limited researchon pipes, exposing consumers to pinhole leaks, lead leachingfrom approved brass fixtures, organic chemicals leaching fromplastic pipes, and some catastrophic polybutylene pipe failures.“Pipes can corrode and fail, leading to discolored water,tastes and odors, expensive plumbing repairs and water damage—evengastrointestinal upset,” Dietrich said. She notedthat repairs can cost thousands of dollars and water damageclaims can lead to homeowners’ insurance woes.When plumbing problems strike, consumers are forced tomake complex and costly decisions regarding materials. “Rightnow, consumers have no source for unbiased guidance.Should they replace all their pipes, or just repair the onesdamaged? What materials should they use? What’s the tradeoffbetween initial cost and long-term effectiveness? What causedthe problem and how can it be prevented?” she said.“Answers to these questions are not available to consumers,and in many cases, do not exist at all,” she said. “Wewant to be able to match pipe materials to water quality,Researchers are running long-term (bottom row) and shortterm(top row) tests on how different pipe materials performwith different treatment chemicals. Pipe materials includecopper, epoxy-coated copper, steel, PVC, PEX, and glass (as acontrol, wrapped in foil to prevent algae growth).

knowing how different water sources and treatment programswill change the answers in different geographic locations.”Getting to the point where homeowners can log onto aninternet-based system for sound advice regarding their specificsituation will require years of effort by Dietrich’s team ofscientists, engineers, economists and social scientists. Theteam is currently funded by a $1.8 million grant from theNational Science Foundation program in Materials Use:Science, Engineering, and Society.Joining Dietrich are CEE’s Marc Edwards, a water-pipecorrosionexpert who serves as co-director of the project; G.V.Loganathan, an expert in hydraulics and modeling; DarrellBosch from Agricultural and Applied Economics; SusanDuncan from Food Science and Technology; Sharon Dwyer, ahealth educator at the Center for Community Health; TamimYounos of the Water Resources Research Center, and AnneCamper of Montana State University at Bozeman.The corrosion culpritEdwards is leading the corrosion effort, with an emphasison copper, which is the predominant water pipe material inthe United States. His team is conducting field studies and laboratoryexperiments on different pipe materials, disinfectants,copper rusts, and the growth of biological materials.His results have already stirred public firestorms, includingincidents when his team identified a change of water treatmentas the cause of a rash of pinhole leaks in Maryland. Theyalso exposed ineffective lead testing of brass fixtures anddebunked advice to families that in practice increased theirlead exposure.“What we have learned to date has not been reassuring,”Edwards said, “and has emphasized how urgently privateplumbing needs attention.”Edwards’ team identified the water itself as the cause ofthe Maryland pinhole leaks. In meeting new guidelines fromthe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the water utilityaltered its treatment process to remove natural organic materials(NOM) from the water. “This created hundreds of thousandsof leaks in pipes—in some cases, pipes were failing insix months,” he said.While investigating other pinhole leaks in the District ofColumbia this year, he measured a high lead level thatincreased after running the water for the recommended oneminuteflush period. In that situation, he concluded, the watersource, treatment, and plumbing material combinationrequired more than 10 minutes of running the tap before leadlevels decrease. The results created a public outcry and officialrecommendations were subsequently changed.The plot thickensWhile Edwards’ team evaluates materials, hydraulics-andmodelingexpert Loganathan is studying flow effects and whyone house can have a totally different experience from thehouse next door.“We want to understand what happens when water flowsthrough small diameter pipes,” he said. “We are tackling theroles of velocity, valves, the bends in pipes, distance from thetreatment plant, and questions such as whether horizontal orvertical pipes react with hot or cold water. The more we lookinto this problem, the more complicated it gets,” he said. “Weare finding that even the literature equations are not necessarilyvalid.” The hydraulics model uses a hybrid of the team’sexperimental results and data from various sources, includingutilities and nationwide surveys of homeowners andplumbers. The biggest challenge with the modeling is qualityand accessibility of the data—even whether the data exists,according to Loganathan. “Once we have accurate data, thenwe will know how accurate our model is.”Inaccessible witnessesDietrich, the team director, described an early difficultygetting data from the Washington, D.C. region with its concentrationof plumbing failures. “Darrel Bosch and Sharon Dwyerwere planning a telephone survey, only to discover a highconcentration of people who opted out of phone surveys.”Loganathan is working with Bosch and Dwyer to developthe decision-making tool for consumers. “Cost, repair historyand health consequences are not the only factors,” he said.“There will be the disruption of the repairs, possibility of moldgrowth, flavor of the water, even the possibility of losinghomeowner’s insurance. At this stage, we don’t have a cluewhat the final decisions will be,” he said. “This is the challengeof marching into unknown territory. It’s fun and exciting.I’m a bit nervous, but if we can pull it off, it will be a greatbenefit to all homeowners.”Can consumerssniff out corrosion?The world’s most complex sensorof tastes and odors—the consumer—maybe capable of detectingplumbing problems before damagecan occur.As part of the Virginia Tech analysis ofplumbing materials, Andrea Dietrich, anexpert in tastes and odors in drinkingwater, is working with Susan Duncan offood science and technology to understandhow pipes of different materialsinfluence the taste and odor of water.Using approaches employed by thefood chemistry field,they are characterizingthe perceptions and chemistry of thetaste and odor of water, as well as the flavorof water,which is the combination oftaste and odor.Although preferences vary, taste andodor can be measured, according toDietrich. The concentrations at whichpeople taste copper change from person to person, so theteam is developing ranges of taste for different concentrations.“Weare interested in how the ability to taste copperrelates to different corrosion levels. Can we taste copper indrinking water before the level exceeds a particular value?If so, we can train consumers to serve as monitors.”As non-copper pipes degrade, they can sometimesleach organic molecules, she indicated.“What flavor mightPVC pipes impart? How would that change over time? Howdoes the flavor stand up to different disinfectants? Do disinfectantschange our ability to taste some of these components?Do they mask it?”Above: A master’s student, Kate Lago, trains to becomea taste and smell panelist in an effort to see whetherhumans can detect the effects of pipe materials in theflavor of drinking water.5RESEARCH NEWS

Hurricane Ivan image from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAACELES can talk about the weather AND do something about itThe new Center for Extreme LoadEffects on Structures (CELES) isconcerned not only with developingsolutions that reduce damage fromhurricanes, floods, fires, high winds,and terrorists, but also with ensuring thesolutions get implemented.According to Finley Charney, director(above left), and James Martin, associatedirector (right), communicationand education will play major roles inCELES efforts, including courses, websiteinformation, and training studentswith experience in the hazards.How well a community fares in adisaster depends on its mitigation andpreparation, which are influenced bythe community’s perception of the hazard,explained Martin. “Hazard intrusiveness— how much a communitytalks and thinks about a particular hazard— largely determines the community’spreparation,” he said.RESEARCH NEWSWhere is the higher earthquake risk?Researchers at the newly formed Center for ExtremeLoad Effects on Structures (CELES) want to minimizedamage from hurricanes, earthquakes, and otherextreme events.Their efforts include characterizing a community’srisk—the probability of an event that injures lifeand property. Recent projects include risk assessments ofCharleston, S.C.“If you look at the risk or hazard from all natural events,Charleston’s risk exceeds a similar setting in California,”said James Martin, CELES associate director. “California isexposed to earthquakes and fire, but Charleston has a highprobability of hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods, combinedwith a low resistance (structures not resilient to damage).When you integrate all these factors, Charleston is acity at very significant risk.” The risk is magnified by itsimportance as a major port and rail center, and its strategicmilitary facilities.Charleston, South CarolinaLos Angeles, CaliforniaSteve Murray7

Model tethers“highway in the sky”to consumer realitiesWhen NASA wanted to evaluate options forits “highway-in-the-sky,” small aircrafttransportation system (SATS), the agencyturned to Antonio Trani and his team in theAir Transportation Systems Laboratory for asplash of reality.Reality for the not-so-futuristic transportation system camein the guise of a new multi-modal transportation model thatcan analyze the relationships between economic and technologicalfactors.The SATS program envisions on-demand air transportationusing small aircraft and the nation’s 3,400 suburban and ruralairports. Trips would typically be under a thousand miles andwould cut overall travel times, helping travelers avoid trafficgridlock. For example, a one-way trip from Hampton, Virginiato Dallas, Texas would take just 5.8 hours via SATS, comparedto 21.5 hours by car and 8.8 hours by commercial coach airline.The SATS program is run jointly by NASA, the FederalAviation Agency (FAA) and the National Consortium forAviation Mobility (NCAM).SATS is not the only group pursuing personal air travel.Boeing has developed a prototype of a hybrid helicopter/car.Also, this year, People’s Express founder Don Burr andAmerican Airlines’ Bob Crandall announced a company tooffer on-demand regional-based air taxi service. Meanwhile,Pratt & Whitney and Honda/GE have developed small, efficientengines for microjets and aircraft manufactures aredesigning, small, inexpensive jets.NASA posed a number of questions for the Virginia Techteam, including the level of demand based on cost, whatroutes and regions would be most popular, what airportscould be expected to play an immediate role, and what technologiesNASA should develop to maximize the benefit to theflying public.The model provided a real-world analysis of SATS demandthat was generally favorable for the technology, but surprisingto some SATS proponents who expected a larger impact,according to Trani. The model showed demand for SATS serviceswas very sensitive to price. At the SATS goal of $1.50 perseat/mile the model predicted the service would capture 2.8percent of today’s business trips. “Corporate jets currently cost$3.50 per seat/mile, so this would be a very strong cost savings,”Trani explained. “This is a viable demand, but is lessthan proponents expected,” he added. “They hoped the timesavings per trip would be a bigger factor.”If technology could be developed—and FAA regulationsNASA conceptual drawings

Antonio Trani (right), with research scientistNick Hinze (left) and the team inthe Air Transportation Systems laboratorybuilt a model to analyze both technicaland socio-economic factors oftransportation. The model is being usedby NASA to answer questions regardinga personal air taxi system.changed—for SATS services to operate with just one pilot,SATS costs could be reduced to $1.20 per seat/mile, increasingdemand to 3.5 percent of business trips.NASA is also developing technology that would allowhigher volume operations at airports that do not have controltowers or terminal radar and to allow pilots to land safely inlow visibility conditions at minimally equipped airports. Thesedevelopments were shown to significantly improve the safetyand capacity at all uncontrolled airports, and could save millionsof dollars at low-volume towered airports, according toTrani. “However, the technology showed just a moderateincrease in demand for SATS,” he said.Trani’s team is currently using the model to analyze theimpact of incorporating rail and other transportation modes,along with as-yet-unavailable aircraft that have short take-offand landing requirements.“The power of this model is that it can answer questionsand show the impact on many factors in the transportationsystem,” Trani said. “We expect this model will be an importanttool for decision makers. NASA and the FAA can use themodel to determine whether different technologies will makesense and what they need to do to bring those systems intobeing,” he said.RESEARCH NEWSAnalyzing human and technical factorsBy mixing what they call “mathematics,economics,andcommon sense” with decades of experience in transportationsystems, Antonio Trani, along with HojongBaik and a team at the Air Transportation Laboratory havedeveloped a rigorous model that can be used to analyzeboth national and county-level transportation systems.Developed to provide decision support for the small aircrafttransportation system (SATS) [see above], the model isthe first to bundle socio-economic factors, such as demandand pricing, with technical performance specifications.Combining issues like how travelers choose their mode oftravel with specifications of speed, fuel consumption, andeven noise generated can help engineers and planners bettermatch the technology to the need, according to Trani.The model analyzes several layers of overlapping inputs,including the national airspace system, the American travelsurvey, Eurocontrol data, the Woods & Poole EconomicModel, census data, the official airline guide, and vehicle andaircraft cost and performance data. “The model is genetic(self-adapting), so that we can add new datasets and constraints,to help us predict and optimize future technolo-gies,”Trani said. A combination of socioeconomic models anddata sources was used so that predictions can be as accurate aspossible,Trani said.A variety of metrics and constraints can be evaluated,including mobility benefits, such as reduced travel time, economicbenefits, environmental impacts, energy and fuelimpacts and airspace capacity impacts.“Every choice in transportationinvolves a cost/benefit tradeoff,” Trani explained.“Perhaps getting to a destination sooner will cost more dollars,or have a higher environmental impact regarding fuel use ornoise,” he said.Although the model was developed to answer questionsrelated to NASA’s small aircraft effort,Trani’s team is using it toanalyze other transportation modes.“As long as you can tell usthe performance of the vehicle, the routes, and the economicsinvolve, we can accommodate other technologies,”Trani said.In addition to Trani, the modeling team included researchscientists Hojong Baik and Howard Swingle, and graduateresearch assistants S.Ashiabor, N. Hinze, X.Yue,A. Seshadri andK. Murthy.9

Making smarter decisionswith geospatial technologyRESEARCH NEWSThe location of housing developments, roads, andsewers can hurt a community’s quality of life.Likewise, the location of health, child-care, andfood-stamp services for low-income families canmake or break the success of social service efforts.The information is available to make smart civic and businessdecisions, but it is often not used because it is hard tofind and even harder to understand, according to CEE’s RandyDymond, an expert in geographic information systems (GIS)and land-use change impacts.Many decisions with overlapping parameters require location-based,geospatial analysis, he said. “A single location canhave 200 or more layers of data, such as voting, zoning, ownership,flood plain, demographic, political, and more,” he continued.“Moreover, there is a lot of specialty data that is directlypertinent to a particular issue and can involve experts fromfields as different as entomology, economics, or civil engineering,”he said. “This can make it hard for decision makersto find and use information that can help them make betterdecisions,” he said.Dymond is heading a university-wide research center thathelps decision makers find and understand the geospatialinformation they need. Established in 2003, the interdisciplinaryCenter for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT)10“provides decision support system development which usesintelligent data to help answer complicated questions.”CGIT provides “a pool of expertise in a set of horizontaltechnologies,” Dymond said. “Databases, programming, globalpositioning systems (GPS), and geospatial analysis, forexample, can be applied to any vertical area, such as analyzinga harvest zone by types of trees, proximity to water andtransportation, and emergency response tactics.”“We can put layers upon layers of spatially correlatedinformation, then drill down and analyze a specific location orregion.” The analysis can often be depicted graphically. “Theanswers are not always ‘yes’ and ‘no,’” he cautioned, “butmight be a metric, such as ‘here is the result for a scenariowith eight new housing units and here is the result for three.’”The need for geospatial analysisTransportation, urban, and even social services planningbenefit from geospatial analysis, according to Dymond.“Urban planners must go beyond zonal statistics and considerdemographics, income, traffic, proximity to cultural features.What are the important factors in making a viable urban community?We can isolate the areas based on these parametersand determine a success range for different projects,” he said.He cited how GIS can help a social services agency determinethe cost-effectiveness of its programs. “We can help

Left: Using layers of location-basedinformation, the Center for GeospatialInformation Technology (CGIT) hasbeen helping Virginia municipalitiesassess their risks due to floods, winds,fires, earthquake, and human-causeddisasters. Inset left: Randy Dymond,CGIT director.them map where their clients live, what businesses providethe clients with health care, child care and food-stampredemption. We can help ask and answer questions, such asdoes an underprivileged client need to travel five miles withno public transportation to get child care,” Dymond said.Hazard MitigationCGIT’s main research areas include homeland security,public health, transportation and infrastructure, wirelesscommunications, environmental management, and smartgrowth. Environmental projects have included applicationsinvolving the spread of gypsy moths, coal mine reclamation,watershed water quality, and web-enabled spatial decisionsupport systems for watershed managers.Infrastructure projects have included designing the locationof wireless telecommunication systems, land mine terrainmodeling for de-mining operations, and earthquake riskassessment.CGIT’s largest application to date has involved hazardmitigation for the Virginia Department of EmergencyManagement. The Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) is requiring each municipality to prepare an all-hazardplan that considers all the facilities owned by any levelof government. CGIT has been involved with a number ofthe plans across Virginia, evaluating the risks for hazardsincluding fire, floods, tornados, high winds, earthquakes,hurricanes, and human-caused disasters. “In Virginia alone,there are 13,000 facilities that need to be evaluated,”Dymond said.Geographic DiversityCGIT has facilities on both the Blacksburg campus andin Alexandria, Va. “Our research presence in Northern Virginiaenables us to interface with the many federal agenciesthat provide data and that rely on GIS and related technology,”Dymond said. The Northern Virginia facility is headedby Kitty Hancock.Since its inception, CGIT has grown from a loose associationof faculty researchers to a full-time staff of four, alongwith 3 part-time staff. The steady growth of the center doesnot surprise Dymond. “Nearly all fields of commerce in theworld today are using geospatial data to increase productivity.As a source of multidisciplinary geospatial expertise, weexpect to provide a variety of organizations with the informationthey need to weigh the tradeoffs and implications oftheir decisions.”Hancock joins facultyKathleen Hancock has joined CEE in VirginiaTech’s National Capitol Region as an associateprofessor and associate director of the Centerfor Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT).An expert in geospatial information systems(GIS) for transportation, she comes from the University ofMassachusetts at Amherst, where she was an associate professorand the transportation graduate program coordinator intheir CEE department. She also served as associate director ofthe UMass Transportation Center and as director of MassSAFE,the research and technical support center for the MassachusettsGovernor’s Highway Safety Bureau.Hancock’s work at UMass spanned the areas of freightplanning and operations, transit planning, intelligent transportationsystems, and highway safety. Her accomplishmentsinclude coordination of a GIS framework for national transportationpolicy and planning tasks, development of a crashdata warehouse and user interface for Massachusetts, anddevelopment of a multi-network approach for assigningfreight to transportation networks which integrates businessand travel information, supply chain management, and transportationplanning techniques.As the Northern Virginia coordinator for CGIT, Hancockplans to act as a team builder for multidisciplinary projectsand to serve as a Virginia Tech contact with federal agenciesfor faculty in Blacksburg.“I hope to find the larger projectswhere Tech’s cross-disciplinary spatial expertise can contributeto some of our big issues today,”she said.Hancock willalso contribute her expertise in transportation and infrastructuremanagement using spatial analysis to CGIT,as well as provideacademic support in GIS and CAD for Civil Engineeringin the Northern Virginia Graduate program.Before joining UMass in 1995, Hancock was a researchassistant professor at Vanderbilt University, where she hadearned her doctoral and master’s degrees in 1994 and 1991respectively. Her professional experience includes a partnerposition with Momentum Engineering, Inc. in Nashville,Tenn., as well as research positions with the Scientex Corp. inWashington, DC and Southwest Research Institute in SanAntonio, Texas. She earned a BSCE from Colorado StateUniversity in 1982 and an AAS degree in architectural technologyfrom Del Mar College, Corpus Christi,Texas.11FACULTY NEWS

Vikesland winsCAREER awardStudy of corrosion mayimprove remediationFACULTY NEWSPeter Vikesland hopes that by studying the unheraldedrole of a byproduct of groundwater remediation,he not only improves the process, but alsodevelops a powerful new tool to study corrosion.Corrosion causes the loss of up to 20 percent of thenation’s drinking water and creates hazards in chemical plantsand fuel transportation.In support of his effort, the National Science Foundationhas awarded him a $400,000 Early Career DevelopmentProgram (CAREER) grant. The awards are the NSF’s most prestigiousawards for new faculty members.Vikesland is focusing on a promising new method toremove hazardous chlorinated solvents, such as the dry cleaningfluid perchloroethylene, which are major groundwatercontaminants. The remediation scheme is based on aserendipitous discovery in Canada about 10 years ago thatchlorinated solvents react with corroding iron and are renderedharmless.Since then, about 80 systems have been installed based onthis discovery, according to Vikesland. The remediationinvolves intercepting groundwater with a permeable treatmentwall containing corroding iron filings. “It’s a beautifullysimple system,” he said. “Basically, we dig a well situatedtrench and fill it with iron. The hydraulics are planned so thatas the water flows through the wall, the solvents react withthe corroding iron and are removed.”He explained that the systems are designed to last 30years, but the oldest one is only eight years old. “How longthey will actually last is up for debate,” he said. “The laboratorystudies use pure iron, but in the field, we are filling thewalls with scrap iron that contains many impurities other thaniron. Much of the supply of iron filings is recycled from carsand other sources of waste iron,” he said.“Maybe the impurities affect the reactivity,” he conjectured.“We really don’t know. We do know that the reactionis slower when the iron is less pure, but there could be manyreasons for this.”Nanoparticles may hold keyVikesland suggests that a byproduct of the iron corrosion—nanoscale particles of magnetite (iron oxide Fe 3 O 4 )—mayend up being the true workhorse of the process. As the ironfilings corrode in groundwater they break down to form particlesof the iron oxide magnetite that measure less than 50nanometers in diameter. “We have learned in the past decadethat as particles get smaller, their reactivity changes.”Vikesland contends that the magnetite nanoparticles arereacting in addition to the larger iron filings. “They might bereacting more slowly, but since we are designing these systemsto operate for decades, a slower time scale may be very12Peter Vikesland hopes to combine Raman spectroscopy(background) and atomic force microscopy to develop a newtool to study corrosion.appropriate,” he said. Once he has determined the role ofmagnetite, he will investigate the characteristics and propertiesthat affect that role.Part of Vikesland’s project involves studying the manufactureof synthetic magnetite. Magnetite particles are used inapplications including medical imaging and synthetic particlesare used so that geometry and composition can be preciselycontrolled. “We can make synthetic particles with no impuritiesand with well-defined shapes. Preliminary studies conductedby Erik Makus in my laboratory suggest that particlereactivity towards chlorinated solvents increases with adecrease in particle size,” Vikesland said.Once the role of magnetites is understood, systems can bedesigned to intentionally harness their activity, he said. “Wemight build a wall of magnetite particles with high confidencein their long-lasting ability...or we can design systems withquick-reacting particles that can be injected into hot zones.”New tool could aid corrosion studiesVikesland is developing a new tool to capture in-situ informationon the role of magnetite in iron corrosion. His experimentaldesign uses the fluid cell of an atomic force microscope(AFM) to obtain both AFM data and information fromRaman spectroscopy. Raman spectroscopy measures a spectrumthat is created when laser photons are used to vibratemolecules in a sample. Because different compounds generatedifferent spectra, Raman spectroscopy can identify chemicalchanges in a sample.“At its simplest, AFM rasters over the top of a surface providingan X-Y map with topography in the z-dimension” hesaid. “We can then visualize a surface and see where a corrosionsite is developing.” By combining a topographical viewwith chemical change information, obtained by Raman spectroscopy,Vikesland hopes to correlate the growth of a corrosionhole with the rate of chemical reaction. “To our knowledge,the marriage of these two techniques has never previouslybeen attempted to study corrosion,” Vikesland said. “Ifwe are successful, we will have developed a powerful tool tostudy corrosion in any material.”

FacultyhonorsFinley Charney Michael Duncan Sam Easterling Tom GrizzardFinley Charney received the Faculty of the Year award from the ASCE StudentChapter.J. Michael Duncan earned the Kenneth L. Lee Lecture Award from the L.A.Section and the Geo-Institute of ASCE.Sam Easterling secured the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service.Tom Grizzard was elected to the CEE Department’s Academy of DistinguishedAlumni.Marte GutierrezMarte Gutierrez was honored with the Outstanding Alumnus Award during theDiamond Jubilee of Saint Mary’s University.David Kibler was awarded a Certificate of Teaching Excellence by the Collegeof Engineering.Nancy Love received the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal from the WaterEnvironment Federation for a publication with a former student, Charles Bott.Thomas Murray garnered the 2004 Distinguished Engineering Service Awardfrom the College of Engineering at the University of Kansas.David KiblerHesham Rakha was named a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow.Carin Roberts-Wollmann was named a College of Engineering FacultyFellow.Dusan Teodorovic was elected to the Academy of Engineering Sciences ofSerbia and Montenegro.Michael Vorster secured the 2004 Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.Nancy LoveMichael VorsterDusanTeodorovicCarin Roberts-WollmannHasham RakhaThomas Murray13

Vecellio Construction Engineeringand Management ProgramPROGRAM AREAS: VCEMPCEM students analyzed the productivity of the constructioneffort on the new Alumni Center at Virginia Tech.The Vecellio Construction Engineering andManagement Program (VCEMP) is supported bythe Vecellio family, American Infrastructure, Inc.,the Construction Affiliates, and the many otherfriends of VCEMP. The strong support helps theVCEMP faculty develop state-of-the-art educational, research,and outreach efforts.Students analyze productivity factorsduring construction of Alumni CenterThanks to tools developed by the Field OperationsAnalysis Laboratory (FOAL), students in Mike Vorster’sEquipment Means and Methods class had the opportunity toperform real-time measurement and analysis of factors thataffect construction productivity in the field.Using GPS-position recording devices and digital timelapsephotography, the class observed the construction ofVirginia Tech’s new Alumni Center. Students attached shortintervalposition recording devices to equipment at the siteand obtained data showing the position of each machine atone-second intervals throughout the day. The data were usedto produce plots showing the production cycles performedand determine cycle times.The exercise gave students an opportunity to use the verylatest technology to study field operations and showed howindustrial support, research and teaching work together toimprove engineering education at Virginia Tech. FOAL, headedby Vorster, is developing the tools, technologies andexpertise needed for improving performance in constructionoperations. The laboratory is supported by partners in theconstruction industry and the Construction Affiliates.14Courses expose studentsto current practices, technologyVCEMP courses are well enrolled at both the undergraduateand graduate level. Jesus de la Garza, CEE’s VecellioProfessor, taught Construction Control Techniques duringthe 2003 fall semester. Spring semester found de la Garzabeginning his appointment at the National Science Foundation(NSF).Tony Songer taught Introduction to Construction Managementand Construction Research Presentation/Topics duringfall 2003 and Information Technology in Construction in thespring.Mike Vorster, who continues to serve as the David Burrowsprofessor in VCEMP, taught Estimating, Production and CostControl to large classes during both semesters, as well asEquipment Means and Methods in the fall and ContractAdministration during the spring.Jim Lefter is spending a year with VCEMP while de la Garzais at the NSF. Lerter taught Case Studies in ConstructionManagement and the CEE Construction Graduate Seminar inthe spring and is teaching two courses during fall 2004. Lefterhas many years of experience in design and construction in privatepractice, industry, and government. Most of his experiencewas designing and building hospitals for the U.S. VeteransAdministration. As a senior executive he served in many positions:chief structural engineer; project director and contractingofficer for all major VA construction projects in the southernUnited States; and director of architecture and engineering.After retiring, in1987, he taught construction engineering andmanagement for 11 years as a visiting professor at the Universityof Illinois. Lefter taught at Virginia Tech’s Northern VirginiaCenter until 2002 and recently served on a National Academyof Engineering Committee reviewing Boston’s “Big Dig.”Stanford CEE chair servesas first affiliates visiting scholarRobert Tatum, chair of Stanford University’s Civil andEnvironmental Engineering Department, served as thefirst VCEMP affiliates distinguished visiting scholar. Theprogram was established by the Construction Affiliates to invitea distinguished scholar of construction engineering and managementto visit Virginia Tech, spend time with the VCEMP studentsand faculty, and work closely with affiliate organizations.In addition to presenting a seminar, Tatum’s visit resulted ina report on Construction Innovation in Using GlobalPositioning Systems for Earthmoving and a technical researchpaper co-authored with Mike Vorster, “A Systems Analysis ofTechnical Advancement in Earthmoving Equipment.”

ResearchThe VCEMP research program continues its integratedfocus on highway infrastructure maintenance and management;project delivery systems; best practices infield operations; and, simulation and visualization.Highway management efforts studycost savings of private contractorsIn highway infrastructure maintenance and managementand project delivery systems, Jesus de la Garza and MikeVorster continue working on the $3.4-million, six-year grantfrom the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Theproject monitors the cost savings and level-of-service effectivenessof a new state program that allows private contractorsto initiate and implement interstate highway construction andmaintenance projects.De la Garza supervised three Ph.D.s to completion. Theseinclude: Via scholar Juan Pinero’s dissertation, “A Frameworkfor Monitoring Performance-Based Road Maintenance,”Apirath Prateapusanond’s dissertation, “A ComprehensivePractice of Total Float Pre-Allocation and Management for theApplication of a CPM-based Construction Contract,” andKyunghwan Kim’s dissertation, “A Resource-Constrained CPM(RCPM) Scheduling and Control Technique with MultipleCalendars.”Additionally, Vorster’s research has focused primarily inthe economics and ownership of construction equipment; hesupervised Gunnar Lucko to the completion of his dissertation,“A Statistical Analysis and Model of the Residual Value ofDifferent Types of Heavy Construction Equipment.” He hasalso led the initiative to establish the Field Operations AnalysisLaboratory where research is undertaken to develop the tools,technologies and expertise needed for improving performancein construction operations. Research undertaken for theVirginia Department of Transportation involves the developmentof flow sheets to analyze inconsistencies, simplify andimprove understanding of the general provisions of theVirginia Road and Bridge Specifications.Martinez studies simulation,technology transfer in ChileJulio Martinez spent 2003-2004 on sabbatical and researchleave, mostly in Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica deChile. While there, he conducted research on transfer of simulationmodeling and visualization technology to industry,and taught a university simulation course and a short courseon simulation to Chilean contractors.The contractors’ course included decision-making individualsin their respective organizations with an average of 15years of experience in the construction industry. One of theparticipants was the retired CEO of a consortium of Chileanconstruction companies.The dynamics and impact of the course were enhanced bythe unique interest and input from the participants, who nowunderstand the practical application and impact of the technologyon their industry. They have since embraced the applicationof simulation techniques in their companies. The participants’level of experience and decision-making powermade the class an ideal practitioner target group. Simulationand modeling techniques are ideally applied only to situationsthat are well understood by experienced decision-makers whocomprehend the degree to which resources must be committedfor success.Collaboration and emotional intelligenceTony Songer continues investigating the implications ofcollaborative systems as well as the new field of emotionalintelligence and how it affects the delivery and success ofconstruction projects. Specific projects include investigationsfocused on general contractors, subcontractors, and constructionexecutives. Project results were presented at an ASCEconference on Leadership and Management Innovation inConstruction at Hilton Head, S.C., and an InternationalConstruction Researchers conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.Songer also continues his work in computer applications andvisualization. He supervised Via scholar Kirsten Davis to thecompletion of her dissertation, “Information TechnologyChange in the Architecture, Engineering, and ConstructionIndustry: An Investigation of Individual’s Resistance.”Professional OutreachThe VCEMP program continues its strong involvementwith professional outreach. The faculty sponsored the18th annual Transportation Construction ManagementInstitute (TCMI). Mike Vorster continues to serve as TCMI’sdirector. Additionally, the faculty presented the third annualVirginia Tech Construction Affiliates Leadership workshop,which focused on advanced scheduling techniques.Tony Songer represented VCEMP this year in theDistinguished Faculty Exchange program with the Universityof Colorado at Boulder. The program provides the opportunityfor faculty to visit one another’s programs, teach in courses,conduct research symposia, and strengthen ties. Songeralso participated in Penn State’s Partnership for ConstructionExcellence (PACE) program as a keynote speaker focusing onhis work in collaborative systems. Songer also serves as thevice-chairman of the ASCE Construction Research Council.Mike Vorster is a contributing editor to ConstructionEquipment where he authors a monthly “EquipmentExecutive” article designed to disseminate research findingsand assist in the implementation of new technologies at anoperating level. He is a member of the Construction ExecutiveForum established by the commissioner of transportationwhere he has contributed by authoring a new standardprocess for field decision-making.De la Garza appointed NSF directorJesus M. de la Garza has been appointed by the NSF to aone-year assignment as director of the InformationTechnology and Infrastructure Systems (ITIS) Program in theDivision of Civil and Mechanical Systems. As director, he isresponsible for administering existing ITIS research projectsand reviewing potential projects. The program supportsresearch in the fields of infrastructure, construction and transportation.He has taken a leave of absence from the universityto serve at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va. The NSFappointment, which was the result of a national search, startedin January 2004 with a possible one-year renewal.Construction Seminar/LectureSeriesThird Vecellio Distinguished Lecture: Phillip Shucet;Commissioner,Virginia Department of TransportationRobert Tatum; Chair, Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, Stanford UniversityBob Bitner; President, Ben C. Gerwick Inc. (collaborationbetween VCEMP and the Geotechnical program.)15PROGRAM AREAS: VCEMP

Environmental& Water Resources EngineeringPROGRAM AREAS: EWRIn 2004, the Environmental and Water ResourcesEngineering Program was formed by merging two interrelatedprograms: environmental engineering andhydrosystems engineering. The merger allows the facultyto develop stronger educational and research effortsby combining expertise and experience in natural resourcesand pollution.Aquaculture water treatmentDuring 2003-2004, Greg Boardman returned from directingan outreach center and taught courses related to toxicology,industrial waste treatment, and general environmentalengineering. He was also involved in several short courses,some delivered in a traditional setting and others via television.The televised programs are being offered offeredthrough grants from the Virginia Department of Health.Boardman serves as an advisor or co-advisor for seven graduatestudents, who are studying treating waters from aquaculturefacilities, measuring the toxicity of effluents from aquaculturalfacilities, relating aquacultural feeds to water quality, cultivatingshrimp in aquacultural effluents, modeling the designand performance of recirculating aquacultural systems, andinactivating nonindigenous species by high pressure andgasses. The research is funded by the U.S. Department ofAgriculture, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Virginia Tech’sCommercial Fish and Shellfish Technologies Program.Water supply planning and managementBill Cox continued to focus on water supply planning andmanagement. He served on a water policy advisory committeeto Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality chargedwith recommending how to implement new legislation forexpanding water planning in the Commonwealth. Cox alsopublished a journal article on achieving an appropriate balancebetween water supply and environmental protection;presented conference papers on water supply issues at a localgovernment officials’ conference, a state conference, and twonational conferences; and organized a panel discussion onVirginia water supply as part of the 2003 Virginia WaterResearch Symposium. He was also an active member of committeesof ASCE’s Environmental and Water ResourcesInstitute and served as chair of the EWRI Planning andManagement Council. Cox’s CEE administrative duties includedserving as assessment coordinator and participating on thecurriculum development committee.Tastes and odors in drinking waterAndrea M. Dietrich is best known for her research in identifying,understanding the source of, and solving problemsassociated with taste-and-odor-causing compounds in drinkingwater. She and her students took first place at the AWWA16Annual conference for their poster on taste-and-odor testing.Her graduate students currently include: Pinar Omur. who isworking on a project to link human response to gas phaseand water phase odorants; Jonathan Cuppett, who is investigatingtaste thresholds for copper in drinking water; MoniqueDurand, who is investigating leaching of taste and odor compoundsfrom home plumbing materials; José Manuel Cerrato,who is sampling in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to investigatemetal and bacterial contamination in water systems; and KateLago, who is collaborating with Daniel Gallagher to investigatethe adhesion of E. coli to clays and transport in naturalwaters. Dietrich is leading a project called, “TowardsSustainable Materials Use for Drinking Water Infrastructure”(see page 4).Environmental and fluvial hydraulicsPanos Diplas continued his teaching and research in environmentaland fluvial hydraulics. His research team focusedon numerical modeling of river flows for determining theirecological potential, determining the effect of fluctuatingreleases from the Philpott Dam of the Smith River, Va, onstream habitat, identifying the effect of urbanization on streambehavior, exploring the properties of ephemeral streams,modeling the effects of fluctuating instantaneous forces onsediment movement in flumes located in the Kelso S. BakerEnvironmental Hydraulics Laboratory, and investigating channelingeffects in young marine sediment deposits. Hisresearch activities were supported by the Office of NavalResearch, the Virginia Department of Game and InlandFisheries, and the Army Corps of Engineers. This work waspublished in the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, andthe Journal of the American Water Resources Association.Diplas gave an invited address at the international symposium,Sedimentation and Sediment Transport: At theCrossroads of Physics and Engineering, held in Switzerland.He also presented three papers at the XXX Congress of theInternational Association of Hydraulic Research that was heldin Greece. He has contributed two chapters to Manual #54,Sedimentation Engineering, which is scheduled for publicationby ASCE in 2005.Diplas hosted and collaborated with visiting faculty members.Tanju Akar, from the Technical University of Istanbul,Turkey, and Hafez Shaheen, a Fulbright Scholar. He served asguest editor for an issue of the Journal of the American WaterResources Association (JAWRA) and edited a JAWRA monograph,Integrated Decision-making for Watershed Management,which was sponsored in part by the U.S. EPA. He servesas a control member on several ASCE Technical Committeesin addition to the three-member International Lorenz G.Straub Award Committee, which is charged with selecting thebest Ph.D. thesis each year in the area of hydraulics and water

esources. He has been invited to give a keynote lecture at theInternational Conference on Hydraulic Engineering: Researchand Practice that will be held at IIT Roorkee, India and willpresent an invited lecture at the 2005 VII Gravel Bed RiversSymposium. This symposium takes place every five years.Geospatial information technologyRandy Dymond continued his teaching and researchefforts in geospatial information technology. He is the foundingdirector of a university-wide research center called theCenter for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT), whichhas made great strides in its first year of operation and is nowoperating with offices in Blacksburg and Alexandria with severalfulltime research associates, working on state-of-the-artresearch projects applying geospatial information technologiesto many types of interdisciplinary issues. (See article page10)Dymond had papers published in several journals thisyear including the ASCE Journal of Water Resources,Planning, and Management, Engineering with Computers,and Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. Histeam has presented papers at several conferences includingthe annual Virginia Water Research Symposium, the VirginiaFlood Plain Manager’s Conference, and the TransportationResearch Board Annual Meeting. Dymond co-chaired the 2004Virginia Research Symposium on GIS and Remote Sensingheld at Virginia Tech in April. In addition to his research inwatershed management, his research focus has expanded toinclude infrastructure GIS for operations and management, aswell as hazard mitigation planning. Recent graduate studentprojects include stormwater modeling of the Virginia Techcampus; evaluating the relationship between water quantityand quality with changing land use and population inNorthern Virginia; and determining the minimal set of roadcenterline attributes for both state and local roads to facilitateseamless transportation routing.Corrosion and water qualityMarc Edwards was elected president of the Association ofEnvironmental Engineering and Science Professors and in2003 was on sabbatical at Virginia Tech. Students in hisresearch group made significant advances this year. BeckiMarshall made a breakthough discovery on copper pitting corrosion—provingfor the first time that corrosive water couldbe the sole cause of this very expensive problem. In additionto national and international technical presentations, her discoverywas featured in Materials Performance and C+E News.Caroline Nguyen is extending research on this importanttopic. Dudi Abhijeet and Edwards’ discoveries on the problemof lead leaching in Washington, D.C. led to numerous articlesin the Washington Post, Time magazine, a feature interview onNational Public Radio. It directly supported sworn testimonyby Edwards to the House Government Reform Committee.Ph.D. students Paolo Scardina and Siyuan Chen received theirdegrees in 2003. Scardina continues his work on bubbles inA large, tilting flume (70 ft long, 4 ft wide, and 2 ft deep)was recently installed at the Baker Environmental HydraulicsLaboratory, directed by Panos Diplas. The flume wasdesigned in house and contains unique, built-in features forsimulating the passage of flood waves through simple andcompound channels, as well as flow around structures suchas bridge piers and through wetlands.PROGRAM AREAS: EWR

drinking water and Chen her work on copper pitting as postdocs.Master’s students Yan Zhang and Changmin Lee areextending Chen’s research on anaerobic iron corrosion. JeffParks is revealing a new treatment method that can effectivelyremove boron from drinking water. This method shouldreceive widespread attention as industry begins to focus onthis important emerging contaminant. Julia Novak is finishingup studies that explain how bubble formation inside pipescan cause premature pipeline failure.Watershed monitoring and modelingAdil Godrej continued his research work with TomGrizzard at the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory inthe National Capital Region. This research includes watershedand river monitoring, water quality assessment studies, andwatershed and reservoir modeling. The work is sponsored bythe Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the MetropolitanWashington Council of Governments, the FairfaxCounty Health Department, the City of Manassas, the NorthernVirginia Regional Commission, the consulting firm ofGreeley and Hansen, Prince William County, and the LoudounCounty Sanitation Authority. Last year, Prince William Countyfunded an ongoing research project on the pollutant retentionand export characteristics of bioretention facilities, which areincreasingly used in urban areas as part of low-impact development(LID) implementation and a replacement for conventionalbest management practices (BMPs).Late last year, Godrej and his student completed a twoyeareffort calibrating a linked Occoquan Watershed andReservoir model. The model was presented recently to theNorthern Virginia Regional Commission’s OccoquanWatershed Technical Advisory Committee (a body consistingof regional, local, state, and public representatives from 16organizations), was well-received, and the research will continueto be funded for the foreseeable future to provide continuousmodel improvement and development. This will supportat least one Ph.D.-level student. Godrej serves on theMetropolitan Washington Council of Governments’s RegionalMonitoring Subcommittee, the EPA Chesapeake Bay ProgramAnalytic Methods and Quality Assurance Workgroup, amongothers, and has recently been appointed to Prince WilliamCounty’s Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Review Board.He was also a member of a technical group consisting of federal,state and local agencies that conducted a study of a zebramussel infestation in a quarry in Northern Virginia andassessed and recommended an eradication protocol.Water quality and reuseTom Grizzard continued as the director of the OccoquanLaboratory in Manassas and as CEE program director at theNorthern Virginia Center in Falls Church. Grizzard was reappointedto serve on the state licensing board for waterworksand wastewater works operators, and continued serving on adrought management task force for the City of Manassas, theDepartment of Environ-mental Quality Academic AdvisoryCommittee for Nutrient Criteria, and the Scientific andTechnical Advisory Committee to the EPA Chesapeake BayProgram. He also worked with local, state, and federal agenciesto develop a plan to eradicate a confined zebra musselinfestation in Northern Virginia.Grizzard’s professional society activities include membershipon the American Waterworks Association Source WaterProtection Committee, the Joint Water Reuse Committee of theVirginia Section of AWWA and the Virginia Water EnvironmentAssociation. He is a member of an international panel toreview the implementation of a series of wastewater reclamationand reuse projects in the Republic of Singapore. InSeptember, Grizzard was inducted into the Academy ofDistinguished Alumni of the Via Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering. Grizzard’s research explores nonpointsource and urban runoff control, water reuse, and waterquality management in lakes and reservoirs. Recent projectsinclude the development of microcosm cascades to evaluatedenitrification rates in full-scale sediment-water systems,development of a web-enabled system to distribute criticalinformation to public utility infrastructure stakeholders, evalu-PROGRAM AREAS: EWRTidal estuaries:Using depth andflow measurements,David Kibler andgraduate student AndrewHammond (MS2004) worked on anumerical model forthe distribution andmovement of pollutantsin Virginia’sAppomattox River.18U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Department of Commerce

ation of the performance of bioretention facilities in treatingurban stormwater, and modeling challenges to disinfectantresidual effectiveness in water distribution systems.Tidal estuaries and urbanizing watershedsDavid Kibler conducted research on tidal estuary modeling,with emphasis on tidal hydrodynamics and mixing in highinflow systems. He also examined various design methods forretrofitting large regional detention structures as enhancedwater quality facilities. He continues to work on problems ofurbanizing watersheds and what this means in terms of floodhazard increase, drought severity and in-stream habitatimpacts. He and his students presented several papers onthese issues this year, with journal papers appearing in theJournal of Engineering with Computers and the Journal of theAmerican Water Resources Association.Kibler earned a Virginia Tech Certificate of TeachingExcellence this past year. This past spring, his hydraulic structuresdesign class developed a feasibility report on the restorationof a 26-foot overshot water wheel located in Fishers Hilljust outside Strasburg, Va. The original water wheel/generatorhad served as the primary source of power for the village ofFishers Hill into the mid-1940s and the owners are hoping torestore it to operational level. The restoration project providedan outstanding field trip and design experience for theclass. Kibler continues as faculty advisor to the Virginia Techchapter of the AWRA, completing his seventh year in thatposition. He also just completed his third and final year ascoordinator for the CEE Hydrosystems Program.Predicting oxygenationJohn Little’s research included developing models to predictthe impact of hypolimnetic oxygenation in lakes andreservoirs, characterizing the sources and sinks of volatile andsemi-volatile compounds in the indoor environment, and predictingexposure to chemical contaminants in drinking water.During the past year, his research group comprised LeeBryant, Paul Gantzer, Eunyoung Kim, Dan McGinnis, VickieSingleton, and Huali Yuan, all Ph.D. students, as well as SteveCox, a research associate. Dan McGinnis was graduated andis serving as a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute forEnvironmental Science and Technology (EAWAG).With George Filz of Geotechnical Engineering, Little cochairsthe interdisciplinary doctoral program in EnvironmentalBiogeochemistry. This program involves eight faculty members,three departments, and three colleges, and is funded bythe U.S. Department of Education. This past year, Little gaveinvited presentations at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China;Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va.; and the University of LaRochelle in La Rochelle, France. He also gave the keynoteaddress at the 2004 Environmental Engineering and ScienceProgram Symposium at the University of Illinois.Drinking water networksG.V. Loganathan conducted research and teaching inwater resources systems engineering and surface waterhydrology. As part of a team, he is currently studying valveplacement strategies for subsystem isolation in drinking waternetworks. He is also studying a suitable indicator for the watersupply potential of a region. This year, Loganathan publishedpapers in several journals and at international and nationalconferences. He serves as vice-chair of the OperationsManagement Committee and also serves on the WaterResources Systems Committee of the ASCE. He is on an ASCEnational task committee developing systems analysis casestudies for use in university classes. He is an associate editorof ASCE’s Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.Wastewater treatmentNancy Love’s research group has continued work on sixon-going projects and started on four new projects this year.An EPA project focusing on development of biosensors forenvironmental monitoring was continued by Via Scholar KatherineLinares. This effort is a collaboration with Brian Love ofMaterials Science and Engineering and Kathleen Meehan ofElectrical and Computer Engineering. Funded by the WaterEnvironment Research Foundation, Ph.D. students Rick Kellyand Ines Henriques investigated stress mechanisms in complexactivated sludge cultures. M.S. student Rachelle Rhodesand visiting Finnish scholar Irina Chakraborty completed theirefforts on an EPA Hazardous Substances Research Center–funded project that looked at the impact of dynamic chemicalfluxes on the function and structure of microbial populationsin the subsurface. Ph.D. Via Fellow Joy Fraga Muller continuedinvestigating basic cellular response differences betweensuspended and attached growth bacteria to chemical perturbations.Love continues collaboration with Peter Vikesland. Oneproject, funded by AWWRF explores the impact on bacteria(particularly nitrifying bacteria) in drinking water pipes whendisinfection practices are changed. Via scholar AnnaZaklikowski is evaluating the impact of disinfection practiceson nitrifying bacteria. With a grant from Parsons Engineeringand Science, Vikesland and Love are evaluating remediationtechnologies for chlorinated ethers that have contaminatedvarious subsurface environments. A project on sustainablephosphorus waste management with concentrated dairy feedingoperations, funded by the Cooperative Institute for Coastaland Estuarine Environmental Toxicology, has continued incollaboration with Katherine Knowlton of Dairy Science, MaryLeigh Wolfe of the biological systems engineering department,and Greg Mullins of crop and soil environmental science.Three new multidisciplinary projects begin this fall. One,funded by CICEET, focuses on nitrogen removal from concentrateddairy wastes. The second is a three-year NASA projectthat investigates biological treatment of human wastes for sustainedoperations on the moon or Mars. The third new grantis a multi-university NSF planning grant focusing on environmentalstewardship and monitoring along the coastal margin,where 80 percent of the U.S. population lives.Air qualityLinsey Marr had a productive first year at Virginia Tech.Her research group is opening new areas of research thatfocuses on motor vehicle emissions and their impact on airquality. Environmental engineering student Claire Booth wona scholarship from the Air and Waste Management Associationfor her work on the volatilization of organics from a contaminatedgroundwater site (in collaboration with John Novakand Mark Widdowson). Student Mei Jiang is continuing toanalyze data collected in a study of air quality and emissionsin Mexico City, in collaboration with Luisa and Mario Molinaat MIT. During the past year, Marr’s paper on polycyclic aromatichydrocarbons was published in Environmental Scienceand Technology and her work on the weekend ozone effectwas featured in The Los Angeles Times.PROGRAM AREAS: EWR19

Via Scholar Claire Booth won a scholarshipfrom the Air and Waste ManagementAssociation for her work on thevolatilization of organics from a contaminatedgroundwater site. Shown atleft, Booth collects a sample from a soilcolumn and at right, she injects the samplefor analysis of the concentration ofVOCs.PROGRAM AREAS: EWRWater quality and treatmentJohn Novak and his students had another busy year.Papers at the annual Water Environment Federation meetingin Los Angeles were presented by Novak and his students,Chul Park and Chris Muller. Novak also presented a paper atthe International Water Association Sludge Conference inTrondheim, Norway. Research continued with project supportedby the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission,U.S. Filter, D.C. Water & Sewer Authority, CH2M HILL andWaste Management, Inc. In addition, joint projects with MarkWiddowson on groundwater remediation for the MidwestHazardous Substances Research Center and SERDP continued.Seven papers were published in research journals and Novakserved as the advisor for 15 graduate students.Novak also continued as chair of the Research Council ofthe Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF). As partof his work with WERF, he attended a joint research meetingwith the Japanese in Hawaii and the Biosolids Summit inAlexandria, Va. to discuss critical issues in wastewater sludgemanagement and to prepare the research agenda for the nextfive years. Novak also presented two invited seminars, one atthe University of Massachusetts and another at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis.Remediation and drinking water treatmentPeter Vikesland’s research group continued to be highlyactive. In September, Vikesland was one of 50 academicresearchers invited to the National Academy of EngineeringFrontiers of Engineering Symposium. This selective meetingbrought together engineers below the age of 45 from industry,academia, and government to discuss leading edgeresearch in engineering. In May, Vikesland was an invited participantat a NSF-sponsored workshop held in Cartagena,Colombia. This workshop was designed to facilitate communicationsbetween U.S. environmental engineers and scientistsand their counterparts in Columbia and Central America.Krista Rule received a Graduate Student Award from theEnvironmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical20Society. The award acknowledged Rule’s academic successand her research examining the reactivity of the antimicrobialagent triclosan with drinking water disinfectants. Fundingagencies continue to support research in drinking water treatmentand subsurface contaminant remediation. Vikeslandwon an NSF CAREER award to study the nanoscale aspects ofiron corrosion and also obtained funding from the AWWARF(with Marc Edwards) for a project to examine the processesresponsible for the self-healing of corroded concrete pipes.Attenuation softwareMark Widdowson was elected to serve as coordinator ofthe newly-formed Environmental and Water Resources graduateprogram in 2004. Widdowson had two new researchprojects on the topics of monitored natural attenuation andphytoremediation. The first is a two-year project funded bythe Environmental Security Technology Certification Programto demonstrate the computation tool, NAS (Natural AttenuationSoftware, developed at Virginia Tech under funding bythe Navy) at a number of contaminated sites in the UnitedStates. Widdowson is collaborating with investigators fromthe U.S. Geological Survey, Naval Facilities EngineeringService Center, and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.NAS (www.cee.vt.edu/NAS) is designed to facilitatedecision-making based on site-specific remediation goals(i.e., risk to humans and ecosystems, cost, and time). The secondproject will involve the development and validation of acomputational model for the uptake of contaminants by trees.Widdowson continues research with John Novak on sustainabilityof natural attenuation of chlorinated solvents fundedby the Strategic Environmental Research & DevelopmentProgram and on a phytoremediation study funded throughthe U.S. EPA. Along with his colleagues and students, he presentedpapers at the International Conference onRemediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds andthe Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America.Widdowson co-taught several short courses on estimatingtimeframes for monitored natural attenuation.

Newly developed “structural soils” may hold the key to reducing stormwater runoff from paved areas. Structuralsoil is a blend of aggregate and plant growth medium that is able to support traffic loads while promoting tree growth.Shown above, a paved park in New York state is underlain by structural soil, which serves both as a load-bearing layer forvehicles and as a medium for tree growth. Joseph Dove, with Susan Day and Roger Harris of Tech’s department of forestry,are developing a pilot project to build “green” parking areas in Blacksburg; Ithaca, N.Y.; and Davis, Calif. (Image courtesy ofNina Bassuk of Cornell University.)Geotechnical EngineeringWith the dedication of one of the country’stop geotechnical research facilities, theW.C. English Geotechnical Research Laboratory,outstanding graduate students, andmajor new grants from the NSF and otheragencies, the geotechnical engineering program continued itsmany contributions to the field. Jim Mitchell was honoredwith the H. Bolton Seed Medal from the GeoInstitute, awardedfor outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and/orpractice in geotechnical engineering.Personal achievementsThomas Brandon was on sabbatical leave during the fallsemester. Initial plans to spend his sabbatical in Venezuelawere abandoned due to the emerging political unrest there,and he split his time between the English Geotechnical Laband Puerto Rico. Work on the W.C. English GeotechnicalResearch Laboratory did not end with the November 2003dedication ceremony, but continued throughout the year.Brandon is currently engaged in research on the use ofadmixtures in soils (with George Filz and Jim Mitchell) for theVirginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the AirForce Research Laboratory, and on the dynamic behavior ofpre-sheared surfaces (with Mike Duncan) for the NSF.Joe Dove has been busy this year on several new andexciting projects and initiatives. As part of the multi-disciplinaryAMADEUS project (see ‘Team gets...’ page 23), he isworking to develop new methods of processing and usinginformation for underground construction projects. He andgraduate student Alfred Antony are developing semi-automaticimage analysis methods to map and characterize rock discontinuitiesfrom digital photographs using a tablet PC. Doveis also a part of a major initiative to establish a national deepunderground science and engineering laboratory (DUSEL)near the Virginia Tech campus.With Marte Gutierrez, Dove is conducting NSF-sponsored21

Underground national labproposed for old mineGeotechnical engineering faculty are involved in amulti-disciplinary, multi-university effort to establisha national deep underground science andengineering laboratory (DUSEL) at the old Kimballtonmine in Giles County 25 miles from Virginia Tech. TheGiles County DUSEL is competing with other potentialsites nationwide. Seed money was allocated by VirginiaTech for preliminary engineering and geologic studies forthe underground laboratory,which would be constructedabout 7,000 feet below the surface—the necessary depthfor the full suite of planned experiments.Total constructioncost would run between $200 million to $300 million.This national laboratory would be benefit the localeconomy, provide unique opportunities for geoengineeringresearch, and stimulate interest in math, science andengineering among young people of the Appalachianregion.PROGRAM AREAS - GEOTECHNICALresearch on the micromechanics of soil and constructionmaterial interfaces. Graduate student Jeff Wang delivered hisfirst paper at the Engineering Mechanics 2004 conference inDover, Delaware on the effects of particle rolling resistance.Wang is assisted in his research by Jessa Corton, a senior CEEundergraduate, who is supported by an NSF ResearchExperience for Undergraduates award. VDOT is seeking toreduce the cost of mechanically stabilized earth walls throughuse of native soils as backfill in the reinforced zone. Togetherwith graduate students Jesse Darden and Daniel McGough,Dove is developing material selection and design recommendationsfor incorporation into VDOT specifications.He is also working with Susan Day and Roger Harris in theVirginia Tech Department of Forestry on the use of “structuralsoil” to reduce stormwater runoff from paved areas.Structural soil is a newly-developed blend of aggregate andplant growth medium that is able to support traffic loads whilepromoting tree growth. The pilot project will construct“green” parking areas in Blacksburg, Va., Ithaca, N.Y., andDavis, Calif. to evaluate the ability of structural soil to serve asa storage medium for runoff. Genevieve Smith, a senior inCEE, is working with the faculty members to determine geotechnicalparameters of structural soil from local materials.Mike Duncan, with co-author Stephen Wright of theUniversity of Texas, completed the book Soil Strength andSlope Stability during the past year. The book, a professionalreference and textbook for graduate courses, will be publishedby John Wiley in January 2005. Duncan presented theStanley Wilson Memorial Lecture in November 2003 at theinvitation of the Seattle Section of the American Society ofCivil Engineers, and was the first recipient of the Kenneth L.Lee Lecture Award, presented by the Los Angeles Section ofASCE in April 2004. Duncan serves as director of the Centerfor Geotechnical Practice and Research, working with GeorgeFilz (co-director), C.J. Smith (executive director), and the othergeotechnical engineering faculty. The CGPR is an affiliate programfor consulting firms, government agencies and contrac-22tors that supports research and teaching activities at VirginiaTech, and provides close liaison between students, faculty,and industry.Duncan completed service on the National ResearchCouncil Committee on Reducing Landslide Risk. The committeeevaluated a proposal by the U.S. Geological Survey toestablish a $20 million per year national program for landsliderisk reduction, in cooperation with the Corps of Engineers,the Bureau of Reclamation, and state geological surveys. Fourcomputer programs were developed in connection with thesettlement short course, to facilitate the computationsinvolved in settlement analyses. The computer programs willbe available to Virginia Tech students, and will be used inclasses. With Tom Brandon and post-doctoral research engineerYoungjin Park, Duncan completed a three-year investigationof the ability of filters to prevent erosion in the coresof dams that are cracked from settlement or seismic shaking.The study showed that filters designed using current criteriaare reliable crack-stoppers. The study also developed a computerprogram that makes filter design much easier and morereliable. With Chris Meehan, CEE instructor and former Viascholar; Binod Tiwari, post-doctoral research engineer fromNiigata University; and Tom Brandon, Duncan is working ona major NSF research investigation on the strengths of claysduring earthquakes. The study, which is being undertaken incooperation between Virginia Tech and the University ofCalifornia Davis, involves extensive laboratory tests atVirginia Tech and large-scale centrifuge tests at UC Davis.During the past year, George Filz served as co-director ofVirginia Tech’s Center for Geotechnical Practice and Research(CGPR), member of VDOT’s Geotechnical Research AdvisoryCommittee, member of the ASCE Geo-Institute Soil ImprovementCommittee and chairman of the CEE CurriculumCommittee. Filz, John Little, and six other faculty membersreceived a second round of funding from the U.S.Department of Education to support doctoral students instudies of environmental biogeochemistry. With Duhwoe

Jung, Meeok Kim, Mike Navin, Jen Schaeffer, and MiriamStewart, he is investigating columnar reinforcement to reducesettlement and improve stability of embankments on softground (funded by Virginia DOT, the NSF, and the CGPR).Stewart received an Advance VT Ph.D. Fellowship in recognitionof her achievements.With Dana Keese, Filz has developed a laboratory test procedurefor soil-cement mixtures (funded by SchnabelFoundation Company and the CGPR). With Tom Brandon, JimMitchell, Jon Brown and Chris Geiman, he is investigatingmethods for conventional and rapid stabilization of soft claysubgrades for airfield pavements and roadways (funded bythe U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Virginia DOT). Filzpresented his research results in Washington, Boston, and LosAngeles. He provided consulting engineering services forthree projects involving the deep mixing method: petroleumstorage tanks in Clovelly, La; a roadway embankment inCharleston, S.C.; and, with Mike Navin, development of reliability-baseddesign procedures for the National Deep MixingProgram.In addition to being involved in rock mechanics studiesfor the DUSEL initiative, Marte Gutierrez received five newresearch grants during the past year. Most notably, he is thelead on the multidisciplinary $1.1 million NSF InformationTechnology Research AMADEUS grant to conduct research onunderground construction (See right).Additional new projects include Computational Techniquesfor Fully-Coupled Reservoir-Geomechanics Simulation,funded by the Petroleum Research Fund of the AmericanChemical Society; Finite Element Simulation of WellboreStability in a Producing Well, funded by Cono-coPhillips;Residual Shear Strength of Liquefiable Soils, funded by theU.S. Geological Survey; and Post-liquefaction Evaluation ofEmbankment Dams, funded by the U.S. Bureau ofReclamation. With Joe Dove and Ph.D. student Jeff Wang,Gutierrez continued to work on an NSF funded project todevelop new design criteria for soil and construction materialTeam to create IT toolsfor safety, efficiencyof underground spaceAmultidisciplinary team led by Marte Gutierrezwas awarded $1.1 million from the NSFInformation Technology Research (ITR) programto study underground construction. Called theAdaptive Real-Time Geologic Mapping, Analysis andDesign of Underground Space (AMADEUS), the fouryeargrant is one of the largest in underground construction.The team hopes to improve the safety, efficiencyand use of underground space by developing toolssuch as virtual reality, digital imaging, computationalmodels, and data management. Such tools can provideinexpensive and fast information on geology and excavationresponse during underground construction.“AMAEUS has the potential to revolutionize designand construction of underground excavations, andchange the way we use subsurface data,” Gutierrezsaid.CEE’s Matthew Mauldon and Joe Dove are co-principalinvestigators on the project, as are DougBowman of computer science and Eric Westman ofmining and minerals engineering.Books PublishedMike Duncan and co-author Stephen Wright ofthe University of Texas completed SoilStrength and Slope Stability,a professional referenceand graduate textbook to be published by JohnWiley in January 2005.Jim Martin completed Earthquake Hazard Management,a university-level higher education course forFEMA’s Higher Education Project /Dept. of HomelandSecurity and sponsored by ASCE.Short Courses OfferedMike Duncan and Stephen Wright presented a course onseepage, piping and remedial measures for the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers in Huntsville,Ala. in June.Mike Duncan and George Filz presented a course on settlementof structures and embankments at VirginiaTech, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.Jim Martin and Finley Charney developed an AdvancedEarthquake Engineering Course that was presentedat FEMA’s Emergency Training Academy in Maryland.Jim Martin presented professional training seminars tothe Washington D.C. DOT, the South Carolina DOT,and Simpson Strong-Tie.23PROGRAM AREAS - GEOTECHNICAL

PROGRAM AREAS: GEOTECHNICALinterfaces. With Panos Diplas, a project funded by the Officeof Naval Research on channeling in young marine sedimentswas completed.Gutierrez was invited to give lectures at the first U.S.-Japan Workshop on Testing, Modeling, and Simulation inGeomechanics, in Boston, Mass., the Chalk GeomechanicsWorkshop in Stavanger, Norway, and the 2003 GeopierConference, in Alexandria, Va. He was also invited to give alecture to the Chilean Geotechnical Society (at the Universityof Chile). Gutierrez continues to serve as editorial boardmember of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical andGeoenvironmental Engineering and as a member of ASCEand ASME committees. He was awarded an OutstandingAlumnus award by Saint Mary’s University (Philippines).A significant portion of Jimmy Martin’s year involvedworking with colleagues to establish the Center for ExtremeLoad Effects on Structures (CELES), which is described onpage 6. In addition to co-directing CELES, Martin continuedhis earthquake engineering research, with funding from theNSF and other agencies. His NSF work involved soil and siteimprovement for mitigation of earthquake-related damages,and he traveled to Taiwan to participate in an NSF-sponsoredworkshop there.He developed new proposals to NSF and the Washington,D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT). He served as coauthorof a $10 million NSF proposal submitted to NSF’sAlliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate(AGEP) Grant. The AGEP program is designed to increase thenumbers of underrepresented doctoral students pursuing academiccareers in science and engineering. Martin served asprincipal investigator for a proposal to DDOT to perform adetailed earthquake hazard and terrorist-attack vulnerabilitystudy of the D.C. bridge system, and to develop an automatedGIS database that can be used in emergency responseoperations. The GIS database will allow rapid assessment andgraphical display of the impact of different earthquake andterrorist event scenarios.Martin completed Earthquake Hazard Management, a university-levelhigher education course for FEMA’s HigherEducation Project/Dept. of Homeland Security and sponsoredby ASCE. The course is for worldwide distribution and is currentlybeing published. The document was rigorouslyreviewed as a textbook, taking three years to complete andconsisting of more than 1000 pages of text. He also participatedin professional engineering shortcourses and seminarsandconsulted on projects including the Surry Nuclear PowerStation and the Charleston, S.C. tunnel project.Matthew Mauldon participated in the newly-fundedAMADEUS project and in the multi-disciplinary Virginia TechDUSEL initiative. These projects involved collaborations withGutierrez, Dove and other faculty, as well as with JasonShelton, Via Scholar Jeramy Decker, Mike Hasek, and severalother graduate students. With Tom Brandon and MarkOsowski, Mauldon began work on a laboratory study todetermine swell pressures arising from oxidation of pyriticshale. Along with Brett Rose, Sam Cain and Aaron Antell,Mauldon continues work on development of a turn-key GISbased,web-enabled management system for rockfall hazardon roads throughout the state of Tennessee (funded byTennessee DOT). With Xiaohai Wang, he is investigating theutilization of fracture trace data from cylindrical samples (i.e.,borehole or tunnel walls) for characterizing fractured rockmasses. Wang’s presentation of this work tied for best posterat the North American Rock Mechanics Symposium in24Houston. Mauldon and Wang also made three presentationsto ExxonMobil on aspects of this work.Mauldon completed a stint on the editorial board ofEnvironmental and Engineering Geoscience and continueson the editorial board of Rock Mechanics and RockEngineering. He chairs the ASCE Rock Mechanics committee,and serves on ASCE’s committee on engineering geology andsite characterization. He coordinated the CEE Department’sCEUT teaching group (CCTeg) this year, which culminated ina focus group meeting held with Virginia Tech’s ASCE studentchapter and targeted towards student perceptions of teaching.Mauldon serves as coordinator of the geotechnical engineeringprogram area.Jim Mitchell, although officially retired, continues to contributeto the program. In addition to presenting seminars, heremains active in research, including the project on rapid stabilizationof cohesive soils using admixtures described above,a study of better definition of the range of applicability andenhancement of deep dynamic compaction (DDC) in finergrained soils, and, with Ph.D. student Ning Liu, the limitationsof shear wave velocity as an indicator of the liquefactionpotential of silty soils, shear wave velocity–cone penetrationresistance correlations, and the usefulness of soil specific surfacearea as a reliable measure soil engineering properties.With co-author Kenichi Soga, a reader at CambridgeUniversity, Mitchell is working to complete the third editionof Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, for publication for the2005-2006 academic year. With Rick Mitchell. he prepared astate-of-the-art-and-practice paper, “Environmental Geotechnics;Two Case Histories” for the Fifth InternationalConference on Case Histories in New York City in April. Heis to present the Nabor Carrillo Lecture of the MexicanGeotechnical Society in Guadalajara in November. The titlechosen for this presentation is “Time, the Fourth Dimensionof the Engineering Behavior of Soils.”Mitchell’s consulting activities included studies ofground improvement for seismic risk mitigation at dams inBritish Columbia, California, and North Carolina; stabilityreview of large mine waste rock piles in New Mexico; andanalysis of the probable performance of large LNG tanks supportedby stone columns in soft estuarine deposits at the Portof Long Beach, Calif. He serves as chair of the civil engineeringsection of the National Academy of Engineering.

StructuralEngineering & MaterialsThe quest for better bridges: CEE researchers areinvolved throughout the region in prototype bridge projectsthat use designs and technology developed at VirginiaTech. Some of the concepts being tested include pre-castbridge deck panels, glass fiber reinforced polymer reinforcementbars (GFRP), bulb-T girders, and ultra-high performanceconcrete. Pictured at top is live-load testing byCarin Roberts-Wollman’s team of the Sugar Grove, Va.Route 601 bridge, which uses GFRP for low maintenanceand longer life. Shown above is a historically significantCovington, Va. through truss bridge, which will be rehabilitatednext summer. The bridge will use lightweight fiberreinforcedpolymer (FRP) decking, which is one-third theweight of a reinforced concrete deck, so that emergencyvehicles can use the bridge.Faculty members in Structural Engineering andMaterials continued to excel in a number of educationand research areas as listed below. Many ofthese accomplishments would not be possible withoutthe dedicated support of the students and staff.Virtual work as structural behavior toolFinley Charney has continued his efforts in research relatedto earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, and structuralsoftware development. Within the field of earthquakeengineering, he is focusing on the development of analyticaltools to identify and control sources of systemic dispersion instructures. He is also continuing his research activities in theapplication of virtual work as a tool for structural behavioridentification and optimization.Together with James Martin and other faculty, Charney hascreated a new center called the Center for Extreme LoadEffects on Structures (CELES). The main purpose of the centeris to reduce economic loss and human suffering from extremeloading and operates under the umbrella of the Institute forCritical Technology and Applied Science (See article, page 6.).With funding from an industrial sponsor, Charney managedthe development of a new finite element analysis“engine,” programmed in object-oriented C++. This programwill be used as the platform for incorporating more advancedanalysis capabilities including nonlinear dynamic analysis,incremental dynamic analysis, probabilistic analysis, andgraphical visualization. Porting of the software to VirginiaTech’s new supercomputer is under consideration.The educational computer programs NONLIN andEQTools were recently upgraded through funding from theNational Institute for Building Science. These programs wereused in a new graduate-level course in earthquake engineeringthat was co-taught by Charney, Sam Easterling, and CarinRoberts-Wollmann.Charney continues to be active in technical committees,chairing both the ASCE committee on Methods of Analysis,and the ASCE Structural Congress Committee.Blast loads on tentsRay Plaut and Rakesh Kapania of aerospace and oceanengineering finished a one-year grant from the Air ForceResearch Laboratory involving a finite element analysis of thedynamic response of tents to blast loads. Also, tests were conductedon the material of the outer canvas and on the innerliner, which is supposed to prevent personnel from externalchemical and biological agents.Plaut continued to investigate the potential application ofslack ropes for mitigation of the seismic response of structures.A portal frame has been designed and will be testedunder periodic loading in the structures laboratory. Later, a25

The steel sandwich panel bridge deck: This bridge in St. Martins,Quebec uses a bridge deck system with outer layers of steel (see inset). This innovativebridge deck system promises to be a very attractive alternative to concretedeck/steel girder systems. Tom Murray is involved in a demonstration bridge to beconstructed in Virginia early in 2005.PROGRAM AREAS: SEMmodel frame will be tested on a shaking table.Plaut continued research on an NSF grant to study thepotential use of short buckled struts as vibration isolators.Some results were presented at an international conference inRome. Plaut and his students are conducting computationalanalyses, and a collaborator at Duke University is runningexperiments.Plaut served as the CEE graduate committe chair and asfaculty advisor of the student Chi Epsilon chapter. He was amember of the college Wine Teaching Award Committee,chair of the college’s library task force, and the college representativeon the University Library Committee. Finally, he wascaptain of the faculty softball team (supplemented by a coupleof graduate students) that defeated the undergraduatesagain at the ASCE annual spring picnic.Steel-framed buildingsSam Easterling is currently working with four doctoral studentsand one master’s student on composite floor systems insteel-framed buildings and cold-formed steel building components.He is director of the Structures and Materials Laboratoryand assistant department head. Easterling’s teaching at theundergraduate and graduate levels focuses on steel design.This spring he collaborated with Charney and Carin Roberts-Wollmann to develop a graduate course on structural design26for seismic effects. He is also active in university governance,serving as president of the Faculty Senate for 2004-2005 andthe faculty representative to the Virginia Tech Board ofVisitors.Easterling is involved with a number of professionalgroups, serving on the AISC Task Committee on CompositeConstruction, ASCE Committees on Composite Construction,Cold-formed Steel and LRFD, and the American Iron and SteelInstitute Education Sub-Committee. Additionally, he is activewith the Structural Stability Research Council, serving in histhird year as the vice-chair and as chair of the Annual StabilityConference Committee.Glass reinforcement for bridgesCarin Roberts-Wollmann focuses her research on methodsfor improving bridge durability and performance, and reducingbridge construction time. The past four years she has studiedthe use of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcingbars as a replacement for mild steel reinforcement in thetop mat of bridge decks. Since GFRP does not corrode likeconventional reinforcement, bridge decks with GFRP shouldbe lower maintenance and longer lasting. She conducted aseries of projects funded by the Virginia TransportationResearch Council and the Federal Highway Administration,culminating with the construction of a bridge deck with GFRP

as top mat in the spring of 2003. Live load tests were performedbefore the bridge was opened to traffic and identicaltests were repeated after the bridge had been in service oneyear. In addition, a companion slab was cast and placed in atest bed at the Troutville weigh station. This slab is subjectedto high traffic loadings and environmental conditioning. Afterone year the deck was removed and returned to the lab tobe tested. The tests of the weigh station deck were comparedto tests of an identical slab which had no loading or environmentalconditioning.Roberts-Wollmann has also directed projects investigatingfull-width, full-depth precast bridge deck panels, seismicdesign of Virginia bridges using new LRFD criteria, the developmentof optimum continuity diaphragm details for the newbulb-T girder being used in Virginia, anchorage zone behaviorin post-tensioned concrete, and ultra-high performanceconcrete. She continues to teach undergraduate and graduateclasses in reinforced and prestressed concrete, and remainsactive in professional committees of the American ConcreteInstitute and Prestressed/Precast Concrete Institute. She is anassociate editor for the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering.Avoiding annoying floor vibrationsThis year Tom Murray’s research focus has been on floorserviceability, steel connection design, metal building systems,and an innovative bridge deck system. The latter promisesto be a very attractive alternative to concrete deck/steelgirder systems. A demonstration bridge is expected to beconstructed in Virginia early in 2005.During the past year Murray presented seminars to engineeringgroups in Alabama, Colorado, and Maine on thedesign of floor systems to avoid annoying floor vibrations.Also, he continued his involvement with the AmericanInstitute of Steel Construction, American Iron and SteelInstitute, and Research Council on Structural Connectionsspecification committees.He earned the 2004 Alumni Teaching Excellence Awardfrom the CEE alumni board and the 2004 DistinguishedEngineering Service Award from the University of KansasCollege Engineering.Results nix ECR for Virginia bridgesRichard Weyers completed his work on the corrosionprotection performance of epoxy coated reinforcing steel(ECR). It was demonstrated through the testing of 113 ECRand 30 black bar cores taken from bridge decks that 22 percentof the ECR will crack and spall the cover concrete inonly five additional years beyond black bar. Life cycle costanalysis considering initial construction, repair and rehabilitationcost demonstrated that ECR is not a cost-effective corrosionprotection solution in Virginia. Recommendations toVDOT were to use low permeable concrete, present clearcover depth specifications, and 316 LN stainless steel in allcritical structures in high deicer salt application areas such asNorthern Virginia and in high traffic zones. All other structuresare to be built with low permeable concrete and blackbar. The recommendation is under review by VDOT and theFederal Highway Administration (FHWA).Weyers teamed with Michael Brown and Steve Lane ofthe Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC) to estimatethe service life of bridge decks built in Virginia. Theseparate projects (Brown on deck cracking, Lane on concretepermeability, and Weyers on service life modeling) providedcost economies and effective use of organization personnel.During summer 2004, 38 bridge decks were surveyed: 10 builtbetween 1968 and 1970 with black steel and 28 built with ECRbetween 1985 and 1991, of which 12 were built with low permeableconcrete and 16 with normal Portland cement bridgedeck concrete. The survey crew consisted of Brown and AndyMills of VTRC and Weyers and graduate students Wes Kellerand Andrei Ramniceanu. The survey decks had been identifiedby Weyers during his research leave in 2003 at VTRC. Thefield work included extensive linear cracking surveys, nondestructiveelectro-chemical corrosion measurements, and asbuiltconditions. In addition, 12 to 15 cores were taken fromeach bridge deck for laboratory analyses of concrete permeability,chloride contents, and corrosion state of the reinforcingsteel. The laboratory phase of the project is scheduledover an 18-month period with analyses to follow. Brown isconducting the laboratory work at VTRC.Weyers also started an aggregate durability project for theWisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) duringthe year. The project is also a cooperative effort betweenVirginia Tech and VTRC. Aggregate laboratory testing beganthis summer, following aggregate sampling by graduate studentGreg Williamson and Weyers.Megan Wheeler and Wes Keller earned their master’sdegrees. Keller conducted the statistical analysis of the bridgedeck linear cracking data collected during the summer of2003, concluding that large spacing between girders results inmore longitudinal cracking and larger clear concrete coverdepths results in more linear cracking. Wheeler conductedscanning electron microscope crack analyses of ECR, degreeof epoxy coating cure, and moisture uptake analysis of ECRof both poor and good corrosion protection performance ofECR from the field core corrosion study. Results showed that60 percent of the coating on the bar is cracked with cracks atleast four magnitudes greater than the water and chloridemolecule, the coating water absorbed is about 1 percent inmoisture concrete, the coating on the bar is not fully cured,and the greater the amount of cracking and absorption ofwater, the greater state of not being fully cured. Both graduatesare working for consulting engineering firms.VDOT’s prestressed estimating method?Tommy Cousins continues to offer prestressed concreteand structural masonry design courses, and to investigatechallenges associated with bridge performance and longevity.His projects were all related to the development and use ofhigh performance materials in bridges. Through fundingreceived from the VTRC and the Virginia Cooperative Centerfor Bridge Engineering (which he serves as the director)Cousins, joined by Via Scholar Chris Waldron, is investigatingthe appropriateness of the method VDOT currently uses forestimating prestress loss in prestressed concrete bridge girders.This project involves the instrumentation and monitoringof prestressed girders in three bridges in the Commonwealth.During the summer of 2005, a historically significantthrough truss bridge in Covington, Va. will be rehabilitatedusing a lightweight FRP bridge deck system. This project isfunded by a grant from the FHWA and the VTRC. The throughtruss bridge currently has a reinforced concrete deck and alow posting. The lightweight FRP deck (which has one-thirdthe weight of the reinforced concrete deck) will allow theposting to be increased so that emergency vehicles can usethe bridge. The research is being conducted in collaborationwith Jack Lesko of engineering science and mechanics.27PROGRAM AREAS: SEM

PROGRAM AREAS: TISEThis past year provided exciting challenges for theTransportation Infrastructure and SystemsEngineering (TISE) program. The program sawsignificant increases in research and graduate studentfunding and numbers of Ph.D. students,while strengthening its main research and educational areas:air transportation, traffic, civil engineering materials, highwayinfrastructure, transportation planning, safety, mass transit,and transportation networks. Activity details of seven TISE facultymembers are provided in the following paragraphs.John Collura continued to direct the transportation engineeringand infrastructure activities at the Northern VirginiaCampus in Falls Church. He served as the principal investigatoron ITS operation tests projects with Hesham Rakha andDusan Teodorovic on the signal preemption and transit priorityproject sponsored by the ITS Task Force. Graduate studentsinclude Chuck Louisell, Houng Soo, and JonObenberger. He published three papers, gave four conferencepresentations, and organized and chaired a conference sessionon signal preemption and transit priority at the ITSAmerica Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Collura has alsobeen developing the advanced transportation instructional labin Northern Virginia SCHEV funds in conjunction with privateindustry and the computer science faculty. He offered a onedayworkshop for government and industry officials on theuse of automated vehicle location systems and contributed achapter on the application of information technologies inpublic transportation to the Transportation EngineeringHandbook (McGraw-Hill, 2004).Tom Dingus, Newport News Shipbuilding Professor andtransportation human factors and safety researcher, continuesto direct the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI).VTTI, manager of the Smart Road research facility, is thelargest research center at Virginia Tech with more than $12million in annual research expenditures. Dingus also served asthe interim director for the newly formed Institute for Critical28Transportation InfrastructureStudent transportation alliance formedTo increase the outreach to professional organizations,the TISE program has worked with the student body toenergize the student chapter of the Institute ofTransportation Engineers (ITE) and to create a studentchapter of the American Road and Transportation BuildersAssociation (ARTBA). In addition, the TISE students createdthe Virginia Tech Student Transportation Alliance (VTSTA),an umbrella organization that brings together both studentgroups.This organization helped organize several technicaland social events and provided an excellent forum for student/facultyinteraction.& Systems EngineeringTechnologies and Applied Science (ICTAS). This institute representsa new model for the development of cutting-edgeinterdisciplinary research at Virginia Tech. His assignmentincluded the development of policies and financial models forthis new research endeavor and development of the initialprogram of research.Trucker fatigueThis year Dingus, Vicki Neale, and VTTI colleagues completedthe data collection for the largest instrumented vehiclefield study ever attempted (100 vehicles for an entire year) forthe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), fundedat $3.5 million over three years. This project, studying driversin Northern Virginia, will provide a wealth of new informationto help understand, and eventually reduce, vehiclecrashes. (See article page 2.)Also this year, Dingus and Richard Hanowski initiated a$3.8-million, large-scale instrumented truck project to studythe effectiveness of driver fatigue countermeasures.Dingus received several honors this year: he was invitedto serve on the advisory board of the National AdvancedDriving Simulator, to present on the future of crash causationresearch by the National Academy of Science (TransportationResearch Board), and to speak at the SAE Government/Industry meeting on “Progress and Future Directions ofAdaptive Driver Assistance.”Longer-lasting pavementGerardo W. Flintsch expanded his research on pavementsand infrastructure management. He organized and hosted anationwide comparison of road profilers at the Virginia SmartRoad, which brought together 72 devices from across NorthAmerica. This event, sponsored by the FHWA, was attendedby equipment users, developers, manufacturers, and academicians.Flintsch, Al-Qadi and their Roadway InfrastructureGroup at VTTI initiated two projects sponsored by the VDOT,to develop “premium” pavement design for the state. Theseprojects included extensive field and laboratory testing programsand aim to develop longer-lasting pavement. He alsocontinued the development of enhanced life-cycle cost analysistools for evaluating transportation infrastructure investmentswith funding from the NSF and completed, in collaborationwith John Collura and Randy Dymond, a synthesis ofhighway practice on the use of geographic information systemsapplications in pavement management for the NationalHighway Cooperative Research program.Flintsch and Kevin McGhee from VTRC received the JackH. Dillard Award from the Virginia Transportation ResearchCouncil for the best paper of 2003 for their work on highspeedpavement texture measurements. Flintsch chaired the

Second Infrastructure Management Educationand Research Workshop and aTRB session about innovative applicationin pavement management. Hisresearch team published 14 journal andconference papers and delivered 11presentations at international conferencesand professional meetings. Hetaught classes on civil engineeringmaterials and bridge and pavementmanagement systems and participatedin many ASCE, TRB, and VDOT technicalcommittees. This past year Flintschwas appointed as a member of thenewly created Transportation ResearchBoard (TRB) Committee ABC40 onTransportation Asset Management andelected a founding member and chairmanof the Awards Committee of theInternational Society for Maintenanceand Rehabilitation of TransportationInfrastructure (iSMARTi).No-passing-zone violatorsAntoine Hobeika, is conductingresearch for VDOT on transportationsafety on Route 114 in MontgomeryCounty, Va. He is using video imagingto detect and warn drivers who violatethe no-passing zone on two-lane ruralroads. He is also working for the FHWAto establish a textbook and course manualon the newly developed transportationplanning software TRANSIMS andto provide assistance in refining thecomputer package. He is the first professorin the country to offer a graduatecourse on TRANSIMS and is conductinga TRANSIMS training course in NorthernVirginia campus to selected transportationprofessionals invited by FHWA.Modeling driver behaviorHesham Rakha’s team continuedwork on the NSF major research instrumentation(MRI) grant, developing aprototype instrumented city, the Mid-Atlantic University TransportationCenter, and the ITS ImplementationCenter research. Activities includeddeveloping and modeling truck behavioralong grade sections, modeling trafficflow behavior and dispersion, modelingtraffic lane-changing behavior andits implications on weaving sections.The team also is developing and modelingvehicle energy and emissionimpacts of intelligent transportation system(ITS) applications, modeling transitsignal priority in collaboration withVDOT, and the developing real-timetravel time estimation algorithms in collaborationwith VDOT and theUniversity of Virginia. Rakha’s team alsoTraffic signal surveillance system(Instrumented City Project)Road profilers testing at the Virginia Smart Road29

PROGRAM AREAS: TISEworked on new projects including the modeling of a 25-milesection of I-81 between Christiansburg and Roanoke for the I-81 reconstruction project and a characterization of the trafficdemand on Route 24 at Appomattox Court House NationalPark under the sponsorship of the National Park Services.Rakha redesigned the Traffic Engineering course and cotaughtTraffic Characteristics and Flow. He offered two shortcourses in Canada and was a guest speaker at the Universityof Maryland. His team published 12 journal publications, nineconference proceeding publications, and made 18 conferencepresentations. In addition, Rakha serves as an associate editorfor the 7th IEEE International Conference on IntelligentTransportation Systems and was one of 20 recipients of theResearch Fellow Award from the college of engineering.Swarm intelligence to route vehiclesDusan Teodorovic continued work developing new methodsto route vehicles on the ground using swarm intelligencetechniques and collaborated with Antonio Trani’s group onthe development of a decision support, computer simulationand optimization model to measure the economic impacts ofdeploying advanced technologies at airports. He taught classeson transportation network analysis and soft computingapplications in transportation.Air transportation researchThis year, the air transportation research group madeprogress in several areas. Trani, with colleagues Hojong Baikand Howard Swingle, as well as graduate students SenanuAshiabor, Nick Hinze, Yue Xu, Anand Sheshadri and KrishnaRama-Murthy, continued the development of a large-scale aviationplanning model to study the impacts of various aerospacetechnologies in the U.S. national airspace system (NAS).They have been developing the model for the past three yearsto study the impacts of on-demand air taxi services usingsmall aircraft across the country (see article, page 8). Thismodel will also be used in the coming months by the NASALangley Research Center to study the economic and operationalimpacts of radical aerospace vehicle concepts such asultra-short takeoff and landing (USTOL) commercial aircraft inthe NAS. For the FAA, Trani, Teodorovic, Baik and graduatestudents Stephanie Chung and Aniruddha Kane developed adecision support, computer simulation and optimizationmodel to measure the economic impacts of deploying30Ground penetrating radar testing forthe premium pavement investigationadvanced technologies at airports. The model is a first steptoward helping the FAA make more informed decisions aboutthe true life-cycle costs of deploying technologies for alleviatingairport congestion. With colleagues at the University ofCalifornia Berkeley and MIT, Trani participated in an FAAstudy of the impacts of advanced avionics on-board new andfuture aircraft (like the Boeing 7e7 Dreamliner) in the NAS.This study surveyed seven U.S. airlines to determine the complianceof the existing aircraft fleet with various levels ofrequired navigation performance (RNP) and their impact inenroute and terminal area operations.Trani offered a four-day computer-aided short course onaviation system modeling on behalf of NEXTOR—the NationalCenter of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research—toFAA and various aviation industry participants. This shortcourse was delivered to 30 participants at the NorthernVirginia Center and demonstrated computer-based models tostudy air transportation systems.Pavement materials and testingImad Al-Qadi, and the Roadway Infrastructure Group,continued research on pavement materials and design andnondestructive testing. This includes working, in collaborationwith VTRC and NRC of Canada, on the Consortium onDevelopment of Performance-Based Guidelines for CrackSealants with participation from 13 state DOT’s and 13Canadian industrial, local, and government agencies. Thegroup is developing finite element models for pavement damage,developing an overly design approach to control reflectioncracking in pavements, calibrating pavement design modelsutilizing instrument response, developing a model to accuratelypredict the pavement thicknesses from ground penetratingradar data, developing shift factors to correct for the effectof laboratory prepared asphaltic materials on their engineeringproperties when compared to those in-situ measured characteristics,and assisting in deploying new technologies in severalstates. The group contributed 12 presentations at theannual Transportation Research Board meeting, in addition topapers, reports, presentations, and several invited talks atnational and international conferences and professional meetings.Al-Qadi co-chaired the 5th International RILEMConference on Pavement Cracking in Limoges, France andwas a keynote speaker at both the 10th International Conferenceon Structural Faults and Repair in London and the 5thInternational Symposium on Nondestructive Testing in CivilEngineering in Berlin. He organized several technical sessionsat international conferences and served as a guest editor ofthe July 2004 issue of the ASNT Materials Evaluation SpecialEdition on NDE of Pavements and serves as the North Americaeditor of the Construction and Building Materials Journal. Al-Qadi serves on more than 20 technical committees; he is currentlychairing the TRB Committee on Sealants and Fillers forJoints and Cracks and the TRB subcommittee on geosyntheticsin pavement systems. He received the 2004 Limoges Medalof Merit for his contribution in pavement technology. Al-Qadihas accepted a position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has left Virginia Tech.In addition to the full-time faculty, adjunct professors contributedto the program’s education mission. Jacob Craig ofAnderson and Associates taught the undergraduate GeometricDesign of Highways course. Sam Tignor continues to provideadjunct instruction in the areas of traffic engineering, safety,and highway signing at the Northern Virginia campus.

2003-2004CEE Ph.D. degrees awardedThe following doctoral degrees were awarded to CEE students between July 2003 and June 2004:Name: Redzuan AbdullahTitle: Experimental Methods and Modeling of ShearBond in Composite SlabsAdvisor: W. Samuel EasterlingName: Aphinat AshakulTitle: Finite Element Analysis of Single Plate ShearConnectionsAdvisor: Thomas M. MurrayName: Siyuan Chen MortonTitle: Phosphorus in the Environment and its Role inAnaerobic Iron CorrosionAdvisor: Marc EdwardsName: Kirsten A. DavisTitle: Information Technology Change in theArchitecture, Engineering, and ConstructionIndustry: An Investigation of Individual’s ResistanceAdvisor: Anthony D. SongerName: Mark DoughertyTitle: Quantifying Long-Term Hydrologic and NPSPollutant Response in an Urbanizing WatershedAdvisor: Randel DymondName: David HolbrookTitle: Fate and Transport of Endocrine DisruptingCompounds during Wastewater Treatment: The Roleof Colloidal and Particulate MaterialAdvisor: John Novak and Nancy LoveName: Kyunghwan KimTitle: A Resource-Constrained CPM (RCPM)Scheduling and Control Technique with MultipleCalendarsAdvisor: Jesus M. de la GarzaName: Samer LahouarTitle: Development of Data Analysis Techniques forAutomatic Interpretation of Ground PenetratingRadar Data Collected from PavementsAdvisor: Imad Al-Qadi and Gary Brown (ECE)Name: Gunnar LuckoTitle: A Statistical Analysis of the Residual Value ofVarious Types of Construction EquipmentAdvisor: Michael VorsterName: Daniel F. McGinnisTitle: Two-Dimensional Lake and ReservoirModeling; Natural and Plume-Induced MixingMechanismsAdvisor: John LittleName: J.R. Ubejd MujagicTitle: Design and Behavior of Composite Steel-Concrete Flexural Members with a Focus on ShearConnectorsAdvisor: W. Samuel EasterlingName: Celal Guney OlgunTitle: Performance of Improved Ground andReinforced Soil Structures During the 1999 Kocaeli(Turkey) EarthquakeAdvisor: James R. Martin, IIName: Youngjin ParkTitle: Investigation of the Ability of Filters to StopErosion through Cracks in DamsAdvisor: Thomas Brandon and Mike DuncanName: Juan Carlos PiñeroTitle: A Framework for Monitoring Performance-Based Road MaintenanceAdvisor: Jesus M. de la GarzaName: Apirath PrateapusanondTitle: A Comprehensive Practice of Total Float Pre-Allocation and Management for the Application of aCPM-based Construction ContractAdvisor: Jesus M. de la GarzaName: Paolo ScardinaTitle: Dissolved Gas Supersaturation, BubbleFormation, and Treatment Plant PerformanceAdvisor: Marc EdwardsName: Houng Yiu SooTitle: Towards the Development of a Decision SupportSystem Framework for Emergency VehiclePreemption and Transit Priority InvestmentPlanningAdvisor: John ColluraName: Emmett S. SumnerTitle: Unified Design of Extended End-Plate MomentConnections Subject to Cyclic LoadingAdvisor: Thomas M. MurraySTUDENT NEWS31

2004-2005 undergraduatescholarship recipientsSTUDENT NEWSCE Alumni BoardWilliam CollinsPatrick CotterAndrea JenkinsMyles KillarLauren RaupAdam SchmidAmerican InfrastructureJennifer StephensWilliam A. CaruthersMichael GreenfieldClass of ‘58Justin DonaldsonWalter FedrowitzChristopher KeppelerWarren F. ClineBrian SnyderStanley & Francis CohenDavid AveryTravis HiggsCrysta HighfieldJoseph WallenfelszJohn DebellBenjamin DumanL.S. Turner & W.S.DewhirstScott CramerTyler HaysDavide LeeDick WalkerGenevieve SmithWalter DuncanChadwick BoyeaDavid LiuAmy LovelessKelso BakerGenevieve SmithJoseph TomlinsonLingerfelt FamilyFoundationChristopher BaumertKathryn EvansAmanda StrickhouserJoseph WallenfelszMichael BakerPatrick CotterHersie B. & Ethel G.McCauleyBrian BoardChristopher KabachinskiJessie NesterNathaniel WestThe Andrew E. “Tripp”McDavid MemorialScholarshipMichael BonannoKyle O’KellyAdam SchmidKenton & Liliana MelandNathan UmbergerTravis HiggsBrian MunozNOVA Golf TournamentCassandra CraigNew River Valley GolfTournamentDavide LeeRichmond GolfTournamentCrysta HighfieldNewport NewsShipbuildingElizabeth HeathVA ConcreteCassandra CraigLauren Gagen-CheenChristopher HeckmannLisa MandigoBrian MunozVecellioDerek DossDaniel RichNicholas TurpenViaDoran BossoKathryn FirichJosh MourasHarry S. & Patsy V.WilliamsBenjamin DymondKatherine GabryschBrian McDonaldWilliams IndustriesBenjamin DumanChristopher FeasterChristopher KeppelerEric PerryNathan UmbergerWilliam WorrallVerne & Jewel WilliamsonDavid Liu32

Student Societies:ASCE chapter garners national recognitionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)offers Virginia Tech students many opportunitiesto develop leadership potential, participate incommunity outreach, and cultivate professionalskills within the civil engineering discipline.Members were not only exposed to a diverse selection ofspeakers with national reputation, but also toured civil engineeringprojects in the area, such as the Kent Square Projectin downtown Blacksburg. These events, along with strongcompetition teams earned a Letter of Honorable Mention fromthe ASCE national office.Along with this national recognition, both the ConcreteCanoe and Steel Bridge teams were regional winners at the2004 Virginias conference in Morgantown, W.V. The ConcreteCanoe team placed second overall and the Steel Bridge teamplaced first overall, qualifying for the national competition inGolden, Colo.Led by captains Anna Dix, Krista Schuler, and Josh Mourasand fueled by dedication and hard work, the 19-memberbridge team placed 24th nationally. This is an improvementfrom the previous year’s competition, and the team looks forwardto the challenges in the 2005 contest.In addition to the challenges of competing at the 2005regional conference, the Virginia Tech ASCE Student Chapteris hosting the conference at the Blacksburg campus.Conference Chairman Sean Kluckman is leading the effort tocoordinate with other schools, organize competitions, andplan logistics.Locally, students participated in two community outreachactivities this past year: Blitz Build and Concrete for Kids. Asa Habitat for Humanity Project, Blitz Build entailed constructingsix houses in two days. About 25 Virginia Tech studentsparticipated in this challenging but rewarding experience,working alongside community members to successfully reachthe goals set out by the project. Concrete for Kids not onlyexposes Virginia Tech students to working with a youngergeneration, but also enables students to utilize their civil engineeringskills to benefit elementary-school children.STUDENT NEWSChi Epsilon refurbishescomposite graduation photosThis past year, Virginia Tech’s Chi Epsilon chapterstrengthened its service activities. One of theyear’s highlights was the spring initiation ceremonyattended by Gregory Reed, the Cumberlanddistrict councilor, and Samuel McGhee III, a 1963civil engineering graduate. McGhee was elevated to honormember status, and he presented inspiring remarks for thestudents. In March, the chapter sent four officers to theNational Conclave at Purdue University. The officers enjoyedthe interaction with other chapters, served as proxies for theDuke University and University of Virginia chapters, andreturned to Tech highly motivated with ideas.The main fundraiser, department t-shirt sales, proved successful,thanks to the popularity of the winning design from acompetition. Service projects included refurbishing and displayingold composite graduation pictures that the CEEdepartment had held in storage for a number of years, as wellas an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup effort.Thanks to web-page editor Don Scholz, the Virginia TechChi Epsilon webpage has been updated and displays informationabout the chapter, current events, and officer contacts.(http://www.cee.vt.edu/chiep/)The 2003-2004 officers were: Andrei Ramniceanu, president;Shawn Batterton, vice-president; Emily Prince, secretary;Ian Millikan, treasurer; Tenil Mullins, marshal; and MarkKacmarcik, editor. Officers for the 2004-2005 academic yearare as follows: Emily Prince, president; Joseph Wallenfelsz,vice-president; Nick Turpen, secretary; Ian Millikan, treasurer;Tenil Mullins, marshal; Rachel Gregory and Mark Kacmarcik,co-editors; and Don Scholz, webmaster. Ray Plaut serves asfaculty advisor.33

Meetthe ViaScholarsThe following pages highlight some of the country’smost exceptional students and alumni, the ViaScholars. The motivation and aspirations of thisgroup reflect a profound curiosity and desire to improvethe quality of life around the world—from helping municipalitiesmanage growth, to the asethetics of structures,the quality of water, and international development.The Via scholarships are made possible through thegenerosity of the late Mrs. Marion Bradley Via of Roanokeand her family. In 1987, Mrs. Via contributed $5 millioneach to the Departments of Electrical and ComputerEngineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering.Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors subsequently named theECE department in honor of Mrs. Via’s deceased father,Harry Lynder Bradley, and the CEE department in honor ofher late huband, Charles E. Via, Jr. Mrs. Via died in 1993.Both departments use a portion of the endowment toaward scholarships to qualifying students. These scholarshipsare among the most competitive in the country. TheVia endowment is now worth more than $15 million.Via Scholars — UndergraduatesDoran J. BossoHometown: Stow, OhioAcademic Level: JuniorAwards & Recognitions: Marshall HahnEngineering Scholarship; SeayScholarship; U.S. Army NationalScholar Athlete Award;Primary Area of Interest: Structural andenvironmental engineeringWork Experience: Intern, City of Stow,Ohio Engineering Department;assistant warehouse manager,Blossom Amphitheater.Career Goals: Use my skills in civil engineering to assistmunicipalities to develop in a manner that will positivelyimpact the general public and the environment.Kathryn FirichHometown: Woodbridge, Va.Academic Level: SophomoreAwards & Recognitions: Marshall HahnEngineering Scholarship;Presidential Alumni Scholarship;Virginia Association of AAUScholarship; Phi Sigma ThetaNational Honor Society; VirginiaTech Honors Program.Primary Area of Interest:Environmental engineeringWork Experience: Rinker DesignAssociates, P.C.,environmental engineering intern.Career Goals: Attend graduate school and pursue a career asan environmental engineer. I am especially interested inwetlands studies and wetland delineations.34

Via Scholars —Master’s StudentsNick AmicoHometown: Burke, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions:Outstanding Senior Engineer2002; Virginia Tech CE NewsStar Student.Primary Area of Interest: BridgeengineeringWork Experience: FederalHighway Administration,Sterling, Va., four-term co-op;Campbell & Paris Engineers,Chantilly, Va.Career Goals: Design and project management forlong-span bridge and complex structural engineeringprojects with an underlying interest in helpingredefine the role of structural engineers in the overallaesthetics of the final product.Joshua MourasHometown: Blacksburg, Va.Academic Level: JuniorAwards & Recognitions: DavenportLeadership Scholarship; AidAssociation for LutheransScholarship; LutheranBrotherhood Scholarship;Marshall Hahn EngineeringScholarship; Pamplin LeadersScholarship.Primary Area of Interest: StructuralengineeringWork Experience: Hayes, Seay, Mattern, and Mattern;Wilson T. Ballard Company; Anderson & Associates.Career Goals: I intend to pursue an advanced degree inengineering and work on large and innovative designprojects.Kristen A. Baldwin MetzgerHometown: Little Rock, Ark.Undergraduate: TulaneUniversityAwards & Recognitions: TauBeta Pi; Louisiana ASCEMost Outstanding CivilEngineering StudentPrimary Area of Interest:Structural EngineeringWork Experience: Constructionassistant, Richmond Habitatfor Humanity; intern,Industrial Consulting Engineers, Little Rock, Ark.;intern, Cromwell Architect Engineers Little Rock,Ark.Career Goals: Pursue a design career in an architecturalengineering firm, eventually moving on to fieldwork and project management.35

Via Scholars — Master’s StudentsJonathan BlackHometown: Myrtle Beach, S.C.Undergraduate: The CitadelAwards & Recognitions: Gold Star;Dean’s List; President’s List; CitadelScholar Scholarship; Col. LouisLeTellier Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest:Steel design.Work Experience: Research Assistant –Design of Piles in Liquefiable SoilsprojectElizabeth Claire BoothHometown: Chattanooga, Tenn.Undergraduate: Auburn UniversityAwards & Recognitions: MostOutstanding Civil EngineeringStudent; Alabama Society ofProfessional Engineers StudentEngineer of the Year; SoutheasternConference Scholar Athlete Award;Scholarship Recipient Recognitionfrom SAME; AWWA Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest:Environmental engineering/pollutioncontrol, ecosystem, river systems, groundwater.Work Experience: Intern, Betts Engineering Associates, Inc.;research assistant, Auburn University.Career Goals: Work with consulting firm or regulatoryagency to manage/prevent air pollution.Kyle Richard DominisseHometown: Randolph, NEUndergraduate: University of Nebraskaat OmahaAwards & Recognitions: Chancellor’sList; Dean’s List; National Dean’sList; Nebraska Society ofProfessional Engineers Scholarship;Walter Scott, Jr. Scholar andRegent’s Scholar; Nebraska CoachesAssociation Scholar/Athlete Awardand Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest: StructuralengineeringWork Experience: Intern, Kirkham Michael ConsultingEngineers (3 years).Career Goals: Manage a well known and respected consultingengineering firm.Aimee E. GreyshockHometown: Pittsburgh, Pa.Undergraduate: Universityof PittsburghAwards & Recognitions: Joel I. AbramsFellowship, EIT Certification, TauBeta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Golden Key.Primary Area of Interest: Watershedmanagement and water qualityissues.Work Experience: Environmental engineeringinternship at GAIConsultants, Inc., Monroeville, Pa.;undergraduate teaching assistant, Probability Conceptsfor Civil Engineers.Career Goals: I hope to foster stewardship of the environmentthrough teaching and community service.VIA SCHOLARS36‘I want to work...to manage and prevent airpollution. I would also liketo study the air quality ofdeveloping countries andcollaborate on ways toreduce this growing problem...’—Elizabeth Claire BoothGreg HensleyHometown: Midlothian, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: Eagle Scout,Virginia-Carolinas Structural SteelFabricators Association Scholarship,Marshall Hahn EngineeringScholarship, National Society ofCollegiate Scholars, Chi Epsilon.Primary Area of Interest: StructuralengineeringWork Experience: Intern, AllianceEngineering, Richmond, Va.Career Goals: I plan to become a design engineer andbridge over into the management of an engineering firm.

Edward Brian HoustonHometown: Beulaville, N.C.Undergraduate: Duke University(Cum Laude)Awards & Recognitions: Dean’s list; EtaKappa Nu (EE honor society)Primary Area of Interest:Hydraulics/hydrology as it appliesto international development andwater usage policy development.Work Experience: Embedded programmer,Plexus (2 years); senior softwareengineer, NationalSemiconductor (3.5 years).Career Goals: Work for a governmental organization or NGOin international development, focusing on underdevelopedcountries.Brice Richard KutchHometown: Burke, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechPrimary Area of Interest: Constructionengineering and management/landdevelopment.Work Experience: VIKA, Inc. – LandDevelopment Company, McLean,Va.; Heffner Architects, a smallarchitecutre firm in Alexandria, Va..Career Goals: Become a licensed engineerinvolved with technical andmanagerial aspects of land development projects, particularlythe construction of golf courses.Wendell O’Neil KhunjarHometown: San Fernando, Trinadadand Tobago/Miami, Fla.Undergraduate: Howard UniversityAwards & Recognitions: ASCE NationalCapitol Section Scholarship; TauBeta Pi; National Society ofCollegiate Scholars; Golden Key;Dean’s Honor List for EngineeringStudents; Tau Beta Pi Freshman ofthe Year; NASA Advanced SupportNSCORT summer fellowship.Primary Area of Interest: Applicationof biotechnology to water and wastewater treatment.Work Experience: Research assistant, Howard UniversityBiological Process Laboratory; assistant engineer,Montgomery Watson Harza; intern, Trinidad and TobagoNational Petroleum Marketing Co., Ltd.Career Goals: Professor and international consultantAdam Roger LeaseHometown: Paw Paw, W.Va.Undergraduate: West Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: WV TechOutstanding Senior; 1 st PlaceNational ASCE Water TreatmentCompetition; 1 st Place RegionalWater Treatment Competition; 1 stPlace Regional ASCE ProblemSolving Competition.Primary Area of Interest: StructuralengineeringWork Experience: Cives Steel Company;Orders Construction Co., WV Tech Volleyball TeamAssistant Coach.Career Goals: Work as structural engineer in Eastern panhandleof West Virginia. Retire to family farm.VIA SCHOLARSK. Erik MakusHometown: Moscow, IdahoUndergraduate: University of IdahoAwards & Recognitions: Phi BetaKappa Society; William H. CaneAward (Outstanding Senior inChemistry).Primary Area of Interest:Environmental chemistry and waterremediation.Career Goals: Work with developingdrinking water resources in areasof high pollution/low economicdevelopment.James David MartinHometown: Knoxville,Tenn.Undergraduate: University ofTennessee, KnoxvilleAwards & Recognitions: Civil andEnvironmental Alumni Scholarship,Brand Scholarship, DugganScholarship, Snoderly Scholarship,top student in junior class 2001,Dunn Scholarship, John CallawayScholarship, Andrew W. SpickardScholarship.Primary Area of Interest: Structures(steel buildings)Work Experience: Co-op, estimating and project management,Flincto Construction; surveyer, Vaughn and MeltonEngineering; estimator, Denark Construction.Career Goals: Gain engineering experience and PE license,then own and operate an engineering consulting firm.37

Via Scholars — Master’s StudentsLaurie MazurskyHometown: Baltimore, Md.Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University(Summa Cum Laude)Awards & Recognitions: AISC/SouthernAssociation of Steel FabricatorsScholarship; Walter Gill KirkpatrickPrize in Civil Engineering;Vanderbilt University’s CivilEngineering Program Award.Primary Area of Interest: Structures –buildings.Work Experience: Intern, StructuralAffiliates International, Inc.Career Goals: Begin as an engineer-in-training in a structuralengineering firm.Joshua P. MiddletonHometown: Newbern, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia MilitaryInstituteAwards & Recognitions: Brother to sixsisters.Primary Area of Interest: ConstructionWork Experience: Contractor and workcoordinator of Habitat forHumanity House in Buena Vista,Va.; Middleton Construction Co.(10 years).Career Goals: I would like to becomea professional engineer within five years and to make adifference in the engineering community.VIA SCHOLARSMichael MotleyHometown: Charleston, S.C.Undergraduate: The CitadelAwards & Recognitions: Tau Beta Pi,Phi Kappa Phi, The Citadel’sHimelright ScholarshipPrimary Area of Interest: StructuresWork Experience: Field engineer,Southeastern Surveying Inc.,Charleston, SC; field engineer,Leighton Contractors, Brisbane,Australia.Career Goals: I would like to do consulting and eventuallybecome a college professor.Julia NovakHometown: Hampton, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechAwards and Recognitions: Tau Beta PiPrimary Area of Interest: Water treatmentWork Experience: Civil engineer inwater/wastewater group atWhitman, Requardt & Assoc., LLP.Career Goals: I would like to conductresearch and development work tobring clean water to the world.38Caroline K. NguyenHometown: Graham, N.C.Undergraduate: NC State UniversityAwards & Recognitions: NSF GraduateFellowship; NSF Computer Science,Engineering, and MathematicsScholarship; W.C. Billy CreelMemorial Scholarship; ProgressEnergy Scholarship; CP&LScholarship; Dean's List; ChiEpsilon.Primary Area of Interest:Environmental (copper corrosion,drinking water)Work Experience: Hazen and Sawyer, Intern, May 2001–Aug.2003Career Goals: Consult after master’s degree and obtain professionalengineering license. Possibly return to academiafor a doctorate.Donald P. ScholzHometown: Plymouth Meeting, Pa.Undergraduate: University of DelawareAwards & Recognitions: Vice-president,Chi Epsilon; secretary, Tau Beta Pi;URS Corporation Award; Liston A.Houston Scholarship; HowardRobertson Sr. MemorialScholarship; American Society ofHighway Engineers Scholarship;University of Delaware ScholarAward; University of DelawareHonors Program Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest: Structures(bridge design/rehabilitation)Work Experience: Intern, McCormick, Taylor and Assoc.Career Goals: Work in and eventually lead a private firm inthe design of medium-and long-span bridges.

Robert Charles WilliamsHometown: Coalwood, W.Va.Undergraduate: West VirginiaUniversity Institute of Technology(Magna Cum Laude)Awards & Recognitions: President, WVBeta Chapter, Tau Beta Pi; AlphaChi; Dean’s List; WV Engineeringand Science Scholarship; NationalDean’s List; Collegiate All-AmericanScholar.Primary Area of Interest: Constructionengineering & project managementWork Experience: Intern, Columbia Gas Transmission (2summers); intern,Triad Engineering Inc. (2 summers);teaching assistant, Reinforced Concrete Design and FluidMechanics.Career Goals: Start a successful engineering firm capable ofcompleting projects in all areas of civil engineering.‘I hope to work for a governmentalorganization orNGO in international development,focusing on underdevelopedcountries...’—Edward Brian HoustonVIA SCHOLARSJennifer WrightHometown: Moorestown, N.J.Undergraduate: Washington & LeeUniversity (B.S. in mathematicsand engineering science)Awards & Recognitions: Phi BetaKappa; Washington and LeePhysics Departmental Award.Primary Area of Interest: Fluidmechanics/hydrology/environmental modelingWork Experience: Lockheed MartinEngineering Leadership Development Program,Moorestown, NJ, one year.Career Goals: Obtain a Ph..D in environmental engineeringand become a teacher or professor of environmentalmodeling.Kevin D. YoungHometown: Blacksburg, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: LicensedProfessional Engineer (Va.)Primary Area of Interest: Hydrosystems(urban stormwater management,river mechanics analysis, floodplaindelineation and modeling).Work Experience: Design technician,land development (7 yrs.), projectengineer, land development (1 yr.);project engineer, hydraulics and hydrology (2 yrs.);Anderson & Associates, Inc., Blacksburg, Va..Career Goals: Possibly pursue a Ph.D. and either teach orwork on the regulatory side of storm water management.Anna ZaklikowskiHometown: Buffalo, N.Y.Undergraduate: ClarksonAwards & Recognitions: ClarksonLeadership Award and Scholarship;Clarkson Presidential Scholar& Dean’s List; Chi Epsilon; PhiKappa Phi; FMC Corporation Dr.Bretchger Award & Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest:Environmental (drinking watertreatment, wastewater treatment)Work Experience: Intern, BioEconomyPartners, Inc.; co-op, Sterns & Wheler, LLC; intern, FAA;intern, FMC Corp.; NSF REU Marine Science &Engineering, Ocean University of Qingdao, China.Career Goals: Develop and implement environmentally sustainabledrinking water and wastewater treatment practicesand technologies.Lauren ZuravnskyHometown: Cranford, N.J.Undergraduate: Villanova University(Summa Cum Laude)Awards & Recognitions: Member of the1st place design team, 2004Parsons Brinkerhoff CapstoneDesign Competition; Dean’s Awardfor Academic Excellence; Tau BetaPi; Chi Epsilon.Primary Area of Interest:Environmental Engineering (wastemanagement topics).Work Experience: Engineering intern (2 years), Nicholas J.Bouras, Inc.; intern (3 years), engineering and environmentalhealth and safety departments, Anheuser-Busch,Newark, N.J.Career Goals: To be happy and successful.39

Via Scholars — Doctoral StudentsDouglas R. BishHometown: Livermore, Calif.Undergraduate: CalPoly University(industrial engineering)Master’s: Northwestern University(industrial engineering and biomedicalengineering)Primary Area of Interest:Transportation systems.Work Experience: (7 years) UnitedAirlines, research & development.Career Goals: Position at a topresearch university.Jonathan J. BrownHometown: Richmond, Va.Undergraduate: Rensselaer PolytechnicInstituteMaster’s: University of Florida (coastalengineering)Awards and Recognitions: Chi EpsilonPrimary Area of Interest: Geotechnical(rapid soil stabilization)Work Experience: Internship with Fuss& O’Neill, Manchester, Conn.;Schnabel Engineering.Career Goals: I plan to conduct geotechnicaland coastal engineering consulting and, ultimately,teach.Lee Davis BryantHometown: Knoxville, Tenn.Undergraduate: University ofTennessee, KnoxvilleMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: Chi Epsilon,Tau Beta Pi, Golden Key, GAANNFellowship, Sussman Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest:GeoenvironmentalWork Experience: Co-op at a nuclearplant in Louisiana, working for thecivil design group; AmeriCorps ona water quality team.Career Goals: I plan to pursue a teaching career that allowsme to work with the development of environmentallysustainable engineering systems.Christina Clarkson DavisHometown: Herndon, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: LicensedProfessional Engineer (2003); EPAScience to Achieve Results (STAR)Fellow; AEESP Outstanding M.S.Thesis Award (2001); ASCEThompson Award for OutstandingUndergraduate; Tau Beta Pi, ChiEpsilonPrimary Area of Interest: Environmental engineeringWork Experience: Environmental engineer, CDM (2000-2003);intern, Montgomery Watson Harza (1997); co-op engineer,RR Donnelley Printing Company (1994-1995).Career Goals: Contribute to the field of environmental engineeringthrough research, consulting, and teaching.VIA SCHOLARSJeramy Bruyn DeckerHometown: Snowflake, Ariz.Undergraduate: Brigham YoungUniversity (magna cum laude)Master’s: Brigham Young UniversityAwards & Recognitions: Eagle Scout;Brigham Young University HonorsScholarship; Honor’s List – Collegeof Mathematical and PhysicalSciences; Dean’s List – College ofEngineering; Industry AdvancementScholarship – The Association ofDrilled Shaft Contractors.Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical EngineeringWork Experience: Staff engineer, Speedie & Associates,Phoenix, Ariz. (2 years).Career Goals: Teach and do research at the university level.40Edgar David de León IzeppiHometown: Guatemala City, GuatemalaUndergraduate: Universidad de SanCarlos de GuatemalaMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: InternationalRoad Federation FellowPrimary Area of Interest: Pavementdesign/evaluation and materials,geometric design, road quality,specifications, contracts.Work Experience: General manager,ICCA, S.A.; operations engineer,ESSO Central America; operations manager, METROBUS,S.A.; Urban Pavement Management Project, GuatemalaCity-World Bank; Urban Mass Transportation Planning;assistant professor, Universidad de San Carlos deGuatemala.Career Goals: University professor.

John DraperHometown: Lake Ridge, Va.Undergraduate: B.S., chemistry –Bethany College, WV; B.C.E. –Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster’s: University of California,BerkeleyAwards & Recognitions: LicensedProfessional Engineer (CA); PhiKappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, ChiEpsilonPrimary Area of Interest: Simulations ofconstruction operations, lean construction.Work Experience: U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps.Career Goals: Teach and conduct research at a university.Devin HarrisHometown: Philadelphia, Pa.Undergraduate: University of FloridaMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: NSF IGERTFellowship, Graduate Dean’sAssistantship, Exxon Mobil Scholar,Presidential Scholar, Griner Scholar,Chi EpsilonPrimary Area of Interest: StructuralengineeringWork Experience: Exxon Mobil DevelopmentCo.; Exxon Company USA.Career Goals: Gain additional industry or research experiencein structural engineering, then teach and conductresearch at the university level.VIA SCHOLARSRichard T. Kelly IIHometown: New Cumberland, Pa.Undergraduate: Bucknell UniversityMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: Chi Epsilon;Tau Beta Pi; Moles Award for CivilEngineering; Oliver J. Decker Prize;Phi Eta Sigma Fraternity Prize; UniversityPrize for Men; President’sAward for Distinguished AcademicAchievement (all at Bucknell).Primary Area of Interest: WastewaterMicrobiologyWork Experience: Water and geotechnical division intern,Gannett Fleming, Inc.Career Goals: Teach at the college level and help advancethe field of environmental engineering.Justin D. MarshallHometown: Orem, UtahUndergraduate: Brigham YoungUniversityMaster’s: Brigham Young UniversityAwards & Recognitions: LicensedProfessional Engineer (CA); ACIGraduate Scholarship; ORCAStudent Research Scholarship.Primary Area of Interest: Structuraldynamics, structural design, steelstructures.Work Experience: Project StructuralEngineer, Delta Engineers, P.C. (April 2000-August 2004).Career Goals: University professor and structural design consultant.Joshua A. Joseph, Jr.Hometown: Opelousas, La.Undergraduate: Southern Universityand A&M CollegeMaster’s: MIT, CEE; Harvard KennedySchool of Government, public policy;postmaster’s environmentalengineering and science, JohnsHopkins University.Awards & Recognitions: Ford Fellow,Harry S. Truman Fellow, CunninghamFellow, EPA Excellence in Service,ASCE, NSBE, AWRA vice president, Pi Mu EpsilonPrimary Area of Interest: Hydrosystems engineeringWork Experience: Los Alamos National Lab., U.S. EPA, NIACorp., The Folger Coffee Co., Molten Metal Technology,LA DEQ, Oak Ridge National Lab., Stanford LinearAccelerator CenterCareer Goals: Research, teaching, policy engineering.Christopher L. MeehanHometown: Mason, N.H.Undergraduate: University of NewHampshireMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: USSDScholarship; Tau Beta Pi; CivilEngineering Achievement Award;Golden Key Scholarship; PhiKappa Phi Scholarship; WilliamWeaver Memorial Scholarship;Mendelsohn-Kurtz MemorialScholarship.Primary Area of Interest: Geotechnical engineeringWork Experience: GeoSyntec Consultants; Intern, GZAGeoEnvironmental, Inc.; Intern, Haley & Aldrich, Inc.Career Goals: Work for a geotechnical engineering firm, possiblyreturning to a university to do research and teachin my chosen field.41

Via Scholars — Doctoral Students‘I plan to...focus on usingtechnology to increaseprocess efficiency and toincrease our knowledgeregarding how technologyeffects the biology andecology of different biologicalwastewater unitoperations....’—Christopher D. MullerEduardo Mendez IIIHometown: Manchester, N.H.Undergraduate: University of NewHampshireMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: NationalCollegiate Engineering Award; All-American Scholar Collegiate Award.Primary Area of Interest: Softwaredevelopment modeling contaminatedgroundwater remediationWork Experience: Private practice insoftware development; VirginiaTech Environmental Health and Safety Services.Career Goals: Private practice in specialized, technical softwaredevelopment.VIA SCHOLARSChristopher D. MullerHometown: Bedford, N.H.Undergraduate: University of NewHampshireMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: Phi Kappa PhiHonor SocietyPrimary Area of Interest:Environmental engineering (anaerobicdigestion of biosolids and theproduction of odors associatedwith dewatering of biosolids.Work Experience: Greatbay Aquafarms,Inc., Portsmouth, N.H.Career Goals: Research and development in the wastewaterindustry, focusing on using technology to increaseprocess efficiency and to increase our knowledge regardinghow technology effects on the biology and ecologyof biological wastewater operations.Michael NavinHometown: St. Louis, Mo.Undergraduate: University of Missouriat ColumbiaAwards & Recognitions: LicensedProfessional Engineer (MO)Primary Area of Interest: GeotechnicalengineeringWork Experience: Geotechnical branch,U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St.Louis District (10 years)Career Goals: I plan to teach and conductresearch at the universitylevel.42Jocelyn Fraga MullerHometown: Uxbridge, Mass.Undergraduate: University ofMassachusetts at AmherstMaster’s: University of North Carolinaat Chapel HillAwards & Recognitions: Alpha EpsilonLambda; Commonwealth Scholar,Departmental Honors; Chancellor’sTalent Award; William F. FieldAlumni Scholar; Golden KeyNational Honor Society; Dean’s ListPrimary Area of Interest: Bioremediation, microbial ecologyWork Experience: Research technician, Department ofMicrobiology, (UMass); Department of Plant Pathology,Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech.Career Goals: Research ecology of contaminated environmentsand extend this knowledge through education andoutreach.Charles (Chuck) D. NewhouseHometown: Gloucester, Va.Undergraduate: Virginia TechMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: PE, Virginia,1997; Outstanding senior, civilengineering (1992); Kiewit EasternCo. Scholarship (1990-92);Engineering Summer AbroadProgram (Oxford, England), (1989);CTM Morgan Martin ToastmasterClub.Primary Area of Interest: StructuresWork Experience: MMM Design Group , senior structuralengineer, associate, bridge inspection coordinator.Career Goals: I plan to enter academics and teach structuralanalysis and design.

Jeff ParksHometown: Kernersville, N.C.Undergraduate: North Carolina StateUniversity, RaleighMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: SussmanScholarship, Virginia Tech,Professional Engineer (NC)Primary Area of Interest: Drinkingwater treatmentWork Experience: Dollinger Corp., RichCreek, Va.Career Goals: Pursue a career inresearch.John D. RiceHometown: Petaluma, Calif.Undergraduate: Humboldt StateUniversity (CA)Master’s: Utah State UniversityAwards & Recognitions:Professional Engineer (CA);Registered GeotechnicalEngineer (CA).Primary Area of Interest:Geotechnical.Work Experience: Kleinfelder, Inc.(10 years); Woodward-ClydeConsultants (6 years).Career Goals: University Teaching/Research.VIA SCHOLARSHeather Veith RectanusHometown: Independence, Kan.Undergraduate: Kansas State UniversityMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: Tau Beta Pi;Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Beta Kappa;Alpha Nu Sigma; National ScienceFoundation Fellow; GAANNFellowshipPrimary Area of Interest:Geoenvironmental EngineeringWork Experience: Senior reactor operatorfor Kansas State University, Triga Mark II nuclearreactorCareer Goals: Obtain my professional engineer’s license andto work for a research institute.Vickie SingletonHometown: Maysville, Ky.Undergraduate: B.S.in mechanicalengineering, West VirginiaUniversityMaster’s: Environmental engineering,Virginia TechPrimary Area of Interest:Environmental Engineering (waterquality modeling)Work Experience: Design engineer withBlack and Veath Corp., 1998 to2003.Career Goals: Consulting or teaching.Jennifer A. SchaefferHometown: Reading, Pa.Undergraduate: Worcester PolytechnicInstituteMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: ProfessionalEngineer (WA); GAANNFellowship, Via Fellowship (master’s);Tau Beta Phi, Chi EpsilonPrimary Area of Interest:Geotechnical EngineeringWork Experience: GeotechnicalEngineer for CH2M HILL, Inc.,Seattle, WA (1998-2004); Application Engineer for ParametricTechnology Corporation, Inc., Denver, CO (1995-1996); Project Engineer for Chemical Waste Management/Rust Remedial Services, Inc. and MacGregor/WathenConstruction Co., Denver, CO (1992-1995).Career Goals: University teaching and research.Christopher WaldronHometown: Middletown, Pa.Undergraduate: Drexel UniversityMaster’s: Virginia TechAwards & Recognitions: First Honors1998-1999, Dept. of Civil andArchitectural Engineering, DrexelUniversity; Tau Beta Pi; GoldenKey NHS; Drexel UniversityHonors ProgramPrimary Area of Interest: StructuralengineeringWork Experience: Project engineer,Intech Construction; Intern, Pennsylvania DOT.Career Goals: Work for a consulting engineer in the area ofbridge design and become a registered professional engineer.Also considering an academic career.43

VIA ALUMNIVIA AlumniWhere Are They Now?UndergraduatesSuzanne Ayres AngeloYear Graduated: 2003Employer: GKY & Associates,Springfield, VAChris EnglishYear Graduated: 1994; Master’s 1996,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignEmployer: CH2M HILL, St. Louis, MOPrevious Employer: 1996-97, PatrickEngineering, Springfield, ILRichard Andrew GoodwinYear Graduated: 1996Current Status: Completed M.S. Degreeat Cornell University; currently enrolledin Cornell’s Ph.D. programChris KaldahlYear Graduated: 1995Employer: Appalachian Mountain Club,Gorham, NHStephen O. MeiningerYear Graduated: 1991Employer: CH2M HILL, Atlanta, GAPaul TaylorYear Graduated: 2004Current Status: Pursuing master’sdegree at Virginia TechHenry J. TheissYear Graduated: 1994Employer: Visiting Assistant Professor,Purdue University, West Lafayette, INElliott Robert WheelerYear Graduated: 1996Employer: Senior Operations Specialist,Operations ManagementInternational, Inc., Englewood, CORyan WilleyYear Graduated: 2000Employer: Not known44These students also received theirundergraduate degrees while on a ViaScholarship and elected to pursue theirmaster’s degrees at Virginia Tech. Theircomplete listings are found in the graduatealumni information. They are:Randall Boe, William ScottDewhirst, II, Charles M. Dietz, Jr.,Matthew Moore, John D. Riley,John Stephen Siczka, and MarciaVotour Prowell.GraduatesConstructionMary Jane Contos BartlettDegree/Year: M.S. 1992Employer: Project Engineer, ITT,Knoxville, TNAllan D. ChaseyDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: Del E. Webb School ofConstruction, Arizona State University,Tempe, AZKirsten DavisDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2004Employer: Currently interviewing foracademic positionsBenjamin HaysDegree/Year: M.S. 2002Employer: L.A. Dept. of Public Works,Los Angeles, CAJohn HildrethDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2003Employer: Boyles & HildrethConsulting, Spencer, WVAngel HoDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Assistant resident engineerin charge of construction,Norfolk Naval Shipyard,Portsmouth, VAJennifer Firman McConnellDegree/Year: M.S. 2002Employer: Schoor DePalma,Kulpsville, PAJuan C. PiñeroDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2004Employer: Barrett Hale & Alamo,Consulting Engineers,San Juan, Puerto RicoJeffrey SnowDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: American Infrastructures,Worcester, PAJanet SparksDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: Tennessee Departmentof TransportationTerry L. WilliamsDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Alan A. Meyers, Inc.EnvironmentalErika Lubkowitz BaileyDegree/Year: M.S. 1996Employer: Arcadis, Raleigh, NCRandall BoeDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: CH2M HILL, Gainesville, FL;Process EngineerCharles Briddell BottDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2001Employer: Assistant professor, VMI,Lexington, VABradley M. CoffeyDegree/Year: M.S. 1990Employer: Metropolitan Water Districtof Southern California, AssociateEngineer, Water Quality DivisionJoel CohnDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Consulting engineer, NCCynthia CraneDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1999Employer: Hydro Geologic,Herndon, VAAndrea Crowe HargetteDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Black, Veatch, Inc.,Greenville, SCChristina Clarkson DavisDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: Ph.D. student, Virginia Tech,Northern Virginia Campus

Jason DavisDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: Corallo, Eagle, IDWilliam Scott DewhirstDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Newport News WW,Newport News, VADaniel DorselDegree/Year: M.S., ENE 1998Employer: School Teacher/Coach(Varsity Cross Country and JV GirlsBasketball), Cardinal Newman School,Columbia, SCMary FaccioloDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Raleigh, NC, consulting firmJamie FettigDegree/Year: M.S., ENE 1998Employer: Parson Engr. Sci., NYScott A. ForslingDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Environmental Engineer,CH2M Hill, Redding, CAWesley GeertsemaDegree/Year: M.S. 1992Employer: Metcalf & Eddy,Honolulu, HIDavid HolbrookDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2003Employer: National Research CouncilPostdoctoral Fellow, National Instituteof Standards and Technology,Gaithersburg, MDKari Husovitz FoyDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Project Engineer, B.P. Barberand Associates, Inc., N. Charleston, SCAngela LatrouDegree/Year: M.S. 1991Employer: Engineer, MontgomeryWatson EngineeringKatherine LinaresDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: HDR Engineering, Inc.,Norfolk, VAErika Lubkowitz BaileyDegree/Year: M.S. 1996Employer: Malcolm Pirnie,Newport News, VADonald C. MarikovichDegree/Year: M.S. 1990Employer: Draper-Aden,Blacksburg, VABecki MarshallDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: Hazen & SawyerKatherine McArthur LeitchDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Senior Engineer,Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PAColleen McCloskey RossmeislDegree/Year: M.S. 1995Employer: Veterinarian, CompanionAnimal Clinic, Blacksburg, VAPeter B. MerkleDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: Sandia National Labs, NMLaurie S. McNeillDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2000Employer: Assistant Professor,Utah State University, Logan, UTKristina PerriDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: CH2M HILL, Atlanta, GACarrie Adam PhippsDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: CH2M HILL,Newport News, VANoreen PoorDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1996Employer: Assistant Professor of PublicHealth Engineering,University of South FloridaDiana RashashDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1994Employer: North Carolina StateUniversity, Raleigh, NCSandra RobinsonDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: CH2M HILL, Redding, CAJason RushingDegree/Year: M.S. 2002Employer: Parson, Fairfax, VAMary Rust SadlerDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Arcadis, Raleigh, NCPaolo ScandinaDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2004Employer: Post doctoral fellow,Virginia TechDipankar SenDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: Intel, CABrad ShearerDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: CH2M HILL, Redding, CAHolly ShorneyDegree/Year: M.S. 1992Employer: Black & Veatch, Inc.,Kansas City, MOJohn S. SiczkaDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: CH2M HILL, Brown Deer, WISheryl D. SmithDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: Camp, Dresser and McKee,Raleigh, NCChris TadanierDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1997Employer: Research Assistant Professor,Geological Sciences, Virginia TechDiane WatersDegree/Year: M.S. 2002Employer: Langan Engineering,Miami Lake, FLDavid WhichardDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: International Paper, S.C.Christopher WolfeDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Semcor, Washington, DCGeotechnicalWilliam BassettDegree/Year: 1990Employer: Geotechnical Engineer,Federal Highway Administration,Washington, DCDiane Yamane BaxterDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2000Employer: GZA GeoEnvironmentalInc., Providence, RICraig BenedictDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Gannet-Flemming,King of Prussia, PADavid BentlerDegree/Year: M.S. 1993; Ph.D. 1998Employer: Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott andMay Engineers, Inc., Lexington, KYJerry BrittonDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2001Employer: U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers, Portland, ORPete CheneveyDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Dames & Moore,Cincinnati, OHMegan ColeDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: GEI Consultants,Winchester, MAPatricia (Trish) M. GallagherDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2000Employer: Assistant Professor,Drexel University, Philadelphia, PARussell GreenDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2001Employer: Assistant Professor,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI45VIA ALUMNI

VIA ALUMNIGeorge FilzDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1992Employer: Professor of Civil &Environmental Engineering,Virginia TechBrendan FitzpatrickDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: Geopier FoundationCo., Inc., Blacksburg, VALaura HenryDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Haley & Aldrich, NJWayne HerringDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: ARM Group, Hershey, PARandall HickmanDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2004Employer: Golder AssociatesKenneth A. HuberDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Langan Engineering andEnvironmental Services, Inc.,Elmwood Park, NJScott MackeyDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Assoc. Prof. of Finance,Central Connecticut State University,New Britain, CTJessica R. MarshallDegree/Year: M.S. 1990Employer: Geotechnical Engineer,Colorado Public Works AuthorityClark MorrisonDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: North Carolina Dept. ofTransportation, Raleigh, NCBob MokwaDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1999Employer: Assistant Professor,Montana State University,Bozeman, MTDavid NeviusDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: Terra Costa Engineering,San Diego, CAJames ParkesDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Gannett Fleming,Harrisburg, PAMaysill G. PascalDegree/Year: M.S. 2003Employer: Haley and Aldrich Inc.,Parsippany, NJCraig PetrankaDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Not knownMichael PockoskiDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: GZA GeoEnvironmentalInc., Norwood, MAJonathan PorterDegree/Year: M.S. 1990Employer: Research Civil Engineer,U.S. Air Force, Tyndall AFBMarcia Votour ProwellDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Virginia GeotechnicalServices, PC, Richmond, VAAlan RauchDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1997Employer: Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott andMay Engineers, Inc., Lexington, KYNathan ReevesDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: S&ME, Inc., Raleigh, NCAndrew T. RoseDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: Assistant Professor,University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PAJennifer A. SchaefferDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Ph.D. student, Virginia TechMichelle Hoy ShupeDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Oregon Dept. ofEnvironmental Quality, Portland, ORKord WissmanDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: Geopier FoundationCo., Inc., Blacksburg, VAHydrosystemsNancy Lade AndersonDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Graduate Student,Mathematics Department, Virginia TechJ. Steven BraunerDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2000Employer: Parsons Engineering,Denver, COCharles (Chuck) DietzDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Virginia Department ofConservation and Recreation,Dublin, VAMark DoughertyDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2004Employer: Auburn University, ALRyan M. FedakDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Hayes, Seay, Mattern andMattern, Roanoke, VAJohn FrippDegree/Year: M.S. 1991Employer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture,National Resources ConservationService, Ft. Worth, TXOrrick (Rick) HaneyDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Mitsubishi ConsumerElectronics, Braselton, GABrian McCormickDegree/Year: M.S. 2003Employer: Paciulli Simmons Assoc.,Fairfax, VAMatthew C. MooreDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Sikland EngineeringAssociates, Van Nuys, CAAaron B. SmallDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.,Virginia Beach, VAJonathan StathisDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Cedar City Corp.,Cedar City, UTDan WaddillDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1998Employer: Dept. of the Navy,North Charleston, SCEdwin W. WatkinsDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: Ogden Environmental andEnergy Services, Nashville, TNStructuresMary Sue Mouchka AbelDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: EMCS Design Group,Milwaukee, WIChad C. AlanderDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Goodkind & O’Dea,Carlisle, PAJames (Wess) Wescott BottDegree/Year: M.S. PendingEmployer: Whiting-Turner,Richmond, VAKevin R. CollinsDegree/Year:M.S. 1989Employer: Not knownJason CawrseDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.,Charleston, WVAmy DalrympleDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Starzer, Brady, FaganAssociates, Inc., Atlanta, GA46

Richard DrummDegree/Year: M.S. 1993Employer: FHWAKeith GrubbDegree/Year: M.S. 1995Employer: American Instituteof Steel Construction, Chicago, ILLinda Morley HanaganDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1995Employer: Department of ArchitecturalEngineering, Penn State University,State College, PAMatthew D. HarlanDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: URS Corp., Tampa, FLJared B. JamisonDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Hankins and Anderson,Glen Allen, VAWilliam P. Jacobs, VDegree/Year: M.S. 2003Employer: Stan Lindsey, Atlanta, GABernard L. KassnerDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: Virginia TransportationResearch CouncilTimothy W. MaysDegree/Year: M.S. 1997; Ph.D. 2000Employer: Assistant Professor,The Citadel, Charleston, SCDavid McGowanDegree/Year: M.S. 1991Employer: Dominion Generation,Glen Allen, VASean MolloyDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Redwine Reizian StructuralEngineers, Avon, COMichael C. NeubertDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Stanley D. Lindsay andAssociates, LTD., Atlanta, GACharles (Chuck) NewhouseDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Ph.D. student, Virginia TechBruce QueenDegree/Year: M.S. 1991Employer: President, QED Inc.,Raleigh, NCMichelle Rambo-RoddenberryDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2002Employer: Figg Bridge Engineers, Inc.,Tallahassee, FLClint RexDegree/Year: Ph.D. 1997Employer: Stanley D. Lindsey andAssociates, Atlanta, GACheryl RottmanDegree/Year: M.S. 1996Employer: Frontenac Engineering,St. Louis, MORichard A. SaundersDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: KSI Structural Engineers,Atlanta, GAPatricia A. SeayDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Jacobs Sverdrup,Arlington, Va.Bruce ShueDegree/Year: M.S. 1995Employer: Smislova, Kehnemui& Assoc., Rockville, MDMichael SladkiDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: Duke Engineering,Charlotte, NCPaul SpearsDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: Martin/Martin ConsultingEngineers, Kansas City, MOEmmett A. SumnerDegree/Year: Ph.D. 2003Employer: Assistant Professor,North Carolina State University,Raleigh, NCAnthony B. TemelesDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: Modjeski & Master’s,Philadelphia, PAAngela Sellars TerryDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Self-employedSteven J. TschetterDegree/Year: M.S. 1994Employer: Suncoast Post-Tension, Inc.,Woodbridge, VAChristopher J. WaldronDegree/Year: M.S. 2001Employer: Ph.D. student, Virginia TechChristopher WernerDegree/Year: M.S. 1997Employer: Stroud Pence, Norfolk, VAPrevious Employer: The StructuresGroup, Williamsburg, VAMaurice W. WhiteDegree/Year: M.S. 1991; Ph.D. 1995Employer: Not knownJohn WhitlowDegree/Year: M.S. 1995Employer: Current, not knownPrevious Employer: Figg Engineers,Inc., Tallahassee, FLEric J. WishartDegree/Year: M.S. 1991Employer: DMJM & Harris, Boston, MAMustapha ZmerliDegree/Year: M.S. 1992DeceasedTransportation Infrastructureand Systems Engineering(TISE)Sudarshana C.S. BhatDegree/Year: M.S. 1989Employer: Associate Professor,University of Texas/Austin, Austin, TXJoshua (Josh) DiekmannDegree/Year: M.S. 2000Employer: Not kknownErin Walsh DonovanDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Anderson and Associates,Blacksburg, VAAnthony IngleDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: DLZ Michigan,Kalamazoo, MIJeffrey KutteschDegree/Year: M.S. 2004Employer: Rummel, Klepper, and KahlEngineers (RK&K), Baltimore, MDJohn D. RileyDegree/Year: M.S. 1999Employer: Kimley-Horn& Associates, Inc., Richmond, VAKevin M. SiegelDegree/Year: M.S. 2003Employer: Mattern & Craig ConsultantEngineers and Surveyors, Roanoke, VAEric J. SiessDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Naval Surface WarfareCenter, Dahlgren, VAVIA ALUMNIJason D. PerryDegree/Year: M.S. 2003Employer: Stanley D. Lindsey &Associates, Ltd., Nashville, TNJason PiotterDegree/Year: M.S. 2001; Ph.D. pendingEmployer: Nuclear RegulatoryCommissionRobert T. PrinceDegree/Year: M.S. 1998Employer: Hayes, Seay, Mattern &Mattern, Inc., Roanoke, VA47

The Academyof DistinguishedAlumniThe Via Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering established the Academy of DistinguishedAlumni in 1998. The purpose is to recognizethe professional and personal accomplishmentsof the department’s alumni. This fall, sevennew members were inducted. Recipients of this honor wereselected based upon a review of their accomplishments in aprocess that involved members of the faculty and the departmentalAlumni Board. Three of CEE’s more recent graduateswho have distinguished themselves in the earlier phase oftheir careers were also recognized with Outstanding YoungAlumni Achievement Awards.Glynn BarangerB.S. 1943Managing Partner (retired)Hayes, Seay, Mattern and MatternALUMNI NEWSFred BeaufaitPh.D. 1965PresidentNew York City College of Technology,CUNYLarry BenefieldPh.D. 1975Dean of EngineeringAuburn UniversityPaige BevilleB.S. 1974, M.S. 1975Manager, Federal Strategic HealthAlliance ProjectFederal Occupational Health48

ALUMNI NEWSWalter DuncanB.S. 1951Assistant Chief Hydrologist (retired)U.S. Army Corps of EngineersDaniel FrederickB.S. 1944, M.S. 1948Professor and Chairman,Engineering Scienceand Mechanics Department (retired)Virginia TechJames SchaubB.S. 1948Distinguished Service Professorand Chairman,Department of Civil Engineering(retired)University of Florida2004 Outstanding Young AlumniChristopher EarlsB.S. 1990, M.S. 1992;Ph.D. University of MinnesotaAssociate professor and chairman,Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, University of PittsburghEllen L. HallB.S. 1994, M.S. 1996Senior Principal EngineerHazen and Sawyer, PCMichelle E. MotchosB.S. 1996, M.S. 1997Senior Structural EngineerStevens & Wilkinson49

CEE alumniwho contributedto CEE during fiscal year 2004Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this report, we acknowledge that errors may have occurred. Ifyour name has been omitted or listed incorrectly, please accept our sincere apologies and send in any corrections to the officeof University Development at (540) 321-2801.VIA DONORSAdcock, Christopher D. . . . . . . . . .‘91Aden, William A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘67Alander, Chad C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘96Alexander, Joe F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘62Ameel, Thomas A. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Amico, Ross. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘02Anderson, Carl S., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Anderson, John M., Jr. . . . . . . . . . .‘79Anderson, S. Kendall . . . . . . . . . . .‘62Anderson, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . . .‘98Arey, Kenneth B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Arnold, C. Howard, IV . . . . . . . . . .‘80Ayers, Lawrence F., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘54Bailey, Morris M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Bailey, Walter F., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Baker, Kelso S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘51Balserak, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Barmoy, Kristen D. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Barnes, Charles H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘62Barnum, Jonathan W. . . . . . . . . . . .‘03Barstow, Thomas E. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Beasley, Phillip S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Beausoleil, Christopher A. . . . . . . .‘87Beck, Ronald L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Belcher, Timothy L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘02Bernard, Danelle M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Betts, William E., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘32Biscotte, Michael N. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘80Black, Karen B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Boddie, Tracey F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Boe, Jennifer and Randall . . . . . . . .‘91Bohannon, Harold W., Jr. . . . . . . . .‘68Boltz, Bruce D., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Bonacquisti, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Bonham, Steven R., Jr. . . . . . . . . . .‘73Bonniville, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Bowman, Harry J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘59Bradner, Sandra G. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘96Brammer, Jerry D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Brannan, Kenneth P. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Brittle, William F., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Brockenbrough, R. L. . . . . . . . . . . .‘54Brockenbrough, Thomas W. . . . . . .‘42Brockman, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Brooks, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Broome, Peter H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘50Brown, Harry E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Brown, Peter C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Browning, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘99Brownley, Richard H. . . . . . . . . . . .‘4450Bryant, Cameron L. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Buchanan, Jeffrey G. . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Bull, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Burk, David M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Burke, Charles E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Burkey, Robert L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘57Butler, James E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘63Campbell, H. D., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Campbell, Joseph C. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Carpenter, Valerie L. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘99Carr, Ronald D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Carson, R. Daniel, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Caruthers, William . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘64Carter, Everett C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Caywood, Richard L. . . . . . . . . . . .‘95Chambliss, Steven D. . . . . . . . . . . .‘78Chen, Ben H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Cline, Alfred R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Cloe, Kevin R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Collins, Joseph J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Conner, Michael L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Cox, Thomas H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Cronk, Thomas C. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Cridlin, W. Gregory, Jr. . . . . . . . . . .‘68Crouch, Gary S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Cutright, Edward F. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Dale, Thomas C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Daugherty, James M. & Cathy L. . . .‘79Davis, Harry D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘51Dawson, Herbert M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘61Day, Shari E. and James P. . . . . . . .‘81DeBell, John T. Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68DeJarnette, Hunter A., Jr. . . . . . . . .‘68Deubler, Greg R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Dewhirst, H. Dudley . . . . . . . . . . .‘53Dewhirst, William S. . . . . . . . . . . .‘50Dick, Robert E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘89Dickerson, Earl H., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘76Dickerson, Gale M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Dietz, Charles M., Jr. and Whitney .‘89Dobbins, Noah A. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘01Dobyns, James R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘51Downer, John T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘90Downs, William M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘02Draper, Devon K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘89Dugas, Michael J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Dunn, Scott C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Early, Daniel M. and Tracy . . . . . . .‘92Echols, James C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Eckley, Ralph H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘65Edge, Billy L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘64Edwards, Gary L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Edwards, Larry B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Ellis, Anne M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘80Ernest, C. L.,Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Fahl, Douglas R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘65Farah, Kimberly S. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Farmer, Dwight L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Farthing, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘45Feagans, Charles B., III . . . . . . . . . .‘72Felton, Marcus D., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Ferrell, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘54Fersner, Peggy A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Filz, George M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Fisher, Charles B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Fitzgerald, Jay M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘76Fitzgerald, Kiera S. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82FitzPatrick, Brendan . . . . . . . . . . . .‘01Flynn, Michael P. and Dina . . . . . .‘94Funk, Richard J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘50Furgerson, Peggy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Galli, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘61Garber, Larry C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Gardner, Lindsey K. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Giffin, Geoffrey D. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘01Gilkeson, James W. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘50Glover, Eric L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Goodman, Dale V. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Goodwin, Leila R. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘83Goranflo, Henry M., Jr. & Helen P. .‘71Gordan, Alan K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘78Gordon, William H., IV . . . . . . . . .‘67Gray, Robert G., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘83Gray, Thomas B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Green, Rosemary H. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘80Greggs, Robert L., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘62Griffin, Dixie M., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Griffith, Frederick P. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘52Grubbs, D. Randolph, Jr. . . . . . . . .‘71Hair, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Hall, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Hammer, Allen R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Harper, Belinda M. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘96Harris, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘59Harrison, Joshua E. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘01Harshman, David S. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Hecht, Joseph C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Heckman, Max L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘75Hibbitts, Charles L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74

Higgs, Edward B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Hill, David E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘78Hill, Jack M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘49Hines, Christopher M. . . . . . . . . . .‘95Hogeboom, C. Patrick, IV . . . . . . . .‘94Holloway, Don W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘57Hooshiar-Kashani, Bahman . . . . . .‘83Horne, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Hughes, Charles S., III . . . . . . . . . .‘58Hugney, Jeffrey M. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Hundley, Robert L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Hunnicutt, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘59Hylton, Robin A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Jacquez, Ricardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘76Janney, Edward L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Jansen, Robert F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘80Jenkins, Jimmie D. and Katherine . .‘70Johnson, James T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘78Johnson, Paul B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Johnson, Terrence G. . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Jones, James R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Jones, Malcolm F., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Kamber, Dennis M. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘63Kapinos, Jeffrey P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Keck, George A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Kelly, Christine S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Kelly, William R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Kent, Richard A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94King, Clifford G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Kipp, Herbert G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘67Kirkpatrick, Ronald N. . . . . . . . . . .‘81Kniseley, Gary E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Koenig, John W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Kohls, Amy R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Kohut, Kenneth J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Krupa, Kenneth M. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘76Lamb, Charles D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Lamma, Edgar E., III . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Laptos, Kevin T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Lauer, Douglas F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘90Lawrence, Erin K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘98Lee, David R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘77Lester, Jerry C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘59Lester, Thomas F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘75Lewis, Milton J., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Lingerfelt, Alan T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘76Link, James R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Little, William, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘54Liu, Paul C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘61Logan, Charles J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Loker, Jon O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Loudon, James F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Lovell, Scott A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Lynn, Gary S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88MacDonald, Laura A. . . . . . . . . . . .‘90Mangrum, C. Robert . . . . . . . . . . . .‘98Marcano, Jose’ A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘02Markle, Leah L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Marshall, Burton M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Martin, Donald L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Martin, Michael R. and Kathryn P. .‘74Martin, Ray E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘64Martin, Russell L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘77Mason, Thomas A. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Massey, Robert M., II . . . . . . . . . . .‘87McConnell, Fred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘64McCready, David I. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘73McCreery, Francis D., Jr. . . . . . . . . .‘67McGhee, Samuel H. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘62McHargue, Janis D. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82McInnis, Jeffrey A. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘96McKenzie, Charles E. . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Meland, Kenton E. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Meredith, Sherry P. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Merrill, Lee F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Michalak, Stephen J. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘84Midkiff, Robert H., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘73Miller, Robert S., III . . . . . . . . . . . .‘67Miller-Jackson, Tracy . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Mills, Craig E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘02Mocny, Jeremy M. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘97Moore, Craig S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘96Moore, Franklin C. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘59Moore, Henry R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘40Moraco, Anthony J. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Morgan, Herbert W. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Morgan, Joe M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Moser, Robert D., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘97Myers, A. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Nanna, John G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘67Nauss, Teresa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Needham, Cary F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Newhouse, Charles D. . . . . . . . . . .‘92Nichols, Albert L., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘62Nichols, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘43Nizamoff, David A. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘00Nolen, William B. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘61Nottingham, Nathaniel D., Jr. . . . . .‘49O’Donnell, Raymond J., III . . . . . . .‘80Oliver, Morris B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Owen, David A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Painter, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘48Palmer, Frank R., IV . . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Patchett, Stephen E. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘50Payne, Michael D. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Phlegar, Daniel H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Postlethwait, Niel H. . . . . . . . . . . .‘01Powers, Stephen C. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Prowell, Brian D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Prowell, Marcia V. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Pugh, Archie D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘90Purdy, David J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘96Putnam, Charles L., Jr. . . . . . . . . . .‘61Quig, Robert E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘52Quillen, Michael J. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘70Rawls, Walter J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘66Rees, Robert R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Rehberger, Glenn W. . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Reisch, Linda W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘83Reynolds, Allen W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘62Rich, Linvil G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘47Richards, James B., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Richardson, Samuel D. . . . . . . . . . .‘70Riding, Joseph B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Riner, Roger C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Rivinus, Randolph P. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Robinson, Clifford M., Jr. . . . . . . . .‘67Robinson, Joseph K. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Root, Jason J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘03Rountree, Richard B. . . . . . . . . . . .‘63Ruiz-Santiago, Adelmo . . . . . . . . . .‘49Rutledge, John B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Sable, Geoffrey E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Schaub, James H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘48Schauss, Daryl E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘93Schroeder, Kurt G. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Schultz, Stephen T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘85Scott, Ted M., III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘95Scruggs, William C. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Sellars, William L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Shaffer, Patrick N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘61Shemeka, George G. . . . . . . . . . . .‘72Shetty, Rohit K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Shumate, Bernard L. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘51Shumate, Bernard L., Jr. . . . . . . . . .‘80Siebert, Stephen W. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘90Simmons, Howell B. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Simmons, Larry M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Simpson, Helen L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘86Sinclair, J. 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Raymond, Jr. . . . . . . . . .‘71Sproles, Max R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58St. John, David H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Staskin, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Steele, David C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘99Steele, Richard P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘77Stewart, Duane K. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘66Stewart, Jack H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘53Stidham, Franklin D. . . . . . . . . . . .‘65Stinson, Mark A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘89String, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘88Swanson, Todd W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Swartout, Richard D. . . . . . . . . . . .‘69Taran, Boris O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘67Tate, Robert S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘92Terry, Christopher L. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Thomas, H. Randolph, Jr. . . . . . . . .‘67Tiburzi, Dominic M. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘74Tice, J. Allan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘65Tignor, Samuel C. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Tinsley, Harold W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘71Topp, Andrew S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘99Torell, J. Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘93Turochy, Rod E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘91Unterzuber, Janna . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘94Van Aller, Harold W. . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Vaughn, Donald C. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘58Vecellio, Leo A., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68Wagner, Matthew J. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘00Ward, William L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘95Watkins, Frederick V., Jr. . . . . . . . . .‘61Webster, William W. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘90Weeks, Claude R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81VIA DONORS51

CEE alumni who contributedto CEE during fiscal year 2004(Continued from prior page)Westerman, Edward C. . . . . . . . . . .‘93White, George B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘68White, Robert H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘50Widom, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘82Wiebke, Mark D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Willard, Thomas J. . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘79Matching DonorsAmerican Electric Power Co.Bechtel FoundationChevron Texaco FoundationDominion FoundationExxonMobile FoundationFlour FoundationGeneral Electric FoundationGlaxoSmithKline FoundationWissman, Kord J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Wright, Bruce E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘80Wright, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘60Wright, Winfield G. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘81Wyche, Malvern H. . . . . . . . . . . . .‘46Yambrick, Thomas M. . . . . . . . . . . .‘87Halliburton Foundation, Inc.Home Depot FoundationMichael Baker CorporationNiSource Charitable FoundationNorthrup Grumman Litton FoundationScience Applications InternationalCorporationThe Scholarship FoundationVIA DONORSCEE non-alumni and friendswho contributed to CEEduring fiscal year 2004Advanced Structural ConceptsAmerican InfrastructureAmerican Institute of Steel ConstructionCorporationBC Consultants, Inc.Bechtel FoundationBowman Consulting GroupBurhess and Niple, Inc.Campbell and Paris EngineersCaywood, AmyCH2M HILL FoundationCives CorporationCline, Alan K.Cook, Melissa T.Dewberry and DavisDraper Aden Associates, Inc.Duncan, J. M.Easterling, W. S.ExxonMobil FoundationHayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern, Inc.Hensler, Wilma L.Hurff, Barry W.James G. Davis ConstructionKnocke, William R.Land Design ConsultantsLarry Edwards AssociatesLingerfelt Family FoundationLove, Nancy and BrianMaryland Land DesignMcKinney and Company52Michael Baker CorporationMid-Adlantic Chapter of the ADSCMitchell, James K.Paciulli, Simmons & Associates, Ltd.Patton, Harris, Rust and AssociatesPembroke Construction CompanyPoint Breeze FarmRinker-Detwiler & AssociatesRoanoke Branch of ASCERuckman, Richard A.Schnabel Foundation CompanyT. J. Willard and AssociatesTensar CorporationTetra, Inc.Tri-Tek EngineeringVecellio, ChristopherVecellio, EvelynVecellio Family FoundationVecellio, KathrynVecellio, MichaelVecellio, PatriciaVecellio and Grogan, Inc.Via-Bradley College of EngineeringFoundationVirginia Water Environment AssociationVorster, Michael C.Wells, Marjorie J.Widdowson, Mark A.Wiley and Wilson, Inc.The following organizationssupport CEE through membership asConstruction AffiliatesAmerican InfrastructureAnderson and AssociatesBE&KThe Branch GroupPeter Kiewit Sons., Inc.Kanawah Stone Co., Inc.Lanford BrothersMcDonough Bolyard PeckThe following organizations supportCEE through their membership in theaffiliates program for theCenter for GeotechnicalPractice and ResearchADSC Mid-Atlantic ChapterEngineering Consulting Services, Ltd.GeoSyntec ConsultantsHaley & Aldrich, Inc.Hayward Baker — A Keller CompanyLangan Engineeringand Environmental Services, Inc.Ray E. Martin, LLC (Honorary Member)S&ME, Inc.Schnabel Engineering, Inc.Schnabel Foundation CompanyTREVI-ICOS CorporationURS CorporationU.S. Army Corps of EngineersU.S. Bureau of ReclamationVDOT/VTRCVirginia Geotechnical Services, P.C.Wilbur Smith Associates, Inc.

Civil and Environmental Engineering FacultyJesus M. de la GarzaVecellio ProfessorJames LefterInstructorGregory D. BoardmanProfessorWilliam CoxAssistant Department Headand ProfessorAndrea M. DietrichAssociate ProfessorPanayiotis DiplasProfessorRandel DymondAssociate ProfessorMarc A. EdwardsCharles Lunsford ProfessorDaniel L. GallagherAssociate ProfessorThomas L. BrandonAssociate ProfessorJoseph E. DoveResearch Assistant ProfessorJ. Michael DuncanUniversity Distinguished ProfessorVecellio Construction Engineering and Management ProgramJulio C. MartinezAssociate ProfessorAnthony D. SongerAssociate Professorand Program CoordinatorMichael C. VorsterDavid Burrows ProfessorEnvironmental and Water Resources Engineering ProgramAdil N. GodrejNancy G. LoveResearch Associate Professor (NV) Associate ProfessorThomas J. Grizzard, Jr.Professor (NV)Robert HoehnEmeritus ProfessorDavid F. KiblerProfessorWilliam KnockeDepartment Headand W. Curtis English ProfessorJohn C. LittleProfessorG.V. LoganathanProfessorGeotechnical Engineering ProgramGeorge M. FilzProfessorMarte S. GutierrezAssociate ProfessorJames R. Martin, Jr.ProfessorLinsey C.MarrAssistant ProfessorJohn T. NovakNick Prillaman ProfessorClifford W. RandallEmeritus ProfessorPeter J. VikeslandAssistant ProfessorMark WiddowsonProfessor and Program CoordinatorMatthew MauldonAssociate Professor and ProgramCoordinatorJames K. MitchellEmeritus ProfessorFinley A. CharneyAssociate ProfessorThomas E. CousinsAssociate Professorand Program CoordinatorW. Samuel EasterlingAssistant Department Headand ProfessorStructural Engineering and Materials ProgramDonald A. GarstCarin L. Roberts-WollmannEmeritus ProfessorAssistant ProfessorSiegfried M. HolzerEmeritus ProfessorThomas M. MurrayMontague-Betts ProfessorRaymond H. PlautDaniel H. Pletta ProfessorKamal B. RojianiAssociate ProfessorRichard E. WeyersCharles E. Via, Jr. ProfessorElisa D. Sotelino (to begin 1/05)ProfessorTransportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering ProgramThomas A. DingusNewport News Shipbuilding ProfessorGerardo W. FlintschAssociate Professor and ProgramCoordinatorKathleen L. HancockAssociate Professor (NV)Antoine G. HobeikaProfessorHesham A. RakhaAssociate ProfessorDusan TeodorovicProfessor (NV)Antonio A. TraniAssociate ProfessorNV – Northern Virginia Program

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