Between March 20 and March 31 2010, I was a guest on a 12-day European Grand GeoOdyssey: Engineering Geology in Engineering Works in Greece-Italy-France-Switzerland with Emphasis on Case Histories of Great Failures. The trip leader was the late Prof. Paul Marinos, guiding 230 Third Year Civil Engineering students from the National Technical University of Athens,…
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Hard Hats (1982)
Hard hats are often awkward, sometimes inconvenient and occasionally dangerous. Nowadays hard hats are compulsory in construction. But in 1982 they were less common, especially when working in the jungle. They probably have rarely been useful as a means of commanding respect – yet a hard hat on steroids once almost got me into big trouble.
Ok Tedi
Ok Tedi (pronounced “Ock Teddy”) is a river (ok) in the Western Provinces of Papua New Guinea (PNG) near the border with Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The river runs through the most remote part of the country. I worked at Ok Tedi for most of 1982 as the field Project Manager for a large geotechnical engineering…
What THEY Didn’t Teach GAR at Engineering School
In 1992 I wrote an essay: What THEY Didn’t Teach Me in Engineering School. Just this week I found a 1995 letter from my dearest and best friend, Dr. Gretchen A. Rau, PE, in which she gave me her own thoughts on both my essay and her own experiences as a woman engineer in the…