Iowa State University

Iowa State University

• Iowa State University

• BSCE, MSCE (structures), PhD (structures)

• Infrastructure

• Inspection, Rating, Maintenance, Rehabilitation
• Civil Engineering Materials Science
• Sustainability & Environmental Engineering

• University of Colorado Denver

• Assistant Professor (1995-2000)
• Associate Professor (2000-2006)
• Professor (2006-2009)
• Professor and Chair (2009-?)

3 Campus System

• 3 Campus System

• Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs
• 52,000 Students
• 4,200 Full time faculty
• $2,000,000,000 (2 Billion Dollar Budget)
• $651,000,000 ($651 Million Dollars Externally Funded Research Projects)

Flagship Original Campus

• Flagship Original Campus

• 1876

• Boulder Colorado (Population 90,000)

• $280 Million Externally Funded Research

• 29,000 Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Primarily Undergraduate Institution

• Primarily Undergraduate Institution

• 1920

• Colorado Springs (Population 320,000) (Colorado Metro Population 650,000)

• 7,500 Students

2 Campus system located in Denver Colorado

• 2 Campus system located in Denver Colorado

• Anshutz Medical Campus
• Downtown Denver Campus
• 1912

• $371 Million Externally Funded Research

• 28,000 Students

• Undergraduate and Graduate

• Including all forms of Medical Doctorate

38 Full-time Faculty (42 part-time lecturers)

• 38 Full-time Faculty (42 part-time lecturers)

• 4 Departments

• Civil (11 faculty), Mechanical (9), Electrical (9), Computer Science (9)

• Annual External Research Funding

• $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 (Almost all in CE)

• College of Engineering Enrollment

• 328 Graduate, 484 Undergraduate, 240 pre-engineering
• Student enrollment increasing last 3 years
• Appx 200 degrees awarded per year equally split between graduate and undergraduate

Areas of Expertise

• Areas of Expertise

• Structural , Transportation, Materials, Environmental, Sustainability, Geotechnical, Hydraulics, Geographic Information Systems

• Appx Civil Engineering Enrollment

• 22 PhD students in CE
• 80 MS graduate students
• 100 BS undergraduate students

UCD (K. Rens) – CCD Relationship

• UCD (K. Rens) – CCD Relationship

• Began February 1997

• Infrastructure Management

• Bridges, Pavements, (Anything owned by “tax payers”

• Many Undergraduate and Graduate Students

• BS, MS, PhD

• Began with $50,000 grant

• Now $200,000 - $ 400,000 Annual Budget