The Calendar below contains all planned event details & registration information

• 09/14/22 September Social - More information here

• 10/12/22 6 pm at Crooked Pint, Maplewood
  • • • • • Chad Underwood, Engineering Partners International, The Use of Piles and Tieback Anchors for Slope Stabilization

• 11/09/22 6 pm at Crooked Pint, Maplewood
  • • • • • Carrie Jennings, Freshwater Society, Till: Spatially Variable, Complex and Dense!

• 12/14/22 6 pm at Crooked Pint, Maplewood
  • • • • • Lola Moussey & Ryan Cummings, Nicholson Construction, I-35 Stormwater Project Case Study

• 01/18/23 6 pm at U Garden Restaurant and Event Center, Minneapolis
  • • • • • Zach Boucias, Geo-Instruments, A Comparison of Earth Pressure and Settlement Data Collected from Two Long-Term Ground Improvement Monitoring Projects.

• 02/23/23 St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota (Joint ASCE-MN & MGS-GI Meeting)
  • • • • • Ross W. Boulanger, PhD, PE, NAE

• 02/24/23 University of Minnesota 71st Geotechnical Engineering Conference
  • • • • • https://sites.google.com/mgs-gi.com/site/events/2023-conference

• 03/08/23 6 pm at U Garden Restaurant and Event Center, Minneapolis
  • • • • • WSB, Pavement/Geotechnical Topics

• 04/12/23 6 pm at U Garden Restaurant and Event Center, Minneapolis
  • • • • • Bill Kwasny, How to Write a Comprehensive Geotechnical Report

• 05/10/23 6 pm at U Garden Restaurant and Event Center, Minneapolis (Ethics Presentation)
  • • • • • Aaron Mann, Terracon, Lessons from the FIU Bridge Collapse

Recordings of our 2020-2021 meetings can be found on our YouTube page here.

2021 - 2022 Speakers:

• 08/11/21 September Social - More information here

• 10/13/21 11:30 am on Zoom
  • • • • • Jason Roselle, WisDOT, Geotechnical Challenges of the Zoo Interchange
          • Dr. Timothy Stark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Modified Standard Penetration Test for Drilled Shaft Design in Weak Rocks/Shales

• 11/10/21 6 pm at Rosevine Hall
  • • • • • Jeff Gebhard, Braun Intertec, Emerging Issues and Trends in Geotechnical Engineering: How Big Data, Machine Learning, and A.I. are Disrupting our Industry

• 12/08/21 11:30 am on Zoom
  • • • • • Dr. Zhanping You, Michigan Technological University, Opportunity and Challenges of Scrap Tires for High-Quality Roads
          • Dr. Alfonso Cerna-Díaz, AECOM, Advances in Geotechnical Evaluations Applied to Tailings Dams

• 01/19/22 6 pm at Rosevine Hall
  • • • • • Lyle Simon, Subsurface Constructors, Vibro Ground Improvement for the St. Louis Ice Center & St. Louis Blues Practice Facility

• 02/17/22 6 pm at St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota (Joint ASCE-MN & MGS-GI Meeting)
  • • • • • Dr. Vernon Schaefer, Iowa State University, Catastrophic Landslides: My Journey to Vaiont and Guinsaugan

• 02/18/22 University of Minnesota 70th Geotechnical Engineering Conference

• 03/09/22 6 pm at Rosevine Hall
  • • • • • Alex Potter-Weight, Menard Group USA, Ground Improvement of the I-35 Flyover Bridge in Forrest Lake, MN

• 04/13/22 6 pm at Rosevine Hall
  • • • • • Dr. Brian Albrecht, Barr Engineering, North Dakota State Highway 73 Landslide Repair

• 05/11/22 6 pm at Rosevine Hall
  • • • • • Dr. Ken Bartlett, University of Minnesota, Strategies to Address Workforce Retention and Recruiting Challenges facing Minnesota Transportation Industry

2020-2021 Speakers:

• 10/01/20 Dr. Roman Makhnenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Geomechanical Aspects of Geological Carbon Storage

• 11/11/20 Dr. Harvey Thorleifson, Minnesota Geological Survey, Status of Minnesota Geological Survey Investigations

• 12/09/20 Jacob Hermann, Engineers Without Borders-UMN Chapter, Community Projects in Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Minneapolis-St. Paul

• 01/13/21 Andrea Blanchette, Terracon, Pavement Management & Forensics

• 02/10/21 Chris Woods, Densification, Inc., Is Dynamic Compaction an Option for My Site?

• 02/24/21 Joint MGS-GI & MNSEA Panel Discussion: "What Geotechs and Structurals Want from Each Other?"

• 03/10/21 Katie Zadrozny, American Engineering Testing, Inc., Minnesota’s ASCE Infrastructure Report Card

• 04/14/21 Colton Corcoran & David Peterson, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Shallow Foundation on Soft Clay with a Granular Trench

• 05/19/21 Dr. Kyle Rollins, Brigham Young University, Ground Improvement for Increased Lateral Pile Resistance