Professor Juang Receives the McQueen Quattlebaum Award
Dr. C. Hsein Juang received the 2008 McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award. This is a College of Engineering and Science wide award. Primary emphasis of this award is placed on previous year's accomplishments, distinctions and awards within the context of the past three years.
Professor Nielson Receives the Byars Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Bryant G. Nielson received the 2008 Byars Prize for Excellence in Teaching. This is a College of Engineering and Science wide award. Eligible faculty are those who have taught at least nine credit hours of fundamental engineering courses during the past 1.5 years.
Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge Teams Head to Nationals
CE Alumna Vicki Willis Ford - One of 40 AEC Superstars
According to Building Design + Construction editors, "The 40 remarkable individuals profiled here are some of the brightest stars in the AEC universe - and they're under the age of 40. These young architects, engineers, contractors, designers, and developers stood out among a group of 275 outstanding entrants in our third annual "40 Under 40" competition." Vicki Ford, PE, Principal at Walter P Moore, Houston, specializes in structural renovation of historic buildings and complex 3D structures. She is one of the youngest of the firm's 72 principals. She is an in-house mentor for younger engineers. Her more recent projects include the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas and the Palazzo Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Vicki is the President-elect of the Structural Engineers Association of Texas. Vicki received her BSCE and MS from the Department.
Professor C. Hsein Juang Elevated to Fellow of ASCE
From ASCE News (December 2007). Charng Hsein Juang, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, is a professor in the civil engineering department at Clemson University. Licensed as a professional engineer in South Carolina, he holds a doctorate in civil engineering from Purdue University. Juang is known internationally for his innovations and contributions concerning the application of reliability methods, fuzzy and neural methods, and probabilistic methods in the field of geotechnical engineering. His work on liquefaction, brace excavation, slope stability, and soil and rock properties is widely cited, and he has been an invited speaker at various international institutions and geotechnical conferences. Juang has served on technical committees within ASCE's Geo-Institute and is a member of the editorial board of the Society's Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. He has more than 100 refereed papers to his credit and has taught and mentored hundreds of students during his 25 years of teaching. He has also mentored students and younger faculty members through collaboration in research, particularly in the areas of geomechanics and earthquake engineering, that has been funded by such agencies as the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey. He personally developed many of the courses he has taught, and his accomplishments as a teacher have been recognized with a number of awards. In 2001 Juang received the T.K. Hsieh Award from the United Kingdom's Institution of Civil Engineers for a paper he wrote on reliability design.