Erratum for Short Takes: Industry Leaders Council Members Named

CoreBits: Industry News�Specialty Fabrics Review Become Online Reference Tools

Industry Leaders Forum Considers a Wide Range of Issues

CoreBits: Industry News�Dr. Marcia McNutt Confirmed Director of USGS; Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics; Project Lead the Way Names John Lock CEO; New Testing Program for Product and Personnel Conformance is Initiated

CoreBites: Industry News � Student Aid for Geoscience Students to Top $2.7 Million in 2008; 2008 EERI Annual Meeting, Katrina � Lessons for Earthquake Risk Reduction, Feb 6-9, 2008, Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, New Orleans, LA. ASDSO Announces '07-'08 Winners; Cone Penetrating Test Book, Pennoni Ranks Number 11, In Memoriam

NewsBriefs: New Use Sought for Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building (Smithsonian Institution)

Book Review Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry by Barry B. LePatner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007

CoreBits: Industry News � Have You Read FastTIMES?; GeoStructures Named to Smart-CEO's Future 50 List; GeoConcepts Promotes Eaton King

CoreBits: Industry News � 13th Annual Short Course Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering July 21-23, 2008, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; 2008 SP Research Award; 2008 ASCE Central PA Section Award Winner; EPA 2008 Brownfields Grants Announced; Lewis Elected to Eisenhower Board; Bacon and Owens Win Awards; NASSPA Publishes Installation Guide; Nowicki Promoted to EDD

Book Review: Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Current Programs in American Post-Secondary Wood Design Education
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CEO Forum Sponsored by Industry Leaders Council Addresses Future Workforce

Transferring Research Into Practice
Lesson from Japan's Construction Industry: A Report by the Civil Engineering Research Foundation and Japan International Research Task Force (JTF)

CoreBits: Industry News � Dr. William L. Fisher to Receive Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal; British Geological Survey Brings Together Geological Information; REDI Engineering, Inc. Relocates; IFAI Seeks Participants for China Fact-Finding Mission; 2007 SP Prize for Excellence in Practice of Geotechnical Engineering; PDCA of Mid-Atlantic to Sponsor Conference on Design and Installation of Cost-Efficient Piles; PDCA Announces Dynamic Pile Testing Seminar

CoreBits: Industry News � Special Report on Geosynthetics; IFAI Expo 2008 to be Promoted Internationally; Basham Joins FMSM Team; Save the Bay Center from IBP; Smartec SA Develops Structural Health Monitoring System; Texas A&M University Announces Lecture; GeoStructures Adds ASCE Members to Staff; Call for Abstracts: 15th Annual Great Lakes Geotechnical / Geoenvironmental Conference, May 9, 2008, Indianapolis, IN.

CoreBits: Industry News � Science Panel Examines Barriers to Women Seeking Faculty Positions; Socolow Receives 2007 Medal; Mazzarese Joins Vironex Inc.; Robertson Joins Gregg Organization; Rocscience Releases Settle�d; Nicholson Climbs in ENR Specialty Contractor Rankings; NCEES Announces Changes to Civil Engineering Exam; GeoAmericas 2008, March 2-5, 2008; Cancun, Mexico

Book Review: Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006

Book Review: The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters by Charles Perrow. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007

NewsBriefs: Supergyre Links Three Ocean Basins (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Corebits: Industry News � The 7th International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics (FMGM); GeoCongress 2008: The Challenge of Sustainablility in the Geoenvironment Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE; Geotechnical Eathquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (GEESD IV); Call for Nominations for the G-I Board of Governors: Due March 31, 2007; Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering; Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering; Search Continues for a Geo-Strata Cartoonist; Special 10th Anniversary Wish from the Geo-Institute; Have You Tried the G-I Speakers Bureau?

 

 

 

 

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