报告人: 韩杰教授

　　时   间: 2014-12-29 10:00

　　地   点: 木兰船建大楼A1006会议室

　　主   办: 土木工程系

　　联系人: 陈龙珠、沈水龙

　　美国堪萨斯大学教授，中国教育部长江讲座教授

　　Dr. Jie Han is a full professor at Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Kansas in the United States.  He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997 and has been a professional engineer in Georgia since 1998.  Prior to joining the University of Kansas in August 2004, Dr. Han was an assistant professor at Department of Civil Engineering at Widener University from 2001 to 2004 and a design engineer, senior engineer, and then manager of technology development at Tensar Earth Technologies, Inc. from 1997 to 2001.  Prof. Han’s research and practical experiences have dealt with geosynthetics-reinforced earth structures, ground improvement, pile foundations, buried structures, and roadways.  Prof. Han has coauthored three technical books, edited or co-edited four ASCE Geotechnical Special Publications, and published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.  Dr. Han has given a number of keynote or invited lectures in Australia, China, Colombia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the USA.  He was one of sixteen invited Top Name Speakers for the 1999 ASCE/Pa DOT Geotechnical Seminar.  Prof. Han served as the Technical Co-chair and Proceedings Editor-in-Chief for the ASCE Geo-Institute Annual Conference – GeoFrontiers 2011 held in Dallas, Texas, USA from March 13 to 16, 2011; the Secretary General and Technical Committee Co-Chair for the GeoShanghai International Conference held in Shanghai, China from June 6 to 8 2006; the co-chair of the US-China Workshop on Ground Improvement Technologies held in Orlando, the USA on March 14, 2009; an international advisory board member, technical committee member, or session chair for a number of international conferences.  He is a guest editor for the Southeast Geotechnical Engineering Journal, an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, a member of the Advisory Board/Editorial Panel of the International Journal of Geomechanics, the Editorial Board of International Journal of Geomechanics and Geoengineering, Geosynthetics International, Transportation Geotechnics, and Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology, and Ground Improvement, the ASCE Geosynthetic Committee, and the ASCE Ground Improvement Committee.  Prof. Han has received a number of research grants as a principal or co-principal investigator from the National Science Foundation, the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) 2, the Federal Highway Administration, Kansas Department of Transportation, Kansas University Transportation Research Institute, Delaware Transportation Institute, the University of Kansas, Widener University, and the geosynthetics and ground improvement industries.  His total research expenditure has been nearly 4.0 million U.S. dollars.  Prof. Han received the Short-Term Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2002.  He was the recipient of the 2006 and 2009 Bellows Scholar Awards, the 2011 and 2012 Miller Scholar Award, and the 2007 Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Service to the Engineering Profession from School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.  Prof. Han received the best paper award in soil mechanics from the U.S. Transportation Research Board in 2008, was the recipient of the 2011 Shamsher Prakash Prize for Excellence in Practice of Geotechnical Engineering (cited for advancements in geosynthetic–reinforced earth structures and ground improvement), was the 2012 Sun Jun Lecturer, and was awarded the Changjiang Lecture Scholar by the Ministry of Education of China in 2013, the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Award in 2014, and the 2014 Associate Editor of the Year Award by the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.  Prof. Han was elected to the ASCE Fellow in 2014.