|
INSTRUCTOR
PROFILES
Rick Drake, MS, PE, SE,
SECB
(Seismic)
Mr. Drake has over
36 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, reinforced 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 currently is a member of the committees that publish ASCE 7 and the
AISC Seismic Provisions. He currently is a Senior Fellow in Structural
Engineering at Fluor Corporation and teaches both graduate and undergraduate
Civil Engineering design courses at California Polytechnic University,
Pomona, California.
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 over 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 Civil and Geotechnical 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 surveying and geotechnical 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).
Chris Mora, MS, PE, SE (Structural)
Mr. Mora is a registered Civil and Structural Engineer in California.
He obtained his BS degree in Civil Engineering from UC
Irvine in 2002 and his MS degree in Structural
Engineering from UC Berkeley
in 2003. Working as a structural engineer since 2003 for a
local Structural Engineering firm in Los Angeles,
Mr. Mora has had vast experience in the design and seismic retrofits for numerous facilities ranging from
healthcare (Hospitals) to high tech institutions. He is also a member of Structural Engineers
Association of Southern California, USC Architectural Guild, and American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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. He has been 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. Currently, he
works with HDR, Inc. as a Senior Wastewater Engineer
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.
|
