USNCTT chair elected to Russian Engineering Academy

Ultimately, the SSC project "has taught us a profound lesson about our limitations ~ in managing such projects, O'Reurke said. What remains of value from the project are:

1. A number of technological advances and a potentially useful geotechnical database. 2. The knowledge t h a t for largescale science projects, "society won't pay unless a reasonable target cost

is adopted for the project." 3. A mandate to "change the way we conduct business" on national science and engineering projects. A prime target for change should be reducing the separation and antagonism that curently divide project procurement from project management in m a n y government-supervised programs, he asserted. "The tunnel at the end of the universe is not so much a location as

it is a perspective and a metaphor for our vision," O'Rourke concluded. In dedicating his lecture to the m e m o r y of U.S. tunneling pioneer Eugene Waggoner, O'Reurke said we should be careful to note the difference between standards and values, as Gene Waggoner did. "Our challenge aider the Super Collider is to find a project, or projects, of compensatory value to take its place."

USNCTT Chair Elected to Russian Engineering Academy Outgoing USNCTT Chairman Ray Sterling traveled to Moscow in May for a ceremony to m a r k his election as a foreign member of the Academy of Engineering of the Russian Federation. Dr. Sterling is an associate professor of civil engineering and director of the Underground Space Center at the University of Minnesota, and a coordinating editor of

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. He has been active in collaborating with Russian colleagues, particularly on issues related to the use of underground space. Sterling firsttraveled to Russia with a delegation of geotechnical engineers in 1978, and was invited

Ray Sterling

in 1989 by the Institute of Mining in Novosibirsk. At least one book written by the Underground Space Center has been translated into Russian. The Russian Engineering Academy is an independent organization in Russia representing a wide range of engineering interests. It is one of two successors to the Soviet Academy of Engineering, along with an International Engineering Academy that includes former Soviety states no longer p a r t of the Russian Federation. While in Moscow, Dr. Sterling met with representatives of the Russian Tunnelling Association, the ITA m e m b e r organization from Russia.

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AUA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS President Gary Brierley, Senior Vice-President Brierley & L y m a n Division Haley & Aldrich, Inc. Denver, Colorado

Treasurer

Past President Russell McFarland, Senior Technical Staff Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board Arlington, Virginia

Executive Director Susan Nelson Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wayne Brusewitz, President GeoSpace Joint Venture Independence, Missouri

President-Elect Joseph D. Guertin, Senior Principal GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts

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