Our seminars:
We host weekly educational seminars, where a guest presenter from academia or industry presents on a chosen topic. We try to select seminar speakers to cover the broad range of possible topics that compose geotechnical engineering and that may be of particular interest to our members. These seminars are generally held on Friday from 12 – 1 pm with lunch being provided for all members of good standing.
Upcoming Seminars:
Dr. Amber Wang from Arup - Seismic SSI Modeling for Major Underground Projects
6 December 2024
Jeremy Goethals and Victor Vasquez from Freese and Nichols- Water Resources Design and Geotechnical Engineering Services at Freese and Nichols, Inc.
22 November 2024
Jeff Fippin and Teresa Klotzback from ENGEO - Alameda Marina: Challenges of Redeveloping Former Waterfront Industrial Properties
15 November 2024
Mohamad Hussein from GRL Engineers - Testing Methods of Deep Foundations for Load Bearing Capacity and Structural Integrity
8 November 2024
Buchanan Lecture
1 November 2024
Audrey Housson from Black and Veatch - Tunneling Deep in the Heart of Austin, Texas
18 October 2024
Victoria Webber from Schnabel - Day in the Life of a Dam Upgrade
11 October 2024
Dr. Kawamata Yohsuke - Toward Future U.S.-Japan Research Collaboration on Geotechnical Engineering
4 October 2024
Student Presentations - Hassan and Mert
20 September 2024
Student Presentations - Sheldon and Cheng-Hsi
13 September 2024
Dr. Rathje - Learning from Earthquakes and Other Natural Hazards: Past, Present, and Future
6 September 2024
Site Visit - Installation of the drilled shafts for EDB
17 April 2024
Reese Lecture - Dr. Rudy Bonaparte of GeoSyntec Consultants
12 April 2024
Lizan Gilbert, Paul Madsen, and Ben Seling of Kiewit
5 April 2024
Dr. Thaleia Travasarou, David Valintine, and Gouri Mohan of Fugro
22 Mar 2024
Site Visit at EDB
14 Feb 2024
Dr. Ahmed Hussien from WSP
2 Feb 2024
Dr. Jeong-Yun Won from Innovative Geotechnology
26 Jan 2024
Dr. William Hansmire from WSP
15 Nov 2023
Dr. Kuo-Hsin Yang from National Taiwan University
3 Nov 2023
Buchanan Lecture
20 October 2023
Steve Xu, Lorenzo Peve, and Emrah Yenier - Haley & Aldrich
18 October 2023
Robin Lim - Geolab
17 October 2023
Dr. Ze Zhou Wang - University of Cambridge
16 October 2023
Marcus Galvan & Matthew Miller from Foresight
13 October 2023
Hamid Javady, Cassandra Prince, and Bradley McConnon of STV Inc
06 October 2023
Sebastian Lobo-Guerrero from AGES
29 September 2023
I-405 and NE 132nd Street Interchange Project - Kirsten Hooper and Abbie Fiano from GeoEngineers
08 September 2023
Redevelopment of the Sierra Point Landfill - Meena Viswanath and Logan Brant from Geosyntec
01 September 2023
2019-2020 DFI Traveling Lecturer Willie NeSmith
21 February 2020
Jean-Louis Briaud from Texas A&M University
14 February 2020
Scott Anderson from BGC Engineering
31 January 2020
General Body Meeting
24 January 2020
Asitha Senanayake and Victor Taboada from Fugro
6 December 2019
Jeff Fippin, David Teague, and Jonas Bauer from ENGEO
22 November 2019
Kemp Lewis from Arias Geoprofessionals
15 November 2019
Robert Lawrence from HVJ Associates
8 November 2019
Pegah Rajaei from Intertek PSI
1 November 2019
Gonzalo Vasquez and Shin-Tower Wang from Ensoft
25 October 2019
2019 Buchanan Lecture
18 October 2019
James Hance from Eustis Engineering
4 October 2019
Christian Armstrong from Golder
27 September 2019
Julia Roberts and Amir Ahmadipur from Geosyntec
13 September 2019
Renee Fippin, Kush Chohan, and Jakob Walter from McMillen Jacobs
6 September 2019
What Do We Do
Educational Seminars
Seminars by visiting academics and practitioners.
Social Events
Events to get away from classes and research.
Course Reference
Coursework of interest for our current members.