Abstract: Design engineers are expected to meet an accepted standard of care, which provides assurance that reasonable care and quality of service have been performed by the professional. Although this expectation exists for engineers ...

Abstract: The need for civil engineers is growing rapidly. Highly complex, global problems require a diverse pool of engineers with a variety of skills, views, and leadership styles. Although the job market for civil engineers is ...

Abstract: Civil engineers are currently faced with the design, monitoring, and maintenance of bridge piers where local scour is a concern. Current equations and models for predicting pier scour provide a single maximum value for ...

Abstract: Hydraulic Engineering, a junior/senior-level course, is typically taught in a lecture-based format. Lecturing as a singular teaching technique has repeatedly been shown to be ineffective. Lecturing does not advance ...

Abstract: Fault tree analysis is a systematic method of analyzing events that lead to an undesirable event. Fault trees can be used to assess the probability of failure of a system (or top event), to compare design alternatives, to ...

Abstract: Our infrastructure is aging. There are many bridges over water in this country, and these aging bridges are now showing signs of weakening due to scour around the pier foundations. In response, engineers are being required ...

Abstract: Over the past 25 years, numerous studies have been conducted and equations developed to predict bridge-pier scour. Most of these equations were developed using laboratory data and sometimes tested using limited field data. ...

Abstract: Reliability analysis and other probabilistic techniques are becoming increasingly important tools in hydraulic modeling and decision making. Probabilistic and reliability analyses are based on knowledge of the underlying ...