Sara Wadia‐Fascetti

The New England Future Faculty Workshop: Paving the Way for Increased Representation in the STEM Professoriate

Diedra M. Wrighting, Michael Pettinato, Ignacio Arruza, Lakindu S. Pathira Kankanamge et autres

Recognizing the need for professional development related to preparation for faculty positions, Northeastern University has sponsored the New England Future Faculty Workshop (FFW) since 2009. The participants were later-stage doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who were predominantly women and from racial groups …

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Research Leadership Development Initiative: An Experiment for a Research Career Choice

Sara Wadia‐Fascetti, Jan Rinehart, Simon Pitts

Abstract Research Leadership Development Initiative: An Experiment for a Research Career ChoiceAbstractInitiated in Fall 2012, the Research Leadership Development Initiative (ReDI) is a leadershipprogram designed to develop skills for associate and early full professors so they are prepared tolead collaborative research teams …

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Connections Physics Review (Cpr) Program

Rachelle Reisberg, Amanda Funai, Allison Interrante, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti et autres

The Connections Physics Review Program (CPR) was created at Northeastern University to increase the confidence, grades, and retention of freshwomen in the College of Engineering.Because of the traditional under representation of women in physics and engineering and the importance of physics introductory …

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Integrating Problem Solving And Communication In The Structural Engineering Laboratory

Michael Tarnowski, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti

The Structural Analysis and Design Laboratory course (CIV 1226) first developed in 1986 had the objective to tie the concepts covered in the analysis course to laboratory models and experimentation.In 1996 the course outline, syllabus, assignments, labs, quizzes, and computer software were …

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City-Wide Application of the Affordable and Rapid StreetScan Pavement-Management System

David Vines-Cavanaugh, Salar Shahini Shamsabadi, Yubo Zhao, Guoqiang Huang et autres

The StreetScan pavement-management system (PMS) is introduced. It empowers cities to make more cost-effective road repair decisions. At the heart of the system is a vehicle outfitted with a patented, multimodal sensor array that rapidly collects data for every street in the …

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Advancing Diversity and Inclusivity in STEM Education

Sharon Mason, Margaret B. Bailey, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Women faculty are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The National Science Foundation ADVANCE program strives to increase the representation and advancement of women STEM faculty. This panel will present the efforts of the NSF ADVANCE Program along with …

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SIMULATED GPR INVESTIGATION OF DETERIORATION IN REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE DECKS

Kimberly Belli, Ralf A. Birken, Reid A. Vilbig, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti

The objective of this paper is to use advanced modeling capabilities to represent different cracking schemes around reinforcement steel and chloride-graded concrete to determine potential relationships between measured GPR signals and attenuation, and potential deterioration states of bridge decks. The American Society …

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A Time Domain Equivalent Source Model of an Impulse GPR Antenna Based on Measured Radiation Fields

Kimberly Belli, Carey M. Rappaport, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a valuable tool for determining bridge deck health. The ability to simulate scattering from bridge deck elements and the complex interactions between them, as well as from changes due to the presence and relative location of defects …

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Synthetic aperture imaging for flaw detection in a concrete medium

Abhijit Ganguli, Carey M. Rappaport, David Abramo, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti

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Investigation of born approximation applied to non-destructive evaluation of concrete media

Abhijit Ganguli, Carey M. Rappaport, Eric L. Miller, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti

The accuracy of the Born Approximation as a forward model of elastic wave scattering in the context of simulating Impact Echo tests of reinforced of concrete is investigated in this paper. The ability of a forward model to realistically simulate the physics …

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Use of 2D FDTD simulation and the determination of the GPR travel path angle for oblique B-scans of 2D geometries

Kimberly Belli, Carey M. Rappaport, C. Udall, Margery Jeanne Hines et autres

Scattering from a subsurface point object, such as a reinforcing steel bar embedded concrete or a tunnel buried in sand, results in a B-scan contour that is essentially hyperbolic as the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) passes over the object. The shape of …

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Integrated Sensor and Media Modeling Environment Developed and Applied to Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigation of Bridge Decks

Kimberly Belli, Sara Wadia‐Fascetti, Carey M. Rappaport

Integrated sensor and media modeling environment has been developed to simulate subsurface sensing systems and environmental parameters relevant to the subsurface sensing modalities. The modeling environment is designed to represent complexity in subsurface features, sensor models, and the integration of the sensors …

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