On June 14th 2013, I defended my doctoral dissertation at Delft University of Technology. As I wrote before, the defense itself was the very end of the entire process of writing, editing, re-editing, publishing and finally defending my doctoral dissertation.…
I recently presented in a technical session of the International Bridge Conference in Pittsburgh - a great venue for practitioners and researchers that work on practical applications for the bridge engineering field. The proceedings will be published over the summer,…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Nicole K.S. Barker in the writers' lab. Nicole is a Ph.D. student at Laval University in Québec, Canada, working with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Boreal Avian Modelling Project. While technically a Forestry…
I recently presented a paper at the 1st International Conference on Concrete Sustainability in Tokyo, Japan. The next edition will be in Madrid, in 2016. The abstract of my paper is: A large number of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges…
Today's post is a guest post by Nathan L. Vanderford. Nathan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Biotechnology, a PhD in Biochemistry, and an MBA with an operations management focus. He is an administrator, researcher, educator, consultant, writer/editor,…
When I was proofreading my dissertation, I felt as if I could constantly fall asleep (every now and then, I literally feel asleep above my print). I experienced the editing and proofreading stages, especially towards the end, as incredibly tedious…
Flickr image under CC license by HaPe_GeraI've frequently written here on the benefits of meditation for your brain and your heart, how you can make meditation a habit and my personal explorations. In my opinion, meditation is the necessary exercise…
For those ACI members out there, I recently discovered that my lecture in the session on "Recent Developments in Reinforced Concrete Slab Analysis, Design and Serviceability" is available online.If you're a student in structural engineering, you should consider becoming an…
"The final months of a PhD are incredibly messy," says James Clewett - and I couldn't agree more.Unless you are doing your PhD in your home country and will roll into a faculty position naturally at your institution (there are…
At the IABSE spring conference in Rotterdam, I've presented a paper on slabs subjected to a combination of loads. The abstract is as follows: Previous experimental research at Delft University of Technology indicated an increased shear capacity of slabs under…
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