Sandra L. Houston
Sandra L. Houston is an American civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering and a professor at Arizona State University .
She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree, the University of New Mexico with a master's degree in civil engineering, and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1984 . From 1984 she was at Arizona State University. At times she headed her faculty (Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering).
Her main focus is on unsaturated soils and soils in arid areas, in particular the expansive and collapsing behavior of the soil when the water content changes.
She chaired the Soil Properties and Modeling Committee of the ASCE Geo-Institute and chairs their Unsaturated Soils Committee and is a member of the ISSMGE Committee on Unsaturated Soils.
For 2017 she received the Terzaghi Award . She also received the William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award.
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- with Delwyn Fredlund (Ed.): Unsaturated soil engineering practice, ASCE 1997
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| SURNAME | Houston, Sandra L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer for geotechnical engineering |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |