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Mentoring Program

The USUCGER Research Committee is sponsoring an informal mentoring program in which both experienced and new faculty volunteer to be listed in the USUCGER web site. The idea is for the new faculty to search the web page for possible matches among the experienced faculty and contact them directly. However, new faculty will also be listed on the web site, to allow the experienced faculty or other new faculty to initiate the exchange.

The goal of the mentoring program is to increase the interaction among the established faculty and the new faculty from different universities across the Unites States. In addition, during our meeting at the USUCGER workshop, we observed that many colleagues are the only ones in geotechnical engineering at their institutions. We hope the mentoring program can help them feel less isolated from the geotechnical community. For this reason, we would like to encourage dialogue and exchange among the new, untenured faculty, as well as between tenured and untenured faculty.

Those interested in volunteering for the mentoring program, either in the new or experienced group, should contact:

Giovanna Biscontin

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M University

gbiscontin@tamu.edu

Please include the following information for publication on the web site:

- Name

- Institution

- Contact (email and phone)

- Contact preference (email or phone?)

- Areas of interests

- Tenured or untenured?

Thank you for volunteering.

Name

Affiliation

Contact info

Area of Interest

Tenure
Laurie Gaskins Baise Tufts University laurie.baise @tufts.edu

(617) 627-2211

preferred contact: email

 Geotechnical earthquake engineering (site response, ground motion modeling, engineering seismology, regional liquefaction hazard mapping), geostatistics, GIS Untenured

Paola Bandini

New Mexico State University

paola @nmsu.edu

(505) 646-2471

Numerical modeling (FE, limit analysis) for slopes, bearing capacity, seismic analysis. Mechanical characterization of sands/experimental determination of shear strength properties of sands

Untenured

Craig H. Benson

University of Wisconsin-Madison

benson @engr.wisc.edu

(608) 262-7242

Geoenvironment, sustainable development, unsaturated soil behavior.

Tenured

Giovanna Biscontin

Texas A&M University

gbiscontin @tamu.edu

(979) 845-6303

Soil dynamics, earthquake engineering, numerical methods, experimental methods

Untenured
J. Antonio H. Carraro Colorado State University carraro@colostate.edu

(970) 491-4660

 Soil behavior, experimental methods, geotechnical earthquake engineering, beneficial use of waste materials, soil stabilization Untenured
Mandar Dewoolkar University of Vermont mandar @emba.uvm.edu

( 802) 656-1942

 Geotechnical earthquake engineering; Laboratory, in-situ, and field testing; Numerical modeling Untenured

D.V. Griffiths

Colorado School of Mines

d.v.griffiths @mines.edu

(303) 273 3669

Numerical methods in geomechanics

Tenured

Dennis R. Hiltunen

Penn State University

drh5 @psu.edu

(814) 863-2936

Soil and foundation dynamics, site characterization, engineering geophysics, nondestructive testing, instrumentation and data acquisition

Tenured

Moses Karakouzian

 

University of Nevada Las Vegas

mkar @unlv.nevada.edu

(702) 895-0959

Deep Foundations; Underground Opennings, tunnels; Rock Mechanics

Tenured

William J Likos

University of Missouri - Columbia

likosw @missouri.edu

573-882-3345

Unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive soils, clay behavior

Untenured

Ronaldo Luna

University of Missouri-Rolla

rluna @umr.edu

(573) 341-4484

Soil mechanics & foundations; earthquakes; GIS;

Tenured

Michael A. Mooney

Colorado School of Mines

mooney @mines.edu

(303) 384 2498

Intelligent Geosystems Sensing and Automation, Geotechnical Education, K-12 Outreach

Tenured

Scott M. Olson

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

olsons @uiuc.edu

217-265-7584

Liquefaction of level and sloping ground, paleoseismology and paleoliquefaction, in situ testing, geosynthetics, instrumentation

Untenured

Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

Washington State University

 adrian @wsu.edu

(509) 335-7088

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering 

 Untenured

Dayakar Penumadu

 University of Tennessee, Knoxville dpenumad @utk.edu 

(865) 974-2355

 Shear strength testing and modeling of soil, flow through porous media Tenured

Mary Roth

 

Lafayette College

rothm @lafayette.edu

(610) 330-5427

Use of geophysical tools (particularly resistivity methods) in geotech investigations; risk and reliability in geotech; educational innovations in geotech

Tenured

J. Carlos Santamarina

Georgia Institute of Technology

carlos.santamarina @ce.gatech.edu

(404) 894-7605 (afternoons)

Soil behavior

Tenured

Jonathan P. Stewart

University of California, Los Angeles

jstewart @seas.ucla.edu

(310) 206 2990

(email appointment for phone call)

Earthquake engineering; foundation engineering; soil mechanics

Tenured

Beena Sukumaran

Rowan University

sukumaran @rowan.edu

(856) 256-5324

Particulate mechanics, earthquake engineering, fundamental soil mechanics, DEM, FEM, offshore foundations

Tenured

Andrea L. Welker

Villanova University

andrea.welker @villanova.edu 

(610) 519-4959

Geosynthetics/geoenvironmental

Untenured

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