Hello Professor Sanayei,
I completely agree with #2. Most of committee meetings that focus on same field or subject were scheduled at same time. I had to choose which one to attend, but I kept thinking about the other ones which I did not attend. I think the only negative point of this conference was this issue.
Hope to see better time arrangement in next conference.
Yours Sincerely,
Arman
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Arman Tatar S.M.ASCE
Graduate Research Assistant
Michigan Technological University
Houghton MI
(906) 231-5844
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-04-2019 15:00
From: Masoud Sanayei
Subject: What advice do you have to make Structures Congress better?
In my opinion, attending the pre-congress committee meetings, the day before the conference starts, does not work well for the following reasons:
- It adds to the number of days that I need to be at the conference. This year, my 3 committee meetings were on Wednesday and my two presentations on Friday and Saturday. It means that right before the end of my academic semester, I needed to stay for 4 days and arriving on Tuesday afternoon. Instead of a total of 5 days, I would have preferred to pay the full registration and be at the conference only for 2 or 3 days.
- it is interesting that two out of 3 of my committee meetings were at scheduled at the same time!
- Some people choose not to attend committee meetings for reason #1. This year all of my 3 committee meetings had low attendance.
- Some people just attend the committee meetings without attending the conference and without registration.
Hope that you consider the above for the next structures congress conference.
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Masoud Sanayei M.ASCE
Professor
Tufts University
Medford MA
(617)627-4116
Original Message:
Sent: 05-03-2019 09:12
From: Stephanie Slocum
Subject: What advice do you have to make Structures Congress better?
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