Jaewon Saw

At our first in-person group meeting of the semester, we celebrated Professor Kenichi Soga’s election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Congratulations again!

Together with industry collaborators, we successfully held the UC Berkeley Tunneling Course titled “Principles, Practices, and Recent Development Using Data-Driven Methods” on February 7 at 454 Conference Room, Richmond Field Station. This initiative was aimed at developing the UC Berkeley tunneling course program as well as providing a venue for both academics and the industry to gather and strengthen the tunneling community in the region.… Read More »Collaboration with industry partners for UCB Course on Tunneling & Data Driven Methods

$2.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been awarded to an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the UC campuses of Berkeley, Davis, and Santa Cruz. Led by Professor Kenichi Soga, this multi-campus team will be tackling the challenge of wildfire evacuation and risk mitigation from the various perspectives that span the range of the researchers’ areas of expertise: identification of entities most pertinent… Read More »NSF Grant for Reducing Wildfire Risk in Northern California

As a new activity by the Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI), Professor Kenichi Soga, Won-jun Cha, Shih-Hung Chiu, and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) subject-matter experts, led by Clifford Chan (General Manager) and David Katzev, opened a new undergraduate course for Fall 2022: Water & Wastewater Systems Design and Operation (CE112). The course covers a variety of topics in the water industry, including design… Read More »CE 112: Water & Wastewater Systems Design and Operation

On Wednesday, October 12th, delegates from Shell (Marwa Al-Ansary, Leonardo Spanu, and Andreas Matzakos) visited the Center for Smart Infrastructure. It was great to see Marwa, who was with Professor Soga during her PhD at Cambridge. Our visitors saw our large-scale testing facilities and interacted with drones, artificial reality and virtual reality devices, distributed fiber optic sensors, smart pavement and mobile robots, and other technologies… Read More »Shell’s visit to the Center for Smart Infrastructure

Two biaxial tension tests were conducted on August 31st and September 28th by the Center of Smart Infrastructure (CSI) group at Davis Hall. The TR-XTREME ductile iron pipes manufactured by U.S. Pipe, designed to maintain the full-service life after seismic events, were tested. The experiment aims to test the capability of the joint of the pipe under different locking segment configurations while subjected to vertical… Read More »CSI group conducted two biaxial tension tests for the ductile iron pipe

Students of CE 170A (Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling, taught by Professor Soga, Professor Kayen, and Professor Zekkos) had a lot of fun on September 14th. Model bridge tests were conducted as part of the Infrastructure Sensing module of the course, led by Jaewon and Shih-Hung. Three different bridges (single-angle, double-angle, double-angle with defect) were instrumented with distributed fiber optic sensors (put on by our students!), linear… Read More »Model Bridge Tests for CE 170A (Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling)

On September 2nd and Sepember 21st, two Thermal Conductivity Tests were conducted through the U-bend looping pipe grouted in a 400-feet-deep borehole near the University House on campus. Fiber optic sensors were installed both inside and outside the looping pipe to monitor the temperature distribution along the depth and temperature variation with time. In the two tests, BOTDA and BOTDR analyzers provided two different methods… Read More »Thermal Conductivity Tests in 400-ft-deep Borehole on Campus

On Tuesday, April 19, Congressman Eric Swalwell of California’s 15th Congressional District visited the Center for Smart Infrastructure. Researchers of the Soga Research Group, colleagues from the Civil and Environmental Engineering department, campus administrators, and industry partners presented various technologies and projects to envision collaborative opportunities for monitoring the health of our civil infrastructure.