Continuing Professional Education

Welcome to the 57^th Annual Structural Engineering Conference. Each year, hundreds of professional engineers and those in the structural engineering industry convene at the University of Kansas to hear about current research and listen to outstanding speakers. One such speaker this year will be Charles W. Roeder, recipient of the 2011 AISC T.R. Higgins Award. He will speak at 8:40 a.m. about SCBF Gusset Plate Connection Design. In the afternoon session related to bridges, speakers will focus on fatigue and fracture control in steel bridges and bridge construction, and for those more interested in buildings, the focus will be on the effects of recent earthquake damage.

Attendees receive a certificate for 7 PDHs

Agenda

Morning Session
8:20 a.m.	Presider: JoAnn Browning, Associate Dean of Administration, School of Engineering, University of Kansas
8:25 a.m.	Welcome—Kansas Initiative Stuart Bell, Dean, School of Engineering, University of Kansas
8:40 a.m.	2011 AISC T.R. Higgins Lecture: SCBF Gusset Plate Connection Design Charles W. Roeder, Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
9:40 a.m.	Networking & Refreshments
10:00 a.m.	Global Warming and Civil Engineering Michael J. Abrahams, Technical Director, Structures, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc., NYC
11:00 a.m.	Creating Affordable World-Class Energy-Efficient Buildings Today Jeffrey M. Baker, Director, Office of Laboratory Operations, Golden Field Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Golden, Colo.
Noon	Luncheon
Afternoon Session—Bridges			Afternoon Session—Buildings
Woodruff Auditorium, Level 5 Presider: Adolfo Matamoros, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas			Big 12 & Jayhawk Rooms, Level 5 Presider: David Darwin, Ackers Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas
1:05 p.m.	Results of FHWA Gusset Plate Testing Program Justin Ocel, Structural Steel Research Program Manager, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Va.		Reassessing ACI 318 Provisions for Special Structural Walls Based on Recent Earthquake and Test Observations John Wallace, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.
1:50 p.m.	KU Research: Fatigue and Fracture Control in Steel Bridges Caroline Bennett, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas		The Great Mineral, Virginia Earthquake and the Larger Question of Central and Eastern U.S. Earthquakes Steve McCabe, Deputy Director, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, Md.
2:35 p.m.	Networking & Refreshments
2:55 p.m.	Accelerated Bridge Construction Timothy Cupples, Bridge and Tunnel Construction Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.		Seismic Assessment of the Washington Monument and Washington National Cathedral Kathryn M. Francis, Associate III, and Erik Sohn, Senior Associate, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., Fairfax, Va.
3:40 p.m.	Huey P. Long Bridge Truss Erection Hans Hutton, Chief Engineer, KC Bridge Department, HNTB, Kansas City, Mo.		Miami Marlins Retractable Roof Design and Construction David Landis, Senior Principal, Design Director, Walter P Moore, Kansas City, Mo.
4:25 p.m.	Adjourn

Location and Parking

The conference will be held on the fifth level of the Kansas Union on the University of Kansas campus.

Self-pay parking will be in the parking garage north of the Kansas Union. No parking passes will be issued.

Inclement Weather

Please call the KU Union’s main phone line at 785-864-4651, for announcements regarding closing during inclement weather.

Lodging

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Lawrence with special conference rates. Please make room reservations on your own and specify that you will be attending the KU Structural Engineering Conference: 785-841-7077 (toll-free)—Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, is located 2½ miles northwest of the KU Union; double-occupancy rate is $69. Register by February 17, 2012.

All reservations must be secured with a credit card or deposit. For other local hotels, e-mail bsolberg@ku.edu.