This past March, Pedram received an honorable mention for his poster, “Advancing 3D Concrete Printing: Novel Insights into Interface Behavior for Sustainable Housing and Space Construction” at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum.
Great work Pedram!
https://cgs.osu.edu/programs-events/edward-f-hayes-advanced-research-forum/hayes-2025-winners
Dr. Burris was selected as an ACI Fellow as of March 30, 2025. Selection as a fellow evidences extended commitment by an ACI member to the mission of the Institute:
“A Fellow shall have made outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education, research, development, design, construction, or management. In addition, a Fellow shall have made significant contributions to ACI through committees and/or local chapters.”
Dr. Burris has been a member of ACI since 2008, when she joined as a M.S. student while working for Dr. Kyle Riding at Kansas State University. Since that time she has supported ACI through membership in multiple committees: 240 – Pozzolans, for which she is the current chair; 236 – Materials Science of Concrete, which she currently serves as an officer; 232 – Coal Ash in Concrete, voting member; 123- Research; and 231 – Early Age Properties of Concrete. Dr. Burris also supports the Central Ohio Chapter of ACI (ACICOC) as a board member, since 2018, and assists as a proctor for local area ACI Field Technician 1 certification sessions, conducted by Ohio Concrete. Dr. Burris was awarded a local chapter scholarship from the Central Texas Chapter of ACI in 2013, the ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement in 2022, and the ACI Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement award in 2023.
“Being a member of ACI has not only provided me with information about concrete and concrete research, but has also given me perspective on the work concrete producers, engineers, and contractors do as part of the construction team to create durable concrete infrastructure. This helps to ensure my research work is done with purpose, and is solution-oriented towards solving real-world problems and having impact on current industry practice. ACI has also provided innumerable opportunities to make connections, and even friendships, within the industry. I highly recommend that every Civil Engineering student become an active member of their local chapter, and the national ACI organization.”
https://www.concrete.org/newsandevents/honorsandawards/fellows.aspx
Dr. Burris was recently featured in an article published by the OSU College of Engineering. The article can be viewed here:
https://engineering.osu.edu/news/2025/03/paving-way-more-durable-sustainable-concrete
A 30′ x 30′ x 2 story 3D concrete printer has arrived and been installed on the OSU campus.
Work is starting involving collaborations between Drs. Burris and Sezen from the CEGE department, Drs. Diles and Reece from the Knowlton School of Architecture and staff and faculty, especially Ben DiMarco, Michael Lander, and Ed Herderick from the Center for Design and Manufacturing (CDME) to understand how to most efficiently print sustainable, reliable, high quality structures utilizing this technology.
Read more about the printer here:
https://cdme.osu.edu/news/2023/01/collaborative-partnership-brings-ohios-first-construction-3d-printer-cdme
Cansu Acarturk successfully defended her thesis, “Novel and Sustainable Cementitious Systems: Improving Calcium Sulfoaluminate Cement and Bacterial Concrete Properties” and has been award the Doctor of Philosophy degree!
Congratulations Cansu, and thank you for the many years of great work and mentoring of many other students in the structures and construction materials labs.
At the Spring 2022 ACI Convention in Orlando, Florida Dr. Burris was selected to receive the ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement!
The ACI Young Member Award for Professional Achievement was established by ACI’s Board of Direction in 1997 for the purpose of recognizing the contributions of younger members of the Institute for professional achievement.
Nominees must be ACI members and 35 years of age or less at the time the completed nomination form is received at ACI headquarters. Nominees will be judged by the degree to which they have attained significant achievement in each of the following areas:
Dr. Burris was nominated by the ACI Central Ohio Chapter.
Award Bio:
Dr. Lisa Burris is an Assistant Professor in Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering at the Ohio State University. She has a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering (Kansas State University, 2009), a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Kansas State University, 2011), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, with an emphasis in Construction Materials (University of Texas at Austin, 2014). She held a post-doctoral fellow position at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2014 – 2016. Dr. Burris’ expertise lies in the area of multi-scale physical and chemical issues in cement-based materials including optimization of hydration, strength development, and durability of new supplementary cementitious materials and novel cementitious binders. Dr. Burris has extensive experience with materials testing and characterization, durability, and service life modeling and has published on these topics in journals including Cement and Concrete Research, Cement and Concrete Composites, ACI Materials, and Materials and Structures, in addition to helping to produce a FHWA Techbrief on alternative cements.
Dr. Burris serves as a voting member of ACI Committee 232 – Fly Ash and Bottom Ash in Concrete; Committee 242 – Alternative Cements, Committee 123 – Research, and Committee 236 – Materials Science of Concrete. She also serves as secretary for the current ACI Committee 236 task group (ITG1), as an associate member of ACI Committee 231- Properties of Concrete at Early Ages, as a board member of her local ACI Central Ohio Chapter, and as advisor of the Ohio State University’s ACI student chapter and ASCE Concrete Canoe team. She frequently assists with ACI Field Technician I and Aggregate Testing Technician I certification exams in the central Ohio region. Dr. Burris is a past recipient of the ACI Central Texas Chapter student scholarship.
https://www.concrete.org/news/newsdetail.aspx?f=51734643
https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Alternative-materials-shrink-concretes-giant/98/i45
https://acicoc.org/meetinginfo.php?id=41&ts=1604069842
Some of our work here at Ohio State (in projects led by Cansu Acarturk and Anthony Wong) has focused on understanding and enabling greater use of this more-sustainable cement type, which also has other amazing properties including rapid strength gain, and expansive properties (which help reduce cracking).
In this talk, Susan Foster-Goodman, from CTS Cement will give an industrial perspective on the applications and benefits of using calcium sulfoaluminate cements.
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering (CEGE)
Awards:
2024 – Ohio State University College of Engineering BEWEL Leadership in Innovation Award: https://engineering.osu.edu/bewel-leadership-innovation-award
2024 – Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award: https://awards.webapps.engineering.osu.edu/awards/13
2022 – American Concrete Institute (ACI) Walter P. Moore Junior Faculty Achievement Award
2021 – American Concrete Institute (ACI) Young Member Award for Professional Achievement
The goal of my work is to reduce the environmental impact of cementitious binders by understanding the mechanisms that control development of high performance materials, and to improve our environment through innovate uses of cement and concrete.
Take a look at our ‘About’ page to learn more about Burris Lab research: https://u.osu.edu/burris.189/about-the-burris-labs-work/
