ASCE presents nearly 100 Society awards every year, recognizing civil engineers who advance the profession either through achievement or published papers. The following ASCE award recipients will be honored at the ASCE 2020 Convention, Oct. 28-30, 2020: (Click on each honoree to learn more about the award and see the winners’ acceptance speech.) • S. C. Chen; Y. T. Sheu; Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, Hon.D.WRE, F.EWRI,
Of all ASCE membership, only 223 can call themselves Distinguished Members. So there’s no doubt that ASCE’s class of 2020 Distinguished Members has made tremendous contributions to the civil engineering industry. But the Distinguished Member honor isn’t simply a recognition of past accomplishments. It can be a signpost of sorts, directing younger civil engineers toward role models. Who better to learn from than the industry’s best
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 6: Avery Bang is probably most familiar to civil engineers for her star turn in the ASCE movie Dream Big. But by day, she’s the president and CEO of Bridges to Prosperity, an organization that collaborates with industry partners and local communities to design, build and maintain bridges that provide crucial lifelines to people in some of the most
ASCE has honored Aaron D. Dotson, P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Can-Am Civil Engineering Amity Award for an academic and research career dedicated to water and wastewater treatment with specialization in cold regions processes with small, remote systems typical of Alaskan Bush communities. Dotson has had a very impactful career for the relatively short time he has been practicing engineering. He is currently serving as
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 5: Mathew Picardal does a little bit of everything when it comes to popular civil engineering communication. He works as a structural project manager for DCI Engineers. He’s also started a YouTube channel called the Structural Engineering Life, posting his own videos where he discusses or explains structural engineering issues and concepts. “A Day in the Life of a
Krishna Pagilla, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, the Ralph E. and Rose A. Hoeper Engineering Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Pagilla is the Founding Director of Nevada Water Innovation Institute, a university-utility collaboration among six public entities and the University of Nevada to drive innovation in
Khalid M. Mosalam, Ph.D., C.Eng, P.E., F.ASCE, the Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center at UC Berkeley, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Mosalam lectured for courses in finite element method and design of reinforced concrete at Cornell University before joining the Department of CEE at the University of California, Berkeley
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 4: Melissa Fischer is a supervising engineer for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts. But lately, she’s probably better known as a novelist. Her novel, “The Advocacy,” has earned rave reviews – Kirkus Reviews called the protagonist, Louisa Lehmann “a delightful, complicated character” and the Southern Literary Review called the book “profound.” Fischer talks about the novel, why it
