The 2023 Buchanan Lecturer is Dr. Marc Ballouz, president of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, chief executive officer of IGM and senior lecturer at Texas State University.
Jean-Louis Briaud
Briaud Named President of American Society of Civil Engineers
In a virtual ceremony held Oct. 29, Distinguished Professor Jean-Louis Briaud assumed the role of 2021 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), accepting the presidential pin and gavel from 2020 President K.N. Gunalan. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society and represents more than 150,000 civil engineers worldwide. Briaud […]
Fitzpatrick, Briaud Receive Regents Awards
Kay Fitzpatrick and Jean-Louis Briaud were each named recipients of The Texas A&M University System’s Regents Fellow Service Award during a ceremony Feb. 11. The Regents Fellow Service Award is reserved for those A&M System employees “who have provided exemplary professional service to society that has created large and lasting benefits to Texas and beyond.” […]
Briaud Receives Distinguished Member Status at ASCE
Research Engineer Jean-Louis Briaud has been selected as a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Society’s highest honor. ASCE, representing 145,000 members worldwide, selected 11 members for its 2014 Distinguished Member class. The new members will be formally inducted at the Global Engineering Conference in Panama City, Panama this fall. […]
Briaud Gives Three Lectures In Russia
Jean-Louis Briaud — manager of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Program at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Buchanan Chair Professor at Texas A&M University — continued his international travel this fall with three lectures at St. Petersburg, Russia, at the G. V. Plekhanov State Mining Institute and Technical University, also known as The Mining University […]
Briaud Presents Louis Menard Lecture in Paris, France
It was serendipitous that Jean-Louis Briaud, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Program manager at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, found himself presenting the prestigious Louis Menard Lecture in Paris, France, September 2. The annual lecture is part of the International Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Forty years ago, as a young civil engineering lecturer at […]
Briaud Gives Prestigious Osterberg Memorial Lecture
Protecting U.S. embassies against terrorist attacks was the subject of this year’s Osterberg Memorial Lecture presented by Jean-Louis Briaud. Manager of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s (TTI’s) Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Program, Briaud also holds the Spencer J. Buchanan Chair in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. Known worldwide for his engineering […]
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