Musharraf Zaman
Professional Activities and Services
  1. Role in International/National Conferences/Symposia/Workshops:
    1. Member, International Advisory Committee, 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held at Nagoya, Japan, April 1-5, 1985.
    2. Session Chairman, "Soil-Structure Interaction," 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held at Nagoya, Japan, April 1-5, 1985.
    3. Organizer and co-chairman of session "Geomechanics," International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, held at Norman, Oklahoma, October 15-17, 1985.
    4. Member, Organizing and Steering Committee, ADSC Drilled Foundation Workshop for Engineering Faculty, held in Fort Collins, Colorado, July 12-18, 1987.
    5. Co-editor, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, held at Norman, Oklahoma, October 15-17, 1985.
    6. Moderator of session, "Structures," Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SECTAM) XIII, held at Columbia, South Carolina, April 17-18, 1986.
    7. Moderator of session "Engineering," 75th Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science, held at Southeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, November 14, 1986.
    8. Co-Chairman of session "Discontinuities, Contacts, Interfaces, Joints," Second International Conference on Constitutive Laws of Engineering Materials: Theory and Application," held at Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 5-8, 1987.
    9. Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held April 1988 at Innsbruck, Austria.
    10. Chairman of Session "Flow and Consolidation," 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held in Austria, April 11-15, 1988.
    11. Reviewer, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, held at Chicago, Illinois, 1988.
    12. Chairman of Session CM-5 "Plasticity and Dynamics in Composite Materials," Energy Tech. Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 14-18, 1990.
    13. Member, International Advisory Committee, 7th International Conference on Recent Advances and Comp. Methods in Geomechanics, held in Australia in 1991.
    14. Member and Treasurer, Organizing Committee, 32nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, held in Norman, Oklahoma, July 1991.
    15. Co-Editor, Newsletter of the International Assoc. for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (1989 - present).
    16. Co-Chairman of session "General and Cyclic Plasticity", Third International Conf. on constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials, held in Tucson, Arizona, January 7-11, 1991.
    17. Chairman of session "Constitutive Modeling", IACMAG-91 Conf., held in Cairns, Australia, May 6-11, 1991.
    18. Vice Chairman of Session CM-3 "Dynamics and Experimental Mechanics of Composite Materials II," Energy Technology Conf. and Exhibition (ETCE), held at Houston, Texas, jan. 26-29, 1992.
    19. Chairman of Session 7 "Thermoelasticity," Southeastern Conf. on Theoretical and Appl. Mech. (SECTAM XVI), held at Houston, Texas, Jan. 26-29, 1992.
    20. Co-Organizer, "U.S.-Canada Workshop on Recent Accomplishments and Future Trends in Geomechanics in the 21st Century," held in Norman, Oklahoma, October 21-23, 1992.
    21. Chairman, "Session SM7 - Solid Mechanics", Second Asian-Pacific Conf. on Computational Mech., held in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 3-6, 1993.
    22. Co-Chairman, "International Conf. of the Int'l. Assoc. of Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG-94)," held at the West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, May 22-28, 1994.
    23. Co-Chairman, "Session - Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties of Rock", 35th U.S. Symp. on Rock Mechanics, held at Lake Tahoe, June 4-7, 1995.
    24. Developer of Technical Session and Chair, Third International Conference on Comp. Methods and Water Resources, held in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 25-28, 1995. 24.
    25. Member, International Tech. Comm., First International Symp. on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis, held in Berkeley, California, June 12-14, 1996.
    26. Session Organizer, Session: Discrete Element Method/DDA, 2nd North American Rock Mech. Symp., held in Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 1996.
    27. Session Chair, Discrete Element Methods II, 2nd North American Rock Mech. Symp., held in Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 1996.
    28. Member, International Advisory Com., 9th IACMAG Conf., held in Wuhan, P.R.C., Nov. 2-7, 1997. Also, developing two technical sessions, one on Petroleum Rock Mechanics (with Dr. Y. Abousleiman) and the other on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (with Prof. Salami).
    29. Session Chair, "D2: Deep Excavation", 9th IACMAG Conf., held in Wuhan, P.R.C., Nov. 2-7, 1997.
    30. Developer of Technical Session on Plasticity of Granular Materials (with Prof. A.R. Kukreti), Sixth International Symp. on Plasticity, held in Alaska, July 14-18, 1997.
    31. Co-Organizer (with E.C. Drumm, Univ. of Tennessee) of sessions 238, 272 and 333 at the 78th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Jan. 10-14, 1999.
    32. Organizer and Chair of Session T4/2 "Neural Networks in Structural Analysis." Fourth Int. Conf. on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials, R.P.I., Troy, New York, July 27-30, 1999.
    33. Co-Chair, 10th IACMAG Conference, held at Tucson, Arizona, 2001.
    34. Organizer of Technical Session "Computational Mechanics 1" at the 14th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Virginia Tech., 2002.
    35. Organizer, Asphalt Pavement Recycling Workshop (with OCAST, ODOT and Koch Pavement Solutions), Sept. 16, 2003.
    36. Member of the Organizing Committee, Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association Conf., 2004.
    37. Co-Chair, 11th IACMAG Conference, held at Turin, Italy, 2005.
    38. Co-Chair, 12th IACMAG Conference, held at Goa, India, Oct. 1-6, 2008.
    39. Chief Proctor, EIT Exam. (ELSES) (since 2002).
  2. Society Offices:
    1. Member, ASCE Deep Foundations Committee (June 1987 - 1996).
    2. Elected Vice-Chairperson (Section I: Engineering), Oklahoma Academy of Science (11/86 - 11/87).
    3. Chairman, ADSC Technical Affiliate Committee (6/84 - 12/94).
    4. Co-Chairman of ADSC Joint Contractor-Technical Affiliate Committee (for establishing criteria for research to be funded by the HBW fund) (1987).
    5. Member, U.S. Universities Council for Geotechnical Engineering Research (USUCGER) By-Laws Committee (3/87 - 3/88).
    6. Elected Chairperson (Section I: Engineering), Oklahoma Academy of Science (11/87 - 11/88).
    7. Editor, Newsletter of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) (since 1991) (Co-Editors: Gioda, Ichikawa).
    8. Chair, ASCE Deep Foundation Sub-Committee for Nominating Papers for Awards (June-August, 1993).
    9. University Representative, Transportation Research Board, (since September 1993).
    10. Co-Chair, 8th IACMAG Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (1994).
    11. Board Member, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) (since 1996).
    12. Co-Chair, IACMAG Award Committee (since August 1996).
    13. Founding Member, American Rock Mechanics Association (since 1996).
    14. Member, A2L02 (Soil and Rock Properties), Transportation Research Board (1997-2003).
    15. Member, A2K05 (Modeling Techniques in Geomechanics; sub-committee on Neural Network).
    16. Member, A2JO2 (Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization), Transportation Research Board (2001-2010).
    17. Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) (1997 - 2000).
    18. Member, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) (since 1997).
    19. Member (OU), Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Task Force (since 2002).
    20. OU Director, Oklahoma Transportation Center (October 2003 - December 2004).
    21. Chair, Oklahoma Transportation Center Technical Committee (2006 - 2007).
    22. Member, Council of University Transportation Center (CUTC) (since 2006).
    23. Chair, OTC Education and Outreach Committee (since 2007).
    24. Interim Technical Director, Oklahoma Transportation Center (since January 2009).
  3. Journal Editorial Board:
    1. Associate Editor, Petroleum Science and Engineering.
    2. Co-Editor (Application Briefs), International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics.
    3. Associate Editor, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE.
    4. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE (since January 2009).
    5. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering.
    6. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Pavement Research and Technology.
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