Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future Casebook

Introduction

This Casebook contains a set of case studies developed by students enrolled in the Infrastructure Past, Present and Future (CEIE 499: Special Topics in Civil Engineering / GOVT 490: Synthesis Seminar for Policy and Government) course taught at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government and the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering by Prof. Jonathan Gifford.

Cases

2024 (Spring)

• Skyline Drive
• Port Miami Tunnel
• Metro Flood Diversion (MN/ND)
• Viet Cong Tunnel Network
• Long Bridge
• PJM Interconnection

2023 (Fall)

• Mississippi River Locks and Dams

• 5.9 GHz Spectrum

• Texas Power Grid

• Guangzhou South Railway Station
• Jackson, MS Water and Wastewater Treatment
• U.S./Mexico Border Infrastructure

2023 (Spring)

• Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)
• GPS: Global Positioning System
• Oroville Dam Failure
• Finnish Underground

2022 (Fall)

• Shinkansen High Speed Rail

• Port of Newport News
• Brightline Rail System
• Central Park
• Venetian Flood Control (MOSE)

2022 (Spring)

• Dutch Dikes
• Big Dig
• Gotthard Base Tunnel
• Air Traffic Control System

2021 (Fall)

• New Orleans Levees
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Maginot Line
• Channel Tunnel
• Hoover Dam