George G. Goble
George G. Goble Consulting Engineer LLC

George Goble received his B.S. degree from the University of Idaho and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle specializing in structural engineering with a minor in geotechnical. He also studied at the Stuttgart Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany, as a Fulbright Student. He was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, and was discharged a Captain. He is a licensed civil engineer in Wyoming and Ohio and a structural engineer in Washington.

Goble joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 1961. He moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1977. He served as chairman of the civil engineering Department at both institutions. In 1992, he retired from university teaching. Over the past two decades he has taught about a half dozen continuing education courses per year.

He worked as a bridge construction inspector for the Oregon DOT for two years and during his graduate student years, as a structural designer for Marshall, Barr and Associates in Seattle. For a period of five years, he designed large industrial facilities and foundations with emphasis on terminal grain elevators.

He has been involved in the field testing and evaluation of pile driving operations since 1964, first as a research project at CWRU and then as a commercial endeavor. He led the project that developed the Pile Driving Analyzer now in use in more than 40 countries around the world. He was the founder of Pile Dynamics, Inc. and Goble and Associates, Inc. (now GRL Engineers) of Cleveland. In 2000, after his withdrawal from Pile Dynamics and GRL, he founded George G. Goble Consulting Engineer LLC and he does specialized consulting projects, primarily in the deep foundations area.

Goble’s research has spanned the structures and geotechnical disciplines. In the structures area, he was involved in the development of methods of automated minimum cost design of bridges and foundations. He also developed equipments and methods for testing and evaluating bridges, lock gates and other structures. He founded Bridge Diagnostics, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado in 1989 and he continues to be active in that business.

Fred H. Kulhawy
Professor of Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, Cornell University

Dr. Fred H. Kulhawy is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Graduate Faculty of Geological Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He earned his BSCE and MSCE degrees at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. He has held staff positions at NJIT, Cal/Berkeley, and Syracuse University, and he has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Cambridge (England), Sydney (Australia), Hawaii, Hong Kong, Queensland (Australia), and Singapore. He has been at Cornell since 1976, leading the Geotechnical Engineering Group since 1977.

His teaching and research focuses on foundations, soil-structure interaction, dams, soil and rock behavior, and geotechnical computer and reliability applications. He has been a primary investigator on over $7.5 million (U.S.) of research contracts, has supervised 53 M.S. and Ph.D. theses and 14 Master of Engineering design projects, and is the author of over 300 published technical papers and reports. He also has lectured widely, giving over 1020 presentations in 83 cities within the U.S. and in 59 additional cities in 23 countries around the world.

He has extensive experience in geotechnical engineering practice with several consulting firms, and he has been a consultant for major projects on six continents, with over 380 assignments completed to date. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and as both Civil and Geotechnical Engineer in California.

He has been cited in a large number of "Who's Who" volumes, including "Who's Who in the World", and he has received from the ASCE the Edmund Friedman Young Engineers Award for professional achievement in 1974, the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize in 1982, and the 1st Geo-Institute Committee of the Year Award in 2003 (with the Deep Foundations Committee); the 1993 Outstanding Service Award from the ADSC; and the Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Standard in 2003 from the IEEE Power Engineering Society (with Committee for Transmission Line Structure Foundation Design). In 2003, his paper on "Ko-OCR Relationships in Soil" was selected by ASCE in a special historical compilation as "a significant U.S. contribution to the geotechnical engineering literature". He is a Fellow of both ASCE and GSA, Member of numerous other national and international societies, and an Honorary Technical Affiliate of the ADSC. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1985 and, at the University of Hong Kong, he was the 1st Maunsell Fellow in 1993 and the Chung Biu Fellow in 2000. In addition to numerous conference keynote and invited lectures in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, he has presented the following special named lectures: Kentucky Geotechnical Engineering Group Distinguished Lecture in 1986 and 1994, Cross-Canada Lecture of the Canadian Geotechnical Society in 1988, 8th GeoSyntec Consultants Distinguished Lecture in 1991, Distinguished Scientist / Engineer Lecture in Civil Engineering at Louisiana State University in 1991, 30th Ardaman Lecture of the University of Florida in 1995, 6th Arthur Casagrande Memorial Lecture of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers in 1996, 9th Mueser Rutledge Lecture of the ASCE Metropolitan (NYC) Section in 1999, 23rd Miles Kersten Lecture of the Minnesota Geotechnical Society in 2001, and 4th Converse-Ward Lecture of the ASCE New Jersey Section in 2002.