Check if you have been an excellent student: By simple definition, you are full of curiousity and always taking initiative in seeking answers. You ask for more on your work until you are fully satisfied and convinced . The total amount of work done is not as important, but the quality and rate of doing work are more important. An excellent student is pushing the advisor but not being pushed . He/she knows better than the advisor in the piece of work he/she is undertaking. (don't worry if you don't belong to this category. You would be training yourself and achieve the goal by the time you graduated!)

I don't want to keep students for overly long - three-year stay is the average or better say it is the maximum for getting a PhD. After that, it becomes less effective and productive for both sides. In my opinion, students should burn their energy at the most efficient rate, that is maximum possible amount of work nut shorter time span in achieving the results. My experience is  24 hours may be considered adequate for a day for the students, whereas nowdays it should be more than 24 hours for myself to be a day. When I was a student, a week was over 6.5 days but it is now shortened to 4.5 days.  Why was it possible? because my friends and I simply enjoyed the kind of works we were doing.

 I once learned that in order to understand soil properties better, we need to know about the in and out of soil testing. But to be able to test soils, we should be happy in making our hands dirty.

Name (current affiliation)	Degree and Year DOCTORAL STUDENTS	Period of Stay
Jui-Pin Wang -Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc., Pittsburg	Ph.D. (2007)	Spring 2004-Summer 2007
Logan Brant - Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, New York - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University	Centrifuge Modeling of Pipe Piles Subjected to Lateral Impact Loads, Ph.D. (2006)	Fall  2003 - Summer 2006
Min-Hao Wu - Assistant Professor, National University of Kaohsiung - formerly National Center for Disaster Reduction, Taiwan	Centrifuge Modeling of Two-Dimensional Slope Failure, Ph.D. (2006)	Fall 2003 - Summer 2006
Jieh-Jiuh Wang - Assistant Professor, Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan	Rapid Needs Assessment System for Typhoon Triggered Debris Flow Disaster in Taiwan, Ph.D. (2006)	Fall 2003 - Summer 2006
Songtao Yang - HPA Inc., New York	A Unified Model for Sands and Its Application to Geotechnical Analysis, Ph.D. (2005)	Fall 2002 - Spring 2005
Chris Burke - Port Authority of NY&NJ - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University	Full-Scale Shaking Table Tests and Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls, Ph.D. (2004)	Summer 2001- Fall 2004
Huabei Liu - Assistant Professor, City College of New York	Finite Element Simulations of the Response of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls, Ph.D. (2002)	Summer 1999 - Fall 2002  postdoc 1/2003-7/2003
Donju Lee (Deceased, Korea)	Professional Degree (2003), Finite Element Analysis of Muar Test Embankment, M.Sc. (2002)	Fall 2000 - Spring 2002 (Spring 2003)
Lixun Sun - Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, New York	Centrifugal Testing and Finite Element Analysis of Pipeline Buried in Liquefiable Soil, Ph.D. (2001)	Fall 1997 - Spring 2001
Dongyi Yue - DMJM Harris, New York	An Anisotropic Time-Dependent Bounding Surface Model for Clay and Its Application to a Containment Dike Constructed over Soft Foundation, D.Eng Sc. (2001)	Spring 1999 - Spring 2001
Zhaohui Yang (in US)	Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Site Response including Dilation and Liquefaction, Ph.D. (1999)	as sponsor for defense   (research under Prof. Elgamal of UCSD)
	MASTER'S STUDENTS (only full-time students who worked on research projects are included)
Ben Leshchinsky - (Doctoral student)		Sept 2007-May 2008
Matteo Minno - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy	Investigation of the reinforcement-soil interface behaviour through monotonic and cyclic tests in a modified direct shear device	March 2008-August 2008
Lorenzo Bernardi - University of Bologna, Italy	Centrifuge Modeling of Sandy Slopes	Aug 2007-Feb 2008
Roberto Reale - Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, New York		Nov 2005-Dec 2006
Yanbin Xiong - DMJM Harris, New York	-	Fall 2005- Summer 2006
Chris Cardany - Langan Engineering & Environmental Services	Modular-Block Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Retaining Wall: A Finite Element Study, M.Sc., 2000	Jan 99 - Dec 99
Zheng Liu - Atlanta (please contact me)	Performance of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Pavement under Static and Dynamic Loadings, M.Sc., 1999	Sept 97 - April 99
Katsuyuki Shirozu - Toa Corporation, Tokyo, Japan	Automated Triaxial Testing Device, M.Sc., 2001	Summer 1999 - Spring 2001
Chun-Che Chien - Taiwan (please contact me)	Direct Shear Testing of Sands, M.Sc., 2001	Spring 2000 - Spring 2001
Chris Burke (PhD)	Shear Strength Properties of Sand-Geomembrane Interface as Determined by the Tilting Table Test, M.Sc., 2001	Fall 2000 - Spring 2001
Michiko Matsumoto (Japan) - University of Tokyo ...	Undergraduate research. Advanced triaxial testing of soil, foucsed on the small strain measurement device	2002