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Julie Smolarek

AECOM

Julie Smolarek is a registered professional engineer with over 13 years of experience specializing in the geotechnical analysis and design of earthen embankment dams and dam safety risk assessments. She also has experience performing dam inspections. Julie received her BS degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University and MS degree in civil/geotechnical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Her geotechnical analysis expertise includes material characterization, liquefaction, seepage, static and seismic slope stability, filter compatibility, and internal erosion of embankment dams. Her geotechnical design experience includes a new embankment dam and rehabilitation design of existing embankment dams for seepage and stability deficiencies. Julie has been involved with numerous dam safety risk assessments, including Potential Failure Mode Analyses (PFMAs), Screening Level Risk Analyses (SLRAs), Semi-Quantitative Risk Analyses (SQRAs), and Quantitative Risk Analyses (QRAs). Her involvement with risk processes includes identifying, developing, and evaluating potential failure modes (PFMs); serving as facilitator, geotechnical subject matter expert, or recorder in risk analysis workshops; and estimating risk. Julie has co-authored and presented several technical papers for the annual ASDSO Dam Safety National Conference, including papers on seepage and slope stability modeling, as well as risk assessments. Julie was selected as Engineering News Record’s 2023 Top Young Professional of the Year for the Mountain States Region.

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