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Dr. William Rasdorf
Dr. Rasdorf is interested in structures, construction, transportation, manufacturing, and computer-aided engineering. Facility design methods. Engineering databases and information processing and technology. Automated representation, use, and management of analysis, design, manufacture, and construction data. Modeling of engineering objects, processes, assemblies, and phenomena. Integration among engineering processes and information systems. Modeling and processing of design, product and process data, material property standards and specifications, design codes, and regulations. Computer-aided design and geometric and spatial modeling and analysis in engineering. Information technology applications in problem solving, design, construction, manufacturing, and transportation. Constructed facility life cycle automation through the integration of software, hardware, sensing, and information and communication technologies. Planning, design, and construction automation. Environmental impacts in construction.
- PhD, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- BS, Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Recent Research Projects for Rasdorf
- Driving Simulation of Nine-Panel Logo Signs — 06/01/10 - 02/28/11 Details
- Preliminary Engineering Cost Trends for Highway Projects — 08/16/09 - 12/31/10 Details
- Procedure for Curve Warning Signing, Delineation, and Advisory Speeds for Horizontal Curves — 08/16/08 - 08/15/10 Details
- 2007 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Felloswhip for Elizabeth Harris: Grant#DDEGRD-07-X-00414 — 09/01/07 - 12/31/08 Details
- Pavement Marking Perormance Analysis — 07/01/07 - 06/30/09 Details
- Development of Traffic Data Input Resources For the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Process — 07/01/07 - 08/15/10 Details
- Life Cycle Inventory and Impact Analysis Framework for Nonroad Construction Vehicles and Equipment Based Upon In-use — 09/15/03 - 08/31/08 Details
Research Publications
Upcoming Courses
Taught By Rasdorf
- CE 301 - 501 — Summer '12 Civil Engineering Surveying and Geomatics
- CE 301 - 200 — Fall '12 Civil Engineering Surveying and Geomatics