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What is New York City doing to reshape its infrastructure?
Four prominent city officials will lecture this fall on coming developments affecting the city's infrastructure, offering engineering students an insider's view of how projects are commissioned, designed and completed.
"New York City is changing constantly," said Christian Meyer, professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, who organized the seminar series. "Nevertheless, we want to reinforce and extend ties between the School of Engineering and Applied Science and city agencies and public authorities, where many Columbia engineering graduates already work."
Columbia's civil engineers tested bridge cables and advised the city on bridge maintenance when, in the late 1980s, city engineers found that a number of city bridges were unsafe. Professor Meyer said he hopes to cooperate closely with the Department of Transportation and has already submitted a proposal to assist the city Department of Environmental Protection in complying with the city's new seismic design code.
Lectures in the series "New York City Infrastructure and the Civil Engineer" will be on Tuesdays beginning at 3 P.M. They are free and open to the public. The speakers and dates and locations of their talks:
Oct. 10, Elliot G. Sander, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, in the Kellogg Conference Center, 15th floor, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St. at Amsterdam Avenue.
Oct. 24, M.L. (Leland) Caldwell, Jr., P.E., vice president and chief engineer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Department of Bridges and Tunnels, in Room 633 of the S.W. Mudd Building.
Nov. 14, Joel A. Miele, Sr., P.E., Commissioner of the New York City Department of Buildings, in the C.P. Davis Alumni Auditorium, Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research.
Nov. 28, Frank Lombardi, acting director and chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, also in the Davis Auditorium.
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