Education

Short Courses

Dr. Dickenson is a co-developer and co-instructor of the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) course “LRFD Seismic Analysis and Design of Transportation Geotechnical Features, and Structural Foundations.” This course is provided for personnel from the FHWA, state’s department of transportation, and engineering consultants. The FHWA NHI Course Listing is available at: https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/course-search

A primary course reference is;

Kavazanjian, E., Wang, J-N, Martin, G.R., Shamsabadi, A., Lam, I., Dickenson, S.E., and Hung, C.J. (2011). LRFD Seismic Analysis and Design of Transportation Geotechnical Features, and Structural Foundations, Reference Manual, Publication No. FHWA-NHI-11-032, GEC No. 3, August 2011 (Rev. 1). This reference can be obtained at:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/geotech/pubs/nhi11032/nhi11032.pdf

Dr. Dickenson has developed the following courses for practicing geo-professionals and structural engineers.

• Seismic Hazard Analysis and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Practice-Oriented Applications for Port Engineers.

• Nonlinear Effective Stress Modeling of Dynamic Soil Response: Theory, Practical Considerations, and Project Applications.

• Nonlinear Dynamic Soil Response Modeling; Practice-Oriented applications for Transportation Infrastructure, for the Oregon Department of Transportation.

• Dynamic Analysis of Embankment Dams using 2D Geomechnical Models (FLAC), for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

• Practice‐Oriented Applications in Seismic Hazard Analysis and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, provided for the consulting community, Portland, Oregon.

• Characterization of Seismic Ground Motions and Modeling of Dynamic Site Response, In-house training course.