Symposium in Memory of Tor Brekke -- May 8

A symposium to honor CEE Professor Emeritus Tor Brekke will be held on Friday May, 8, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in Sibley Auditorium in the Bechtel Building on the UC Berkeley Campus. For complete information and to register, go to Tor Brekke Memorial Symposium.
The event is sponsored by the Geoengineering faculty of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Jacobs Associates.

Speakers include:

Introduction and Welcome
--Dr. Michael McRae and Professor Nicholas Sitar

Tor Brekke: How He Came to be a Berkeley Professor: A Personal Account of his Recruitment and Recollections of his Early Years at Berkeley
--Professor Richard E. Goodman

Lessons Learned: 35 Years in Underground Design and Construction: A Tribute to Professor Tor L. Brekke
--Dr. Gregg E. Korbin

Tunneling in a Difficult Environment
--Dr. Ian R. Brown

Tor Brekke: Engineer and Leader
--Dr. Bruce Ripley

Keeping Grounded with Tunneling Advances
--Dr. Brenda Bohlke

A Career Inspired by Tor Brekke
--Dr. Michael McRae