VERONICA WEBSTER GRIFFIS

Veronica Webster Griffis joins the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor. She comes to Michigan Tech from Cornell University in Ithaca, N. Y.

Griffis holds a PhD, an MSE and a BSE in Civil Engineering from Cornell University.

Her research interests include investigating basic watershed processes and the impact of both natural and anthropogenic sources on the landscape and aquatic environment. She is also interested in improving flood frequency analysis techniques recommended by federal agencies as described in Bulletin 17B.

She has taught Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering and has been an assistant teacher for Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering and Risk Analysis in Engineering, Engineering Computation. Griffis has published papers in journals such as Water Resources Research and World Water Congress 2005.

Griffis earned the Green Mountain Power Four-Year Scholarship, the Reginald Milbank Sophomore Award, the Tau Beta Pi Sophomore Award, the Junior Civil Engineering Award, the Edward H. Phelps Senior Civil Engineering Award and the John E. Perry Teaching Assistant Prize. She was a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, the Golden Key National Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society, the Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society and the Vermont Scholars Program. Griffis is also a member of the Order of the Engineer, was an engineering intern for the state of Vermont and acted as a reviewer for Water Resources Research.

ZHANPING YOU

Zhanping You joins the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from Texas A&M University -Kingsville.

You holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an MS in Civil Engineering and a BS in Transportation/Geotechnical Engineering from the Xi'an Highway University.

His research interests include transportation materials, such as asphalt, aggregate, asphalt concrete and cement concrete, micromechanical modeling of geotechnical materials, asphalt pavements and concrete pavements, roadway infrastructure and pavement management, image processing, x-ray computed tomography, finite element modeling and discrete element modeling.

You has taught classes in Asphalt and Asphalt Pavement, Asphalt Mixture and Asphalt Pavement Modeling, Principles of Transportation Engineering, Construction Material, Transportation Engineering, Numerical Methods in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, Surveying, Transportation Engineering Design, Advanced Geotechnical Engineering and Advanced Transportation Engineering. He has published papers in journals such as the Journal of the Transportation Research Board, the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, the Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, the International Journal of Geomechanics, the China Journal of Highway and Transport, the Journal of Municipal Engineering and the Journal of Highway and Transportation in Inner Mongolia. He has also published a book chapter in Finite Element Modeling of Pavement Structures.

He is a two-time recipient of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Faculty Fellowship and a winner of Professor Training Awards from the National Center of Asphalt Technology and the National Asphalt Pavement Association. You has also won the Texas Asphalt Pavement Association Professor Scholarship, the University Research Council Fund Award, the Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship, the Gold Medal of Science and Technology Award, the Science and Technology Award, the University of Illinois Fellowship and the Xi'an Highway University Fellowship.

In the past, You has worked as an engineering and technical consultant for the Henan Transportation and Research Institute, a research engineer and project manager for the Municipal Engineering Research Institute, an engineer assistant for the Xi'an-Baoji Express Highway Project Management Department and an engineer assistant for the Highway Design Institute at Xi'an Highway University.

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