Schedule

Thu
Mar 27
8:00am - 10:00am Registration

Morning General Session

Presiding: Zach Thomas, PE, Chairman

8:25am - 8:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks – Chairman Zach Thomas, PE

8:30am - 9:30am Settlement Remediation at the Dubuque Ice Arena

Bob Schiesel, PE, Assistant City Engineer, City of Dubuque and Russell Weber, PE, County Engineer, Dubuque County Secondary Roads

9:30am - 10:30am Drill Rigs Gone Digital: Measurement While Drilling (MWD) for Geotechnical Site Investigation

Mary Nodine, PE, Geotechnical Engineer, Federal Highway Administration

10:30am - 11:00am Break and Exhibits

11:00am - 12:00pm Machine Learning Applications in Geotechnical Engineering: Regression and Classification Approaches

Magued Iskander, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, Professor & Chair, Civil and Urban Engineering Dept., New York University Tandon School of Engineering

12:00pm - 1:00pm Luncheon

Afternoon General Session

Presiding: Cassie

1:00pm - 2:00pm Contributions toward GeoParameter Evaluation by the Cone Penetration Test

Paul Mayne, PhD, PE, Emeritus Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

2:00pm - 2:45pm Sustainable Practices in Geotechnical Engineering

Dipanjan Basu, Ph.D., P.Eng., F.ASCE, Professor, University of Waterloo

2:45pm - 3:00pm Break

3:00pm - 3:45pm Lateral Movements of Drill Shafts Next to the Mississippi River Bridge

Speaker: TBD

3:45pm - 4:45pm Ethical Considerations for Professional Engineers

Brent Meyer, Lawyer and Partner, Husch Blackwell