Category: Civil Engineering

CyberGRID – NSF-Funded Virtual Collaboration Environment

Introduction CyberGRID began as an independent study for professor John E. Taylor of Columbia University’s civil engineering department.  At the time that I approached professor Taylor he conducted a yearly class that involved doing collaborative design projects with 4 other universities around the world.  This collaboration was facilitated via online classrooms in Second Life, a well-known web-based […]

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Columbia Manhattanville Bowtie Building Excavation

For this project, I worked with 5 of my classmates in Columbia’s Civil Engineering department to develop the excavation plan and foundation design for the new Bowtie Building being built at 125th and Broadway in Columbia University’s Manhattanvile expansion.  Our civil class was separated into 5 groups which worked on separate aspects of the building.  The other groups were Concrete […]

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