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David J.
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Cool Continuing Education Videos for sale. Click here or
see below.
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Geotechnical engineering, geosynthetics, landfills, soil mechanics, erosion
control, foundation engineering, pavement evaluation, soils magic, geotechnical
education .
HONORS and AWARDS
USUCGER nominee
for the NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar (2003)
North American Geosynthetics Society, President, 2008-present
USUCGER Board of Directors, 2001 - 2005
ASCE National Student Geotechnical Competition Committee, 2001-present
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2002)
ASCE Geo-Institute nominee for the ASCE ExCEEd Career Award for Excellence in
Teaching (2002)
USUCGER Distinguished Educator Award (2002, the inaugural one), Orlando, FL,
February.
Fred Burggraf Award of the Transportation Research Board, for paper
"Expert System for Diagnosing Hot Mix Asphalt Segregation", 1989,
presented and published at the 1989
IGS Service Award (2000) from the International Geosynthetics Society
(inaugural award)
Who's Who in Engineering Education (2002)
Utah State University teaching commendation (2002)
Alabama Professional Engineer's License 18198
PATENT
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BOOKS
Book: Elton, D.J. (2001)
Soils Magic, Geotechnical Special Publication 114, book and CD-ROM, American
Society of Civil Engineers, Alexandria, VA.
Book Chapter: The Teton Dam Failure, invited chapter in When Technology Fails, 1993, Gale Research, Inc., Detroit (also televised).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
International Geosynthetics
Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, National Academy of Sciences
Transportation Research Board Committees, U.S. Universities Council on
Geotechnical Education
and Research
Dr. Elton is reputed to be the
Soils Magician. You may become a Sorcerer’s Apprentice by purchasing his
book, Soils Magic, from the American Society of Civil Engineers at an
outrageous price. Unfortunately, Dr. Elton did not sign a royalty agreement for
this best-selling book, a mistake he hasn’t made since.
Dr. Elton is now El Presidente of the North American Geosynthetics Society. Those wishing to join his band of merry geosyntheticos should visit NAGS-IGS.ORG.
Continuing
Education Short Courses by Dr. Elton
These are
videos developed by Auburn University and give accredited CEUs from Auburn
University in Auburn, AL, USA
The videos available are:
Soil Basics for Engineers *** BEST
SELLER ***
Erosion Control Using
Geosynthetics
Landfills: Basics of Design and
Operation
Shallow Foundation: Part 1 -
Geotechnical Aspects of Design
Unpaved Low Volume Road Design,
Construction, and Maintenance
Engineering
Economic Analysis
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to Visit these Cool Videos!
(one of these two is masquerading as the Soils Magician)