News from 2017

10/31/2017: Dr. Paal was invited to give a presentation on augmented reality at the Infrastructure Advancement Institute, October 31, 2017. Her presentation was entitled Augmenting Human Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence in Civil Design and Construction.

09/28/2017-09/29/2017: Dr. Paal attended the Megamanufacturing Workshop in Lake Conroe, TX, hosted by the Texas A&M Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR).

09/15/2017: Dr. Paal joined the Younger Member Committee of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

09/01/2017: Dr. Paal was awarded a research grant from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to develop a strategy to address load-posted bridges through reduction in uncertainty in load ratings. Dr. Paal serves as a Co-PI for this project.

08/15/2017: The Paal Research Group welcomed two graduate students: Asim Bashir (graduate research asssistant), who will be working on evaluating the impact of domain expert involvement in automated inspection operations, and Huan Luo (Ph.D. student), who will be working on augmenting human intelligence with machine intelligence for real-time evaluation of post-earthquake damaged buildings.

07/13/2017-07/14/2017:

Dr. Paal organized and attended the NSF Workshop on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) for Civil Infrastructure Design and Construction in Arlington, VA. The workshop details and report are available online (Organizing team pictured).

06/25/2017-06/27/2017: Dr. Paal attended the 2017 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering (IWCCE) in Seattle, Washington and attended DSA/VIMS committee meetings.

03/01/2017: Dr. Paal received an NSF grant for the Workshop on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) for Civil Infrastructure Design and Construction, Arlington, VA, July 13-14, 2017 along with the co-organizers: ZJ Pei, Satish Bukkapatnam, John Mander, and Li Zeng.

01/01/2017: The Paal Research Group welcomed a new M.S. student, Emily Miller. She will focus on developing automated, real-time routine bridge inspections via unmanned aerial systems.