Dr. Bobet also serves as the
Associate Director of the Global Engineering Program at Purdue.
Biography
Dr. Bobet is a Professor of Civil
Engineering at Purdue University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil
Engineering from Technical University of Madrid in Spain and a Doctor of
Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Bobet’s areas of
interest include rock mechanics, underground structures, soil-structure
interaction during extreme events and problem soils. He has extensive
experience in practice. He was a senior geotechnical engineer at Euroestudios,
consulting engineers, in Spain for four years, and a construction manager for
Ferrovial, Spain, also for four years.
He has authored or co-authored more
than one hundred technical publications. He serves or has served on the
Editorial Board of ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Engineering, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Rock Mechanics and Rock
Engineering Journal, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology Journal and
International Journal for Analytical and Numerical Methods in Geomechanics. He
is a member and past chair of the ASCE rock mechanics committee, a Director of
the Board of Directors of the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA), the
Chair of the 2012 U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium and is a member of
the Geotechnical Advisory Board (GAB) of the Panama Canal. He is also the
President of the American Rock Mechanics Association.
Dr. Bobet has received a number of
awards, including the ASCE 2011 Ralph B. Peck Award, the 2012 National Award
for Significant Contributions in Science and Technology - SENACYT Panama, and
the 2012 ARMA Research Award.
source:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs/Administration/AcademicAffairs/Events/faculty-colloquiums/bobet
*Originally Posted January 24th,
2015*
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