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Professor Oral Buyukozturk elected to Scotland’s national academy

In recognition of his multidisciplinary work in fundamental fields, including the mechanics of structures and materials for sustainable civil infrastructures, Professor Oral Buyukozturk of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters. Corresponding Fellows are internationally distinguished non-resident fellows of the society. During the induction ceremony held May 11 in Edinburgh, new Fellows signed the Society's 225-year-old membership book, putting Buyukozturk in the company of Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Clerk Maxwell and James Watt, whose names are also among those carved in stone on MIT buildings. On the following day, Buyukozturk delivered a keynote presentation at the Telford Institute’s International Conference on Sonic and Radar NDT of Infrastructure, which was held in connection with the Royal Society ceremony.

May, 2009

Dr. Tzu-Yang Yu completed his Ph.D program at MIT CEE. He has started his postdoctoral research at MIT CEE.

June, 2008

The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) has decided to grant their 2008 ASNT Fellowship Award to Tzu-Yang Yu under the supervision of Prof. Buyukozturk on "Far-field Airborne Radar for the Condition Assessment of Critical Civil Infrastructures." This award is granted to a student recipient for conducting graduate research in the NDT field.

April, 2008

Graduate student Denvid Lau was recipient of the fall 2007 Marvin E. Goody Award.

Dec, 2007

New Publications by IST Group

Forde, M. C. (2005). Non-Destructive Testing: Selected Papers from Structural Faults and Repair 2003, Special Issue. Construction and Building Materials. J. H. Bungey, O. Buyukozturk,and I. Al-Qadi, Guest Eds., 10 (19).

Upcoming Major International Conferences
where Professor Buyukozturk will travel as keynote / invited speaker
and / or as scientific / organizing committee member

June, 2007

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Civil Engineering magazine reported the development of FAR (Far-field Airborne Radar)-NDT in an article to be released in their July issue. (article, pdf)

May 21, 2007

MIT campus newspaper Tech Talk released a news story regarding the NSF-funded FAR-NDT project. (newspaper, pdf)

May 18, 2007

MIT campus newspaper Tech Talk reported our research work on the NSF-funded FAR-NDT project. (web news)

December 5, 2006

Dr. Urs Meier (Swiss Federal Materials Testing Laboratory, Dubendorf, Switzerland) visited our group and gave a talk on the topic of "The Swiss Experience with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Structural Engineering". (seminar flyer, pdf)

October, 2006

Professor Buyukozturk delivered a keynote presentation entitled "Understanding and Assessment of Debonding Failures in FRP-Concrete Systems" in the 7th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering in Istanbul, Turkey.

June 13, 2006

Professor Buyukozturk delivered a keynote presentation entitled "Detecting deterioration Behind GFRP Wrap Strengthening of Bridge Columns" in the 11th International Conference and Exhibition of Structural Faults + Repair--2006 in Edinburgh, UK.

November 4, 2005

Professor M.C. Forde (School of Engineering and Electronics, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) visited our group and delivered a lecture on the topic of "Transport Infrastructure Operation: Long-Term Vision." (seminar flyer, jpg)

May, 2005

Dr. Erdem Karaca completed his Ph.D program at MIT CEE. He has moved to Colorado to work as a research scientist in USGS.

January, 2005

Dr. Ching Au completed his Sc.D program at MIT CEE. He has moved to New York to begin his career in semiconductor industry.

September, 2004

Dr. Oguz Gunes has joined the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell as an assistant professor.

May, 2003

Professor Buyukozturk delivered a presentation entitled "Structural Health Monitoring and Seimic Impact Assessment" in the 5th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Istanbul, Turkey.