faculty and staff : Roman D.Hryciw, Ph.D.
Roman D.Hryciw, Ph.D.
Professor

Office:    2366 GG Brown
Phone:   (734) 763-5491
Fax:        (734) 764-4292
Email:     romanh@umich.edu

Mailing Address:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2350 Hayward, 2366 GG Brown
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Program Area: Geotechnical Engineering

Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1986
M.S., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1984
B.S., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1981

Honors
- John F. Ullrich Education Excellence Award, 2004
- James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award (Chi Epsilon), 2004
- Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award, (Univ. of Michigan), 2003
- USUCGER Outstanding Service Award, 2000
- Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award (ASCE), 1999
- University of Michigan CEE Department Service Award, 1998
- Member of Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1998
- North American Geosynthetics Society Grand Award of Excellence, 1997
- Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award (ASCE), 1993
- Honorary Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Michigan Chapter, 1993
- University of Michigan CEE Department Teaching Award, 1992
- James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award (Great Lakes District of Chi Epsilon), 1990
- Woodward-Clyde Fellowship in Applied Earth Sciences, 1981
- Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1981
- Graduated with Honors, Drexel University, 1981
- Chi Epsilon, Civil Engineering Honor Society, 1980

Professional Affiliation and Activities:
- ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
    Editor-in-Chief (2001- 2004); Editor (1998-2000)
    Editorial Board Member (1994-1998)
- ASCE Geo-Institute Technical Publications Committee (2001- )
- ASCE Geo-Institute Awards Committee (2001- )
- ASCE Geo-Institute Representative to the Amercican Geological Institute (1999- )
- ASCE Geo-Institute Committee on Engineering Geology, Chairman (1997-2001); Member (1987- )
- ASCE Geo-Institute Committee on Soil Improvement, Member (1988 - )
- United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Engineering Research (USUCGER),
- Board Member and Secretary (1991-1994); Webmaster (1993-2000)

Technical Interests:
Site Characterization, In-situ Testing, Engineering Geology, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Soil Improvement and Stabilization, Experimental Micromechanics, Computer Vision

Selected Publications
Shin S. and Hryciw R.D. (2004)
"Application of Wavelet Analysis to Soil Mass Images for Particle Size Determination"
ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 18, No 1. pp. 19-27.

Susila, E. and Hryciw, R.D. (2003)
"Large Displacement FEM Modeling of the Cone Penetration Test (CPT) in Normally Consolidated Sand",
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechancis, Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 585-602.

Hryciw R.D., Shin, S. and Ghalib, A.M. (2003)
"High Resolution Site Characterization by VisCPT with Application to Hydrogeology",
Proc. of Soil and Rock America, the 12th Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 1, pp. 293-298.

Hryciw, R.D., Raschke, S.A., Ghalib, A.M., Shin, S. (2002)
"A Cone with a View: The VisCPT", Geo-Strata, July, pp. 25-29.

Ghalib, A.M. and Hryciw, R.D. (1999)
"Soil Particle Size Distribution by Mosaic Imaging and Watershed Analysis,"
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 80-87.