CEEGS Faculty Search

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in the area of biotechnology and biomolecular engineering for the development and application of renewable and sustainable energy technologies. The department, college and university are making significant investments in the areas of sustainability, energy, the environment, mobility, and transportation. Particularly, the new college Center for Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and the university Institute for Energy and the Environment offer exciting interdisciplinary research opportunities.

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Stander '40 Community Room Dedication

Richard Stander
Dedication of the new Richard R. Stander ’40 Community Room (410 Hitchcock Hall) took place through the gracious donation of Richard R. Stander, Sr. on August 21. Faculty, staff, family and friends were on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremonies. Mr. Stander received his bachelor of civil engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1940.

Fox Receives Chandra S. Desai Excellent Contributions Medal

Dr. Patrick J. Fox, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, has received the Chandra S. Desai Excellent Contributions Medal for his theoretical and computational research on flow, transport and consolidation in porous media. The award is given by the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) every 4 years on a worldwide basis. Dr. Fox will receive the Excellent Contributions Medal at the 12th IACMAG Conference in Goa, India, on October 4, 2008.

USEPA C2P2 National Award for OSU Coal Combustion Products Research

The Ohio State University's research accomplishments and expertise on the beneficial utilization of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) have been recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA’s) Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2) with the 2008 award for research.

The C2P2 program is a cooperative effort of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Coal Ash Association, Utility Solid Waste Activities Group, US Department of Energy, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, US Federal Highway Administration, and Electric Power Research Institute to help promote the beneficial use of CCPs and the environmental benefits that result from their use.

The award was presented by Susan P. Bodine, Assistant Administrator for USEPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, on July 2, 2008 at the 40th anniversary meeting of the American Coal Ash Association held in Washington, DC.

Receiving the award which recognizes nearly 20 years of CCP research and outreach at OSU, were Professor William E. Wolfe and Dr. Tarunjit S. Butalia of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science. The OSU CCP research and outreach efforts are sponsored by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority's Coal Development Office along with other federal and state agencies, private industry, and trade associations.

International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Award for Dr. Fox

Dr. Patrick J. Fox, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, has received the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Award for his research contributions on the static and dynamic shear strength of geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs). The IGS Award is the highest research achievement award in geosynthetics and is given biennially on a worldwide basis to recognize outstanding research contributions to geosynthetics engineering during the four years prior to the award. Previous recipients of the award include faculty members from Drexel University, the University of Texas-Austin, and the University of Maryland. Dr. Fox will receive the IGS Award at the EuroGeo4 Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, on September 9, 2008.

Carolyn Merry Elected as ASPRS Vice President

Reston, VA - 2 April 2008 Professor Carolyn Merry won the election to become ASPRS (American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) Vice President for 2008. She was inducted at the recent ASPRS Annual Conference held in Portland, Oregon, in late April. Once she is sworn in as President in 2010, Merry will be the eighth woman (five in the last six years) to hold that office since the Society was founded in 1934. For more details, see the ASPRS press release.

ESRI First Place Award Goes to CEEGS Research Stafff

Ron Li
Dr. Ron Li and his research staff co-authors Kaichang Di, Jue Wang, Xutong Niu, Sagar Agarwal, Evgenia Brodyagina, Eric Oberg and JuWon Hwangbo are the First Place recipients of the 2008 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems for the paper "A WebGIS for Spatial Data Processing, Analysis, and Distribution for the MER 2003 Mission". Presentation of the award certificate will take place during the ASPRS 2008 Annual conference in Portland, OR. The paper was published in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 73(6): 671-680.

ASCE Awards High Honors to OSU Geotechnical Engineer

Prof. Patrick Fox
Columbus, April 30, 2008 – A professor of the geotechnical engineering program at The Ohio State University has received a prestigious best paper award from the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Prof. Patrick Fox, a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, will receive the 2008 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award for his published papers entitled "Coupled Large Strain Consolidation and Solute Transport. I: Model Development" and Coupled Large Strain Consolidation and Solute Transport. II: Model Verification and Simulation Results." These two papers were published in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, January 2007 issue. The Middlebrooks award is made to the author(s) of a paper published by ASCE during a 12-month period that is judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to the field of geotechnical engineering. ASCE presents only one Middlebrooks Award annually.

Lichtenstein Distinguished Lecture Series

JamesO.Jirsa
James O. Jirsa, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin will be presenting a lecture entitled, "Reinforced Concrete Bridge Design and Performance - The Devil is in the Details." on May 5, 2008 in the Robert Smith Seminar Room Physics Research Building 191 W. Woodruff Ave. Columbus OH 43210. More details on the event can be found here.

T. H. Wu receives Peck Award from ASCE

THwu We are extremely pleased to announce that Professor T.H. Wu is the 2008 recipient of the Ralph B. Peck Award from the ASCE Geo-Institute. The Ralph B. Peck Award is presented for "outstanding contributions to the geotechnical engineering professional through the publication of a thoughtful, carefully researched case history or histories, or the publication of recommended practices or design methodologies based on the evaluation of case histories." The award is named after Dr. Ralph B. Peck, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has served as the foremost leader in geotechnical engineering over the past 50 years. Professor Wu was one of Dr. Peck's early Ph.D. students at UIUC. T.H. Wu made a presentation of his work - Case History of an Embankment on Soft Ground - at the 2008 GeoCongress that was held in New Orleans during March, 2007.

Historic Bridge Conference - A Big Success!

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science and the College Engineering hosted the 8th Historic Bridges Conference in Columbus, Ohio, on April 28-29, 2008. The conference provided a forum for the exchange of ideas between engineers and preservationists. A preliminary program is now available, including registration materials.

Congratulations Autumn 2007 Graduates!

Autumn graduation was on Sunday, December 9th. We had 5 civil engineering PhD students, 1 geodetic science PhD student, 3 civil engineering MS students, 2 geodetic science MS students, and 19 civil engineering BS students graduating. Congratulations!

Autumn 2007 Graduation Pictures

Groundbreaking concrete paves way for parking lots

University officials collaborated with Tarunjit Butalia, a research scientist in civil and environmental engineering and William Wolfe, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, as well as representatives from the industry to make the experimental lot a reality. Lantern Story