Biographical Sketches of Committee Members - Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives - page 175

mechanics, embankment dams, and arctic soils and excavation. He is affiliated
with several professional associations and has served on various committees,
including the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation
engineering (past president), the Engineering Institute of Canada (past
president), the Canadian Geoscience Council (past president), the Canadian
Geotechnical Society, the Association of Engineering Geologists, and the
Geological Society of London. Professor Morgenstern has consulted on projects
in 35 countries and has assisted in technology transfer to developing countries
through the United Nations and other agencies. He is also a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the National Academies of
Engineering in Canada, the United Kingdom, and India.
DAVID A.NEWMAN , P.E., P.G., is president of Appalachian Mining and
Engineering, Inc./Geolab and president of Newman Engineering, PSC. From
1984 to 1988, he was an assistant professor of mining engineering at the
University of Kentucky. He holds a Ph.D. in mining engineering from
Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Newman's areas of expertise include rock
and soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, subsidence prediction and
abatement, slope stability, analysis of refuse impoundment stability,
underground mine stability, and evaluation of underground mine workings
beneath coal refuse impoundments. He holds patent disclosures for sampling
devices and mining equipment. He has directed a number of projects on slope
stability, focusing on computer-based analysis of soil slopes and
impoundments; operational and regulatory considerations for a slurry
impoundment; and slurry reclamation. Dr. Newman's memberships in
professional societies include the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and
Exploration, Inc., serving on the Rock Mechanics Award Committee, as chair
and the Professional Engineering Examination Committee; and the Acid Mine
Drainage Committee of the National Coal Association.
RAJA V.RAMANI , P.E., holds the Anne B. and George H. Jr. Deike
Chair in mining engineering at the Pennsylvania State University where he has
been on the faculty since 1970 and is a professor of mining and geo-
environmental engineering. His research activities include 6 years of experience
in the coal mining industry, flow mechanisms of air, gas, and dust in mining
environs, innovative mining methods, and health, safety, productivity, and
environmental issues in the mineral industry. He has published more than 200
research papers, contributed to 25 topics, and edited the proceedings of 15
national and international symposiums. Dr. Ramani has been a consultant to the
United Nations and the World Bank and