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Assistant/Associate Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering job with Washington State University Department of Civil & Environmental…
The Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, within the Voiland College of Engineering andArchitecture, at Washington State University in Pullman, WA as partof its strategic initiative onSustainable and ResilientInfrastructure Systemsseeks applicants for threetenure-track faculty positions as Assistant or Associate Professorsin the areas of Structures, Materials, Sustainability, andTransportation Engineering.
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Faculty Positions in Structural Engineering, SustainableDesign & Engineering, and TransportationEngineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE),within the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, atWashington State University (WSU) is seeking highly motivatedcandidates for three (3) permanent, full-time academic year,tenure-track faculty positions at the level of Assistant orAssociate Professor, depending on qualifications. It is anticipatedthat the successful candidate(s) will begin the appointment onAugust 16, 2022.
Candidates must have expertise in structural design andengineering (two positions), and in transportation engineering (oneposition), with an emphasis on sustainability, infrastructureresiliency, or AI / ML. All positions are located at WSU Pullman,WA campus. Candidates should be able to work at a granular level,as well as a systems level. Candidates with the ability to workwithin their discipline and across multiple disciplinescollaboratively will be preferred. The ability to collaborate inteaching and on projects in soil-structure interaction, sustainablepractices in construction, or big data applications in civilengineering will be given preference. AI, VR, and automatedoff-site construction interests will facilitate productive linkageswith WSUs School of Design and Construction, and therefore areconsidered favourably.
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,within the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, atWashington State University in Pullman, WA as part of its strategicinitiative on Sustainable and Resilient InfrastructureSystems seeks applicants for three tenure-track facultypositions as Assistant or Associate Professors in the areas ofStructures, Materials, Sustainability, and TransportationEngineering. A successful candidate for the TransportationEngineering faculty position must have expertise in one or more ofthe following areas:
A successful candidate for the Structural Engineering facultypositions must have expertise in one or more of the followingareas:
The ideal candidate should demonstrate high-quality research andhave a commitment to teaching excellence. Individuals withdemonstrated abilities to collaborate in large projects, especiallyacross disciplines, are highly encouraged to apply. Abilities toteach and mentor a diverse student body, supervise graduatestudents, and enhance the curriculum in the areas of structural,material, and transportation engineering are desired. An ability toteach core undergraduate fundamental courses in structures,structural analysis, structural design and modeling, or intelligenttransportation is desired. A culture of interdisciplinary researchwith a diverse group of faculty and students is valued, and thecandidate will be encouraged to contribute to existing researchstrengths within the program and across the university insynergistic areas, such as within the Composite Materials &Engineering Center (www.cmec.wsu.edu), the School ofDesign + Construction (https://sdc.wsu.edu/) and the NationalUTC TriDurLE (https://TriDurLE.wsu.edu/).
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Suitable candidates must have:
The following are preferred qualifications:
APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications must include a cover letter describing relevantexperiences and interest in the position; curriculum vitae;statements of research and teaching philosophy and interests thatreflects the candidates commitment to diversity, inclusion, andequity; up to 3 academic publications; and names of up to fivereferences with titles, addresses, business telephone numbers, ande-mail addresses. References will not be contacted without theconsent from applicants. The application must be submitted onlineat http://www.wsujobs.com. Positionscan be found with the following identifications - Structures(R-3040) and Transportation (R-3039). Screening of applicants willbegin October 31, 2021 and continue until the positions arefilled.
Washington State University is an equal opportunity/affirmativeaction educator and employer. Members of ethnic minorities, women,special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam-era, recentlyseparated veterans, and other protected veterans, persons ofdisability and/or persons age 40 and over are encouraged to apply.The Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture seeks qualifiedcandidates who can make contributions to the diversity andexcellence of the university community through their teaching,research, and/or service. WSU is committed to excellence throughdiversity, has faculty policies including a partner accommodationprogram, and a NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant(https://advance.wsu.edu/).
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After being ‘blown away’ by AdvisorPeak’s engineering prowess, Addepar is buying the company to arm its clients with automated rebalancing software -…
The 12-year old Mountain View, Calif., performance reporter, with $3 trillion plus of adminstered assets, is buying the 18-person, third-year startup to apply to its 600 clients.
Addeparwill soon own AdvisorPeak--the third acquisition sinceits 2009 launch--to carry out CEO Eric Poirier's toppriority, arminghis firm's 600 clients and their $3 trillion of AUM with automated rebalancing software.
The deal with the three-year-oldrebalancing software startup,staffedbyalumni of RedBlack and Trade Warrior, is not quite a shotgun marriage.
Addepardid a vendor deal with AdvisorPeak earlier this year, and the chemistry between the firms became immediately apparent, their principals say.Addepar signed a rebalancing deal with RedBlack in 2017.
"We integrated and AdvisorPeak became far and away our biggest rebalancing integration," says Addepar CEO Eric Poirier in an interview. "It made all the sense to become more strategic."
The deal signed today (Oct. 22), is expected to closeas early next week.
Addepar, which has 545 employees, just raised $150 million of private equity capital in June at a $2.17 billion valuationand wasted no time deploying capital.
Damon Deru, founder and CEO of AdvisorPeak,says the decision was strategic for his firm, as well. The initial integration deal with Addepar immediately became the firm's most rewarding collaboration, he says.
He also sees the merger as an extension of what sparked him to launchAdvisorPeak in 2018 -- the quest to automateone of the least automatedand time-consuming processes in financial advice.
Rebalancing software, however, has mostly fallen short. RIAs simply don't use it nearits optimum capacity -- at least, in part, because it isn't user friendly enough.
"It's still one of the most underutilized softwarein the industry," Deru says.
"There is most definitely an intellectual moat around rebalancing software," he adds.
"Once you start factoring in real-world client scenarios such as household-based trading across multiple custodians, client trade restrictions, cash management, etc. it becomes complex quickly.
"If you look across the most successful rebalancing systems in the market today, they were all born out of an advisory practice, and AdvisorPeak is no different.
I believe part of the secret sauce that makes AdvisorPeak resonate with the advisory community is the fact that weve been in their shoes and understand what challenges they face, and we built our software to solve those back-office trading challenges that advisory firms face." Deru says.
AdvisorPeak's software stands out for a number of reasons,saysBard Malovany, Principal at Aspect Partners an advisory sub-unit of$1.5-billionAlmanack Investment Partnersin a release.
"Not only has AdvisorPeak delivered impressive trade management logic, a superior user interfaceand customized model management and trading, their entire culture is built around exceptional service, he said.
"We have experienced [it] with every single person weve worked with. They will be a great complement to Addepars client-centric platform.
Poirier believesAdvisorPeaks trading and rebalancing solution is highly scalable, flexible and cloud-basedand truly streamlines the portfolio rebalancing process.
"Also, 75% of the AdvisorPeak team has worked in the advisory space in some capacity, so they deeply understand the day-to-day challenges of growing a firm and serving clients," the Addepar CEO says.
That dream of automated rebalancingacross the RIA universe got deferredwhenformerly freestanding rebalancing software companies got buried inside bigger firms whereinnovation was a lower strategic priority, saysDeru.
Indeed, TD Ameritrade bought iRebal and gave it away free in 2013. See:TD Ameritrade will make iRebal software available free to all its RIA clients
Tamarac became part of a larger Envestnet bundle. Morningstar swallowed Total Rebalance Expert in 2015. Invesco bought RedBlack in 2019.
Deru believes the rash of merger stalledinnovation, "and we still feel like that," he says. "We have more ideas than resources to execute on them."
Deru will soon be buried in Addepar, as well,but with the opposite effect on innovation, he professes.
Addepar'sresources and culture of innovation will allow AdvisorPeak to travel a "long road map" of product innovation that it's 18-person staff can't advance on its own, Deru says
"AdvisorPeak shares our values and our commitment to R&D, and comes to us with a depth of experience in the trading and rebalancing space," says Poirier.
"We believe theyve always been in tune with and ahead of the market in their product development overall. Crypto has certainly risen as an area of interest for our clients, and the current capabilities within AdvisorPeak will continue to be offered."
Existing AdvisorPeak customers will still get service from AdvisorPeak but the decision hasn't been made about whether the AdvisorPeak brand will be maintained.
Poirior saysAdvisorPeak is currently sold as a technology integration available within Addepar, "which we will continue to do."
"However, it will transition to be offered as an add-on option as part of the clients contract with Addepar, for an extra fee.
"It is a high priority to make the transition as seamless as possible, and to that point, there will be no immediate changes to any contracts today. Pricing, terms, support and training will remain as they are today," he says.
If there's an irony to the merger, it's the dissimilarity of pedigrees between the two merger partners. Addepar started in 2009 with the proverbial piece of white paper, and the RIA software specialists coded apps in relatively backward ways.
AdvisorPeakhas its share of relative old-timers including Deru and Peter Giza, chief product officer and formerRedBlack executive.
Asked about that odd matching of old and new, Silicon Valley blue bloods and not, Poirier, who came aboard at Addepar as CEO from Palantir in 2013, chuckled and said the two firms match up where it counts..
"We've been blown away by the depth of talent and quality product," he says. "We admire what they've built."
Cashing out wasn't an option.If cashing out were the priority, Deru says he was in a position to wait because he had a list of suitors.
"We've had plenty of acquisition opportunities," he says.
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BETA Group Wins Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Their Work on the Commonwealth Avenue Revitalization – Boston Real Estate Times
BOSTON The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named BETA Group as a 2021 Bronze Engineering Excellence Award winner for their work on the Commonwealth Avenue Revitalization.
The City of Boston recognizes that great street design is about connecting people to destinations, services, opportunities, and each other. Commonwealth Avenue lacked the orderly and safe accommodation of the multi-modal demands on the roadway. The resulting improvements transform the visual environment and extend the Citys network of bike, pedestrian, transit, vehicular amenities, and opportunity for uninterrupted access to destinations via safe, comfortable, convenient streets. The project responds directly to the Boston 2030 Vision Plan. It achieves transportation equity, improves safety and reliability, and significantly increases the effectiveness and use of public transit, walking, and biking.
The 2021 Engineering Excellence Awards were recently announced and will be celebrated at the virtual ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala. The awards celebrate innovation, ingenuity, and excellence in engineering achievement. Entries for the 2022 Spring Engineering Excellence awards are now available.
The ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Awards Competition recognizes engineering achievements that demonstrate the highest degree of merit and ingenuity, said Dennis J. Baker, President of ACEC/MA and Vice President and Area Manager for WPS. We celebrate this years outstanding engineering achievements, congratulate our winners and thank them for their contributions to improving the quality of our everyday lives.
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Argan, Inc.’s Wholly Owned Subsidiary Atlantic Projects Company enters into an Engineering and Construction Contract for a 660 MW Power Project in…
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Argan, Inc. (NYSE: AGX) (Argan or the Company) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Atlantic Projects Company (APC), recently entered into an engineering and construction services contract with EPUKI London, UK, to construct a 2 x 330 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Carrickfergus, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The power trains will be provided by Siemens Energy which will utilize SGT5-4000F gas turbines. The facility is being developed by EPNI Energy Limited. A notice to proceed has been received with certain project activities having commenced. The overall project completion date is expected in the latter half of 2023.
This is a major investment by EPUKI which will create a significant new electricity generation asset for the island of Ireland. We are delighted to have been chosen by EPUKI to provide engineering and construction services for this strategic project and we look forward to its successful delivery, said Billy Nolan, Managing Director, Atlantic Projects Company.
This is APCs largest project to date under Argans ownership. Argan anticipates adding this project to backlog with immediate effect.
About Argan, Inc.
Argans primary business is providing a full range of services to the power industry including the renewable energy sector. Argans service offerings focus primarily on the engineering, procurement and construction of natural gas-fired power plants, along with related commissioning, operations management, maintenance, project development and consulting services, through its Gemma Power Systems and Atlantic Projects Company operations. Argan also owns SMC Infrastructure Solutions, which provides telecommunications infrastructure services, and The Roberts Company, which is a fully integrated fabrication, construction and industrial plant services company.
Certain matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws and are subject to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the Companys successful addition of new contracts to project backlog, the Companys receipt of corresponding notices to proceed with contract activities and the Companys ability to successfully complete the projects that it obtains. The Company has entered into several EPC contracts that have not started and may not start as planned due to market and other circumstances out of the Companys control. Actual results and the timing of certain events could differ materially from those projected in or contemplated by the forward-looking statements due to a number of factors detailed from time to time in Argans filings with the SEC. In addition, reference is hereby made to cautionary statements with respect to risk factors set forth in the Companys most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, and in other SEC filings.
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New session to have Engineering lectures in Hindi in Haryana and Marathi in Pune – Times of India
All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has allowed three colleges in Haryana to start BTech courses in the Hindi language and we may soon have BTech courses in other regional languages. This initiative of the AICTE is in direct alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. AICTE has approved 210 seats in these colleges to start BTech courses in Hindi. However, the colleges would need more time to cope up themselves to smoothen the welcome change.
Speaking to Education Times, Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, AICTE, says, We approved BTech course in five different languages namely, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali and Hindi from July 15, 2021. Many universities showed interest to start BTech courses in regional languages. However, the colleges or universities will have to transparently inform the stakeholders. Recently, Pimpri Chinchwad College Of Engineering (PCCOE) in Pune sought permission to start Engineering course in Marathi.
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The whole initiative aims to ensure that students who have done schooling in regional languages are not left out. Most of these students tend to lose confidence and face cultural shock, he adds.
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New session to have Engineering lectures in Hindi in Haryana and Marathi in Pune - Times of India
Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department Special Land Use Hearing: 18017 East Warren Avenue – City of Detroit
NOTICE OF HEARINGPLEASE NOTE OUR MEETINGS ARE TEMPORARILY ON ZOOM
Governor Gretchen Whitmers Stay Home, Stay Safe Executive Order 2020-21 (EO 2020-21) went into effect on March 24, 2020. Consistent with the various executive orders from Governor Whitmer, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, Special Land Use Hearings will be meeting remotely via the internet until further notice. This action is being taken in accordance with Governor Whitmers Executive Order 2020-75, which provides temporary authorization of remote participation in public meetings and hearings.
The Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department, Special Land Use Hearings will be held electronically, in compliance with the Open Meetings Act and EO 2020-75
TO OWNERS AND RESIDENTS OF PROPERTY WITHIN 300 FEET OF:
You are hereby notified that a hearing will be held at 9AM on Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The link below is for all of our Zoom Meetings: https://cityofdetroit.zoom.us/j/91380692722
Dial in number: 1-267-831-0333
APPLICANT: Timothy Flintoff Architect, PLLC Timothy Flintoff
LOCATION: 18017 E. Warren, 5027 Radnor, & 5000 Farmbrook between Radnor and Farmbrook Streets
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: Long legal description available upon request (PIN 21003037-45, 21078438, & 21077997)
PROPOSED USE: Establish an Employee Recruitment Center in an existing 13,600 square foot building in a B4TMSO (General Business in a Traditional Main Street Overlay) Zoning
District and develop a 19-space Accessory Parking Lot on existing vacant land in an R1 (Single-Family Residential) Zoning District.
PROCESSED PER SECTIONS 50-3-241, 50-8-22(1), 50-9-112(11), and 50-12-299 OF THE OFFICIAL ZONING ORDINANCE Chapter 50.
Any citizens, owner or resident of property (or his/her duly authorized representative) may express his/her comments, statements, or opinions concerning the proposed land use either in writing to the Department, by email at [emailprotected] or by virtually at this hearing.
NOTICE TO HANDICAPPED PERSONS
BSEED Hearings are accessible to the handicapped. Any handicapped person needing special assistance (other than transportation) in order to participate in this hearing must notify the Department of such need at least forty-eight hours prior to the hearing. Michigan Relay is a communications system that allows hearing persons and deaf, hard of hearing, or speech impaired persons to communicate by telephone. Users may reach Michigan Relay by dialing 7-1-1 and then connecting with the Zoom conference number above. There is no additional charge to use this service. Please contact 313-590-1922 with any requests for accommodations.
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OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology announces 2021 Hall of Fame inductees and Lohmann Medal recipients – Oklahoma State…
Monday, October 18, 2021
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The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology (CEAT) at Oklahoma State University has announced the 2021 Hall of Fame inductees and Lohmann Medal recipients.
CEAT Hall of Fame nominees must be a distinguished engineer, architect or technologist who has made an outstanding contribution to their profession or OSU and has served their community, state and nation with distinction. They should represent some of the most distinguished alumni and industry leaders associated with CEAT. The following candidates meet and exceed all criteria for the hall of fame recognition.
The Melvin R. Lohmann Medal was established in 1991 to honor alumni of CEAT for contributions to the profession or education of engineers, architects or technologists that merits the highest recognition. These honorees are also inducted into the CEAT Hall of Fame.
Dr. Christine Altendorf grew up in Oklahoma City, started at OSU in the fall of 1981, and later graduated with her Bachelor of Science in agricultural engineering in 1985, and her Master of Science in the same subject in 1987. After her masters degree, Altendorf started a full-time staff position with the School of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) as a research engineer and decided to work on her doctoral degree on the side.
After receiving her doctorate, Altendorf realized she had a passion for applied engineering and started her federal government career in the Hydrology and Hydraulics Branch of the Tulsa District Corps of Engineers in April 1994. She became a professional engineer in Civil Engineering that same year.
Altendorf currently serves as the chief of engineering and construction for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Washington, D.C. In this role, she oversees a workforce of more than 9,000 engineers and technicians, and a portfolio of civil and military projects totaling over $60 billion. She interacts extensively with top leaders within the Department of Defense and other government agencies, as well as those working in the private sector of engineering and construction. She makes regular appearances on Capitol Hill and communicates frequently with various professional and advocacy groups. She has worked for the Army for over 27 years, 21 of which were with the Corps.
Altendorf became a member of the prestigious Senior Executive Service (SES) in 2009. The SES is all about executive leadership; these individuals serve just below presidential appointees and represent a key link between political appointees and civil service employees. Only about 0.35 percent of the federal workforce achieves SES status. At about the same time she assumed her current position, Altendorf was recognized with the Distinguished Executive Presidential Rank Award. This is the highest annual award for career SES members and recognizes sustained extraordinary accomplishment. No more than one percent of the career SES corps can receive the Distinguished Executive Presidential Rank Award each year.
Altendorf has had assignments across the globe including: Kansas City; San Francisco; Dallas; Washington, D.C.; Hawaii; Iraq and Afghanistan. Her career has some truly remarkable signature accomplishments that merit additional mention. The Folsom Dam project, which she inherited when she was new to the Sacramento District, had significant constructability and cost issues with pressure from Congress and headquarters to solve the problem. She worked with the Bureau of Reclamation, USACE, and Congress to turn the project around and get the $1 billion Folsom Joint Federal Project authorized and constructed.
She led Task Force Restore Iraqi Oil (TF-RIO) in 2004, working to get oil flowing from northern Iraq to the south to allow for economic stability and nation building for the country. In 2011, she led the Joint Program Integration Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, focused on building electrical grid systems, roadways, dams, and infrastructure for the Afghan Army and police.
Because of her program management and communication skills, she was asked to be the first Director of the Armys Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Program, which was outside of her normal realm of assignments. Responding to Congress, the White House, and both the Secretaries of Defense and the Army, she developed a significant number of initiatives and successfully launched this critical program.
While Altendorf was Director of the Army Installation Management Command Pacific (another non-USACE assignment), she was involved with the Korea Transformation program involving $10 billion of infrastructure that was constructed and accepted at Camp Humphreys for the relocation of 25,000 soldiers and family members to the new installation.
Altendorf explains the importance of getting an engineering degree, being an engineer allows you so many opportunities and that is the true value of the degree. You can choose to stay in design or construction engineering, or research where you turn ideas into practical solutions. You can move to management and focus on inspiring and leading people, projects and programs. But the basis of all of this is that through our engineering degrees, we were taught to think, assume, imagine and ultimately solve hard problems and create an innovative future.
Dr. Leland Blank graduated from OSU with his Master of Science in 1968 and his doctoral degree in 1970. Since leaving the School of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at OSU, Blank has built a stellar career spanning multiple universities around the globe.
Some of Blanks biggest accomplishments include being a leader in international higher education development, and co-author of two current and leading engineering textbooks in engineering economy. Both textbooks are published by McGraw Hill, with the first textbook on its eighth edition, and the second textbook on its third edition. He has served as the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) President, as well as interim provost, chief academic officer and dean of engineering at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI of multiple educational and research projects. Blank was a distinguished military graduate from ROTC and a recipient of the Army commendation medal.
Blank has also received IISEs pinnacle award, the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth award in 2018. The Gilbreth award is the highest and most esteemed honor in the field of industrial engineering, which recognizes those who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the welfare of mankind in the field. He was awarded the IISE Wellington Award for long-term contributions to the field of engineering economy, as well.
Blank has provided leadership at several levels at Texas A&M University: department head; assistant dean; and assistant provost for continuous improvement. Within the Texas A&M University system, his leadership includes several directorships and the key role of assistant deputy chancellor for planning. His industrial experience includes employment with Southwestern Bell Telephone, Public Service Board of San Antonio, and General Telephone Company (now Verizon).
Blank is also the author of over 100 publications textbooks, journal articles, conference proceedings and keynote papers. His professional focus has been engineering economics, statistics, decision support, strategic planning and managing complex systems. Though the number of his publications is noteworthy, it is not the volume of Blanks work that makes him an exceptional contributor to Industrial and Systems Engineering, but rather his impact. Blank has always been forward thinking and his publications reflect his ability to challenge the status quo and move the finish line.
Blank continues to serve professionally through his membership on the Board of Trustees of St. Marys University in San Antonio, where he received his bachelors degree. Additionally, he is a board member and treasurer of The Cowboy Academy of the IEM Department at OSU.
Regarding advice to current and future CEAT students, Blank advises, become involved in some sort of mentoring program through your academic department or an organization in which you are a member or officer. Listening to and asking questions of several professionals currently in practice, who received an education and degree similar to your own, can be very useful as you decide on dimensions regarding your own career path.
Carrie Johnson graduated from OSU in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering, as well as her Master of Architectural Engineering degree in 1988. She now serves as a principal of Wallace Engineering Structural Consultants, Inc., (now Wallace Design Collective) a national structural engineering, civil engineering and landscape architecture firm headquartered in Tulsa with offices in Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Denver and Atlanta. She is a licensed engineer in 43 states. Johnson currently serves as the chair of the Board of Directors for Wallace Design Collective.
Johnson is a past president of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), a non-profit organization formed to constantly improve the standard level of practice of the structural engineering profession. She has also served on a number of NCSEA committees. In 2016, Johnson was given the NCSEA Service Award. This award is presented to an individual who has worked for the betterment of the organization to a degree that is beyond the norm of volunteerism. It is given to someone who has made a clear and indisputable contribution to the organization and to the profession.
Johnson is an active member of the Oklahoma Structural Engineers Association (OSEA), served as president of OSEA in 2001 and 2009, and was the OSEA delegate to NCSEA for six years. She has also served numerous times as a juror for the OSU School of Architectures senior design projects; as an advisor for the School of Civil Engineerings senior level steel course; and has been a mentor for high school students interested in engineering programs housed in CEAT.
Johnson served as president of the Board of Directors of the Applied Technology Council (ATC) in 2019, a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to develop and promote state-of-the-art, user-friendly engineering resources and applications for use in mitigating the effects of natural and other hazards to the built environment. ATC's publications on disaster recovery and assessment are used throughout the world. She also serves as chair of ATC's strategic planning committee and is still on the board of directors today.
Johnsons project work is concentrated in the retail industry where she has been instrumental in the development of multi-sited building prototypes. She has automated many in-house operational and administrative functions and, more importantly, has developed proprietary software programs to automate repetitive structural engineering tasks for clients building programs. She has led the companys efforts to create the best experience possible for their clients and employees, called One Wallace. This has been a multi-year effort to provide training tools for employees, consistency between offices, and drawing and engineering standards.
My most vivid memories are of long nights in the architecture building, Johnson said as she reflected on her time at OSU. I am privileged to work with many of the people I met at OSU and a lot of our clients are people who we all met during our time in college.
Dr. Matt Perry is an OSU alumnus with three degrees in Electrical Engineering. He last graduated from OSU with his doctorate in 1991, where he focused on signal processing, system theory and mathematics.
Perry has over 35 years of industry and academic experience, spanning three different areas: first in defense, then semiconductors and finally hyperscale hardware and software systems. He is currently the general manager of silicon and hardware systems for Microsofts Azure Hardware Division, where he is developing next generation data center silicon/hardware solutions with emphasis on artificial intelligence, computation and intelligent edge.
Perry has had an impact on many dimensions of the field. He was an accomplished researcher, and published papers in signal processing, both working as an engineer and as an educator. Those skills served him well as he became an engineering product leader at Motorola, developing and shipping video conferencing chipsets. In this role, he developed hardware neural networks, an experience which would serve him well later in his career.
With his communication expertise from his time as a professor, his talent as a researcher, and his design capabilities as an engineer, Perry already had a powerful combination of skills. When he moved to Advanced Micro Devices in 1995, he supplemented all those capabilities with a move into corporate strategy. Perry managed AMD's strategy with respect to Intel along with their technical and intellectual property strategies.
After AMD, Perry moved into a business entrepreneur role, serving as the CEO of three different startup companies (Transmeta, RPO, and Montalvo). Transmeta had been a darling of Silicon Valley with their ambition of revolutionizing microprocessor architecture, but the competition proved too challenging, causing them to fall on hard times. Perry was brought in to chart a new course, which he did by shifting Transmeta to an IP licensing company. That move proved successful and Transmeta was able to license large portions of their portfolio for nine figures of revenue. At RPO, he led successful technology development and financing rounds. He then led Montavlo to be one of the only companies successfully developing x86 microprocessors outside of Intel and AMD, and successfully sold the company to Sun Microsystems.
After the Sun Microsystems acquisition, Perry moved into the role of corporate executive, overseeing strategic partnerships, IP licensing, and strategic plans for multiple server designs. In 2014, he moved to Microsoft, where he took on an even broader role than at Sun, overseeing hardware partnerships and hardware-software codesign for the Windows business. He was extremely successful in this executive role, and the Windows 10 hardware ecosystem is now incredibly healthy, with a compelling product mix of third party and first party devices, as well as a strong product roadmap.
Perry commends his professors and the CEAT staff for providing him with the support he needed to graduate with his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees at OSU.
One of my proudest moments at OSU is when I completed my doctoral defense, Perry said. I will never forget standing in front of my major professor, Dr. Rao Yarlagadda, as he extended his hand to shake and said, Congratulations Dr. Perry, you have passed,' after years of work and research. I would not have been able to do it without the help of the Cowboy family.
Perry reflects on his time at OSU, and his biggest advice to young CEAT students is, one of the most important lessons I learned from OSU is to branch out and try things outside of your comfort zone. Without doing this, it is more challenging to grow and become the person you want to be. You may find a new passion or hobby, but going outside of your comfort zone and learning new things will open doors that you never knew were available.
Stan Stephenson graduated from OSU in 2003 with a Master of Science in Engineering and Technology Management (ETM). He is a registered professional engineer and certified reliability engineer. Stephenson has been with Halliburton since 1979 and is now a chief technical advisor for the company.
Stephenson immediately leveraged his ETM education at OSU to win the 2003 CEO for a Day Competition with a written entry on how to make Halliburton a better, stronger, more profitable company. Following this, he developed a reliability program modeled after the U.S. Armys Ultra-Reliability Program. He managed this program for several years before taking a role to optimize both the capital efficiency and operating efficiency of the Production Enhancement surface equipment.
Stephenson has 64 patented inventions, which vary drastically from one application to another. One invention uses artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms to maximize regional oil production. This production prediction and optimization system was highlighted in the Advanced Well Construction Technology Flagship in the 2000 Halliburton Annual report. This technology was awarded the Harts Oil and Gas World magazines Best New Technology for the Mid-Continent Area.
Stephenson was also one of a small team that brought Halliburtons automated stimulation fleet into a reality in the 1980s. A few years later, the fleet became the first in the industry to be controlled remotely through satellite connection.
Stephenson did not limit himself to mechanical, electromechanical, software/firmware or reliability systems. In the area of chemical mixing, he identified and modeled the time, temperature and mechanical shear dependency of guar hydration. This was critical to the functioning of Halliburtons gelling systems.
Stephensons expertise has been recognized by both his peers and management within Halliburton. He was voted by his peers as a senior member of the technical staff and was selected by management as one of the charter members of the Strategic Competitive Intelligence Network. He currently reviews about 8,000 patents a year for opportunities for or threats to Halliburtons technologies.
Stephensons latest activities involve the creation of methods to accurately predict equipment life and operating costs. He created equivalency-based models that contain lifecycle performances of all primary components of the equipment, enabling a very complicated reliability analysis system currently in use in Halliburton. His methods allow Halliburton to maximize the use of their complex high horsepower systems while minimizing failure costs. His depth of knowledge of this technology and other technologies made him the go-to individual in the company and in the industry. He has been an invited speaker/consultant on many technologies he developed.
Stephenson gives CEAT students advice when going through their collegiate years, good judgement comes from bad experiences. You have the authority to do anything for which you are willing to accept the consequences. Understand the half-life of your engineering discipline and plan for your continuing education accordingly. Most importantly, follow your passion so you wont work a day in your life.
The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology would like to congratulate all of its 2021 Hall of Fame inductees and Lohmann Medal recipients.
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College of Engineering and Science to honor past distinguished alumni – News at Louisiana Tech
The Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science (COES) will honor its 2020 Distinguished Alumni on Friday, Oct. 22, with a Deans Reception.
During the Deans Reception, Dr. Hisham Hegab, COES Dean, will recognize distinguished alumni who did not receive an in-person ceremony because of COVID-19. The event is open to these distinguished alumni and their families, the Engineering and Science Foundation Board, and COES program chairs.
These alumni have shown commitment to their fields, the University, and the College, and I am proud to have the opportunity to celebrate their achievements, Hegab said. Each of these alumni serves as an example for our students. Their distinguished careers and accomplishments highlight what someone with skill, perseverance, and a Louisiana Tech engineering and science education can accomplish.
The following alumni will be honored at the ceremony.
Faculty select Distinguished Alumni from past graduates within their programs each year.
The Engineering and Science Foundation Board supports the activities and programs of the College, serves as an advisory committee to the Dean, secures funds to meet the Colleges needs, and coordinates efforts with the University Foundation.
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SJSU Joins CSU Initiative to Increase Women Faculty in Engineering | SJSU Newsroom – SJSU Today
Sheryl Ehrman, dean of the College of Engineering, speaks at San Jos States Silicon Valley Women in Engineering conference in 2019. The university has joined a CSU-wide initiative to increase women faculty in engineering.
More than 30% of tenure or tenure-track faculty at San Jos State Universitys Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering are women the fourth highest among public engineering colleges in the country, according to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Thanks to a $1.25 million National Science Foundation grant, that number may grow, with an emphasis on increasing diversity as well as expanding networking and support opportunities for women faculty.
Awarded to California State University, Fresno who is partnering with SJSU, California State University Los Angeles and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo the grant will support those California State University (CSU) campuses efforts to hire more women engineering faculty members, especially underrepresented minority women, according to a release from Fresno State.
Ultimately, the goal is to enroll more female students. Up to 11 more CSU campuses may eventually join the initiative.
We are excited to participate in this initiative, said Sheryl Ehrman, the Don Beall Dean of the College of Engineering.
While we are one of the top public colleges of engineering in the nation with respect to women tenure/tenure-track faculty, there is still room for progress, she continued. I appreciate the focus on strengthening research collaborations and building the mentoring and peer-support network.
The initiative, called the Kindling Inter-University Networks for Diverse (KIND) Engineering Faculty Advancement, is led by Fresno State and will follow a three-pronged approach.
First, it will analyze the campuses engineering faculty data using Aspires Institutional Change program to evaluate hiring practices, and policies and procedures around supporting and advancing existing faculty.
Second, it will create a CSU-wide network for research collaboration, including mini-grants for network members. And third, it will foster a systemwide mentoring and peer-support network to increase faculty retention and promotion.
The initiative will also create a dashboard where campuses can track the demographics of existing faculty and advancement data, which would allow them to identify potential roadblocks in hiring and retention.
Is it at the hiring state where we arent getting diverse candidates? Is it in faculty departures before tenure? Is there a gender difference there? asked Kimberly Stillmaker, assistant professor of civil engineering at Fresno State and one of the faculty members who led the grant application process.
Once we have that data, then well be able to make better changes, more pinpointed changes, she noted.
In 2019, only 17% of the countrys engineering tenured/tenure-track faculty were women, according to the ASEE, and its even lower for Black and Latina women.
Since Ehrman stepped into her role in 2017, she has worked to increase the presence of female faculty in SJSUs College of Engineering.
The SJSU campus has made significant changes to our faculty search processes, including training committees in inclusive search practices, she noted.
Our college has women in leadership roles department chairs, associate deans and me as the second female dean so this helps in recruiting women at all career stages, Ehrman continued. We are looking for faculty who are student-focused and who will prioritize delivering a quality educational experience for students as well as research that directly involves students.
Young Park, associate professor of computer engineering, is one of those faculty members. She uplifts women and underrepresented minorities through cybersecurity hands-on research and industry experience.
My focus is to let these students overcome stereotypes as they develop skills that are needed for advanced cybersecurity, she explained.
I believe diversity is a key factor for successful programs at any organization and any project, because the complete solution can be derived from various backgrounds and environments. Through the KIND project, I hope our female faculty members will become leaders in the engineering field.
Another strategy that has helped recruit women engineers to SJSU is the colleges emphasis on applied research that benefits society, Ehrman said.
Women are more drawn to engineering if they see an engineering career as a way they can contribute positively to society, and being an engineering professional, training the next generation of engineers is a way to scale that benefit, Ehrman explained.
The College of Engineering provides several opportunities for women engineering students to build relationships with mentors and each other. For example, the college hosts an annual Silicon Valley Women in Engineering Conference, where female engineering students from SJSU and other higher ed institutions can learn from women professionals in the field.
SJSU women engineering students can also join SWE SJSU, the campuss chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. And in 2017, an engineering sorority was founded on campus as well.
Still, Ehrman emphasized that the KIND Engineering Faculty Advancement initiative will allow SJSU to continue to take big steps toward bringing more women especially underrepresented minority women into the engineering field.
The grant will provide excellent opportunities for networking and support of women faculty across the CSU, so our current and future faculty will greatly benefit, she said.
While our percentages are high, our college can improve in recruitment and retention of women faculty of color, and we hope to be able to learn through participation in this grant how we can improve in this area.
Learn more about the KIND Engineering Faculty Advancement initiative.
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These organizations are helping young women see themselves in engineering careers – The Globe and Mail
Photographer Heike Delmore documents Kushboo Patel in action at Valiant Machine and Tool in Windsor, Ont., as part of a photo campaign to show women working in STEM and the trades.
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Dora Strelkova has always been interested in how things work. Her dad, who she describes as a jack-of-all-trades, often built things in his home workshop and taught her how to use tools such as a power saw. But when Ms. Strelkova joined her schools robotics team in Grade 9, she felt intimidated as one of only three girls on a team of 15.
I went to the first meeting and they were using all these technical terms and terminologies and tools, Ms. Strelkova says. They were working on their robot already. I had no idea what they were doing. I was so intimidated. I stopped going to meetings.
A few months later, at a job fair held at her Windsor, Ont., high school, Ms. Strelkova won a raffle prize to attend a week-long summer camp through the Windsor-based non-profit Build a Dream. The camp was meant for young girls to learn more about skilled trades.
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I was introduced to an electrician and we wired a home circuit with a switch and a lightbulb, Ms. Strelkova recalls. The camp piqued Strelkovas interest in hands-on activities. In Grade 10, she rejoined the robotics team and went on to become a team leader in Grade 12. Now, shes in her fourth year studying electrical engineering at the University of Windsor.
I think a lot of girls still grow up thinking that STEM-related or engineering fields arent meant for women, which is a completely false narrative that we need to rewrite, she says.
Exposure to career pathways is an important factor in helping young women see engineering as a viable option, says Nour Hachem-Fawaz, president and founder of Build a Dream. This national non-profit organization, founded in 2014 and backed by industry sponsors including EllisDon, Enbridge, Spark Power, Valiant TMS and Magna International, was created to advance diversity and inclusion initiatives and encourage female students to explore careers where women are under-represented.
In Canada, engineering is one industry where women lag far behind in representation. According to national organization Engineers Canada, women made up only 14.2 per cent of total national membership in 2020.
Dora Strelkova, an electrical engineering student at the University of Windsor, uses a 3D printer as part of a photo shoot for Build a Dream at Valiant Machine and Tool.
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For many Build a Dream events, Ms. Hachem-Fawaz says her team engages both parents and their daughters to learn about career paths in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and the trades. They educate parents about the high demand for STEM and trades professionals and the prospects for financial gain through these career paths. When speaking to students, the approach changes, she says.
[Young women] often say I want to help people, she explains. We highlight how career pathways in STEM and skilled trades help build, create and design communities.
For example, they might explain how civil engineers design hospitals to ensure they are safe and accessible for the public.
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When you position it that way, an aha moment happens and theyre like, Okay, now I can see how thats going to make an impact.
At the University of Alberta, Ania Ulrich, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and the facultys first female department chair, helped develop Fem+, a seven-month mentorship program for high school students of under-represented genders.
Whats been key about this program is it uses the model of near-peer mentorship, Ms. Ulrich says. As opposed to somebody middle-aged, like me, going into the classroom, we get undergraduate female engineering students who are currently in the program to pair up one-to-one with these students.
Ms. Ulrich says the group focuses on building relationships and creating meaningful connections rather than hosting competitions, which can be a very male-centric way of approaching things. Program participants have gone on field trips to the observatory, learned about a group building wildfire-identifying satellites and talked with engineering professors and working professionals.
The effectiveness of Fem+ was clear after its first cohort of 30 students completed the program in 2018, says Ms. Ulrich. (Theyve since expanded to 60 high school students.)
In our first year, 89 per cent of the [high school] students [who participated] came to our engineering program, she says. The remainder went to other STEM programs, like the sciences or computer science. Weve had really high success.
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While Build a Dream and Fem+ focus on high school-aged students, others in the industry are introducing careers in STEM to girls at an even younger age. For example, Komal Singh, a Google engineering program manager based in Waterloo, Ont., has written two childrens books: Ara the Star Engineer and Ara the Dream Innovator, to get more young girls interested in STEM. Since first being published in 2018, Ara the Star Engineer has been translated into ten languages.
Industry and societal stereotypes also play a role in how young women and their parents view careers in the trades and STEM, Ms. Hachem-Fawaz says. Thats why Build A Dream hosted a series of photo shoots with women at job sites this past summer and fall.
We were struggling to find stock images of women in the industry that werent staged or filled with makeup, she says. As opposed to showing them carrying a tool bag, why dont we show them working with those tools in action?
The photos capture women working in construction, automotive engineering, manufacturing, millwork and more. The images from the shoots are available to the public and Ms. Hachem-Fawaz hopes that companies, industry magazines and publications will make use of them.
The more young women see themselves reflected in these kinds of images, the more likely they will be to dream about a future in STEM and the trades, she says.
Its about a societal shift, she says.
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