David E. Daniel

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David Edwin Daniel (born December 20, 1949 in Newport News , Virginia ) is an American geotechnician .

Life

Daniel studied civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) with a bachelor's degree in 1972, a master's degree in 1974 and a doctorate in 1980. 1974 to 1977 he was a civil engineer with the construction company Woodward Clyde. From 1981 he was first assistant professor and later professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas. In 1996 he moved to the University of Illinois , where he became dean of the engineering faculty. From 2005 to 2015, Daniel served as the fourth president of the University of Texas at Dallas .

Daniels deals with environmental geotechnics and landfill construction. From 2005 to 2008 he headed the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) commission of inquiry into the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans . In 2010 he became a member of a commission of inquiry of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

In 2012 he gave the Terzaghi Lecture . He received the Norman Medal (1975) and twice the J. James R. Croes Medal (including 1984) from the ASCE. In 1995 he received the Richard R. Torrens Award. In 2000 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 2009 he was President of TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas).

He is on the Board of Directors of Sandia National Laboratories .

1992 to 1995 he was editor of the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

He has been married since 1989 and has three children.

literature

  • Craig Benson, Charles Shackleford (Eds.): Geoenvironmental engineering: honoring David E. Daniel: selected papers from Geo-Chicago 2016, Curran Associates 2016

Fonts

  • with Robert M. Koerner: Waste containment facilities: guidance for construction quality assurance and construction quality control of liner and cover systems, Reston (Virginia), American Society of Civil Engineers 2007
  • with Robert Koerner: Final covers for solid waste landfills and abandoned dumps, London: Telford 1997
  • Editor with Yalcin Acar: Geoenvironment 2000: characterization, containment, remediation, and performance in environmental geotechnics; proceedings of a specialty conference, New Orleans, February 1995, 2 volumes, ASCE 1995
  • Published by: Geotechnical practice for waste disposal, Chapman and Hall 1993
  • Editor with Stephen Trautwein: Hydraulic conductivity and waste contaminant transport in soil, Symposium San Antonio 1993, American Society for Testing and Materials 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women Science , Thomson Gale 2005
personal data
SURNAME Daniel, David E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daniel, David Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport News