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Gutkowski Published in the Denver Post
Richard Gutkowski, MPC program director at Colorado State University had an article published in The Denver Post in August 2007. As a follow-up to the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN, Gutkowski addressed bridge design and structural engineering of the past, present, and future. The reader-friendly opinion-page article, "Forty years of progress in bridge engineering, well done but more is needed" was published Sunday, Aug. 12. The article is available at http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6587016/.
CSU Engineering Innovations Breakfast Continues
For CSU engineering alumni along the Front Range area in Colorado, the CSU College of Engineering offers a special opportunity to network. Each month, the college hosts Engineering Innovations Breakfasts, which are a great opportunity to interact with alumni, friends, and former professors, as well as to hear updates on technological trends and innovative research projects.
Italian at CSU Works on Wood-Concrete Composite Floor/Deck Systems
Massimo Fragiacomo, associate professor of structural design at the faculty of architecture of the University of Sassari, Italy, visited the Department of Civil Engineering of Colorado State University from May 28 to June 1. During that week, Fragiacomo gave some seminars to graduate students to introduce a finite element program for numerical analyses of wood-concrete composite deck/floor and bridge systems he developed during his PhD work.
He also discussed a number of topics with different students, including finite element modeling of composite structures using software packages such as ABAQUS, experimental results obtained in previous tests to failure and in the long-term, experimental set-up of new tests, and simplified design formulas for composite structures. "It was a real pleasure to spend this week of work at CSU", Dr. Fragiacomo said. He noted that his work had much in common with CSU research and that the work could have extensive applications for refurbishing existing short-span wooden bridges and construction of new medium-to-long span floors.
