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Julio Valdes Named Senate Distinguished Professor

Valdes will be honored during the annual University Senate breakfast on April 25.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Julio Valdes (top row, second from right) alongside his graduate research students
Julio Valdes (top row, second from right) alongside his graduate research students

The 色情视频 University Senate will honor the Senate Distinguished Professor and five college awardees for 2010-11 at 10 a.m. to noon, Monday, April 25, in Casa Real. Breakfast will be served.

About the event

Julio Valdes, with the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering, is the 2010-11 Senate Distinguished Professor. Valdes will give a lecture titled, "Clastic Soil Mechanics."

Valdes will introduce physics-based definitions by which soils are classified and treated as engineering materials. Emphasis will be placed on the results of experimental studies that seek to identify emergent phenomena and behavior alterations caused by clastic action, i.e., the breakage of grains.

About Valdes

Valdes received a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering, with an emphasis on geomechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. That year, he joined the 色情视频 faculty.  

Valdes directs the 色情视频 Geo-Innovations Research Laboratory.  He has co-authored numerous publications with 色情视频 students on various topics, including:

  • Controllable filtration
  • Wave-based experimental methods
  • Granular media behavior

Valdes' publication highlights include:

  • Karanicola, V., Ngo, A.T., and Valdes, J.R. (2011). Plankton filtration with compressible crumb rubber packs. Chemosphere 82(4).
  • Fernandes, F., Syahrial, A.I., and Valdes J.R. (2010). Monitoring the oedometric compression of sands with acoustic emissions. ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal 33(5).
  • Valdes, J.R. and Koprulu, E. (2008). Internal stability of crushed sands: experimental study. Geotechnique 58(8).

Other awardees

This year鈥檚 college awardees include:

  • Christianna Alger, College of Education
  • Andrew Cooksy, College of Sciences
  • Joseph Price, College of Sciences
  • Ming Tsou, College of Arts and Letters

To attend the ceremony, please RSVP to Allison Bobrow, senate coordinator, at [email protected] by Wednesday, April 20.
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