This course was last offered in Fall, 2001

CVEN 681H, Section 601                                                        Instructor: Prof. Paul Roschke

Texas A&M University                                                               Office:  CE/TTI Bldg., 710C

Seminar in Constructed Facilities                                           Office Hours: 9:00-11:00 noon. Tue/Thur

Fall, 2001      Room: CE 118                                                                   (or appointment) 

Lecture:  Wed. 3:00 - 4:50 p.m.                                               Phone: 845-1985  e-Mail: p-roschke@tamu.edu

Seminar Date        Day                   Topics

1           Aug. 29            W               Introduction, orientation

2           Sept. 5              W               Field trip to Offshore Technology Research Center, Dr. Richard Mercier

3           Sept. 12            W               Akran Abu-Odeh, “Supercomputer Simulation of Roadside 
                                                           Vehicle Accidents”

4          Sept. 19            W               Prof. Bob Lytton and Mr. Rifat Bulut, “Design of Ribbed Slabs-on-Ground on Expansive Soils:   Soil-Structure Interaction with a Mindlin Plate Formulation"

5           Sept. 26            W               Prof. K. Muthukrishnaiah, Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, "Pile    Foundations for Storage Tanks on Soft Clay Deposit"

6           Oct. 3               W                Prof. David Ford, TAMU, "How to Manage a Graduate Research Program     -                                              What the Catalog doesn't tell Students or Advisors"            

7           Oct. 11             Thur           Prof. Gupta,  “Wavelet-Based Stochastic Seismic Response of Structural Systems”    2 p.m.    Room 104, CE building. 

8           Oct. 17             W               Prof. Kenneth Reinschmidt, "Should Discount Rates for Public Works         Projects be Lower," 

9           Oct. 24             W              Prof. Juwon Oh, "Neuro-Fuzzy Control of a Bridge Structure,"  

10         Nov. 2             Fri.              Prof. Satish Nagarajaiah, "Smart Tuned Mass Dampers," Rice University, 3 p.m.  

11         Nov. 9              Fri.             Prof. Robert D. Holtz, Spencer Buchanan Lectureship
                                                        "Geosynthetics for Soil Reinforcement" 3:55 p.m., College Station Hilton

12         Nov. 14            W                Mr. Jason Dixon, Kvaerner Enercon, Houston , Texas , “Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms:   A Structures Perspective"

13         Nov. 21            W               Student presentations

14         Nov. 28            W               Dr. Thomas Slawson, Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, "Blast Response Research at the USAE Research and Development Center."