Summer 2019 Newsletter

8 | CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
NEWS &
AWARDS
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
Cal Poly’s Civil Engineering program was
named the No. 3 undergraduate program in
the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
FACULTY & STAFF AWARDS
• Professor Anurag Pande was presented
the Raytheon Excellence in Teaching &
Applied Research Award.
• Professor Bing Qu was presented the
Moisseiff Award from the American
Society of Civil Engineers for his paper
suggesting a cost-effective way to
prevent earthquake-induced building
collapse.
• Professor Eric Kasper was awarded
the Engineering Student Council
Outstanding Club Advisor Award.
• Administrative Analyst Amy Sinclair
was awarded the Engineering Student
Council Outstanding Staff Award.
• Associate Professor Rebekah Oulton
received honorable mention for the Cal
Poly Faculty Sustainability Champion.
Professor Ashraf Rahim
Professor Anurag Pande (right) receiving the Raytheon Excellence in Teaching & Applied
Research Award from Tryg Lundquist.
FACULTY RESEARCH
Design, along with Anthony Dente, a
• Professor Ashraf Rahim was awarded
a subcontract from the University of
California, Davis to promote the mission
and goals of the newly-established City
professional engineering with Verdant
Structural Engineers in Berkeley,
California and Sasha Rabin, the board
director for Quail Spring Permaculture.
and County Pavement Improvement
• Professor Jim Hanson and Nazli Yesiller,
Center which helps advance sustainable
director of the Global Waste Research
pavement practices in California cities
Institute, are overseeing a large-scale
and counties.
investigation to determine emissions
• Professor Robb Moss published the
second edition of his book titled,
“Applied Civil Engineering Risk
Analysis.”
of 81 gases from California landfills.
Landfills represent a large contributor
of anthropogenic gases and fieldvalidated
design strategies are needed
• Professor Daniel Jansen worked
to best contain the gases.
with graduate students Dezire
Perez-Barbante and Julia Sargent to
test full scale cob walls for seismic
performance. Cob is a natural building
material consisting of clay soil mixed
with water, sand and straw. Because
there are currently no building codes
for cob in North America, these tests
will be instrumental in developing
building codes in the future. The
project was started by Art Ludwig, an
ecological systems designer at Oasis
• Richard Martin, environmental
engineering lecturer, delivered a paper
at the 11th U.S. National Combustion
Meeting in Pasadena, in March 2019.
The paper, “Advanced Quality Methods
for Thermal Oxidizer Operation,”
describes an innovative operating
strategy for manufacturing plants that
generate exhaust gas streams laden
with volatile organic compounds that
must be destroyed. The technique
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