Future Directions in Water Resources Education
Water resources education at the undergraduate level must change to properly prepare professionals for the 21st Century. While few changes are needed in technical content, graduates must...
Integrated Water Resource Planning?A Northwest Case Study
The City of Tacoma Water Division recently incorporated integrated resource planning into its comprehensive water system planning process. This method of planning considers demand-side...
National Study of Water Management During Drought Results Oriented Water Resources Management
This paper provides an overview of a four year national study of water management during drought and builds a foundation for the other papers in this mini-symposium. The primary objective...
Challenges in Implementing the Use of Reclaimed Water
The State of Washington is currently in the process of adopting standards for use of reclaimed water on land. CH2M HILL recently has finished two feasibility level studies for reuse projects...
3D Template of Human Figure for CG Animation in Design
It has become commonplace to use computer graphics (CG) animation in architectural and landscape design. Historically, CG animation has been employed primarily as one of many presentation...
Emergency Response Team Siting for HLRW Movements
The shipment of high-level radioactive waste to treatment plants, storage facilities, and repositories is an activity of major national concern. This paper presents a multi-objective methodology...
An Integrated Computer-Based Total Design Environment for Civil Engineering Education
The nature of design within the professional practice of civil engineering today, combined with the curricular and content requirements for design of the Accreditation Board for Engineering...
GT BEAM ? An Interactive Graphic Beam Analysis Program for Education
An interactive beam analysis program called GT BEAM, that has been developed at Georgia Tech for use in undergraduate mechanics courses, is presented. The development objectives of the...
Algorithms for Efficient Real-time Traffic Assignment
Fast algorithms are essential to accomplish real-time traffic assignment for optimal routing or traffic prediction under ATMS/ATIS. User-equilibrium and system-optimal traffic assignment...
Computer Fluent Civil Engineer: What Does it Mean?
The rapidly changing arena of computer and information technology has an impact on civil engineering education, what is taught, how it is presented, type of homework, maintaining computer...
Reliability-Based Assessment of Navigation Structures
In 1989, the Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (HQUSACE), requested regional assessments of the future modernization needs of Corps Divisions with significant inland...
The Design and Installation of a Distributed Controls System at the Bissell Point Wastewater Treatment Plant: A Case Study
The Bissell Point Wastewater Treatment Plant is undergoing a $210 million dollar change, which includes a new Distributed Controls System (DCS). The new DCS is being installed in phases...
Reducing Ambiguity in Qualitative Reasoning
Qualitative reasoning derives the behavior of a physical system using a representation of the fundamental principles for the domain. In qualitative reasoning parameters are mapped into...
A Comparison of Two AI Based Design Systems
Two applications of Civil Engineering based, AI systems are described. Although both systems are intended as design aids they have substantially different structures and methods of achieving...
Artificial Neural Networks and Knowledge-Based Systems: Complementary AI Techniques for Civil Engineering
This paper considers the feasibility of integrating Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Knowledge-Based Systems (KBSs) to solve civil engineering problems. KBSs are superior at representing...
Regional Stress Field Due to Water-Filling at Sanxia Dam
This paper uses the observed stress values to simulate the tectonic stress field in the reservoir. Based on the increment analysis method. we discuss the effects and variations of the...
Learning Engineering: An Outline
The paper presents an outline of learning engineering, which is a new subarea of knowledge engineering dealing with the methodological aspects of using learning systems in knowledge acquisition....
Using Product Models to Plan Construction
The conceptual design of the CasePlan case-based planning and scheduling system is presented. Case-based reasoning is a promising technique for capturing the expertise of contractors who...
Dynamic Communication for Engineers
Communications skills are essential to all professional practices, but often it is a skill for which most engineers are least prepared. The authors provide a hands-on approach on communicating...
Impacts of Ownership and Multiplicity on Infrastructure Performance
There are a variety of provision arrangements for infrastructure services such as electricity, telecommunications, road networks, rail transport services, and water supply. Existing arrangements...
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