My goals for Fall 2025
As always at the beginning of a new semester, I have outlined my goals for the upcoming semester. I will be arriving to my office in Ecuador 2.5 weeks after the official start of the semester for a conference and am planning a trip to Brazil (although I am not sure when I will get to fit it in), and will have colleagues visiting as well.
Here’s what I will be focusing on:
- Submit 4 papers
- Submit EU proposal in November as lead, provided I get the internal knowledge security OK
- Work on two EU proposals that have other leads
- Draft another EU proposal that is due in February
- Submit internal funding proposal
- Teach undergraduate Bridge Design course in a COIL
- Work on next deliverables of EU project
- Plan the defense of my PhD student
- Start a new project (hopefully – I really need something to come through to cover my hours)
- Finalize load testing project 2
- Get funding for 2026
- Bench 80kg, deadlift 140kg, squat 120kg
- Submit to a poetry competition
- Organize my daughter’s extracurricular activities for the year (and the logistics around these)
