Appointment

Professor of Civil Engineering, August 1997 to present
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, September 1987 to August 1997
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, December 1982 - September 1987

Related Experience - Teaching and Industrial

• 1979-1982 The University of Houston, Department of Civil Engineering. Participated in an extensive full-scale field testing program of an instrumented pile group in clay, funded by the Federal Highway Administration. Major responsibilities included interpretation of soil testing; field and pile instrumentation; interpretation of pile load test results. Dissertation research on effective stress methods for piles in clay and finite element modeling of piles in clay. Dissertation title: 'Analysis of Axial Single Pile-Soil Interaction in Clay.' Instructor for geotechnical engineering laboratory classes.
• 1977-1979 St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers. Engineer in the Soil Section in the Engineering Division. Participated in the design of a lock and dam including slope stability, bearing capacity, settlement, pile analysis and seepage analysis. Initiated a study on the liquefaction potential of existing structures. Conducted dam safety inspections.
• 1974-1976 GAI Consultants, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. Engineer in the Geotechnical and Environmental Group. Responsibilities included pile load testing program; laboratory soils testing; subsurface investigation; reviewing and report writing. Field engineer responsible for inspection of large earth and rock dam construction.
• Cooperative education student at the University of Cincinnati. Experience with construction company, the Ohio Department of Transportation, and a consulting engineering firm.

Consulting

• U. S. Army Engineering Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Reviewing engineering manuals.
• Seismic Impact Analysis of landfill, Toltest, Inc., Toledo Ohio
• Expert witness consultation for four legal cases.

State in which registered

Ohio

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Member of Soils Properties Group, ASCE GeoInstitute
• International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
• Society of Sigma Xi, elected 1981
• Member, American Society for Testing and Materials, Committee D18
• Member, United States University Council on Geotechnical Engineering

Professional Reviews

• McCarthy, David F., Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations, 3rd Edition, Reston Publishing Company, Inc., Reston Virginia, 1986.
• American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of the Geotechnical Division
• ASTM Standards
• ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal
• National Science Foundation, research proposals
• AWRA Surface and Ground Water Quality Symposium conference papers

Honors and Awards

· Society of Sigma Xi, 1982

· U. S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program, Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Summer, 1985.

· U. S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, Summer, 1986.

· Fellow Member, ASCE.

· University of Toledo, Research Assistantship Award, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 2000/01.

· ADSC Civil Engineering Faculty Workshop 2000, Colorado State University, July, 2000.

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