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