STRUCTURAL DIVISION, ASCE

Report on Activities FY97
Report on Plans FY98

Committee on:	Emerging Computing Technology
TAC:		Analysis and Computation

Submitted by:	John W. Baugh Jr., Chair
Date:           April 11, 1997

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I. Administration

   A. Membership (number of committee members):  18 members
						 2  nonmember advisors
   B. Meetings:

      1.  Meetings held during FY97:

            -  April 13, 1997, Portland, OR (Structures Congress)

      2.  Meetings planned for FY 98 (date, location)

            -  July 1998, San Francisco (SEWC)

   C. Subcommittee and Task Committees (reporting to this committee):

          None


II.   Papers in FY96  (10/95 - 9/96)  Journal of Structural Engineering

   A. Number of papers reviewed for Journal: 0 as committee activity

   B. Number of Papers published in Journal: 0 as committee activity

III.  Publications (Special Publications, Manuals, other)

   A. Publications completed during FY97  (10/96 - 10/97) (title,
      where and when published)

      -   ASCE Monograph on Neural Networks in Civil Engineering

   B. Publications in preparation (title, expected completion date)

      -   IEEE Expert Magazine:  Special Track on Applications of AI
          in Civil Engineering

	  Expected Publication Date:	June 1996

   C. Publications planned for the future (topic, expected starting date)

      - An ASCE monograph on Logic Programming is planned for the year 1997.

IV.   Technical Sessions (ASCE Annual Convention, Structures
      Congresses, Specialty Conferences, other meetings)

   A. Sessions held during FY97 (10/96 - 9/97)

      - Technical Session in Structures Congress XV
        April 1997, Portland, OR
	"Emerging Technologies for Monitoring Structures"
	Dryver Huston, University of Vermont
	Hani Melhem, Kansas State University

      - Technical Session in Structures Congress XV
        April 1997, Portland, OR
	"Virtual reality Applications in Structural Engineering"
	Jim Garrett, Carnegie Mellon University
	George Turkiyyah, University of Washington

   B. Sessions Planned for FY98 (10/97 - 9/98)

      - Technical Session in SEWC
        Conceptual Structural Design / Computational Models
        Jim Garrett, Carnegie Mellon University
        D. Grierson
        R. Balling

      - Technical Session in SEWC
        Data Management/Evaluation/Interpretation Applications
          for Structural Engineering
        Stu Chen, SUNY Buffalo

      - Technical Session in SEWC
        Product Modelling for Structural Engineers
        Meg Neggers, The Premisys Corporation
	Kincho Law, Stanford University
	Jim Garrett, Carnegie Mellon University

      - Technical Session in SEWC
        Advanced Application of Web Technology in Structural Engineering
	George Turkiyyah, University of Washington
	Kincho Law, Stanford University

      - Panel in SEWC (pending)
        Civil Engineering and the World Wide Web (Panel)
        Kim Roddis, University of Kansas
        Meg Neggers, The Premisys Corporation

      - Tutorial in SEWC (pending)
        Introduction to the World-Wide Web for Structural Engineers
        George Turkiyyah, University of Washington
        Maher Hakim, Autodesk
        John W. Baugh Jr., North Carolina State University

   C. Sessions Planned for the Future:

      - Sessions and workshops are being planned for the
        1999 Structures Congress

V. Other activities (type of activities, action completed or planned)

   A. Completed during FY97 (10/96 - 10/97)

      - We have a World Wide Web page that describes the mission of
        the committee and its associated activities.

	The URL for this page is:
        http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~garrett/ect/

   B. Planned for FY98

      -  We will continue to develop our WWW page ...

      - Multimedia products are being considered by the committee ...

   C. Planned for the future


VI.   Plans for the Future (goals, areas of opportunity, etc.)

      - A few areas that we might attempt to bring to the attention of the
	structural engineering community are: networked collaborative
	design support environments, integrated support for usage of
	engineering design codes and standards in design systems, physical-
	based virtual reality, intelligent support for structural 
	configuration and structural modeling.  The specific areas that
	will be emphasized by this committee in the future are yet to be
	determined.

VII.  List activities that have been delayed or tabled due to lack of funding.

   - None.