Wednesday, September 16, 2020

7:25 AM - 8:15 AM

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The presentation will reflect on Learnings from Success and Learnings from Failure over the past fifty years. Norbert Morgenstern, Ph.D., P.Eng., FEIC, FCAE is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of geotechnical engineering and a highly sought-after consultant. He has helped agencies and owners all over the world with the design of dams subjected to difficult conditions and with the evaluation and remediation of landslides. He has served on numerous technical committees throughout the world, including chairing the panels conducting the review into the causes of failure for the Mount Polley tailings dam in BC in 2014, and the Fundão Tailings Dam in Brazil in 2015. He has received some of the highest honours in our field, including the Rankine Lecture (1981) from the British Geotechnical Society, the Terzaghi Lecture (1992) and the Seed medal (2011), both from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Legget Award (now Medal), the Canadian Geotechnical Society’s most prestigious honour. He has been inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence and the Order of Canada for his outstanding achievements in and life-long contributions to geotechnical engineering. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, Queen’s University and the University of Alberta, and is an Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University, PRC. Dr. Morgenstern is a past president of the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) and of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.