Lorraine N. Fleming, Ph.D., PE

Lorraine N. Fleming, Ph.D., PE
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil Engineering
(202) 806-6570; Fax (202) 806-5271
E-mail: fleming@scs.howard.edu

HIGHEST DEGREE: Ph.D., Civil Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dr. Fleming is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University. She is currently on special assignment as the Director of Howard University's Self-Study Task Force in preparation for the University's reaccreditation visit.

Dr. Fleming's research interests are in the areas of geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering. Her primary focus is on experimental soil mechanics, waste material utilization and soil's response to environmental changes. Over the past several years, she has had funded research projects on the effects of cyclic freeze/thaw on landfill liners, the use of fly ash for engineering purposes and the response of rocks to high temperatures. She has taught courses in the areas of groundwater hydrology, foundation design, engineering geology and soil testing.

Dr. Fleming received an Outstanding Women of Color in Technology award in 1996. She has also received two nationally competitive research and teaching awards. In 1990, she was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Award given by the Department of Energy's Environmental RestOSP-RAtion and Waste Management Division and more recently in 1994, she received DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Faculty Fellowship for research.

Dr. Fleming holds membership in the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Engineering Educators, American Association of University Women, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society. She represents the Civil Engineering Department Heads Mid-Atlantic Region on the National Department Heads Council

EDUCATIONAL & OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Fleming serves as the Director of Howard University Transfer, Research and Go Grad (TRAGG) Program - a program designed to encourage engineering students to pursue their education beyond the undergraduate degree. This program funded by the Office of Naval Research has been successful in proceeding engineering graduates who choose to pursue graduate degrees in engineering.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Johnson, J.H., Cannon, J.N. and Fleming, L.N. (1997), "Engineering Curriculum Reform for the 21s' Century", Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Spring Meeting, West Point, NY.

Fleming, L.N., Abinteh, H. and Inyang, H. (1996), "Leachant pH Effects on the Leachability of Metals from Ash", Journal of Soil Contamination, 5(1):53-59.

Fleming, L.N. and Inyang, H. (1995), " The Permeability of Clay-Modified Fly Ash Subjected to Thermal Gradients", American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Volume 7, No.3.

Inyang, H., Bai, M. and L.N. Fleming (1997), "Moisture Flow through Cracked Concrete Covers for Wastes", American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Environmental Engineering, (in press).

Khokhar, T.A., Johnson, J.H. and Fleming, L.N., "Batch and Continuous Models of Surfactant Soil Washing", Proceedings of the 1993 International Waste Management Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fleming, L.N., Khokhar, T.A. and Johnson, J.H., "Soil Remediation by SurfaFtant Washing of Dimethylphthalate: laboratory Results and Mathematical Modeling", Proceedings of the 1992 Waste Management and Sciences Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pp. 169-179, 1992.

Fleming, L.N. and Abinteh, H.A., " Fly Ash: Its hydraulic Conductivity and Use as a Landfill Liner" Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Environmental Issues and Management of Waste in Energy and Mineral Production, Calgary, Alberta Canada, September 1992.

Fleming, L.N. and Duncan, J.M. (1990), "Stress-Deformation Characteristics of Alaskan Silt", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 116, No. 3.