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FIGURE 2 Left to right: 2019 IGS North
America's Student Presentation Competition
participants: Dawie Marx, Mohamed Morsy,
Ridvan Doger, Mustapha Rahmaninezhad,
Mahdi Al-Naddaf, along with John McCartney,
IGS-NA President (far left) and Richard
Brachman, IGS-NA Past-President (far right)

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Geosynthetics | June July 2019

2019 Student
Presentation Competition

Educate the Educators 2019
in San Diego, Calif.

D u r i n g t h e 2 0 1 9 G e o s y nt h e t i c s
Conference in Houston, Texas, IGSNorth America (IGS-NA) held a student
presentation competition. The competition promoted the research of young
members of the IGS-NA as well as promoted the Geosynthetic Conferences for
Young Professional (GCYP) program of
the IGS. Young members are encouraged
to contact Yewei Zheng at Old Dominion
University in Norfolk, Va. (y1zheng@
odu.edu), regarding the GCYP program.
The following students participated
in the IGS-NA student presentation
competition:
* Dawie Marx from the University
of Texas at Austin presented
Optimisation of Lined Waste
Facility Geometries.
* Mohamed S. Morsy from Queen's
University presented Stress Crack
Resistance-An Enigma?
* Ridvan Doger of the University
of Oklahoma presented a study
on the Performance of GRS
Bridge Abutment with Large
Concrete Blocks.
* Mustapha Rahmaninezhad of the
University of Kansas presented the
Behavior of Geosynthetic-Reinforced
Retaining Walls with WrappedAround and Modular Block Facing
Subjected to Footing Loads.
* Mahdi Al-Naddef of the University
of Kansas presented the Effect of
Geosynthetic Reinforcement on
Soil Arching Mobilization and
Degradation under Different
Modes of Soil Movements and
Surface Loading.
Dawie Marx was the winner of the
competition. He received a $1,000 prize.
The IGS-NA provided the conference
registration fees for all five student presentation participants.

Plans are currently underway to hold
our third EtE event in San Diego, Calif.,
Dec. 9-10, 2019. This event follows our
IGS-NA successful Educate the Educators
(EtE) event held in Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, in December 2017, where we
provided training and educational materials to 35 engineering professors from
across North America to enable them
to offer state-of-the-practice geosynthetics education to their students at
their universities. IGS-NA would like to
extend a special thank you to our 2017
Diamond Event Sponsors: CETCO, GSE
Environmental, Solmax and TenCate.
Sapphire Event Sponsors were AGRU
America Inc., HUESKER and ThraceLINQ Inc.

Thank you for your service
Appreciations go out to Kerry Rowe,
Richard Bathurst, Jorge Zornberg and
Fady Abdelaal for providing the educational services during our EtE 2017 event.
* Elizabeth Peggs for her ideas,
energy and encouragement
* Stan Boyle for service as vice
president, 2015-2019
* John Henderson for service as past
president, 2017-2019
* Richard Brachman as president,
2017-2019

Webinar Series 2019
IGS-NA will continue holding educational
webinars in 2019. Should any member wish
to present a webinar, please contact John
Allen (john.allen@mineralstech.com). G

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