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Message from the Chair of the Division Dr. M. Asghar Bhatti P.E., University of Iowa,

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I hope that your Spring semester is go-

ing well. I am not sure why we call it

the spring semester. Last week with a

temperature of -9oF (real temperature

and not including the wind chill factor)

it definitely was not spring-like weath-

er in Iowa. Perhaps we call it the spring

because we want to look ahead. With

this in mind I want you to look little

further ahead to June 23 – 26 when

2013 ASEE annual conference will be

held in Atlanta, Georgia. I hope you

all have your calendars marked and are

planning to be in Atlanta for what

promises to be an excellent conference. Matthew Roberts is this

year’s program chair and I know he has been working very hard in

putting together an excellent program for our CE Division.

I hope you all enjoyed last year’s conference in San Antonio. I

believe it was the first time that the division was successful in having speakers in the Distinguished Lecture se-

ries. Thanks to Tom Lenox and the ASCE staff who did a wonderful job in organizing the division’s distin-

guished lecture event. Also thanks to our distinguished lecture speakers Blaine Leonard, Steve Ressler and Jeff

Russell for their excellent presentations on the “Raise the Bar” initiative. The division also sponsored a Sunday

workshop organized by Wasim Barham and his colleagues from the Southern Polytechnic State University,

Marietta, GA. The workshop was sold-out and everyone enjoyed learning about the virtual gaming environment

for strength of materials laboratory. In addition there were nine podium sessions and one poster session. All

sessions were very well attended, including even the very last session on Wednesday afternoon. As last year’s

program chair I want to take this opportunity to formally thank over 150 reviewers, all speakers at the technical

sessions, and all session moderators for making the 2012 conference a success.

The division will hold its annual election around early March. There should be an opening for an incoming

freshman director. I am looking for nominations for this position. Please email me your nominations at asghar-

[email protected]. Self nominations are perfectly fine. This is an excellent opportunity for you to get involved

in the division’s leadership.

Remember, on Tuesday June 25, we will have the planning luncheon for next year. The cornerstone of good

conference sessions is this planning meeting. So, come armed with some good session topics. Just to refresh

your memory the subcommittees in charge of planning sessions each year are: Professional Practice, Educa-

tional Policy, Effective Teaching, Instructional Technology and the ASCE Liaison Committee. Be thinking

about which committee you want to be involved with. I look forward to seeing you all in Atlanta!

Civil Engineering Division of the American Society

for Engineering Education - April 2013

Newsletter Editor: Charles Riley, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Oregon

Institute of Technology - [email protected] - Tel: 541-885-1922

In this issue:

Message from the Chairman 1

Message from the Program Chair 2

Division Officers 3

Past 35 Years of Civil Engineering

Division Meetings 4

Trivia for 2012 Meeting

in San Antonio,TX 5

Gerald R. Seeley Award 6

George K. Wadlin Distinguished

Service Award 7

Photographs of CE Division Sessions

and Meetings at San Antonio, TX 9

Photographs of Social Activities at

San Antonio, TX: The RAP Session 11

Photographs of the Awards Banquet

at San Antonio, TX 13

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April 2013 ASEE Civil Engineering Division Newsletter of 13

Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter and for sending me your feedback. If you have suggestions, please call me at (541)885-1922 or send an e-mail to: [email protected], C.J. Riley - Editor.

Message from the Program Chair Dr. Matthew W. Roberts, P.E., University of Wisconsin-Platteville, [email protected]

I’d like to start by congratulating Asghar for a wonderful conference in San Anto-nio. There were many thought-provoking papers presented at the Civil Engineering Division sessions. As always, the social activities provided a great opportunity to meet and get to know other division members and to renew friendships. Oh, and Asghar, I haven’t forgotten: I’m still waiting for that iPad!

As I write this, division members are in the midst of finalizing papers for the annual ASEE conference, this year in Atlanta. From what I have seen, we will have many excellent papers for the conference. If you haven’t registered, it’s still not too late: Early-bird registration ends on April 7, 2013. I would also like to thank all of the reviewers for their help in reading and reviewing papers. We had over 90 members of the division volunteer their time to review abstracts and papers (see below).

The Civil Engineering Division has launched a new email bulletin shortly. The intent of the bulletin will be to help get the word out for activities and opportunities that division members might be interested in, particularly concerning engineering education and the scholarship of teaching and learning. If you have an announcement you’d like to submit for the bulletin, you can send me a short description including any relevant URLs and con-tact info. We will be unable to include attachments in the bulletin, so be sure to provide links to any additional information. The bulletin will be a low volume communication to division members— I anticipate sending it out once a month, on average. I hope it will provide a convenient way to let Civil Engineering Division mem-bers know about opportunities to enhance their teaching.

I would again invite you to join us for what looks to be an outstanding conference in Atlanta. I look forward to seeing you there! - Matt

Thanks to all the reviewers for the 2013 Conference! James Alleman Suleiman Ashur Brock Barry Jerry Bayless Eban Bean M. Asghar Bhatti Angela Bielefeldt Ben Bocher Gretchen Bohnhoff Steven Burian Arsenio Caceres Juan Caicedo Dylan Christenson Samuel Clemence Rick Clifft Richard Cozzens Richard Crago Marvin Criswell Christina Curras Norman Dennis Philip Dunn

Ralph Alan Dusseau Robert Efimba Allen Estes Jeffrey Evans Dennis Fallon Gregg Fiegel Kristina Fields John Finnie Seamus Freyne Laurie Garton Ahmad Hadavi Decker Hains Edward Hajduk Kevin Hall Robert Hamilton Joseph Hanus Steven Hart Robert Henry Andrew Jason Hill David Hurwitz

Hudson Jackson Allen Jayne Wayne Jensen Allen Jones Elizabeth Jones Alfred Kalyanapu Mark William Killgore William Kitch James Klosky Bryan Knakiewicz Tanya Kunberger Sivand Lakmazaheri Jeffrey Laman Katie Anne Larsen Thomas Lenox Will Lindquist Beth McGinnis- Cavanaugh Yusuf Mehta

Karl Meyer Mark Meyers Gregory Miller Stephen Michael Morse Kenneth Murray Roseanna Neupauer Wilfrid Nixon Jean Nocito-Gobel Hamidreza Nouri Robert O'Neill Anahita Pakzad Miguel Pando Philip Parker Kelly Pitera James Pocock Salam Rahmatalla Charles Riley Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Camilla Saviz Douglas Schmucker Pattabhi Sitaram William Sproule Sean St. Clair Kevin Sutterer Brian Swenty Christopher Thompson Mary Kathryn Thompson Sandra Tucker Yael Van Den Einde Claude Villiers Robert Ward Ronald Welch Andrea Welker Ahmet Zeytinci


Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter and for sending me your feedback. If you have suggestions, please call me at

(541)885-1922 or send an e-mail to: [email protected], C.J. Riley - Editor.

Civil Engineering Division Officers (2012 - 2013)

Dr. Norman D. Dennis Jr. P.E.

[email protected]

4190 Bell Engineering Center 1 University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701

(479) 575-2933

Awards Chair University of Arkansas

Dr. M. Asghar Bhatti P.E.

[email protected] 4116 Seamans Center

Iowa City, IA 52242

(319) 335-5656

Chair University of Iowa

Dr. Brock E. Barry P.E.

[email protected] Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering

Mahan Hall, Bldg 752

West Point, NY 10996 (845) 662-3383

Freshman Director U.S. Military Academy

Dr. Ronald W. Welch P.E.

[email protected]

(Home Address) 1290 Chrismill Lane

Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466

(843) 953-6588

Historian The Citadel

Dr. Kevin D. Hall

[email protected] 4190 Bell Engineering Center

Fayetteville, AR 72701

(479) 575-8695

Mid-Term Director University of Arkansas

Dr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E.

[email protected] Iowa State University

Dept of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Institute for Transportation 2711 South Loop Drive, Suite 4700

Ames, IA 50010-8664

(515) 294-5209

Past Chair Iowa State University

Dr. Matthew W Roberts P.E.

[email protected] Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

1 University Plaza

Platteville, WI 53818-3099 (608) 342-1535

Program Chair University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Dr. Andrea L Welker P.E.

[email protected]

800 Lancaster Avenue

Villanova, PA 19085-1681 (610) 519-4959

Secretary/Treasurer Villanova University

Dr. Yusuf A Mehta P.E.

[email protected]

Rowan Unjiversity

Civil and Environmental Engineering 201 Mullica Hill Road

Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701

(856) 256-5327

Senior Director Rowan University













Ron Welch (The Civil Engineering Division Historian) updated the information listing the annual meeting loca-

tions and corresponding presiding chairs of the last thirty-five years.

Last Thirty Five Years of Civil Engineering Division Meetings

Year Annual Meeting Chair

2011-2012 San Antonio Shashi Nambisan

2010-2011 Vancouver, BC, CAN Kevin Sutterer

2009-2010 Louisville, KY Norm Dennis

2008-2009 Austin, TX Dennis Fallon

2007-2008 Pittsburgh, PA Ron Welch

2006-2007 Honolulu, HI Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

2005-2006 Chicago, IL Jim Hanson

2004-2005 Portland, OR Wilf Nixon

2003-2004 Salt Lake City, UT Vince Drnevich

2002-2003 Nashville, TN Steve Ressler

2001-2002 Montreal, Quebec, CAN J. P. Mohsen

2000-2001 Albuquerque, NM Sam Clemence

1999-2000 St. Louis, MO Jim Nau

1998-1999 Charlotte, NC Alan Prasuhn

1997-1998 Seattle, WA Tom Lenox

1996-1997 Milwaukee, WI Howard Dunn

1995-1996 Washington, DC William Kelly

1994-1995 Anaheim, CA Tom Mulinazzi

1993-1994 Edmonton, Alberta, CAN Bob Henry

1992-1993 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, , IL Fred Beaufait

1991-1992 Toledo, OH Edward Reitz

1990-1991 New Orleans, LA M. Dean Parsons

1989-1990 Toronto, Ontario, CAN William Highter

1988-1989 Lincoln, NE Noel Tolbert

1987-1988 Portland, OR Mardith Thomas

1986-1987 Reno, NV Gerald Seeley

1985-1986 Cincinnati, OH Colby Ardis

1984-1985 Atlanta, GA Roger Seals

1983-1984 Salt Lake City, UT Ron Eck

1982-1983 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Jim McDonough

1981-1982 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Marvin Criswell




1980-1981 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Gordon Batson

1979-1980 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Eugene Chesson

1978-1979 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Donald L. Bender

1977-1978 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CAN William J. Wilhelm

Civil Engineering Division of ASEE

Trivia for 2012 Meeting in San Antonio, TX

30 Years Ago (AY 1981-1982)

The Division Chair was __________________ of Colorado State University.

The Program Chair was __________________ of the University of Cincinnati.

The annual conference was held at Texas A&M University.

A banquet was held on Tuesday evening – George Wadlin entertained the attendees with several quasi-

politically-incorrect jokes.

The Division’s annual expenses included $42.09 for mailing the Fall newsletter.

25 Years Ago (AY 1986-87)

The Division Chair was ___________________ of Valparaiso University.

The Program Chair was ___________________of Iowa State University.

The annual conference was held at the Bally Grand Hotel in Reno, Nevada.

George Wadlin, retired in October as ASCE’s Director of EDEX, moved to Northern Maine.

A banquet was held on Tuesday evening – George Wadlin entertained the attendees with several quasi-



20 Years Ago (AY 1991-1992)

The Division Chair was _________________ of the City University of New York (CCNY).

The Program Chair was _________________ of Wayne State University.

The annual conference was held in Toledo, Ohio.


15 Years Ago (AY 1996-97)

The Division Chair was __________________ of the US Coast Guard Academy.

The Program Chair was ___________________ of the US Military Academy.

The annual conference was held in Milwaukee, WI.

A banquet was held on Tuesday evening – Bill Wilhelm entertained the attendees with several quasi-



10 Years Ago (AY 2001-2002)

The Division Chair was _________________ of the University of Louisville.




The Program Chair was __________________ of the US Military Academy.

The annual conference was held in Montreal, Canada.




5 Years Ago (AY 2006-2007)

The Division Chair was ______________________ of Lafayette College.

The Program Chair was ______________ of the US Military Academy.

The annual conference was held in Honolulu, HI.



The Division’s annual expenses included $________ for mailing the Fall newsletter.

Gerald R. Seeley Award*

Awarded to a civil engineering faculty member with five or fewer years of teaching experience. The basis for

selection is the quality of a paper submitted for presentation at the ASEE Annual Conference. First awarded in

2004.

2012 Michelle Oswald

2011 Ellie Fini

2010 Steve Hart

2009 Brock E. Barry

2008 Tanya Kunberger & Diane Bondehagen

2007 Chris Ramseyer

2006 Andrea Surovek

2005 Scott R. Hamilton

2004 Andrew T. Rose

*Submitted by Ron Welch.




George K. Wadlin Distinguished Service Award

The George K. Wadlin Distinguished Service Award recognizes “outstanding service in support of civil engi-

neering education.”

2012 Wilfred Nixon

2011 J.P. Mohsen

2010 Jeffrey S. Russell

2009 Stewart G. Walesh

2008 James J. O’Brien

2007 Stephen J. Ressler

2006 James M. Nau

2005 Alan L. Prasuhn

2004 Howard C. Dunn, Jr.

2003 Thomas A. Lenox

2002 Vincent P. Drnevich

2001 Richard O. Anderson

2000 William E. Kelly

1999 Donn E. Hancher

1998 William J. Wilhelm

1997 Gerald R. Seeley

1996 Daniel J. McGinley

1995 E. Walter LeFevre

1994 Frederick W. Beaufait

1993 James F. McDonough

1992 Colby V. Ardis

1991 Marvin E. Criswell

1990 Ronald W. Eck

1989 Glen L. Martin

1988 Peter G. Hoadley

1987 George K. Wadlin




Divisions Mixer, San Antonio, TX (2012)




CE Division Sessions and Meetings, San Antonio, TX (2012)




Social Activities at San Antonio, TX:

The R.A.P. Session and UTSA Lab Tours (2012)




Awards Banquet, San Antonio, TX (2012)

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