• Recruitment and retention of underrepresented students

Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 2000, University of California at Berkeley.
• M.S., Civil Engineering, 1996, Washington State University.
• B.S., Civil Engineering, 1994, Washington State University.
  

Professional Experience

• 2000 - present, Assistant Professor, Washington State University.
• 1996 -2000 Research/Teaching Assistant, University of California at Berkeley.
• 1998 - 1999 Independent Engineering Consultant.
• 1994-96 Research Assistant, Washington State University.

Awards

• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1999.
• Harry Bolton Seed Memorial Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1996.
• Honorable Mention in the Student Paper Competition of Washington State University.
• Chapter of the Scientific Research Society, Sigma XI, 1996.
• Second place in the Engineering Sciences Division of the Graduate and Professional Student Research Exposition, Washington State University, 1996.

Teaching

• Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Engineering
• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Foundation Engineering
• Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
  

Selected Publications and Book Sections

• Rodriguez-Marek, A., Bray, J. D., and Abrahamson, N. (2000). "A Geotechnical Seismic Site Response Evaluation Procedure," 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Zealand.
• Rodriguez-Marek, A., Bray, J. D., and Abrahamson, N. (1999). "Task 3: Characterization of Site Response: General Site Categories," PEER Report 1999/03, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, College of Engineering, U.C. Berkeley.
• Rodriguez-Marek, A., Muhunthan, B., and Ho, C. L., (1996). "Discrete Element Method for Slope Stability Analysis," 7th International Symposium on Landslides, Norway.
• Luccioni, L. X., Rodriguez-Marek, A., and Cetin, O. (2001) "Probabilistic Assessment of Liquefaction Over Large Areas," Fourth International Conference On Recent Advances In Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering And Soil Dynamics And Symposium In Honor Of Professor W.D. Liam Finn, San Diego, CA.
• Luccioni, L. X., Rodriguez-Marek, A., and Pestana, J. M. (2000) "An Implicit Integration Algorithm for the Finite Elemtn Implementation of a Nonlinear Anisotropic Material Model Including Hysteretic Nonlinearity," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
• Rodriguez-Marek, A., Bray, J. D., and Abrahamson, N. (2001) "A Geotechnical Seismic Site Response Evaluation Procedure," Earthquake Spectra.