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  • May

    Dr. John Bandy (right) accepts the Army's Superior Civilian Service Award from ERDC-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Director Dr. Ilker Adiguzel.

    CERL's Bandy receives Army honors

    ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Installations Division Chief Dr. John Bandy has received the Superior Civilian Service Award from the Department of the Army.
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    Team members assist Mississippi Valley Division flood preparedness—"Operation Watershed-Recovery"

    Flood control planners will soon be privy to detailed information on the Mississippi Valley region's flooding potential and current priority repairs. Named "Operation Watershed-Recovery," this valuable compilation showcases the tremendous efforts of the Corps' Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) experts, with ERDC team members as major contributors.
  • ERDC Engineer Dr. David Gent checks the electric current applied to one of the electrodes in an electrode well during his two-month demonstration project in Denmark.

    Denmark draws DECON expertise from ERDC engineer

    The Corps' present-day go-to engineer for electrokinetics (EK) recalls glancing at the photo of the Mississippi River model found in his McComb, Miss. history textbook in 1972 and thinking that WES would be a cool place to work.
  • A student from the Bovina Elementary School Gifted and Talented Educational Services program participates in an engineering experiment at the school. ERDC staff members visited the school as part of outreach efforts by ERDC-Vicksburg.

    ERDC staff brings engineering skills to students

    Six current and former ERDC-Vicksburg employees hosted an engineering workshop for the fourth and fifth grade Gifted and Talented Educational Services (GATES) class at Bovina Elementary School March 20. Damarys Acevedo-Acevedo, Dr. Susan Bailey, Jose´ Mattei-Sosa, and Bobby McComas all from EL, Dr. Jackie Pettway from CHL and former employee Bobby Carpenter participated in the outreach project, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers Vicksburg Branch.

  • Division chief uses national team membership to write national policy, help district

    It’s not every day a district employee gets to be involved with creating national policy. Michael Bart, the district’s chief of engineering and construction, was given that opportunity starting in September 2007, when he was asked to serve as the team lead of the Corps’ new Levee Safety Policy and Procedures Team. He had just finished a seven-month assignment at the Corps’ Hurricane Protection Office in New Orleans as the deputy for execution support and had been assisting with the Corps’ Dam Safety Program for a couple of years when he agreed to serve in this role.