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Faculty Awards Chandra Bhat Pyke Johnson Award, Transportation Research Board, 2007 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award, Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2008 Student Chapter Advisor Award, Texas Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2008 John E. Breen Chester Paul Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Research, American Concrete Institute, 2008 Kevin J. Folliard Named chair, American Concrete Institute committee on concrete durability, American Concrete Institute, 2008 Hillary Hart Fellow, Society for Technical Communication, 2008 James O. Jirsa Designated a Master Alumnus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007 Chester Paul Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Research, American Concrete Institute, 2008 Honorary Member, American Concrete Institute, 2008 Spyros Kinnas Ervin S. Perry Memorial Award, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, 2008 Kara Kockelman Woman of the Year Award, Texas Chapter Women’s Transportation Seminar, 2008 Thomas Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Modified Asphalt Producers, 2008 fACulty And stAff AwARds And honoRs Randy B. Machemehl Wilbur S. Smith Award, Transportation and Development Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008 Joseph F. Malina, Jr. Certified as Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers, 2007 Lance Manuel Best Journal Paper Award, (with Patrick Ragan) Technical Committee on Wind Energy, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008 William O’Brien Celebration of Engineering and Technology Innovation (CETI) Award, FIATECH consortium, 2008 Jorge Prozzi Named Chair, Committee on International Activities, Transportation Research Board, 2007 Ellen Rathje Shamsher Prakash Research Award, Shamsher Prakash Foundation, 2007 Kenneth H. Stokoe Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award, Environmental and Engineering Geophysics Society/society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2008 Spyros Kinnas and Marco Guzman Staff Awards CAEE ANNUAL REPORT 2007-08 Faculty and Staff John Tassoulas Department Teaching Award, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, 2008 C. Michael Walton Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008 Elected Chairman, 2030 Committee, Texas Department of Transportation, 2008 Joseph A. Yura Offshore Technology in Civil Engineering (OTC) Hall of Fame Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008 Jorge Zornberg Achievement Award, Mexican Chaper of International Geosynthetics Society, 2008 Frances DeCoux Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award, 2008 Barbara Howard Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award, 2008 Annette Perrone Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award, 2008 Yolanda Prozzi UT Staff Excellence Award, 2008 Staff Service Awards* Jilda Bolton 35 years Dori Eubank 30 years Regina Forward 10 years Lydia Griffith 15 years Nabeel Khwaja 10 years Donna Rinehart 20 years Bernard Rosenblatt 10 years Jewell Walters 25 years Johnie Williams 20 years Alicia Zapata 15 years *for years of service to the university 11
Faculty and Staff pRofessoRs Neal E. Armstrong (1971) Zarrow Centennial Professor in Engineering, Vice Provost Water quality management, water quality analysis and modeling, water pollution ecology Chandra R. Bhat (1997) Adnan Abou Ayyash Centennial Professor and Associate Chair for Administration and Planning Travel demand modeling, activity and travel behavior analysis, application of econometric, discrete choice, and market research techniques in transportation planning, traffic flow theory and operations *John E. Breen (1959) Nasser I. Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering Design and construction of structural concrete bridges and buildings, structural systems Randall J. Charbeneau (1978) Jewel McAlister Smith Professor in Engineering and Associate Dean for Research Groundwater hydrology, contaminant transport and numerical methods Richard L. Corsi (1994) E.C.H. Bantel Professor for Professional Practice Transport, formation, and dynamic transfer of VOCs in wastewater collection and treatment systems, biological control technologies for treating toxic gas streams, sources of chlorinated organic compounds in indoor air Michael D. Engelhardt (1989) Dewitt C. Greer Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering Inelastic behavior of steel structures under cyclic load, earthquake engineering *David W. Fowler (1964) T.U. Taylor Professorship in Engineering and Joe J. King Chair of Engineering No. 2, and Distinguished Teaching Professor Polymer-concrete materials and building systems, wood-plywood systems, design of reinforced concrete structures Karl H. Frank (1974) Warren S. Bellows Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering Fracture and fatigue behavior of metal structures and welded and bolted joints; design and behavior of composite plate girders, fatigue strength of cables 12 CAEE ANNUAL REPORT 2007-08 the fACulty Robert Gilbert (1993) Hudson Matlock Professor in Civil Engineering Evaluating performance and reliability of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems to improve existing systems and design new systems *James O. Jirsa (1972) Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures, earthquake engineering, repair and rehabilitation of structures Lynn E. Katz (1997) John A. Focht Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering Contaminant fate and transport, combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation, environmental surface chemistry Spyros A. Kinnas (1995) Phil M. Ferguson Centennial Teaching Fellowship Ocean engineering, hydrodynamics, cavitation, wave mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems Richard E. Klingner (1977) L.P. Gilvin Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering and Associate Chair for Architectural Engineering Experimental and analytical investigation of the dynamic response of structures, earthquakeresistant design of reinforced concrete and masonry structures Desmond F. Lawler (1980) Dorsey Professorship in Engineering Particles in water and wastewater treatment and in natural waters, interactions between treatment processes, mathematical modeling of treatment processes, physical-chemical treatment, drinking water treatment Howard M. Liljestrand (1980) Gerard A. Rohlich Regents Professor in Civil Engineering and Graduate Advisor Aquatic chemistry, contaminant transport and acid precipitation, air pollution modeling Randy B. Machemehl (1977) Nasser I. Al-Rashid Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering and Director of CTR Transportation planning and traffic engineering, microcomputer application in transportation engineering David R. Maidment (1981) Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering Use of statistical techniques in hydrology and water resources planning, especially forecasting water use in cities, geographic systems Joseph F. Malina, Jr. (1961) C.W. Cook Professor in Environmental Engineering Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and the handling of sludges and industrial residuals, computer aided engineering of waste treatment systems Daene C. McKinney (1990) W.A. (Bill) Cunningham Professor Water resource systems analysis, groundwater hydrology, numerical modeling and economic analysis of groundwater systems, multi-phase flow in porous media, expert geographic information systems James T. O’Connor (1984) C.T. Wells Professor in Project Management Project constructability, construction modularization, computer-aided design in construction, construction technology and automation, project cost control *Danny D. Reible (2004) Bettie Margaret Smith Chair in Environmental Health Engineering Contaminant processes in the environment; fate and transport modeling; assessment and remediation of contaminated sediments Gerald E. Speitel Jr. (1988) John J. McKetta Energy Professor in Engineering and Department Chair Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals including biodegradation and adsorption, drinking water treatment and computer models of treatment processes *Kenneth H. Stokoe, II (1973) Jennie C. and Milton T. Graves Chair in Engineering Geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics, non-destructive testing of pavements and soils *member of National Academy of Engineering ( ) year of initial appointment
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