The Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University will host the 17th annual Buchanan Lecture Nov. 13 at the College Station Hilton.

The afternoon’s activities will begin at 2 p.m. with the Terzaghi Lecture and will be followed by the keynote Buchanan Lecture.

Dr. Jose Roesset

This year’s Buchanan lecturer is Dr. Jose Roesset, the Wofford Cain ‘13 Senior Chair of Engineering in Offshore Technology and associate department head for graduate studies in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering. Roesset will give the talk “Applications of Soil Dynamics.” Roesset has been a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering since 1993.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Giroud

The Terzaghi Lecture, “Criteria for Geotextile and Granular Filters,” will be given by Dr. Jean-Pierre Giroud who will present a summary of more than 30 years of work. Giroud, a former professor of geotechnical engineering, is Chairman Emeritus and founder of Geosyntec Consultants and was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2009.

The lecture series is organized by Dr. Jean-Louis Briaud, holder of the Spencer J. Buchanan Chair in Civil Engineering. The annual lecture was started in 1993 to honor Buchanan, who graduated from Texas A&M in 1926 with a civil engineering degree, then founded the Soil Mechanics Division of the civil engineering department at Texas A&M, and was named Professor Emeritus in 1969.

For more information on the Buchanan Lecture, visit http://ceprofs.civil.tamu.edu/briaud/buchanan.htm.
Written by Cassidy Thomas

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