FACULTY VITAE -- E.F. CROSS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

 

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 7) AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction) Seminar "Step-by-Step Design of a Low-Rise Office Building With Seismic Considerations", Spokane, WA

2011 (April) Attended Workshop, Pacific Northwest Section Meeting for American Society of Engineering Education at Gonzaga University.

2009 Attended and presented poster at NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 22-25, 2009

          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