I recently ran a poll on Twitter about social media platforms for research. For a long time, I kept both my ResearchGate and Academia.edu profiles up to date, but I always preferred the interface of ResearchGate, even though I've had…
You may remember that time ago, I invited Dr. Yvette Williams, CEO of The Esteemed Scribe, LLC, for a guest post on Improving weaknesses with your dissertation..This is a quick service announcement to let you know that Dr. Williams is…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Steve Tippins. Steve has worked for insurance companies and banks and done consulting for numerous firms, both for profit and not-for-profit. He has been a professor in various forms for 30 years.…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
The ACI USFQ Student Chapter organized a session with presentations last October. I gave a general introduction to the session, as well as an overview of load testing of structures. You can find my slides here: Load testing of structures…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Moustafa Gabr with a guest post about selecting your research topic. Dr. Gabr is a recent PhD graduate in chemistry from University of Iowa. He completed his undergraduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences…
My collaborators and myself recently published a paper titled "Stop Criteria for Flexure for Proof Load Testing of Reinforced Concrete Structures" in Frontiers in Built Environment - Bridge Engineering.The work in this paper was sponsored by my Chancellor grant of…
I recently published a paper in Materials titled "Database of Shear Experiments on Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams without Stirrups". This is my first paper as a single author, of one of my new research projects in Ecuador related to…
As I recently received the invitation to review a paper of which the abstract was poorly written, I was pondering what I should do: - I don't like slogging through a poorly written paper - it makes review so much…
For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you know that I think planning is an essential skill to get work done. I plan at different levels, and the tools that I use for this…
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