The 2008-2009 ASA Graduate Scholarship Recipients
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Nathan Hicks Nathan Hicks received his BS in Architectural Engineering in June 2008 from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo and is currently working towards obtaining is MS in Architecture with a specialization in Structural Engineering from Cal Poly SLO. Hicks spent the past few summers and winters in San Diego working as an intern at the Levig Design Group, Inc. engineering and designing custom homes, garages, and retaining walls. Hicks hopes to use his knowledge of seismic rehab and shotcrete in the upcoming academic year as he continues his graduate research project on when renovation is an acceptable alternative to demolition. Specifically Hick’s hopes to look at possible rehab schemes for the concrete multi-purpose facilities that dominated the Major League Baseball landscape in the 1960s and ‘70s. |
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Louis-Samuel Bolduc Louis-Samuel Bolduc received his BS in Civil Engineering in May 2007 from Laval University and is currently working towards obtaining his MS in Civil Engineering from Laval University with an anticipated graduation date of May 2009. Bolduc entered the construction industry when he was 19 years old working in the construction department of a hardware store. Since then he has been an intern for an important steel manufacturer in Montreal, Canada to develop a composite concrete/steel floor system, he has worked as a research assistant for the shotcrete team at Laval University, and he has been involved in many projects related to rheology, admixture development, and shotcrete durability. During the pursuit of his graduate studies at Laval University his main objective is to study the effect of shooting parameters and mixture characteristics on transport properties of shotcrete. At this time, Bolduc’s graduate courses are finished but he is completing the experimental part of his project and has started writing his thesis. For the future, he hopes to pursue studies to the PhD level. |