| Date |
Title |
| 13 Oct 2008 |
David Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, gave an invited talk, "Energy and Urban Climate Benefits of Green Roofs," to the World Green Roof Congress in London, Sept. 17. More than 300 researchers and government officials attended the congress. |
| 13 Oct 2008 |
Heejun Chang and Martin Lafrenz, Geography faculty, and Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, were awarded a $87,002 grant from Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to study future flooding impacts on transportation infrastructure and traffic patterns resulting from climate change. |
| 13 Oct 2008 |
Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, received a one-year, $30,000 research grant from the Collins Medical Trust in Portland to conduct a study titled "Cell Biomechanics and the Study of Disease States." Co-investigators and collaborators for the grant include Portland State faculty members Derek Tretheway and Randy Zelick and students Nathalie Neve and Jeremiah Zimmerman. |
| 6 Oct 2008 |
Christopher Monsere, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented three papers at the North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition and Conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6-8. The co-authored papers were titled "Toward Incorporating Arterial Performance Quality in the PORTAL Archived Data User Service," "Building a WIM Data Archive for Improved Modeling, Design, and Rating" and "Techniques for Establishing and Measuring Data Quality in an Archived Data User Service." |
| 6 Oct 2008 |
Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was invited by the American Concrete Institute to present a series of lectures to the U.S. Navy engineers in Silverdale, Wash., Sept. 15-16. Topics included the application of the 2008 ACI Building Code to the design of reinforced concrete structures, with an emphasis on earthquake-resistant provisions. |
