T.H. Wu Distinguished Lecture

Dr. Fred H. Kulhawy, P.E., G.E., Distinguished Member, ASCE, recently presented the T.H. Wu Distinguished Lecture for our department.

His excellent lecture on how reliability-based design (RBD) of foundations can be used as another approach to geotechnical engineering applications was well received.  The presentation was very informative and interesting as he wove in the "good, bad and the ugly" issues of RBD design. In addition, Fred presented the merits of considering RBD for several geotechnical foundation examples. Several emeriti faculty, local engineers from the Columbus community, along with our students and faculty were in attendance.

[ibimage==535==standard_large==none==self==ibimage_Left]Dr. Kulhawy is an internationally-known educator, researcher, and con¬sultant with over 45 years of experience in geotechnical engineering.  He has lectured and practiced around the world, and his seminal research is widely known and adopted.  He has garnered numerous awards for his work from ASCE, ADSC, DFI, IEEE, Canadian Geotechnical Society, and others, including the ASCE Terzaghi Award and Norman Medal, election to Distinguished Membership in ASCE, and the CGS Meyerhof Award.