James H. Garrett, Thomas Lord Professor and Department Head-Civil and Environmental Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University

Jim Garrett

Contact Info:
James H. Garrett, Jr.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Office: 110 Scaife Hall
Phone: 412-268-5090
Email: garrett@cmu.edu

James H. Garrett, Jr., P.E.

Dean, College of Engineering

Thomas Lord Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Co-Director, Pennsylvania Smarter Infrastructure Incubator (PSii)

Areas of Interest:

Applications of sensors and sensor systems to civil infrastructure condition assessment; mobile hardware/software systems for field applications; representations and processing strategies to support the usage of engineering codes, standards, and specifications; and knowledge-based decision support systems

Education

Ph.D. 1986, Carnegie Mellon University

Select Publications:

  • Oliviera, D. P., D. Neill,  L. Soibelman, J. H. Garrett, Jr., “Detection of patterns in water distribution pipe breakage using spatial scan statistics for point events in a physical network,”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 1, January/February 2011, pp. 21-30.

  • Anthony Rowe, Mario Berges, Gaurav Bhatia, Ethan Goldman, Raj Rajkumar, Lucio Soibelman, James H. Garrett, José M. F. Moura. “Sensor Andrew: Large-Scale Campus-Wide Sensing and Actuation.” IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 6:1 - 6:14, 2011
  • Guo, W., L. Soibelman, and J. H. Garrett, Jr.  “Visual Pattern Recognition Supporting Defect Reporting and Condition Assessment of Wastewater Collection Systems”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 3. pp. 160-169, May/June 2009.
  • Wang, H., B. Akinci and J. H. Garrett, Jr., K. Reed, E. Nyberg.  "Semi-Automated Model Matching using Version Difference",  Advanced Engineering Informatics, Vol. 23, No. 11, pp. 1-11, January 2009.
  • Gordon, C.., B. Akinci and J. H. Garrett, Jr., “A formalism for construction inspection planning.” Automation in Construction, Vol. 17, Issue 6, pg. 705-718, August 2008.