ASCE has honored Sarfaraz A. Ansari with the 2020 J.C. Stevens Award for the paper “Discussion of ‘Using an Improved Jet-Erosion Test to Study the Influence of Soil Parameters on the Erosion of a Silty Soil’ by Van-Nghia Nguyen, Jean-Robert Courivaud, Patrick Pinettes, Hanane Souli and Jean-Marie Fleureau,” published in the November 2018 issue of Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. Ansari is currently a professor at
Several ASCE groups were honored with awards during the 2020 Multi-Region Leadership Conferences. The Metropolitan Section received the 2019 ASCE Outstanding Section/Branch Award for very large Sections (over 2,500 members). The 2019 ASCE Outstanding Section/Branch Award for large Sections and Branches (1,00o-2,500 members) was bestowed on both the Dallas Branch and Pittsburgh Section. The 2019 ASCE Outstanding Section/Branch Award for medium Sections and Branches (500-1,000
More than 1,200 current and rising civil engineering leaders from ASCE Regions, Sections, Branches, Institutes, Younger Member Groups and Student Chapters gathered at the 2020 ASCE Multi-Region Leadership Conferences in January, hosted in Philadelphia, Detroit and San Francisco, for an opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills, receive greater exposure to the Society programs and resources. The three MRLCs included workshops for Section, Branch
“So, Dad, where do the poops go?” We sometimes ignore the wisdom of our children. As long as “it” leaves the toilet bowl when we flush and never comes back, we are content that human and environmental health are being adequately addressed by someone else. It’s when we’re faced with a pandemic such as we’re confronting with the coronavirus that we seem to wake up
ASCE has honored Gonzalo R. Rada, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Wilbur S. Smith Award for leadership and dedication to quality data contributing to important advances in pavement preservation, performance measures, deflection testing and forensic investigations, and to the establishment of the Long-Term Pavement Performance database. Rada is a distinguished highway engineer whose work has contributed to important advances in pavement technology as
ASCE has honored Constantine Samaras, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Harland Bartholomew Award for contributions to urban infrastructure resiliency design and alternative fueled, automated and connect vehicle planning. Samaras has made substantive contributions to three areas of critical importance for urban planning and development in the civil engineering domain: Systems and infrastructure impacts of the transition to autonomous vehicles. Transition to low-carbon energy systems. Civil
ASCE has honored John S. Gulliver, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award for over three decades of service in bringing water quality into the field of hydraulic engineering, educating engineering students, authoring prominent textbooks and handbooks and serving the engineering practice. Gulliver exemplifies the approach and capabilities of Hunter Rouse. Over many years he developed and exercised significant depth
The West Vancouver Freight Access project helped solve three problems at once in the Port of Vancouver. The project made it possible that unit train capabilities can remain competitive with other West Coast ports; rail access to the Port is granted by eliminating the at-grade crossing of two tracks; and overall rail operations within the port are strengthened. The West Vancouver Freight Access Project, in
Queensferry Crossing, in Scotland, United Kingdom, has been honored by ASCE as a 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Honor Award recipient. All 10 Honor Award projects will be showcased at ASCE’s 2020 OPAL Gala, March 13, in Washington, D.C., with two runners-up and the OCEA winner announced at the event. The 1.6-mile-long cable-stayed bridge is the centerpiece of the Forth Replacement Crossing Project, Scotland’s largest
