[CCoE Notice] TOMORROW: "Dire States" Tour Makes Stop at Cullen College!

[Grayson, Audrey A]

Civil Engineering<http://cive.uh.edu> students at the University of Houston<http://uh.edu>'s Cullen College of Engineering<http://egr.uh.edu> are about to get a firsthand lesson in the grim reality of the country's crumbling infrastructure, thanks to Dan McNichol<http://danmcnichol.com>'s "Dire States<http://direstates.com>" lecture tour.

McNichol, an award-winning author and journalist as well as former White House appointee, is considered one of the nation's top infrastructure experts. He will be visiting Dr. Reagan Herman<http://www.cive.uh.edu/faculty/herman>'s "Professional Practice in Civil Engineering" class (CIVE 4311) as a part of his "Dire States" tour, in which he travels the country in a 1949 Hudson automobile as a visual demonstration of just how "old, rusty, and energy-defunct" our country's infrastructure is. According to McNichol's website, the Hudson was built the same year as many of what he calls "our most structurally deficient bridges."

To learn more about McNichol's upcoming visit to the UH Cullen College of Engineering, please visit: http://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201401/dire-states-tour-makes-stop-uh.

Dan McNichol will present his Dire States lecture to Herman's class, as well as any interested students, faculty and professionals, on Thursday, January 23 at 11:30 a.m. in W122, Engineering Building 2. More information can be found here<http://www.egr.uh.edu/events/2014/civil-engineering-guest-speaker-dan-mcnichol-spark-debate-ailing-us-infrastructure>.


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