Bringing Soil Mechanics to Elementary Schools

Eduardo Suescun-Florez received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from La Salle University, Bogota, Colombia in 2000. Upon graduation, he co-founded Geotecnia de Colombia LLC., and worked as an engineering consultant for public and private agencies in Colombia and South America. Most recently he worked as external engineering consultant for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. After obtaining his M.S. degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010, he began pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering with major in Geotechnical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He is currently serving as a teaching fellow at the Bedford Village and Langston Hughes Elementary Schools under NYU-Poly’s GK-12 program funded by NSF and CBSI consortium of donors. His experimental research interest is focused on the high strain rate behavior of sands including transparent soils and its application on modeling of rapid earth penetration.