Bruce Podwal Seminar Series

Date

 

Presentations

 

February 27, 2024

Title:  Mechanics of anisotropic thawing and freezing of frozen soils in changing climate

Speaker: Steve WaiChing Sun, Associate Professor,  Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University

12:30 PM, Tuesday

February 8, 2024

Title:  Firm renewable power generation – resolving grid integration issues &  facilitating a transition to 100% renewables

Speaker: Richard Perez, Ph.D.  Senior Research Faculty, Emeritus, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany

12:30 PM, Thursday

November 16, 2023

 Title:  Suspension Bridge Main Cable Investigation 101

Speaker: Stuart Rankin, PE, Director of Engineering at WSP USA, New York, NY

12:30 PM, Thursday

November 2, 2023

 Title:  Two Years In: Implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Speaker: Marsia Geldert-Murphey, P.E., F.ASCE, ASCE 2024 President. Lochmueller Group, Springfield, IL 

12:30 PM, Thursady

October 17, 2023

Title:  Navigating the long tail of the grid’s edge: Opportunities and challenges in the evolving energy landscape

Speaker: Yael Parag, Professor, Vice Dean & Head of the Energy Program, Reichman University (IDC) Herzliya

12:30 PM, Tuesday

September 5, 2023

 Title:  Technological innovation for climate resilience in agriculture

Speaker: Ajay K Jha, Ph.D., CEO, Institute for Global Agriculture & Tech Transfer & Founder InnoP Global Accelerator

12:30 PM, Tuesday

December 7, 2022

Title:  AI-Based future for evaluation of transportation infrastructure, canceled

Speaker: Kelvin C.P. Wang, Ph.D., P.E., Dist. M. ASCE, Regents Professor and Dawson Chair, Civil Engineering, Oklahoma State University

12:30 PM, Wednesday

November 15, 2022

Title:  Managing disruption of the civil engineering profession: how to keep relevant 

Speaker: Maria Lehman, P.E, F. ASCE, ENV SP., GHD’s Infrastructure Market Leader, President of ASCE

12:30 PM, Tuesday

October 25, 2022

Title:  Urban stormwater management as a cyber-physical system

Speaker: Jonathan Goodall, Ph.D. P.E., Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Virginia 

12:30 PM, Tuesday

October 11, 2022

Title:  Civil engineering aspects of the design of solar photovoltaic systems

Speaker: Scott E. Thompson, PE, ENV SP, WSP USA Inc. National Business Lead for 
Onshore Renewable Energy

12:30 PM, Tuesday

September 13, 2022

Title:  Pile design through a case study in surf avenue Brooklyn

Speaker: Miguel G. Matos, P.E. Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Structural Engineering Technologies

12:30 PM, Tuesday

April 26, 2022

Title:  Respirometry for assessing biodegradation reactions  

Speaker: James C. Young, Ph.D., P.E. President, Respirometer Systems and Applications, LLC. Principal, JCY Environmental. 

12:30 PM, Tuesday

In-person (attendee): Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105)

Online (speaker, attendee): https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635  

April 5, 2022

Title:  Street-Smart Engineering – Streetcars 

Speaker: David H. Thurston, PE, UAS Pilot, Burns & McDonnell Engineer 

12:30 PM, Tuesday

In-person: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105)

Online: https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635  

March 15, 2022

Title:  Water resources monitoring in arid regions using remote sensing and modeling tools 

Speaker: Marouane Temimi,  Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

12:30 PM, Tuesday

In-person: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105)

Online: https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635  

February 15, 2022

Title:  Creating tools for a pandemic: COVID clinical severity tools using Predictive Analytics 

Speaker: Megan Coffee, MD, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU in Infectious Diseases, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia in Mailman School of Public Health; Anasse Bari, Ph.D. (by zoom), Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematics

12:30 PM, Tuesday

In-person: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105)

Online: https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635 

November 9, 2021

Title:  The Hunter Harrison Memorial Bridge: A new pedestrian bridge at the University of Memphis

Speaker: Steven Lowinger, Dennis Smith, structural engineers, WSP in New York City

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635  12:30 PM, Tuesday

October 19, 2021

Title:  Developing a Career of Servant Leadership 

Speaker: Dr. Dennis Truax, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE, ASCE 2022 President. Professor emeritus of the Richard A. Rula School of Civil and Environmental Eng. at Mississippi State Univ. 

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635  12:30 PM, Tuesday

September 28, 2021

Title:  Two case studies on numerical modeling applications to solve practical problems:  Offshore wind energy and community flood risk management in a changing climate 

Speaker: Bob Hamilton, President/Coastal Engineer, Woods Hole Group

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/85839128635  12:30 PM, Tuesday

April  6, 2021

Title:  Activated sludge and aerobic aeration-free wastewater treatment with oxygenic photogranules 

Speaker: Chul Park, Professor, Departme nt of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/89302757661  12:30 PM, Tuesday

March  2, 2021

Title: A quick look at disparate types of oceanographic data

Speaker:C. Reid Nichols, President and Oceanographer, Marine Information Resources Corporation. Queenstown, Maryland

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/89302757661  12:30 PM, Tuesday

February  9, 2021

Title: Engineering solutions with analytics: Applications in electricity generation, semiconductor manufacturing, and organ transplants

Speaker:Joel Sokol, Professor, Director, Master of Science in Analytics/Online Master of Science in Analytics, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/89302757661  12:30 PM, Tuesday

November  24, 2020

Title: Rehabilitation of tunnel walls, roadway and superstorm Sandy restoration and mitigation at the Queens midtown tunnel

Speaker: John C. Deerkoski, PE, MASCE, Vice President, Director NYC Metro Transportation Design Build, AECOM

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/92017809230   12:00 PM, Tuesday

October 1, 2020

Title: Scalable scientific machine learning for computational fluid dynamics

Speaker: Romit Maulik,  Margaret Butler Fellow, Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory

https://ccny.zoom.us/j/5945451937   2 PM, Thursday

March 31, 2020

- Canceled

Title: Hydroelasticity of floating structures: Overview, applications, and research needs 

Speaker: H Ronald Riggs,  Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Hawai’i at Manoa

Location & Time:Exhibit Room, GSOE first floor, Steinman Hall @ 12 PM

March 23, 2020 

Canceled

 

Title: TBD 

Speaker:  Donald Pearson-Kirk, Ph.D., Technical Director Structures Investigation Group, WSP, UK

Location & Time: TBD @ 12 PM

March 3, 2020

Title: Best practices for a successful career in engineering

Speaker: Michael J. Kaleda,  P.E., LEED AP O+M, Senior Vice President and Program Executive (retired), MTA Capital Construction, East Side Access project

Location & Time: Exhibit Room, GSOE first floor, Steinman Hall @ 12 PM

November 26, 2019

Title: The effect of fluctuating forces on particle entrainment; revisiting the threshold of motion criterion, hosted together with ME

Speaker: Panos Diplas, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

November 12, 2019

Title: Approaches to transportation resilience at a local, state, and national level 

Speaker: John Chow, Vice President, AICP, WSP USA, Senior Supervising Transportation Planner/PM

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

October 31, 2019

Title: Overcoming fluid-structure instabilities for incompressible flows and light bodies, hosted together with ME

Speaker: William Henshaw, Professor, Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Location & Time: Mechanical Engineering Conference Room, ST-254 @ 2 PM 

October 10, 2019

Title: Fracture mechanics design in civil and mechanical engineering: Two examples, hosted together with ME

Speaker: Roberto Ballarini, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston

Location & Time: Steinman Lecture Hall, Room T-161 @ 2 PM

September 24, 2019

Title: Bioremediation of 1,4-dioxane and co-occurring chlorinated contaminants

Speaker: Mengyan Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science, NJIT

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

September 10, 2019

Title: Project management case studies lessons learned/good practices

Speaker: Mr. Bruce E. Podwal, PE, ‘59CE

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

May 2, 2019

Title: Construction in congested urban areas

Speaker: Craig Ruyle, Director, Regional 11, NYSDOT

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

April 4, 2019

Title: Hydrodynamics of a poro-visco-elastic drop immersed in a viscous fluid flow

Speaker: Yuan-nan Young, Professor, Department of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM
March 21, 2019

Title: Applying Green Infrastructure in NYC

Speaker: Ozlen Ozkurt, PhD, Associate Vice President, Water Department Manager Dewberry Engineers Inc.

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

Feburary 14, 2019

Title: Thoughts about automated vehicles

Speaker: Alain L. Kornhauser, Professor, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

November 6, 2018

Title: Application of fluid mechanics to environmental problems

Philip J. W. Roberts, Professor Emeritus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

October 16, 2018

Title: Attacking Water ScarcityTreatment Considerations for the Implementation of Direct Potable Reuse

Dr. Russell Ford, Vice President & Global Solutions Director, Drinking Water and Reuse, Jacobs,

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

September 25, 2018

Title: Bayonne bridge navigational clearance program: Design and construction of approach structures 

Roger Haight, Vice President - Long Span Bridge Group Leader, Senior Technical Principal, WSP USA

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12 PM

April 18, 2018

Title: Responses and Performance of Asphalt Concrete Pavements from Heavy Vehicle Loads

Prof. Vincent Ogunro, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Location & Time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12:15PM

March 7, 2017

Title:  Modeling Long Distance Travel in an Age of Global Mobility

Lisa Aultman-Hall, PhD

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont

Location & time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12:00PM

February 16, 2017

Title:  Microplastics to Microbes: Case Studies of Emerging Contaminants

Professor Nicole Fahrenfeld

Rutgers University

Location & time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12:00PM

November 15, 2016

Title:  Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT)

Charles Bott, PhD

Director of Water Technology and Research, Hampton Roads Sanitation District

Location & time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12:00PM

September 15, 2016

Title:  Transportation Workforce Development Challenges and Opportunities

Moges Ayele, PhD

Senior Liaison for Higher Education, Federal Highway Administration

Location & time: Civil Engineering Conference Room (ST-105) @ 12:00PM

April 21, 2016

Title:  Understanding the Mechanisms of Dewatering

Professor Matthew J. Higgins, Ph.D.

Bucknell University

Location & time: Shepard Hall, Room 207 @ 12:30PM

April 05, 2016

Title:  Using Automated Data Sources to Improve the Performance of Public Transport Systems: A Framework and Applications

Professor Nigel H.M. Wilson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

March 08, 2016

Title: Understanding the variability and changes in hydrological extremes, their connections with large-scale climate, and implications on food and socio‐economy

Indrani Pal, PhD

Columbia Water Center, Columbia University

February 23, 2016

Title: Tangled Decisions: Supplying the Infrastructure We Ride On

Professor Joseph Berechman, PhD

Department of Economics, City College of New York

November 12, 2015

Title: Pervious Concrete Design

Liv Haselbach, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Washington State University

March 24th, 2015

Title: Microbially-Induced Corrosion of Steel Piles

Steve Kaufman, P.E.

Parsons Brinckerhoff

March 3rd, 2015

Title: Implementing Emergency Foundation Repairs on I-495 in Delaware

Karen Armfield, P.E.

AECOM

February 5th, 2015

Title: The Impact on Mode Choice of Activities Conducted while Commuting: Testing Transit-Advantage and Autonomous-Vehicle Scenarios

Professor Patricia L. Mokhtarian
Georgia Institute of Technology
(with Aliaksandr Malokin and Giovanni Circella)

November 4th, 2014

PhD Seminar

Jiang Yang, PhD student of Prof. Michel Ghosn

Jose Infante, PhD student of Prof. Reza Khanbilvardi

April 29th, 2014

Title: Factors and Mechanisms That Impact the Performance and Stability of Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Process

April GU,PhD, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department' Northeastern University

April 8th, 2014

Title: Leveraging open data for measuring and optimizing  equity and efficiency in public transportation systems

Nicholas E. Lownes, PhD, PE
F.L. Castleman Associate Professor in Engineering Innovation,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Center for Transportation and Livable Systems,
University of Connecticut

February 18th, 2014

Title: Exploring the Counterintuitive Behaviour of Concrete

Dr.Zachary Grasley , Associate Professor

Virginia Tech


Note: unless otherwise noted, all event will be held at 12pm in the Steinman Hall Exhibit Room.

 

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