Julie Shang

Professor

PhD - Civil Engineering, The University of Western Ontario (1993)
MEng - Civil Engineering, Carleton University (1989)
BSc - Physics, Beijing Science and Technology (1982)

My Research Group


Awards & Distinctions

  • 2008 - Twekesbury Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Australia.

  • 2007 - Certificate of Appreciation for Contributions to the Fourth Edition of the Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual. Canadian Geotechnical Society.

  • 2003 - Gledden Senior Visiting Fellowship, University of Western Australia.

  • 2000 - Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium Speaker, "Electrokinetics in Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Applications."

  • 1995-2000 - Women's Faculty Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

  • 1995 - Keefer Medal for paper "Electrical strengthening of clays by dielectrophoresis", by K.Y. Lo, J.Q. Shang and I.I. Inculet. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.

  • 1994 - Student Paper Competition Award. 42nd Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

  • 1993 - Graduate Research Fellowship, The University of Western Ontario.

  • 1987-1988 - International Student Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University.

Other Scholarly and Professional Activities

  • P.Eng. Registration - PEO, since November 1994

  • Member, Canadian Geotechnical Society.

  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers.

  • Member, International Society of Polar and Offshore Engineering, since 1996

  • Member, American Electrophoresis Society, since 2008

  • Member, Canadian Association on Water Quality, 2008

  • Associate Editor, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 1995 – 2001.

  • Editorial Board Member, Geomechanics and Engineering (GAE), an International Journal of Computational and theoretical Geomechnics, Foundation Engineering , Engineering Applications, Site Characterization, since 2008.

  • Editorial Board Member, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 1994 - 2006.

  • Member, AFS90, Committee on Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization, Transportation Research Board, the National Academies, USA, 2001 - 2006.

  • Member, AFS80, Committee on Cementitious Stabilization, Transportation Research Board, the National Academies, USA, 2003 - 2006.

  • Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association, Women’s Status Committee, member, 2001-2004

  • Reviewer of technical journals:
    1. Canadian Geotechnical Journal
    2. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering,
    3. Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE
    4. Journal of Geotechnical Testing, ASTM
    5. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
    6. International Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes
    7. Journal of Hazardous Materials
    8. Colloids and Surfaces
    9. Engineering Geology
    10. Journal of the Transportation Research Board
    11. International Journal of Pavement Engineering
    12. Water Resources Research
    13. Separation and Purification Technology
    14. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
    15. Environmental Science and Technology
    16. Environmental Pollution
    17. Geomechanics and Geoengineering
    18. Chemosphere
    19. International Journal of Polar and Offshore Engineering
    20. Applied clay mineralogy
    21. Geomechanics and Geoengineering
  • Organizing committee and session chair, ISOPE, 2013, 2014, 2015

  • Technical committee and session chair, IACGE, Chengdu 2013

  • Reviewer of research grant applications and judge of award competitions
    1. US NSF Research Grant
    2. NSERC Research Grant
    3. NSERC Strategic Grant
    4. Australian Research Council, Large Research Grant
    5. Hong Kong Research Grants Council
    6. Canadian Geotechnical Society student paper competition
    7. South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF)
    8. OCE proposas
  • Associate graduate chair, 2014 - 2016