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CECS Fall 2003 Review
Awards and Appointments
Robert L. Bertini, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and graduate research assistant Sutti Tantiyanugulchai received the Institute of Transportation Engineers District 6 Annual Meeting Best Paper Award in Seattle, Washington on August 27 2003 for their paper "Analysis of a Transit Bus as a Probe Vehicle for Arterial Performance Measurement." The paper appears in the Annual Meeting proceedings and was presented at the meeting. Chik Erzurumlu, Engineering dean emeritus, was elected as the national chair of the Professional Engineers in Education (PEE), one of the five practice divisions of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). As chair of PEE, Erzurumlu also serves as vice president on the NSPE board of directors. Kent Lall, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was awarded the coveted “Hind Rattan” Award. The award (which translates as “the jewel of India”) was presented to Dr. Lall as part of the Republic Day celebrations in Delhi in January. Charles M. Weber, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, was one of four winners of the INFORMS Technology Management Section Best Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled “Rapid Learning in High Velocity Environments.” The award was given at the INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-22, where Dr. Weber presented an excerpt from his dissertation in a special session. Dr. Weber received his Ph.D. in 2003 from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Grants
Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received $60,000 from the Oregon Department of Transportation for an "Update and Enhancement of ODOT's Crash Reduction Factors." This is a collaboration with Oregon State University and Kittelson & Associates, Inc. Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, received a $15,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will allow two undergraduate students to work alongside graduate students on Bertini's larger career award, "Mining Archived Intelligent Transportation Systems Data: A Validation Framework for Improved Performance Assessment and Modeling." Jack Devletian, Mechanical Engineering faculty, received $15,000 from Northwest Pipe Company for the study "Predicting Weldability for HFRW of Steel Pipe." Wendelin Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received a $13,100 research contract from Gunderson, Inc., to test a new floor design for refrigerated rail cars. This contract is partially supported by the Oregon Metals Initiative, a program of the state of Oregon to encourage research in the field of metals. Branimir Pejcinovic, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, received an equipment grant valued at $37,000 from Cascade Microtech. The equipment will be housed in the IC Design and Test Lab and will be used for on-wafer, high-frequency, and high-resolution DC measurements. Branimir Pejcinovic, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, received a $30,000 grant from Sharp Labs of America to work on measurements, characterization, modeling and design of Silicon MOSFETs with emphasis on their high-frequency behavior and performance. Suresh Singh, Computer Science faculty, and Franz Rad, Civil Engineering faculty, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new technology for rescuing trapped survivors within a collapsed building. Their approach calls for development of small, low-power, Ultra Wideband sensors that are part of the building when it is constructed. These sensors come alive after the building collapses and immediately look for signs of survivors, detect the structural integrity of their surroundings, and then cooperatively form an ad hoc network to send this information to the surface where software fuses the data together to produce an internal three dimensional view of the ruin. Singh and Rad will be working with a faculty member from the University of Washington. Mark Weislogel, Mechanical Engineering faculty, received $40,000 from TDA Research, Inc., for "Micro Pulse Thermal Loop." Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received an additional $40,000 for the development of a hydrodynamic and temperature model for the Willamette River basin. This brings total project funding from the Corps of Engineers to more than $200,000 for development for the Willamette River mainstem and the Coast and Middle Forks, McKenzie, Long Tom, and Clackamas Rivers. Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received a grant of $96,000 from the Spokane Tribe of Indians in order to develop a water quality and hydrodynamic model of Lake Roosevelt, Washington, part of the Columbia River system. This model will focus on means to improve fish productivity by modeling eutrophication processes, including algae and zooplankton, and the water quality of this reservoir. Also, Wells obtained additional funding of $9,000 in continuing support for the city of Portland Water Bureau in modeling the Bull Run Reservoir.
Presented
Robert Annear and Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a paper titled "Modeling Streambed Heating in Shallow Streams" at the American Institute of Hydrology annual meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 19-22. Rob Annear, Chris Berger, and Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental faculty, presented a paper titled "Willamette River System Temperature Waste Load Allocation Model" at the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program focusing on the role of TMDL implementation in watershed restoration at Stevenson, Wash., Oct. 29-30. Robert L. Bertini, Civil & Environmental Engineering, presented a paper, "Crash Data Reporting And Analysis - An Oregon Pilot Study," co-authored with graduate research assistant Shazia Malik and Christopher Monsere of the Oregon Department of Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2003 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on August 25, 2003. Bertini and Monica Leal of DKS Associates also presented their paper, "Bus Rapid Transit: An Alternative for Developing Countries." The papers appear in the Annual Meeting proceedings. Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented an invited talk, "Using Archived Stop-Level Transit Geo-Location Data for Improved Operations and Performance Monitoring," at the University of California at Berkeley's transportation studies institute on Sept. 26. Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented two papers "Toward the Systematic Diagnosis of Freeway Bottleneck Activation" and "Arterial Performance Measurement Using Transit Buses as Probe Vehicles" (the second paper was co-authored with graduate student Sutti Tantiyanugulchai) at the IEEE 6th Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems in Shanghai, China, Oct. 14. Gwynn Johnson, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a session at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting in Seattle in November. Dundar Kocaoglu, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, presented "An Analytical Approach to Building a Technology Development Envelope for Technology Roadmapping for Emerging Technologies" and "Education and Research Characteristics of Engineering and Technology Management (ETM)" at the INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 19-22. Mike McKillip, Rob Annear, Bill Fish and Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented posters at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco in December. Wendelin Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, had two co-authored papers, "Seismic Evaluation of Hybrid Bus Connections" and "A Comparison of Seismic (Dynamic) and Static Load Cases for Electric Transmission Structures," presented at the ASCE's Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering conference, Long Beach, Calif. The papers were published in the conference's proceedings. Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was an invited panel moderator at the Western States Seismic Safety Council Annual Meeting held in Portland, Sept. 19-23. Rad moderated a panel discussion and a breakout session titled "Retrofit of Schools and Emergency Facilities in the Western States." Charles Weber, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, presented a paper titled "Leveraged Learning: A Key Source of Profitability in High Technology Environments" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, Aug. 1-6. Charles Weber, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, presented "Liebig's Law of the Minimum: The Internal Engine of the Learning Curve" at the INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 19-22. Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a series of seminars at the Geologic Survey of Israel in Jerusalem between Aug. 10-14. This series focused on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling reservoir and lake systems, in this case the Dead Sea, which is in both Jordan and Israel. Published
Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, co-authored "HTUGetting Traffic Moving AgainUTH," published in TPublic Roads Tmagazine, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Vol. 67, No. 2 (September/October 2003). Mark Weislogel, Mechanical Engineering faculty, had his "Capillary Flow Experiments" delivered by NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, where the experiments will be put on an unmanned flight to the International Space Station. The experiments are scheduled to be performed on the space station during the week of December 22 by astronaut Michael Foele while he is in contact with Weislogel. The experiments went through several reviews at JSC before being accepted.
Umbrella Tours, Fall ‘03
Rob Daasch, Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Integrated Circuit and Design Test Laboratory Warren Harrison, Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Software Quality, Software Engineering, Digital Forensics, Homeland Cyberdefense Graig Spolek, Chair and Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Mechanical Engineering Bill Wood, Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Materials Science Research Laboratory
Robert L. Bertini, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and graduate research assistant Sutti Tantiyanugulchai received the Institute of Transportation Engineers District 6 Annual Meeting Best Paper Award in Seattle, Washington on August 27 2003 for their paper "Analysis of a Transit Bus as a Probe Vehicle for Arterial Performance Measurement." The paper appears in the Annual Meeting proceedings and was presented at the meeting. Chik Erzurumlu, Engineering dean emeritus, was elected as the national chair of the Professional Engineers in Education (PEE), one of the five practice divisions of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). As chair of PEE, Erzurumlu also serves as vice president on the NSPE board of directors. Kent Lall, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was awarded the coveted “Hind Rattan” Award. The award (which translates as “the jewel of India”) was presented to Dr. Lall as part of the Republic Day celebrations in Delhi in January. Charles M. Weber, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, was one of four winners of the INFORMS Technology Management Section Best Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled “Rapid Learning in High Velocity Environments.” The award was given at the INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-22, where Dr. Weber presented an excerpt from his dissertation in a special session. Dr. Weber received his Ph.D. in 2003 from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Grants
Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received $60,000 from the Oregon Department of Transportation for an "Update and Enhancement of ODOT's Crash Reduction Factors." This is a collaboration with Oregon State University and Kittelson & Associates, Inc. Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, received a $15,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will allow two undergraduate students to work alongside graduate students on Bertini's larger career award, "Mining Archived Intelligent Transportation Systems Data: A Validation Framework for Improved Performance Assessment and Modeling." Jack Devletian, Mechanical Engineering faculty, received $15,000 from Northwest Pipe Company for the study "Predicting Weldability for HFRW of Steel Pipe." Wendelin Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received a $13,100 research contract from Gunderson, Inc., to test a new floor design for refrigerated rail cars. This contract is partially supported by the Oregon Metals Initiative, a program of the state of Oregon to encourage research in the field of metals. Branimir Pejcinovic, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, received an equipment grant valued at $37,000 from Cascade Microtech. The equipment will be housed in the IC Design and Test Lab and will be used for on-wafer, high-frequency, and high-resolution DC measurements. Branimir Pejcinovic, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, received a $30,000 grant from Sharp Labs of America to work on measurements, characterization, modeling and design of Silicon MOSFETs with emphasis on their high-frequency behavior and performance. Suresh Singh, Computer Science faculty, and Franz Rad, Civil Engineering faculty, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new technology for rescuing trapped survivors within a collapsed building. Their approach calls for development of small, low-power, Ultra Wideband sensors that are part of the building when it is constructed. These sensors come alive after the building collapses and immediately look for signs of survivors, detect the structural integrity of their surroundings, and then cooperatively form an ad hoc network to send this information to the surface where software fuses the data together to produce an internal three dimensional view of the ruin. Singh and Rad will be working with a faculty member from the University of Washington. Mark Weislogel, Mechanical Engineering faculty, received $40,000 from TDA Research, Inc., for "Micro Pulse Thermal Loop." Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received an additional $40,000 for the development of a hydrodynamic and temperature model for the Willamette River basin. This brings total project funding from the Corps of Engineers to more than $200,000 for development for the Willamette River mainstem and the Coast and Middle Forks, McKenzie, Long Tom, and Clackamas Rivers. Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, received a grant of $96,000 from the Spokane Tribe of Indians in order to develop a water quality and hydrodynamic model of Lake Roosevelt, Washington, part of the Columbia River system. This model will focus on means to improve fish productivity by modeling eutrophication processes, including algae and zooplankton, and the water quality of this reservoir. Also, Wells obtained additional funding of $9,000 in continuing support for the city of Portland Water Bureau in modeling the Bull Run Reservoir.
Presented
Robert Annear and Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a paper titled "Modeling Streambed Heating in Shallow Streams" at the American Institute of Hydrology annual meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 19-22. Rob Annear, Chris Berger, and Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental faculty, presented a paper titled "Willamette River System Temperature Waste Load Allocation Model" at the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program focusing on the role of TMDL implementation in watershed restoration at Stevenson, Wash., Oct. 29-30. Robert L. Bertini, Civil & Environmental Engineering, presented a paper, "Crash Data Reporting And Analysis - An Oregon Pilot Study," co-authored with graduate research assistant Shazia Malik and Christopher Monsere of the Oregon Department of Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Engineers 2003 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on August 25, 2003. Bertini and Monica Leal of DKS Associates also presented their paper, "Bus Rapid Transit: An Alternative for Developing Countries." The papers appear in the Annual Meeting proceedings. Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented an invited talk, "Using Archived Stop-Level Transit Geo-Location Data for Improved Operations and Performance Monitoring," at the University of California at Berkeley's transportation studies institute on Sept. 26. Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented two papers "Toward the Systematic Diagnosis of Freeway Bottleneck Activation" and "Arterial Performance Measurement Using Transit Buses as Probe Vehicles" (the second paper was co-authored with graduate student Sutti Tantiyanugulchai) at the IEEE 6th Annual Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems in Shanghai, China, Oct. 14. Gwynn Johnson, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a session at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting in Seattle in November. Dundar Kocaoglu, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, presented "An Analytical Approach to Building a Technology Development Envelope for Technology Roadmapping for Emerging Technologies" and "Education and Research Characteristics of Engineering and Technology Management (ETM)" at the INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 19-22. Mike McKillip, Rob Annear, Bill Fish and Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented posters at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco in December. Wendelin Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, had two co-authored papers, "Seismic Evaluation of Hybrid Bus Connections" and "A Comparison of Seismic (Dynamic) and Static Load Cases for Electric Transmission Structures," presented at the ASCE's Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering conference, Long Beach, Calif. The papers were published in the conference's proceedings. Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was an invited panel moderator at the Western States Seismic Safety Council Annual Meeting held in Portland, Sept. 19-23. Rad moderated a panel discussion and a breakout session titled "Retrofit of Schools and Emergency Facilities in the Western States." Charles Weber, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, presented a paper titled "Leveraged Learning: A Key Source of Profitability in High Technology Environments" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, Aug. 1-6. Charles Weber, Engineering and Technology Management faculty, presented "Liebig's Law of the Minimum: The Internal Engine of the Learning Curve" at the INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 19-22. Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a series of seminars at the Geologic Survey of Israel in Jerusalem between Aug. 10-14. This series focused on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling reservoir and lake systems, in this case the Dead Sea, which is in both Jordan and Israel. Published
Robert Bertini, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban Studies and Planning faculty, co-authored "HTUGetting Traffic Moving AgainUTH," published in TPublic Roads Tmagazine, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Vol. 67, No. 2 (September/October 2003). Mark Weislogel, Mechanical Engineering faculty, had his "Capillary Flow Experiments" delivered by NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, where the experiments will be put on an unmanned flight to the International Space Station. The experiments are scheduled to be performed on the space station during the week of December 22 by astronaut Michael Foele while he is in contact with Weislogel. The experiments went through several reviews at JSC before being accepted.
Umbrella Tours, Fall ‘03
Rob Daasch, Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Integrated Circuit and Design Test Laboratory Warren Harrison, Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Software Quality, Software Engineering, Digital Forensics, Homeland Cyberdefense Graig Spolek, Chair and Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Mechanical Engineering Bill Wood, Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science—Materials Science Research Laboratory
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