2017

Sarah Mobley, P.E., doctoral student, and Kelly Costello, E.I., doctoral candidate, from the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida, are the winners of the 2017 DFI and DFI Educational Trust Student Paper Competition. Their winning paper, “The Effect of Slurry Type on Drilled Shaft Cover Quality,” presented the findings […]

For the third year, the DFI Educational Trust is participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. Occurring this year on November 28, #GivingTuesday is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces its new secretariat, Monika De Vos. De Vos is the deputy head of the geotechnical division of the Belgium Building Research Institute (BBRI, Belgium), and head of Laboratory of Geotechnics and Monitoring at BBRI. She has been with BBRI since 1991 and is […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces three new members to its Board of Trustees. Jorge Capitao-Mor is the director of GEO – Ground Engineering Operations in Portugal. He has been with the company, which specializes in the development of polymer-based slurries as a support fluid for soil stabilization, since […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust is accepting applications for the 2017 Manuel Fine Civil Engineering Scholarship, which provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students attending schools in the Province of Ontario. Two scholarships, in the amount of US$2,500 each, will be awarded in 2017. The deadline to apply is October 31, 2017. […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) has published the Technical Program for the 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, 2017, in New Orleans. It is available at www.deepfoundations2017.org.  A highlight at this year’s conference is an Invited Panel on Risk: A Rational Discussion on Wednesday, October 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The discussion, […]

The DFI Educational Trust and the DFI Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee awarded five grants of $1,750 each to women involved in design and/or construction of deep foundations to attend DFI’s 42nd Annual Conference in New Orleans, October 24-27. The grant includes free conference registration and covers related expenses for attending the conference.  The […]

The DFI Educational Trust Annual Pennsylvania Golf Outing, held in July at Chartiers Country Club in Pittsburgh, raised funds to support scholarships at Penn State University, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The $12,000 raised through golf registrations will be shared between the scholarship funds at Penn State University and the University of […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust announces that the first Michael L. Condon Civil Engineering Scholarship, in the amount of $5,000, was awarded to Drew Rommel, an undergraduate civil engineering student at Oregon State University.  The Condon Scholarship Fund was established in 2015 with an initial donation by Condon-Johnson and Associates of Oakland, Calif., […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, recently awarded $36,000 in scholarships to students pursuing careers in civil and geotechnical engineering.  In July, the Trust awarded a $5,000 Thomas Wysockey Civil Engineering Scholarship to Rocky Howard, a senior at Texas A&M, and a $5,000 John O’Malley Scholarship to Andrea […]