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2009 Tulane Engineering Forum – Friday, April 3, 2009, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans
Second Floor Conference Rooms above Halls I and J

7:45am • Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:15am • Opening Session Welcome

Franz Vogt, PE , Forum Chairman, RAIN CII Carbon
Scott S. Cowen DBA, President, Tulane University

8:45am • Morning Plenary Session • The Future of Flood Protection

Chair: John J. Kelly, III, PhD, Model Software Corporation

The Future of Flood Protection
General Douglas V. O'Dell, Federal Coordinator, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding - led panel discussing the plans and prospects for flood protection beyond the current 100-year requirement and the issues that will drive the funding debate and determine the level of protection that Louisiana ultimately receives.

Robert A. Turner, Jr., PE, Regional Director, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East

Garret N. Graves, Director, Governor's Office of Coastal Activities

Theodore A. Brown, PE, Chief, Planning and Policy, Headquarters, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

10:15am • Break

10:45am • Concurrent Sessions

Session A - Civil / Mechanical Chair: Dave Kanger, PE, Modjeski and Masters LEED For Bridges John Anderson AIA, LEED - Accredited Professional Unabridged Architecture Further Discussion of LEED for Bridges Dave Kanger, PE, Modjeski and Masters Large-Scale Mining Operations Shane Wiegand, Manager - Projects Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.		Session B - Aerospace Chair: Eric Enright, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Back to the Moon - The Orion Program takes Shape in Louisiana Jim Bray, Orion Michoud Program Manager Orion Program/Constellation U, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Altair - The Next Lunar Lander Col (Ret) Brian Duffy, USAF, Former Astronaut, Vice President and Altair Program Manager Lockheed  Martin Space Systems Co. FAST Airframe Ground Experiment Overview Robert Biggs, Program Manager, FAST Airframe Ground Experiment Lockheed  Martin Space Systems Co.
Session C - Chemical Processing Industry Co-chairs: Tommy P. Meehan, Intralox Engineering and Wayne F. Reed, PhD, Tulane Center for Polymer Reaction Monitoring and Characterization, Tulane University University-Based Expertise as a Resource for Industry Wayne F. Reed, PhD, Professor of Physics, Director of Tulane Center for PolyRMC The RAIN CII Experience with Process Heat Recovery Robert Tonti, MBA, Senior VP and Director of Business Development RAIN CII Carbon LLC Polymers and Polymer Additives of Tomorrow Chris Roger, PhD, Director, Corporate and External Research and Thiochemicals R & D Arkema Inc.		Session D - Architecture I: Living with Wind / Water Co chairs: Creed Brierre, Mathes Brierre Architects and Doug Meffert, D Env, Tulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research The Historical Context and its Implications for Policy John Barry, Author, Distinguished Visiting Scholar Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane and Xavier  Universities Implementing Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan Garret Graves, Director Governor's Office of Coastal Activities Learning from the Dutch/Living with Water J. David Waggonner III, AIA, Principal, Waggonner and Ball Architects
Session E - Clean Energy Policy Co-chairs:  John McGaha, PE, Senior VP, Entergy Nuclear and Vic Law, PhD, PE, Tulane University SSE A Retrospective on Federal Energy Policy with an Eye Toward the Future Daryl Owen, President Daryl Owen Associates Moving Electricity Toward a Low-Carbon Future Stuart M. Dalton, Director, Generation Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Louisiana's Economy Eric N. Smith, Clinical Finance Professor and Associate Director of The Tulane Energy Institute A.B. Freeman School of Business

12:15pm • Luncheon & Lecture

Chair: Nicholas J. Altiero, PhD, Dean of Science and Engineering, Tulane University

Believe in Louisiana - Speaker Supriya Jindal, Tulane BSChE, MBA, First Lady of Louisiana

2:15pm • Concurrent Sessions

Session F - Flood Protection / Computer Modeling Software Chair: Steve Nelson, PhD, Tulane Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Update on the Overview of the 100 Year Protection System Karen Durham-Aguilera, PE, SES, Director, Task Force Hope US Army Corps of Engineers The Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Project Dale Miller, PE, SE, Vice President INCA Engineers, Inc. High Resolution High Performance Scalable Hurricane Wave and Storm Surge Modeling in Southern Louisiana Joannes Westerink PhD, Professor  University of Notre Dame		Session G - The Engineering Workforce Pipeline Co-chairs: Annette Oertling, PhD, PE, Tulane University SSE and Cedric Walker, PhD, PE, Tulane University SSE Charter Schools in the Role of Strengthening Math, Science & Engineering Education Sarah Newell Usdin, Founder & President, New Schools for New Orleans and Barbara MacPhee - Founding Principal, New Orleans Charter High School for Science and Mathematics Engineering and Engineering Technology Education Nicholas J. Altiero, PhD, Chair, K-12 Task Force Engineering Deans' Council, American Society for Engineering Education Industry and the K-12 Reform through Engineering Activities Ray E. Morrison, PhD, President ACETS, LLC (Association for Continuing Education in Technology and Science)
Session H - Oil Industry Co-chairs:  Richard Metcalf, La. Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and Jim Orth, ORX Resources, Inc. Haynesville-Shale Richard Metcalf, Director of Environmental Affairs, La. Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (data provided by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association) The Future of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in  LA Charlie Gibson, VP of Reservoir Engineering, Geology and Geophysics Denbury Resources Colonial Pipeline - One Pipeline's Response to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike Patrick J. Mihelick, Senior Project Manager Colonial Pipeline Company		Session I - Architecture II: Green Building in the Gulf South Co-chairs: Ken Schwartz, Dean, Tulane School of Architecture and Creed Brierre, Mathes Brierre Architects Green Building: Precedents from New Orleans and Tulane University John P. Klingman, Favrot Professor School of  Architecture, Tulane University The Future of Disaster Recovery - as an Example, the Lower Ninth Ward John C. Williams, Principal John C. Williams Architects, LLC Regional Strategies for the Greening of the Education Process Nicholas S. Musso, Director of Architecture, Vice President N-Y Associates
Session J - Clean Energy Technology Co-chairs:  John McGaha, PE, Senior VP, Entergy Nuclear and Vic Law, PhD, PE, Tulane University SSE Options and Issues for CO2 Capture and Storage Stuart M. Dalton, Director, Generation Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Renewable Energy - Opportunities and Challenges Seth Dunn, MBA, MEM, Director, Renewables Policy and Market Development GE Energy Shifting How We Move, an Automotive Evolution Larry Dominique, Vice President, Product and Advanced Planning and Strategy Nissan North America, Inc.

3:45pm • Closing Session • Ethics

 BG (Ret) John H. Grubbs PhD, PE, Simon-Meyer, Charlotte, LLC
Ethics and Bullfrogs without Wings

5:00pm • Program Ends

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