Suzanne Lacasse
Suzanne Lacasse (born September 22, 1948 in Noranda , Québec , Canada ) is a Canadian civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering .
Lacasse was born in a small mining town in Canada. She began her studies at the age of fourteen at the University of Montréal (College de Rouyn), where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree with top grades in 1967 and then studied civil engineering at the École Polytechnique de Montréal , with a Bachelor of Science Graduated in 1971. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a master's degree in 1973 and at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, where she received her doctorate in 1976. From 1973 to 1975 she was a lecturer in Montreal and from 1975 to 1982 at MIT, where she eventually headed the geotechnical laboratory and received a prize for her teaching in 1978. From 1978 she also worked as a post-doctoral student and from 1980 as a permanent scientist at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute in Oslo , where she was a senior engineer and from 1991 director.
At first she dealt mainly with laboratory techniques and in-situ measuring methods in geotechnical engineering. In Norway, a focus was on slope stability, behavior of offshore platforms, for example under storm loads, and probabilistic safety analysis.
She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Dundee and the Technical University of Norway in Trondheim and received the KYLo Medal for Excellency in Engineering from the Canadian Institute of Engineering. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001), the Canadian and Norwegian Engineering Academies , the Royal Society of Canada and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (1996). She is a 1st class knight of the Icelandic Order of Falcons . From 2003 to 2004 she was President of the Canadian Geotechnical Society. In 2001 she was the Terzaghi Lecturer , the only woman to date (2010), and in 2015 she will hold the Rankine Lecture .
She speaks seven languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Norwegian), which reflects her project activities as a consulting engineer in different countries. In her youth she played the piano and was an active girl scout.
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| SURNAME | Lacasse, Suzanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Noranda , Quebec , Canada |