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CUIRE Holds 19th Annual Certifi cation Schools at UCT
CUIRE Schools' Speakers Information
Th e 19th Annual Trenchless Technology Certifi cation Schools
were held on Monday and Tuesday, July 12-13, 2021, at
Music City Center, Nashville, Tenn., in conjunction with the
Underground Construction Technology (UCT) International
Conference & Exhibition.
This year's program included three, full-day courses:
Advanced Horizontal Directional Drilling School, Geotechnical
Schools for Pipelines and Trenchless Technology, and Pipe
School, as well half-day Pilot Tube and Microtunneling School
and Spray Applied Pipe Lining (SAPL) School - offered for the
first time and was well-attended.
More than 50 professionals and graduate students attended
these courses, which were taught by expert instructors from
industry with at least 20 years of experience working in the
trenchless technology fi eld.
Attendees received a complimentary copy of Trenchless
Technology: Planning, Equipment and Methods, up to 1.2 CEUs and
12 PDHs, and a PDF copy of all presentations.
Advanced Horizontal Directional Drilling Schools
* Jeff Puckett, P.E., President, J.D. Hair & Associates, Inc.
* Abhinav Huli, Senior Technical Specialist, Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
* Mike Whitehouse, Technical Sales/Fabrication Specialist,
ISCO Industries, Inc.
* Marv Klein, Vermeer Corporation
* Peyton Boyle, Vermeer Corporation
* Michelle L. Macauley, PE, LEG, President and
Principal Engineer, Macauley
* Mark Gallucci, Customer Insight, Digital Control Incorporated
Geotechnical Schools for Pipelines and Trenchless Technology
* Tennyson Muindi, P.E., McMillen Jacobs Associates
* Nicholas H. Strater, P.G., Brierley Associates Corporation
Pipe Schools
* Jeff Boschert, P.E., National Clay Pipe Institute
* Rich Mielke, P.E., Northwest Pipe
* Al Hogan, P.E., American Concrete Pipe Association
* Paul H. Hanson, P.E., DIPRA Regional Director
* Camille George Rubeiz, P.E., Plastic Pipe Institute
* Amster Howard, P.E., Consultant
* Shah Rahman, MBA, Practice Leader - North Texas,
KCI Technologies Inc.
* Gabriel Castelblanco, P.E., HOBAS Pipe USA
CUIRE Research Team with School Instructors, Sanaz Ghalambor, Camile
Rubeiz, Abhinav Hulli and Amster Howard
Pilot Tube and Microtunneling School
* Troy Stokes, Akkerman, Inc.
* Jeff Boschert, National Clay Pipe Institute
Spray Applied Pipe Lining (SAPL) School
* Sanaz Ghalambor, Polymer Engineer,
Nukote Coating Systems International
* Dr. Mo Ehsani, P.E., SE, QuakeWrap Inc.
* Mario Tamez Jr., Standard Cement
* Dr. Amin Tehrani, CUIRE/UTA - ASFI Construction
* Dr. Zahra (Ellie) Kohankar, CUIRE/UTA-Hazen and Sawyer
* Chip Johnson, P.E., Director, Technical Services
CUIRE Pipe School
CURE Exhibit Booth at UCT
CUIRE Booth at UCT Exhibition Hall
28 AUGUST 2021 | UCONonline.com
On Tuesday through Th ursday July 13-15, the CUIRE research
team had a booth at the UCT Exhibition Hall to introduce latest
testing and development at CUIRE, such as structural design
methodology for Spray Applied Pipe Liners (SAPLs) in gravity
storm water conveyance conduits and pressure pipe applications
through soil-box testing and fi nite element modeling (FEM).
CUIRE will continue its educational schools next year in
January 2022 in Fort Worth, Texas in conjunction with the next
UCT. For more information call CUIRE at 817-272-9177 or email
cuire@uta.edu or visit www.cuire.org. *
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