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Name

M. Damon Weiss

Web Page URL

http://www.advanced-infrastructure.com

LinkedIn URL

http://www.linkedin.com/in/damonweiss

Facebook URL

http://www.facebook.com/people/M-Damon-Weiss/1513672

Resume or Curriculum Vitae URL

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~mdweiss/

Short Biography

My name is Damon Weiss. I am a Professional Engineer with over eleven years of civil engineering experience, with knowledge of civil / site design, transportation, municipal and water resources engineering. In general, I enjoy the work I do, and have found a great deal of success and personal satisfaction in my career. Simultaneously, however, my real passion has always been in computer science, artificial intelligence, sensors, robotics and other innovative technologies. Throughout my education and career, therefore, it has always been my goal to find a way to combine these interests and help advance the use of computing and emerging technologies within the engineering community. Eventually, my interests led me to pursue my Master's degree in Advanced Infrastructure Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. The program was a perfect fit - an awakening for me, in fact. During my time at Carnegie Mellon University, I met some incredible people, with absolutely amazing ideas for the future of civil engineering and infrastructure management. I realized that I had suddenly become part of an exciting, new and largely untapped niche of civil engineering. At the same time, it became apparent that this niche was also painfully obscure within the general civil engineering community. In fact, I would estimate that the bulk of the knowledge of this field presently resides about 90% within the academic world, and only about 10% in industry. One of the major purposes of this online community, therefore, is to help bridge that gap, and hopefully bring some of the ideas and concepts from the classroom and research labs into practical engineering application.

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