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Graduating students interested in a career in transportation - follow the link below to learn more. Respond by March 10! http://www.wtsinternational.org/ChapterNews.aspx?chapterid=15&id=1665 To submit your résumé or any questions, contact Diane Ricard at dricard@alum.mit.edu .

Call for abstracts extended to February 28, 2009. See link for details: http://www.geoshanghai2010.org/ Topics include: Soil behavior & geo-micromechanics Soil dynamics & earthquake engineering Deep excavations & retaining structures Drilled shafts & deep foundations Tunneling and underground constructions Geotechnical in-situ testing & monitoring Ground improvement Geosynthetics Engineering in karst terrain Pavement mechanics Environmental sustainable pavement engineering Pavement management and maintenance Seepage and porous mechanics Unsaturated soil mechanics Geoenvironmental engineering Innovative testing for pavement materials Geoinformatics New frontiers in urban geotechnology Case studies

Transportation students, get paid to learn and work over the summer at Texas A&M in College Station, TX - one of the top Transportation/Materials programs in the US. Applications due February 27. See link for details: https://www.civil.tamu.edu/tsp/

April 8-9 in Oakland, CA. See link for more information: http://www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/pavementpres/

Tuesday - Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Here are two potential topics for graduate student research: 1. Performance of cold in-place recycled asphalt concrete (CIR). The study will likely include: literature review, analysis of laboratory test results, evaluation of existing CIR pavements, cost/performance comparison with traditional pavement rehabilitation strategies. 2. Characterization of Rapid Set Concrete (RSC) for Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design. The study will likely include: literature review, analysis of laboratory test results, evaluation of existing RSC pavements, pavement analysis with MEPDG and CalME software packages. If you are interested in either topic, please see me during office hours.