Spillways, Oroville Emergency Recovery 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. It began in February 2017 when Lake Oroville’s main spillway was compromised after heavy rain and rapid
ASCE has honored Clifford J. Schexnayder, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Construction Management Award for innovation and research aimed at improving construction around the globe. Schexnayder is an international construction equipment, methods and techniques authority. He has blended a career of practical heavy construction knowledge with academic teaching and research. A registered professional engineer in five states, Schexnayder has extensive military engineering experience, having
ASCE has honored the writing team of Mongkolaya Rungvetvuthivitaya, Aff.M.ASCE; Rengao Song; Mark Campbell, A.M.ASCE; Eric Zhu; Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE; and Chittaranjan Ray, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for the paper “Decay Kinetics of Chlorite Under Simulated Distribution System Conditions,” in the April 2019 issue of Journal of Environmental Engineering. In the selected work, the
ASCE has honored Erol Tutumluer, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the 2020 James Laurie Prize for career contributions to the advancement of transportation engineering in the field of transportation geotechnics, which provides key knowledge to building sustainable pavement and railroad track infrastructure. Tutumluer is an internationally recognized expert on the geotechnical aspects of pavement and railbed structural design and performance. He has published prolifically. His work includes
ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives. Just 3 percent of Society members hold this prestigious honor. The most recent members elevated to Fellow are: • Timothy H. Bedenis, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE • Kristin D. Barmoy, P.E., F.ASCE • Deepankar Choudhury, Ph.D., F.ASCE • Robert J. Frosch, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE • Biman Gati Gupta, Ph.D.,
Partha P. Sarkar, Ph.D., F.SEI, F.ASCE, a professor of aerospace engineering and civil engineering at Iowa State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Sarkar started his academic career in 1992 as an assistant professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech University. He joined the department of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at Iowa State University (ISU) as a Wilson
Dennis K. Henning, P.E., BCEE, ENV SP, F.ASCE, who has over 43 years of diverse civil and environmental engineering consulting experience in all facets of civil infrastructure project development, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Henning’s experience ranges from performing environmental studies, through project planning and detailed design, to and through final construction. For the past 25 years or so
Lianyang Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, the Delbert R. Lewis Distinguished Professor and director of the SMART (Sustainable Materials and Recycling Technologies) Laboratory in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Arizona, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Zhang’s specialty is geotechnical engineering and construction materials. His areas of expertise include enhanced rock characterization and
Kristin D. Barmoy, P.E., F.ASCE, the president of Hanover Land Services Inc., in Westminster, Maryland, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Barmoy manages the administrative and technical aspects of HLS, a provider of professional land surveying, planning, site and hydrology/hydraulic engineering services. She manages the administrative and technical aspects of HLS; develops, implements and maintains effective marketing programs; and reviews
ASCE has honored Ronald R. Copeland, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Hans Albert Einstein Award for his contributions to research teaching and application of sedimentation engineering principles for the development and operation of water resource projects. Copeland’s contributions to the engineering profession are too numerous to list. For example, he is either the author or coauthor of 113 engineering reports at WES/ERDC. During the
