Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
Spring 2008 Seminar Series

Challenges and Innovation in Civil and Environmental Engineering


Thursdays, 138 Debartolo, 6:00pm - 7:15pm
February 7, 2008

Dale Snyder
Project Manager, Perdido Development Project
Shell Oil
Perdido Development Project - The world’s deepest spar and the deepest drilling and production facility in the world

February 21, 2008 Tony Dalrymple
Willard and Lillian Hackerman
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, John Hopkins University
Tsunamis
March 13, 2008
Jeremy Kirk
Structural Engineer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Trump Tower


March 27, 2008
Dennis Murphy
Retired, President of Kiewit Engineering Company
Forces and anchoring of caissons for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

April 3, 2008 James Lindell
Senior Vice President, MWH Americas, Inc.
Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, a major sanitary and flood control project in Chicago – 109 miles of huge underground tunnels under the city of Chicago – one of largest rock tunnel bores on record


April 17, 2008
Dennis Murphy
Retired, President of Kiewit Engineering Company
Foundation problems in sinking caissons for the Tacoma Narrows expansion