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Technical Session Presentations

Posted by newsletter on 06/25/2015 12:00 am  /   Technical Session

Five Concurrent Technical Session Tracks will run from 9am - 11:50am

Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) Seminars 

  • Topic: TexRail - Speaker: Chad Gartner, P.E., Transystems Corporation & Richey Thompson, TexRail
  • Topic: $5 Billion Dollar Mile - Speaker: John Bonnot, Frisco Economic Development Corporation
  • Topic: Edwards Ranch - Speaker: Paxton Motheral, Cassco Land

Environmental Water Resource Institute (EWRI) 

  • Topic: San Antonio River Authority Stormwater Quality Best Management Practices  -  Speaker: Yu-Chun Su, Ph.D., P.E., CFM, CPESC, CPSWQ, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc.
  • Topic: Arlington's New Unified Strormwater Ordinance and Design Criteria
    Manual
    - Speakers: Mandy Clark, P.E., CFM, City of Arlington; Ben Pylant, P.E., CFM, Halff Associates; and Stephen Crawford, P.E., CFM, Halff Associates
  • Topic: High-resolution flash flooding forecasting and inundation mapping
    using CASAWX rainfall data
    - Speaker: Hamideh Habibi, Behzad Nazari and
    Amir Norouzi

Construction Institute (CI)

  • Topic: Crash Testing of Highway Safety Features -Speaker: William Williams, TTI
  • Topic: Precast Pavement  -  Speaker: David K. Merritt, P.E., The Transtec Group, Inc.
  • Topic: Dallas Horseshoe Design / Build Project Overview - Speaker: Bob Brown & Yingqin "Elaine" Jin, Parsons Brinkerhoff

Geotechnical Institute (GI) 

  • Topic: A Look at Earthquake Activity in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area -  Speaker: Brian Stump
  • Topic: Slope Stability using Recycled Plastic Pins - Speaker: Md. Shahadat Hossain, P.E., UTA
  • Topic: Sulfate Soils Research and On-going Geotech Research at UTA -  Speaker: Anand J. Puppala, P.E., UTA

Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)

  • Topic: TxDOT Bridge Design Practices and Standards -  Speaker: John Holt, P.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE; Director of TxDOT Bridge Design
  • Topic: Rehabilitation of Eagle Mountain Lake Dam - Speakers: James Parkes, P.E., Parsons Brinkerhoff & Louie Verreault; TRWD
  • Topic: Structural Presentation - Speaker: Frank Neal & Associates


The Ethics Seminar will run from 1:30pm - 2:30pm (Remember 1 hour of ethics is required for your P.E. renewal)

 

Speaker: C. W. Clark, Texas Board of Professional Engineers