SHORT COURSES - Sunday, April 13

3 - half-day courses:


Take two for the price of a full day course

New Developments in Coastal Structure Design
Sponsored by COPRI’s Coastal Engineering Practice Committee
  • Coastal engineering is an evolving practice. Computer-aided engineering and design tools have greatly enhanced all aspects of engineering. This half-day course will provide new engineering practices with emphasis on recent developments in coastal structure design. Topics include new formulations for wave run-up, advances in rubble-mound armor stability, forces on heavily overtopped vertical walls, design of low-crested breakwaters, risk and reliability in structure design, and application of life-cycle analysis to coastal structure design. Design examples illustrate application of the new methodologies.

Instructors

  • Steven Hughes, PhD, PE, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer
    Research and Development Center
  • Jeff Melby, PhD, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

  • PDH: 4 Professional Development Hours (PDH)

  • Fee: $210 by 3/11/08; $260 after 3/11/08; Course fee includes copies of instructor presentations/handouts, a refreshment break and lunch.

Analysis Techniques for Evaluating Coastal Impacts

  • This workshop will focus on the procedures for data manipulation in an ArcGIS environment to extract impact information from National Coastal Mapping Program data to quantify engineering, environmental and economic impacts. Attendees will find a basic knowledge of ArcGIS helpful.

Instructors:

  • Rose Dopsovic, Spatial Data Branch, Mobile District
  • Jennifer Wozencraft, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise, Mobile District
  • Linda Lillycrop, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

  • PDH: 4 Professional Development Hours (PDH)

  • FEE: $210 by 3/11/08; $260 after 3/11/08 Course fee includes a mini-manual with CD of data, a refreshment break and lunch.

 

Full day course

Estimation and Prevention of Coastal Disaster Due to Tsunami Impacts

  • This course will cover such areas as tsunami generation and propagation; hydrodynamic processes of tsunami waves; response of bays, inlets and coastal land areas to tsunami waves; tsunami run up and flow behavior on coastal land areas and the interaction with natural barriers, existing infrastructure, and coastal landscape.

Instructors:
  • Willem De Lange, Ph.D., Coastal Marine Group, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato
  • Gegar Prasetya, Coastal Marine Group, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato
  • Terry Healy, Coastal Marine Group, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato
  • Charles Mader, Ph.D., Mader Consulting Ltd

  • PDH: 8 Professional Development Hours (PDH)

  • FEE: $350 by 3/11/08; $400 after 3/11/08; Course fee includes copies of instructor presentations/handouts, lunch and a refreshment break.