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Rachid Hankour
Professor of the Practice, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vice President and Director of Laboratory Systems, Geocomp Corporation
Education
| 1991 |
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Ph.D., Tufts University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 1988 |
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M.S.E., Tufts University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 1984 |
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B.S.E., University of Sciences and Technology, Oran, Algeria. 5 year degree of Engineering |
Background
As vice president and director of Lab Systems, Mr. Hankour is responsible
for worldwide and domestic sales, installation and training, marketing,
design, and quality assurance/quality control of the company's line of
automated materials testing equipment. Clients include universities, colleges,
government agencies (DOTs), and private soil and materials testing laboratories.
He has been working since 1994 with Geocomp Corporation which is an innovative
company involved with many exciting projects such as off shore wind energy,
instrumentation monitoring of major projects like the reconstruction of the world
trade center and the subway extension in NY City.
Rachid has over twenty four years of advanced academic and project experience
on both engineering and environmental projects. He has co-authored a number
of professional papers on jet grouting as a soil improvement technique, and on
the use of automated soil testing equipment. At Tufts University Rachid taught
courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, among them Introduction to
Geotechnical Engineering, Science of Engineering Materials, Foundation Engineering,
and Consolidation and Shear Strength of Soils. He has been professionally
involved with several major engineering firms, and worked on U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and
industrial projects.
Dr. Hankour's goal is to bridge the gap between the university, the private
sector, and government institutions by offering real life and world wide
experience in the field of geotechnical engineering to the CEE department.
A part of his job at Geocomp, he has been traveling extensively all over
the world training, lecturing, and teaching about the application of the
latest technologies in geotechnical engineering. As a result he
will be acting
as an ambassador to Tufts University to explore areas of cooperation,
students' exchange, and research funding.
Courses
| CEE 042 |
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Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering |
| CEE 002 |
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Science of Engineering Materials |
| ES 09 |
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Strength of Materials |
| CEE 0244 |
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Laboratory and In-situ Measurement of Soil Properties |
| CEE 0149 |
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Foundation Engineering |
| CEE 0242 |
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Consolidation and Shear Strength of Soils |
| CEE 0012 |
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Introduction to Hydraulics |
| CEE 0131 |
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Open Channel Hydraulics |
| CEE 0292 |
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Seminar Series |
Employment
Academic Affiliations
- Professor of the Practice, Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, 2010-present
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, 1990-1999
- Invited Seminar and Short Course Presenter to over fifty teaching and
research institutions in the United States and throughout the world from
Australia to Vietnam.
Professional Affiliations
- Vice President and Director of Laboratory
Systems, Geocomp Corporation, Acton, MA, 2007-present
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Geocomp
Corporation, Boxborough, MA, 1994-2007
- Senior Geotechnical Engineer, GeoTesting
Express, Boxborough, MA,
1994-2004
- Geotechnical Engineer, ASCE Grade III, GEI
Consultants Inc., Winchester, MA, 1991-1992
- Geotechnical Engineer Consultant, Ground
Engineering Services, Manchester, NH,
1991
Selected Honors and Awards
- Tau Beta Pi
- Sigma Xi Scientific Society
- Co-recipient of Earle F. Littleton Scholarship, Tufts University
- Who is who in Engineering and Sciences?
- Engineering Baccalaureate with high honors received by the president of
Algeria
- Algerian scholarship to study abroad
- Research Assistant under an NSF project
Professional Memberships
- Geo-Institute
of ASCE: Soil Properties and Modeling committee member
- Sigma Xi Scientific Society
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Boston Society of Civil Engineers
- USUCGER
Personal
- Fluent in four languages; Arabic, French, Spanish, and English
- Traveled to over 150 cities throughout the world
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