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Civil Engineering Doctor of Philosophy Degrees Awarded December 2016 Xiao Ma Dissertation Director: Kyle J. Bibby Dissertation Title: Fungal Ecology and Disinfection in Drinking Water Systems Chunlin Pan Dissertation Director: Qiang Yu Dissertation Title: Effects of Shape and Material Mismatch on 2D Finite Domains Containing Inclusions Steven Gerald Sachs Dissertation Director: Julie M. Vandenbossche Dissertation Title: Development of a Joint Faulting Model for Unbonded Concrete Overlays of Existing Concrete Pavements through a Laboratory and Numeric Analysis Teng Tong Dissertation Director: Qiang Yu Dissertation Title: Computational Modelling of Concrete Time-Dependent Mechanics and its Application to Large-Scale Structure Analysis George G. Zaimes Dissertation Director: Vikas Khanna Dissertation Title: Integrated Life Cycle Framework for Evaluating the Sustainability of Emerging Drop-In Replacement Biofuels April 2017 Benay Akyon Dissertation Director: Kyle Bibby Dissertation Title: Biological Treatment of Hydraulic Fracturing Produced Water Tianqiao Liu Dissertation Director: Kent A. Harries Dissertation Title: Stability Behavior of Pultruded Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymer I-Sections Subject to Flexure Weijin Wang Dissertation Director: Qiang Yu Dissertation Title: Subcritical Crack Growth Induced by Stress Corrosion in Quasibrittle Materials
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continued from page 13 Nemi Vora, graduate researcher: Selected for the prestigious International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Young Scientists Summer Program 2017. She spent three months in Laxenburg, Austria working at IIASA. The article titled “Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Quantifying Embodied Energy and GHG Emissions from Irrigation through Virtual Water Transfers in Food Trade” authored by Ms. Vora is highlighted on the cover page of March issue of the American Chemical Society journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. The Master Builders Association of Western Pennsylvania awarded three scholarships through its Construction Advancement Program. Established in 1961, CAP addresses the needs of contractors engaged in commercial, institutional, and industrial construction. The 2016 recipients were: Taylor Williams (1st) Thomas Tresky (2nd) Amy Hummel (3rd) A team of students finished in the top spot at the inaugural Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania (CAWP) Student Estimating Competition. The Panther Estimators, led by civil and environmental engineering student Thomas Tresky, won the competition with a total of 208 points, securing a narrow victory over the second place team from the Pennsylvania State University, which scored 207.2 points. Team Abbey, also from the University of Pittsburgh and led by civil and environmental engineering student
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Jon Abbey, came in third place with a score of 193.5 points. The full team rosters were: Panther Estimators • Thomas Tresky (captain) • Lee Anderson • Matt Lane • Janet D’Anna • Hannah Schell Team Abbey • Jon Abbey (captain) • Katelyn McEneaney • Andrew James • Phillip Paulone • Charles Riddle • Matt Eastburn Five universities participated in the CAWP competition: University of Pittsburgh main campus, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg and Carnegie Mellon University. The CAWP developed the Student Estimating Competition to encourage students to understand the benefits and opportunities the heavy-highway construction industry has to offer. CAWP, established in 1934, is a non-profit organization that assists workers in the heavy, highway and utility construction industry and improves relationships between contractors, their employees and the general public.
itt welcomed engineers from around the country as they hosted the AFD50 Rigid Pavement Design and AHD50 Rigid Pavement Construction Transportation Research Board Mid-Year Meeting. These committees are housed within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and serve to identify research needs, provide information to the transportation community on research priorities and procedures, review papers for presentation at the TRB Annual Meeting and for publication, encourage the incorporation of appropriate research findings into practice, and develop special programs, conferences, and workshops.