Mohamed Gabr

Mo Gabr is the newly appointed chair of the Geo-Institute’s Geosynthetics Committee. He would like to take this opportunity to thank John Bowders, the outgoing chair, for his dedication and leadership over the past six years. If you would like to learn about the committee scope, vision, and mission of the Geosynthetics Committee, please click on the “continued” link below to visit the web site. The site is maintained by John Bowders and updating it is a part of the committee’s activities. At present the Committee is focusing on the following: 1) GeoSupport (Orlando, Jan 2004): Mo Gabr will be attending the TCC workshop for chairs. He will learn about “new TCC initiatives on Traveling Short Courses for Sections and Branches and Web-inars (Web Seminars) and new procedures for Committee annual reports and assessment of Committee performance.” 2) GeoTrans (Los Angeles, July 2004): The Committee has enough papers for a session on walls. Professor Yegian is the contact for coordinating paper reviews and moderation of the session. 3) GeoFrontiers (Austin, Jan. 2005): John Bowden will be providing updates. 4) The GI is developing a “speakers’ bureau” to provide members of the GI, including local Sections and Branches, with a database of GI members who are willing to make presentations on Geotechnical topics. If you have a presentation that may be of interest to GI members, please add it to the GI database at http://www.geoinstitute.org/speaker/locate.cfm . They need Geosynthetics topics!
The following is Mo’s biography: Mohamed A. Gabr, P.E. is a professor at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Mo Gabr’s research program addresses the innovative applications of geosynthetics for environmental soil remediation and soil improvement, and the behavior of foundation in residual profiles. He has worked in different capacities at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Woodward Clyde Consultants, West Virginia University (WVU), and Army Corps of Engineer Waterways Experiment Station. He served as vice chair of ASCE national committee on geosynthetics, and as the chair of Transportation Research Board national committee on Physicochemical Properties of Soils from 1998-2003. He also serves as editorial board member of ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and the ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal. He has received several national recognitions including ASCE Edmund Freidman Professional Recognition award as well as being named WV young civil engineer of the year in 1996. In addition, he received the 1993-94 Outstanding College Researcher award, and 1995-1996 outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources (CEMR) at WVU. He was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2000. His e-mail address is gabr@eos.ncsu.edu.