Name
Louie
L. Yaw
Academic
Rank
Professor of Engineering, full time
Degrees,
with
fields, institutions and dates
B.S.E.
Civil
Engineering, Walla Walla
College
1992
M.S.
UC
Davis 1996 (Structural Engineering)
Ph.D
UC
Davis 2008 (Structural Engineering)
Number
of
years in service on this faculty
Presently in 14th
year
(as of September 2015)
Other
related
experience
1989-1992 Montgomery Watson Consulting Engineers (Summers) Student Internship
1992-1993
Engineering Instructor Walla Walla College
1999
Carmichael
SDA Church Building Committee
1994-2000 JDC & Associates, Civil & Structural Engineering
2007-2008
Teaching Assistant UC Davis, Civil Engineering
Dept.
(Concrete, C progamming, Statics)
2000-present
Engineering professor Walla Walla
University
Summer Employment
2000-2002, 2004 JDC &
Associates, Civil &
Structural Engineering (summer)
2003 Wildan & Associates (summer)
States
in
which registered
PE, SE California and Washington
Principal
publications of last five years
L. L. Yaw, N. Sukumar and S. K. Kunnath, “Meshfree co-rotational formulation for two-dimensional continua”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 79, Issue 8, August 20, 2009, pages 979–1003.
L. L. Yaw, S. K. Kunnath and N. Sukumar, “Meshfree Method for Inelastic Frame
Analysis” ASCE Journal of
Structural
Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 6, June 1, 2009, pp 676–684.
The above
paper was also presented at the Ninth U.S. National Congress on
Computational
Mechanics (July 23-26, 2007)
L.L. Yaw, "Reinforced Concrete Nominal Moment
Calculator – A Computer tool for Civil Engineering Students", Proceedings
- Pacific North West-American Society of Engineering Education
(ASEE) Section Meeting, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, March
31 - April 2, 2011.
Scientific
and professional societies of which a member
ASCE – American Society of Civil
Engineers
SEAOC – Structural Engineers
Association of
California – Member
Honors
and
Awards
2001
Engineering Teacher of
the Year Award
Subjects
or
courses taught
ENGR 123
Introduction to
Engineering
2
credits
ENGR 221
Engineering
Mechanics
3
ENGL 323
Writing for Engineers
3
ENGR 321
Mechanics of
Materials
4
ENGR 344
Civil Engineering
Analysis
4
ENGR 347
Structural Analysis
I
3
ENGR 348
Structural Analysis
II
3
ENGR 441
Structural Steel
Design
3
ENGR 442
Reinforced Concrete
Design
4
ENGR 443
Timber Design
3
ENGR 444
Structural Design
3
Teaching and professional competence
improvement activities
2011
(April) Attended Workshop, Pacific Northwest Section Meeting for
American Society of Engineering Education at Gonzaga University.
2005-2008 Completed PhD Course Work and Degree
Requirements.
2007 (July) Presented
paper at Ninth U.S. National Congress
on Computational Mechanics.
2007
(May)
Attended SEAOC seminar on IBC seismic and wind design provisions
2006
(July)
Attended OpenSEES users
and programmers workshop
2001-2002
Attended Advanced Calculus Class (for credit)
2000 (July)
Attended ASCE ExCEEd
workshop
2000
Welding Seminar
2000
ASCE Convention
2000-2004
Summer Consulting
1997
UBC Earthquake Seminar
1996 Timber Design Seminar