More Information! Conference General Chair Ramesh B. Malla, Ph.D. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Connecticut, Unit-2037 261 Glenbrook Rd, Storrs, CT 06269-2037 Tel. (860)486-3683/Fax. (860)486-2298 E-Mail: mallar@engr.uconn.edu Technical Program Chair Arup Maji, Ph.D. Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, AFRL/VSSV Building 472, AFRL/VSSV Albuquerque, NM 87117-5776 Tel. (505)846-9334, Fx: (505)846-7877 E-mail: arup.maji@kirtland.af.mil    OR Department of Civil Engineering University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Albuquerque, NM 87131 Ph: 505-277-1757 Fx: 505-277-1988 E-mail: amaji@unm.edu Conference Manager Leonore Jordan ASCE, Reston, VA Email: ljordan@asce.org Steering Committee Members Conference General Chair: Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Technical Program Chair: Arup Maji, Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB/University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (Primary Representative, Committee on Dynamics and Controls, ASCE-ASD) Student Robotics Competition Coordinator: Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Primary Representative, Committee on Field Sensing and Robotics, ASCE-ASD) Local Contacts: Larry Bell, Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA), University of Houston, TX and Brian Manning, Houston, TX ( In-coming President ASCE Houston Branch) Leonhard Bernold, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Wieslaw Binienda, University of Akron, Akron, OH (Primary Representative, Committee on Advanced Materials and Structures, ASCE-ASD) Daryl W. Boggs, Cermak, Peterka, Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO (Secondary Representative, Aerodynamics Committee, ASCE-ASD) Walter Boles, Middle Tennessee State University (Primary Representative, Committee on Space Engineering and Construction, ASCE-ASD) John Connolly, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Kevin Greene, Frontier Consultants, San Lorenzo, CA (Secondary Representative, Committee on Space Engineering and Construction, ASCE-ASD) Nick Isyumov, University of Western Ontario, Canada (Primary Representative, Aerodynamics Committee, ASCE ASD) Nicholas Jones, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (Primary Representative, Executive Committee, ASCE-ASD) Leonore Jordan, ASCE, Reston, VA (ASCE Conference Department staff) Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Secondary Representative, SDM Liaison Committee, ASCE-ASD.) Jamal Nayfeh, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (Secondary Representative, Committee on Dynamics and Controls, ASCE-ASD) Irving Oppenheim, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Primary Representative, JAE Editorial Board, ASCE-ASD ) Marek Pindera, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (Secondary Representative, JAE Editorial Board, ASCE-ASD) Pizhong Qiao, University of Akron, Akron, OH (Secondary Representative, Committee on Advanced Materials and Structures, ASCE-ASD) John Segna, ASCE, Reston, VA ( Technical Activities/Divisions Staff, ASCE) Richard Servidio, Servidio Engineering, Burlington, Vermont (Secondary Representative, Executive Committee, ASCE-ASD) Theodore Stathopoulos, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (Representative, Advisory Board, ASCE-ASD) John Wetzel, Applied Research Associates, Royalton, VT (Secondary Representative, Committee on Field Sensing and Robotics, ASCE-ASD.) Technical Committee Members: Conference General Chair: Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Technical Program Chair: Arup Maji, Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB/University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Iwan Alexander, Case Western Reserve University/NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Khalid A. Alshibli, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Emmanouil Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Larry Bells, SICSA, University of Houston, TX Haym Benaroya, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Leonhard Bernold, North Carolina State University, Rayleigh, NC Wieslaw Binienda, University of Akron, Akron, OH Walter Boles, Middle Tennessee State University Daryl W. Boggs, Cermak, Peterka, Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO) Raoul Caimi, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL Jack Cermak, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Maijinn Chen, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX Alexander Chernivsky, Energia, Moscow, Russia John Connolly, NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX E. (Tim) Delis, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Robert Dodds, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Kirk Dotson, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Peter Eckart, Munich, Germany Ronald Eguchi, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA Robert Elsbernd, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Shou-Shan Fan, Clarkson University Eric Fisher, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc., Houston, TX Eugene Fosness, Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB, NM H. Andy Franklin, Bechtel Corp, San Francisco, CA Hiroshi Furuya, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan Karen D. Pickering, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Kevin Greene, Frontier Consultants, San Lorenzo, California California Alan Hale, SWISR, Albuquerque, NM Lucas Horta, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Nick Isyumov, University of Western Ontario, Canada Vincent Janoo, U.S. Army Cold Region Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL), Hanover, NH Virendra Jha, Canadian Space Agency, Ottawa, Canada Stewart Johnson, Johnson Consulting, Inc., Albuquerque, NM Nicholas Jones, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Ahsan Kareem, Notre Dame University, IN Narendra Khot, Air Force Research Lab, Wright Patterson AFB, OH Hyoung-Man Kim, Boeing Co., Houston, TX Latife Kuguoglu, QSS Group Inc - NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. Bryan Laubscher, Los Alamos Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM Jong-Seh Lee, Hanyang University, S. Korea Pascal Lee, NASA Ames Research Center, CA Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN John Mankins, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Kohtaro Matsumoto, National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan Shinji Matsumoto, CSP Japan, Inc. Tokyo, Japan Tom Matula, University of Houston/Victoria, Sugar Land, TX Michael Mohaghegh, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA Samuel Moskowitz, Hebrew University, Israel Jack Nash, Hamilton Sunstrand Space Systems International, Inc., Windsor Locks, CT Jamal Nayfeh, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Eric Newman, Hamilton Sundstrand Management Systerm, Inc., Houston, TX Irving Oppenheim, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Dani Or, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Anthony Palazotto, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, OH Sergio Pellegrino, Cambridge University, London, UK Karen D. Pickering, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Marek Pindera, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Pizhong Qiao, University of Akron, Akron, OH Gary Roberts, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Ghani Razaqpur, Carlton University, Canada Andy J. Smith, Safety Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM Gangbing Song, University of Houston, Houston, TX Richard Servidio, Servidio Engineering, Burlington, Vermont Masanobu Shinozuka, University of Califoria, Irvine, CA Kelly Snook, NASA/Johnson Space Center, houston, TX Theodore Stathopoulos, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Stein Sture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Michael Tinker, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL Larry Toups, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Tetsuji Yoshida, Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT John Wetzel, Applied Research Associates, Royalton, VT Robert L. Yuan, Unversity of Texas, Arlington, TX Local Activities Committee Members: Conference General Chair: Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Technical Program Chair: Arup Maji, Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB/University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Student Robotics Competition Coordinator: Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Local Contacts: Larry Bell, SICSA, University of Houston, TX and Brian Manning, Texas-Sterling, Houston, TX (In-coming President ASCE Houston Branch). Maijinn Chen, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX John Connolly, NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX Theresa Elms, Hamilton Sundstrand Manangement Systems, Inc., Houston, TX Eric Fisher, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc., Houston, TX (ASCE Houston Branch) Leonore Jordan, ASCE, Resont, VA (ASCE Conference Department staff) Tom Matula, University of Houston/Victoria, Sugar Land, TX Tim Newton, KBR, Infrastructure Americas, Houston, TX (President, ASCE Houston Branch) Jerry R. Rogers, University of Houston, Houston, TX (ASCE Vice President) John Segna, ASCE Reston, VA (ASCE Technical Activities) Gangbing Song, University of Houston, Houston, TX Larry Toups, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Robert L. Yuan, Unversity of Texas, Arlington, TX Conference proceedings will be published and available at the Conference.