DFI Magazine November/December 2020 - 65

EDUCATIONAL

New Scholarship Established
The DFI Educational Trust announces the
establishment of the Goble Rausche Likins
Scholarship Fund, which was formalized in
October 2020 with a generous donation
from GRL Engineers, Inc. (GRL) and Pile
Dynamics, Inc. (PDI).
The fund honors George G. Goble,
Frank Rausche and Garland E. Likins, the
founders of GRL Engineers and Pile
Dynamics. The fund provides At-Large
Scholarships to full-time undergraduate
or graduate civil engineering, electrical
engineering and computer science
students who are attending any accredited
U.S. college or university, and who
demonstrate prior employment, co-op or
intern experience with a civil engineering
application.
" This scholarship not only seeks to
honor the legacy of these pioneers' transformational work in the deep foundation
sciences and industry over the past half
century, " says Adrian Rausche, chief
financial officer/treasurer of GRL Engineers,
" but also to endow their vision to the next
generation of engineers so that it remains
ever dynamic and unceasing. "
The late George G. Goble, Ph.D., P.E.,
M.ASCE, founded GRL Engineers and Pile
Dynamics, which emerged from a research
program he directed on dynamic pile testing
in the 1960s and 1970s. He received his
bachelor's degree in civil engineering from

the University of Idaho, and doctorate from the University of
Washington, spending a year on a
Fulbright scholarship at the
Technische Hochschule of
Stuttgart (Germany). He became a
professor and chairman of the
departments of civil engineering
at both Case Western Reserve University
(CWRU) and University of Colorado
Boulder. He remained in academia and
consulting until his retirement, authoring
125-plus technical papers where he
tirelessly promoted quality assurance (QA)
for the deep foundations industry. Goble
passed away in September 2017.
Frank Rausche, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, was
president of GRL Engineers from 1977 to
2011 and a director of Pile Dynamics, where
he still is active as a senior consultant. He
began his engineering education at the
Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart,
Germany, and received his doctorate in
geotechnical engineering from Case Institute
of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. At Case
Institute, he was a part of the pioneering
research team developing dynamic pile
testing methods. He is the author and
developer of the CAPWAP® and GRLWEAP
programs, holds several patents and has
more than 100 papers published in journals
and conference proceedings. His work has
helped dynamic pile testing analysis become
a standard method for deep foundations QA
throughout the world.

TRUST

Tracy Brettmann, P.E., D.GE, Chair
tracy.brettmann@ahbeck.com

Garland E. Likins, P.E., is a principal at
Pile Dynamics, serving as its president from
1977-2014. He was a long-time partner in
GRL Engineers until 2016 and conducted
dynamic pile testing, proving its reliability
on numerous projects. He received his
bachelor's and master's degrees in civil
engineering from Case Western Reserve
University, where he helped develop
dynamic pile testing. He directed the
research and development at PDI for deep
foundation QA instrumentation for driven
piles, and eventually for drilled and
augured piles. Likins promoted testing of
deep foundations throughout the world,
traveling extensively and turning PDI into a
global company. He is a frequent lecturer
and has more than 100 published papers.
He was the recipient of DFI's Distinguished
Service Award in 2019.
" DFI is extremely thankful for GRL
Engineers' and Pile Dynamics' support of
the DFI Educational Trust, " says Theresa
Engler, executive director of DFI. " The
future of our industry depends on encouraging promising young engineers to consider careers in the deep foundations construction field. Through the support of DFI
member companies such as GRL and PDI,
the DFI Educational Trust has awarded
more than $1.25 million in scholarships to
more than 350 students in fields of study
related to the deep foundations industry. "
Donations to the Goble Rausche Likins
Scholarship Fund can be made online at
www.dfitrust.org.

5K Fun Run/Walk

Likins, Goble and Rausche in 2009

Congratulations to all those who participated in the third DFI Educational Trust 5K
Fun Run/Walk during the DFI Annual
Conference, held online in October. More
than 40 people turned out to walk or run on
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