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2010 Tulane Engineering Forum – Friday, April 16, 2010
Morial Convention Center, New Orleans
Second Floor Conference Rooms above Halls I and J

7:45am • Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:15am • Opening Session Welcome

Tommy Meehan PE, Forum Chairman, Intralox Engineering
Scott S. Cowen, DBA, President, Tulane University

8:45am • Morning Plenary Session

Chair: John J. Kelly, III, PhD

Coastal Restoration/Flood Protection

Robert A. Dalrymple PhD, Willard & Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Chairman of the National Research Committee on the Review of the LACPR

John J. Boland PhD, PE, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University, Member of the National Research Committee on the Review of the LACPR

John T. Christian PhD, PE, Consulting Engineer, Member of the National Research Committee on the Review of the LACPR

Denise J. Reed PhD, Professor and Interim Director of Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNO

10:15am • Break

Robotics Demonstration and Student Poster Display

10:45am • Concurrent Sessions

Session A - Infrastructure Chair: Robert J. Kahl, US Depatment of Energy The Interconnection of the East and West Bank Water Supplies Robert Brou, Director, Department of Waterworks, St. Charles Parish (TBC) The Huey Long Bridge Expansion Dave Kanger, PE, Senior Structural Engineer, and Bruce E. Peterson, PE, Senior Associate, Modjeski and Masters, Inc. Stay Cable Replacement for the Luling Bridge Flood and the corp's LACPR Armin B. Mehrabi, PhD, PE, President, Bridge Engineering Solutions, PC		Session B - Fueling Our Energy Future in a Carbon Constrained World, Part 1 Co-chairs: John McGaha, PE Entergy/Enexus and Norman Horwitz, Tulane School of Science and Engineering Natural Gas, Liquified Natural Gas and Oil Rusty Braziel, Managing Director, Bentek Energy Nuclear Energy Michael G. Anness, Manager of Advanced Reactors, Westinghouse Electric Co. Global Renewable Options (past, present, future) Bryan Hannegan, PhD, Vice President, Environment and Renewables, EPRI Global Renewables
Session C - Trends in Chemical & Petrochemical Processing Co-chairs: John C. Prindle, Jr. PhD, PE Tulane School of Science and Engineering and Franz Vogt, PE Rain CII Carbon Implementation of PSM into Diverse Corporate Cultures Harry J. Glidden, Independent Consultant Delivery Resource, DuPont Safety Resources Adapting in a Changing Environment Gabby Dipp, Production Supervisor, Refining East Operations, Motiva; Jennie Najolia, Coker/Reforming Operations Support Engineer, Motiva; and Marc Budinich, Controls Systems Manager, Motiva Using Six Sigma "Lean" for Process Improvements Dan Charles, Process Engineer, Rain CII Carbon		Session D - Emerging Technologies and Materials in Architectural Practice Co-chairs: Kentaro Tsubaki, RA Tulane School of Architeture; Douglas Meffert, D Env, MBATulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research and Michael Blum, PhD, Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Energy and Urban Metabolism - Demonstrations of Sustainable Architecture and Climate Change Mitigation Z Smith PhD, AIA LEED AP, Architect, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Bio-analytic Digital Design Strategies for the Built Ecology: High Performance Masonry Envelope Systems Jason Oliver Vollen RA, Associate Professor, Researcher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Case Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology Biomorphic Design Enabled by Parametric Software and Digital Fabrication: New Harmony Grotto Joe Meppelink, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of Applied Research, Principal Partner, METALAB Architecture + Fabrication, University of Houston College of Architecture and Andrew Vrana, AIA, Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Assistant Professor, Principal Partner, METALAB Architecture + Fabrication, University of Houston College of Architecture
Session E: Aerospace Co-chairs: Mark A. McCandless, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and Eric Enright, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Stennis Space Center's A3 Test Stand Lionel "Lonnie" J. Dutreix PE, A3 Altitude Test Facility Project Manager, NASA LM Advanced Welding at Michoud Assembly Facility Randy Brown, Large Metallic Structures Senior Manager, Program Management and Advanced Technology, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Orion Crew Capsule Wes Geiman, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

12:15pm • Luncheon

Chair: Nicholas J. Altiero, PhD, Dean, Tulane School of Science and Engineering
Lisa Jackson, Tulane BChE, Princeton MSChE, Administrator, EPA

2:15pm • Concurrent Sessions

Session F: Infrastructure Restoration in Louisiana Chair: VJ Gopu, PhD, PE LouisianaTransportation Center and University of New Orleans The Effects of Flooding on the Sewerage and Water Board System and Upgrades Since Katrina Joe Becker, General Superintendent, Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Submerged Roads Project Jeff Burst, Project Management Director, LaDOTD Structural Health Monitoring of the Twin-span Bridges and Intelligent Levees Dr. Alan Marr PhD, President and CEO, Geocomp Corporation		Session G: Fueling Our Energy Future in a Carbon Constrained World, Part 2 Co-chairs: John McGaha, PE Entergy/Enexus and Norman Horwitz, Tulane School of Science and Engineering Energy Efficiency and Smart Grid William (Rusty) Burroughs, Vice President of Integrated Energy Management, Entergy Services, Inc. AREVA Global Energy Strategy Jean-Paul Crouzoulon, Vice-President Operations AREVA Renewable North America, AREVA North America Energy and the Environment Paul Craig, Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering, University of California, Davis
Session H: The Search for Deep Hydrocarbons Chair: Jim Orth PE, ORX Resources MMS Gulf of Mexico Update Mike Prendergast, Chief of Staff, Gulf of Mexico Region, MMS Reservoir Pressure Prediction Using Modern Seismic Technology Alan R. Huffman PhD, President and CEO, Fusion Petroleum Technologies, Inc. The Challenges of Drilling for Deep Hydrocarbons David Crews, Vice-President, AGR-F.J. Brown, Inc.		Session I: Nature v. Bio-inspired Engineering in Architectural Design Co-chairs: Kentaro Tsubaki, RA Tulane School of Architeture; Douglas Meffert, D Env, MBATulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research and Michael Blum, PhD, Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Multidisciplinary Bio-analytic Development of Structures for Wave Energy Absorption and Mangrove Ecosystem Regeneration Keith Van de Riet, The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Innovative Landscape Scale Lead Remediation: Lessons from Katrina and Rita Howard Mielke PhD, Research Professor, Tulane /Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research Panel Discussion: Technology vs Ecostructure in Landscape Sustainability All Session D and I Speakers
Session J: Innovation Chair: Vijay T. John, PhD, Tulane School of Science and and Engineering Electronic Trading: A Revolutionary New Working Capital Tool Nicolas R. Perkin, MS, Co-Founder, The Receivables Exchange Technology Development through Open Innovation (in New Orleans) Steven Ceulemans, MS, MBA, Commercialization Coordinator, New Orleans BioInnovation Center The Entrepreneurial Landscape in Today’s World – Especially within Bioscience Edward W. Karp, MBA, Founder and President, Health and Life, Inc.

3:45pm • Break

4:00 • Closing Session • Ethics

Chair: Tommy Meehan PE, Intralox Engineering

Engineering Ethics in an Era of Exponentially Advancing Technology
Terrence Chambers, PhD, PE, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

5:00pm • Program Ends

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