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Interview with Professor Richard Woods featured in Geostrata magazine

Civil and Environmental Engineering
August 15, 2016
In an interview appearing in the July/August issue of Geostrata, Professor Emeritus Richard Woods recounts some of the highlights of his nearly 50-year career in geotechnical engineering.| Short Read
EnlargeXunchang Fei, Richard Woods and Athena Gkrizi
IMAGE:  Xunchang Fei, Richard Woods and Athena Gkrizi

He discusses some of his memorable engineering projects,including complications that occurred during the construction of the Tarbela Dam (the world’s largest earth-filled dam) in Pakistan and the construction of nuclear power plants in Brazil.

Woods’ interview was conducted by CEE doctoral student Athena Gkrizi and postdoctoral research fellow Xunchang Fei.

A PDF of the article is available courtesy of Geostrata.

Xunchang Fei, Richard Woods and Athena Gkrizi
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