Andrea L. Welker, Ph.D., P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean for academic affairs, College of Engineering, at Villanova University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Welker joined Villanova in 1999 after working at Gannett Fleming, in Pittsburgh. She was the first tenure-track woman hired, tenured and promoted to professor in her department. She
James E. Koch, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a senior vice president and regional director for Michael Baker International’s Mid-Atlantic Region, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Koch has more than 40 years of military and engineering firm experience, with a rich background in federal and international programs. He spent the first half of his career with the United States Army, progressing
Ming Xiao, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Xiao’s research areas include performances of civil infrastructure and permafrost coastal erosion due to permafrost degradation in the Arctic, and their sociodemographic impacts; soil erosion; geosynthetics and their applications; geotechnical earthquake engineering, particularly on
Tirusew Asefa, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, the planning and decision support manager at Tampa Bay Water, one of the largest water supply utilities in the southeastern Unites States, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Asefa has over 20 years of experience in applied research and large-scale field application of machine learning approaches to water resources management, decision-making under deep uncertainty,
Anita Bandela Atkinson, P.E., F.ASCE, vice president and board member of Patterson & Dewar Engineers Inc., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Atkinson leads the Engineering and Surveying division at P&D, headquartered in Norcross, Georgia. Her success at growing the civil department led to her most recent promotion, in which she leads the combined civil engineering, electrical engineering and surveying
Andrew T. Guatelli, P.E., G.E., F.ASCE, a practicing civil and geotechnical engineer with over 34 years of experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Thirty-three of those years have seen Guatelli in private practice, working through the ranks from construction technician at the DOT to principal engineer. He is a responsible-in-charge, and at various locations in California has worked on
ASCE has honored Brent Sherwood, A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Columbia Medal for demonstrated leadership and dedication to space exploration, space architecture and in situ resource utilization. Sherwood has made a lasting impact on space exploration and continues to make leaps toward human settlement of the moon and eventual lunar mining ventures. Born in the same year as NASA, he has 32 years of professional experience
Barry Band Jr., P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, a senior associate structural engineer at AECOM with 23 years of experience in structural design, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. While still a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Band developed equations to predict the effective moment of inertia bar joists, and the equations are used in the AISC Design Guide 11: “Floor Vibrations
T. G. Sitharam, Ph.D., F.ASCE, director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Sitharam also holds the position of chairman, BOG of IITG, and has been a senior professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India. He was formerly a chaired professor in the area of Energy
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