17th Annual Great Lakes Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Conference (GLGGC)

GeoEngineering in Face of Energy and Sustainability Challenges

The 17th Annual Great Lakes Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Conference will be hosted on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.

In recent years, our communities were confronted with energy and sustainability challenges. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering provides important arsenals to address the challenges in the areas such as sustainable transportation and urban infrastructure systems, geohazards mitigation, development of renewable energy, geological carbon sequestration, and exploration of new energy sources (i.e. shale oil, shale gas), etc. This also presents opportunities to catalyze a new wave of innovations in the Geoengineering profession.

The 17th Annual GLGGC will provide a forum for presenting some of these advancements. The emphasis will be towards the theme of energy and sustainability, with emphasize on innovative geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering solutions. The conference sessions will be organized in two major thrusts, each will include two technical sessions, running consecutively, with three or four speakers for each session. With the exception of the keynote speakers, presentations will be limited to approximately 15-20 minutes. Presenters are encouraged but not required to submit a paper of their presentation. It is planned that submitted papers and ppts will be included in the conference proceedings.

Papers presented at the conference will be recommended to publish in the ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication, Geotechnical Practical Publication or other publication venue. Graduate students are also invited to prepare a poster presentation and submit a summary of their presentations for the conference proceedings.

A CEU of 0.8 will be certified to the conference participants.

Keynote lectures by
Prof. Vincent Drnevich, Ph.D., P.E., Dist. Mem. ASCE, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University: "Next Generation of TDR for Compaction Quality Control"

Prof. Gray Mullins, PhD, P.E. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida: “Advances in Drilled Shaft Construction, Design, and Testing: The Value of Research”.

Register by April 30.
Regular Registration: $160
Student Registration: $20
The cost for one exhibit area is around $350 including one regular registration.
Group registration rate (group of over 4 from the same organization): $140

For more information
http://filer.case.edu/xxy21/2012GLGGC/Home.htm