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Hanson Gets
Professional Achievement Award From Concrete Institute
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Civil Engineering
Professor James Hanson has been awarded the American Concrete
Institute’s Young Member Award for Professional Achievement. The award
honors Hanson’s contributions to the education of future engineers by
innovative integration of experimental and classroom learning, and for
significant contributions to concrete technology in the area of
measuring concrete fracture properties.
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Prof. James Hanson |
This is Hanson’s second national honor this year. He
also received the Daniel V. Terrell Award in the American Society of
Civil Engineers’ best paper competition.
Hanson specializes in structural design using reinforced concrete,
prestressed concrete and steel. He has conducted research on numerical
simulation of crack propagation in concrete structures, the use of
fracture mechanics in analysis and design of concrete structures, and
fracture toughness testing.
As an engineering educator, Hanson is conducting ongoing
research as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project, titled
“Using Metacognition to Teach Evaluation of Results in Structural
Analysis Courses”; has implemented Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People” in the Engineering Mechanics’ Introduction to
Design course (joint program with Civil Engineering colleague Kevin
Sutterer and the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and
Assessment); and is studying the effectiveness of using writing-to-learn
assignments in Engineering Mechanics’ Engineering Statics course (joint
project with IRPA’s Julia Williams).
Hanson, who formerly taught at Bucknell University and
Cornell University, earned a bachelor's degree in civil and
environmental engineering from Cornell in 1991. After serving as an
engineering officer in the U.S. Army Engineer Center, he returned to
Cornell to receive his masters (1996) and doctorate (2000) degrees in
structural engineering. |
