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INSTRUCTOR
PROFILES
Rick Drake, MS, PE, SE,
SECB
(Seismic)
Mr. Drake has over 33 years
of experience in the design and construction of industrial, commercial,
telecom, and nuclear fuel cycle facilities. During this time, he has designed
structures of carbon steel, concrete, stainless steel, masonry and timber
materials. He has also been actively involved in the seismic analysis, design
and retrofit of commercial and industrial structures, commercial and
industrial equipment and nonstructural facility components. He has extensive
structural and seismic investigation experience including evaluation of
existing structural integrity; identification of structural deterioration
and/or damage; determination of the causes of structural problems; estimated
seismic risk, and preparing and plans for retrofit and/or repair of
facilities. He has led several post-earthquake damage assessments after major
California earthquakes for the United States Postal Service and other
confidential financial clients. These assessments, and subsequent repair
recommendations, addressed both structural and nonstructural systems. He
currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate Civil Engineering design
courses at California Polytechnic University, Pomona,
California. He’s been teaching PE review courses since 1998.
Selena M. Forman, Ph.D, PE (Hydrology and Hydraulics)
Selena
M. Forman is a senior project manager with a southern California engineering firm
specializing in hydrology, hydraulics, scour analysis, and channel
design. She has 15 years of experience
in the teaching, research, and professional realms of civil and environmental
engineering. She has conducted
numerous studies involving sediment transport modeling, scour analysis and
design, stable channel design, and river restoration, including projects
addressing the impacts of instream and floodplain mining activities on
channel stability. Dr. Forman has been
a professor at San Diego State University where she taught courses in
hydraulics and river engineering. She
has also short courses throughout the U.S. in HEC-RAS and HEC 6, as well as
the hydrology and hydraulic portions of PE exam review courses for the
University of California San Diego and private organizations.
Daniel E. Mitchell, MS, PE, TE, PTOE (Traffic
and Transportation)
Daniel
is a Transportation Engineer for the City of Los Angeles DOT, and currently leads the
City's ATSAC traffic management center. He is responsible for the daily
operation of nearly 3,000 traffic signals, including managing traffic during
emergencies and special events. Dan has taught the transportation topic
for the Civil P.E. exam since 2001. His educational background includes
earning a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from Loyola Marymount
University and a
Master's Degree in Transportation Systems from U.C. Irvine. Dan is a licensed
Civil and Traffic Engineer, as well as a certified Professional Traffic
Operations Engineer (PTOE).
John Lohman, MS, PE, RGE (Geotechnical)
Mr.
Lohman has 20 years of geotechnical engineering experience in California and
throughout the United
States. He is currently Vice
President and Principal of Kleinfelder, Inc. He has earned a B.S.C.E.
(Civil Engineering) and an M.S.C.E. (Geotechnical Engineering). He also
teaches Geotechnical Engineering at California State
University, Pomona. Mr. Lohman
is a Registered Civil Engineer and a Registered Geotechnical Engineer.
To add to this, he is Chairman of the Geotechnical Engineer Exam Writing
Committee for the California State Board of Registration for Professional
Engineers and Land Surveyors.
Siva K.
Sivathasan, PhD, PE, GE (Surveying)
Dr. Sivathasan is a registered Geotechnical and Civil Engineer in California. He is
experienced in various projects that have included bridges, schools, hospitals,
water tanks/reservoirs, residential and commercial developments. He also has prepared complex and
comprehensive geotechnical and surveying reports with detailed
recommendations. Currently, he is working as an Associate Engineer with
Leighton Group at Rancho Cucamonga,
California. He also teaches
Engineering Surveying, Soil Mechanics and other Design Classes at University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Lisa Wang, PhD, PE (Structural Review I: Structural Analysis and Concrete
Design)
Dr. Wang is an associate professor in Civil
Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona. Before she joined Cal Poly in 1999, she was with an engineering
consulting firm Boyle Engineering Corporation in Newport Beach. Dr. Wang
received her Ph.D. in Structural and Earthquake Engineering from the
University of California, Irvine, her M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from
China Academy of Railway Sciences, and her B.S. in Civil Engineering from
Southwest Jiaotong University. Dr. Wang teaches classes at undergraduate
and graduate levels in Structural Engineering, and she is the graduate
coordinator for the Master of Science in Civil Engineering (MSCE) program at
Cal Poly Pomona. Her professional interests are in the research of
liquid-structure interaction on liquid storage structures, state-of-the-art
seismic design approaches of structures with seismic protective systems, and
the design of buildings and bridges for earthquake loading.
Don Phillippi, MS, PE, SE (Structural Review II: Steel, Masonry, and Timber
Design)
Mr.
Phillippi is a registered Structural Engineer in California. He and is a member of several
professional organizations including American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE), the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC),
American Concrete Institute (ACI), and American Institute of Steel
Construction (AISC) . Mr. Phillippi earned his BS (in civil
engineering), and MS (in structural engineering) from California State
Polytechnic University
in Pomona.
He has designed numerous industrial buildings, commercial buildings and
residential buildings throughout California.
Don has frequently taught Structural review courses for the PE Civil Exam of
the past few years. He has been the owner of Diamond Pacific Structural
Engineering Services in Rancho Cucamonga
since 1989.
Badri Badriyha, PhD, PE (Environmental)
Dr. Badriyha
is registered Civil Engineer in California
and a registered Environmental Engineer in Arizona. His educational background
includes a BS degree in Civil Engineering, a Master and PhD degree in
Environmental Engineering from the University
of Southern California.
He has over twenty years of experience in the environmental engineering field
including designing water and wastewater facilities, degradation of
recalcitrant pollutants, drinking water quality, air pollution control,
advanced oxidation processes, environmental analysis, and modeling of
physiochemical treatment processes. Currently, he is a faculty with the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State
University. He has
often taught the water, wastewater, and environmental sections of the PE
Civil License Review .
Lawrence (Larry) T. Sherry, MS, PE, CCM
(Construction)
Mr. Sherry has over 30 years
experience in project management and construction management for a wide range
of capital improvement projects. The
facilities range from commercial buildings to oil and chemical processing
facilities to offshore oil production platforms and pipelines to water and wastewater
pipelines, pump stations and treatment facilities. Mr. Sherry earned a BS in Engineering at San Diego State
University and a MS in Engineering
Management from the University
of Missouri. He is a
licensed California Civil Engineer and a Certified Construction Manager.
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