Date & Time: Thursday June 14, 2012 – 7:30 PM
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Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Campus Center Building (CC), Student Cafeteria Lounge (Get Directions, Campus Map )
Speaker: Jamal Rostami, PhD, PE 
Synopsis:
This lecture will review various tunneling methods and will discuss the recent developments in the field of tunneling and related machinery. It will discuss applications of tunnels and underground excavation, various methods for tunneling, and will offer a brief review of the tunneling machines and achieved milestones in their size and performance. The lecture will discuss the sequential excavation methods used for many of the road tunnels around the world, mechanized tunneling in rock and soil, and will present brief video clip of some of the complex tunneling machines.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Rostami has over 24 years of experience in design, management, research, and teaching in the field of underground and surface mining, tunneling, and underground construction. He has obtained his BSc, in mining engineering from Univ. of Tehran (UT) and MS and PhD in Mining Engineering from Colorado School of Mines (CSM). He has worked as faculty at both UT and CSM and has been at Penn State University since July 2007. Dr. Rostami is a registered Professional Engineering (PE) in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. He has published over 100 papers, 3 book chapters, and many technical reports.
He has made many presentations in professional conferences and has served on several technical review panels/committees for different projects and research/professional organizations. Dr Rostami is a member Structure and Governance Strategic committee of Society of Mining Engineers (SME) and has served in many unit-committees in various capacities from member to chair. He is the past-chair of Mining Engineering Committee and a chair-elect of PE committee. He has offered several short courses on “Mechanical excavation and mining” and “Shaft design and construction”. He has also worked as a full time consulting engineer on various projects in the field of mining and tunneling. His area of specialty is rock mechanics, ground support, rock excavation/ fragmentation, mechanical excavation, mechanized mining, space mining, and tunneling and underground construction. He is also a member of, ARMA, ISEE, IRSME, IRRMS, ASCE, and TRB AFF-60 committee.
Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public
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