Khaled A. Alamdeen, P.E., F.ASCE, a civil engineer specializing in structural design of bridges and transportation facility buildings, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Alamdeen is associate and senior project manager with Athaville, Lystad & Associates, based in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. He performs structural design involving steel structures, reinforced concrete, prestressed, and composite construction. He is responsible
Larry J. Weber, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Iowa and a research engineer at IIHR–Hydroscience and Engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Weber also holds the Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics at UI and recently served as executive associate dean of its College of Engineering. He was the director
Lisa M. Anderson, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, a senior structural engineer and seismic subject matter expert with Bechtel’s Nuclear, Security, and Environmental global business unit, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Anderson has supported seismic soil-structure interaction analysis and structural analysis and design with Bechtel on multiple projects for 13 years. She is active with ASCE, currently serving as the first
Mohana Rao Killada, P.E., F.ASCE, associate director of operations for the transit and geotechnical arm of AECOM in India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Killada has 17 years of civil engineering experience. He has worked on and delivered a variety of projects in the United States and India, including metro systems, roadways, aviation, and civil projects. He is responsible
Nancy Straub Cline, P.E., F.ASCE, a consultant whose experience includes over 15 years in municipal engineering and five years as an area engineer for TxDOT, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Cline is currently employed by Texas Central and is working on the high-speed train. Also, for the past 10 years, she has spent time in consulting engineering. She has
Richard Lee Baker, P.E., F.ASCE, a civil engineer with more than 44 years of experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Baker, after retiring in 2011, established Baker Engineering Services Inc., Consulting Engineers, a company that focuses on utility inspection and construction management. As president, Baker directs personnel, manages daily business operations, generates business through client interactions, and reviews proposals
Ricardo de Abreu, P.E., F.ASCE, a founding principal at Fourrier & de Abreu Engineers and an established leader in the practice areas of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. For more than 25 years, de Abreu has provided geotechnical engineering services for numerous projects involving landfills, buildings, bridges, embankments, retaining-walls, flood reservoirs, roadways, tunnels, and dams.
Todd L. Barber, P.E., F.ASCE, the principal dam safety engineer for the Southern Company Hydro Services group, headquartered in Atlanta, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Barber is renowned for his 23 years of practice in dam safety and geotechnical engineering. His broad expertise covers all aspects of hydroelectric dam safety, including stability analysis, structural assessment, hydraulic studies, spillway gate
Avinash Prasad, P.E., R.L.S., F.ASCE, an engineer and land surveyor with more than 25 years of professional experience in civil engineering and management, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Prasad is currently a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. His ongoing doctorate major is in bridge asset management. The main topic of research is development and evaluation of a risk
AKM Anwarul Islam, P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil engineering at Youngstown State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Islam worked on construction of Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh as well as a 24-story Ministry of Education building and expressway bridges in Singapore before moving to the United States, and has been at YSU since 2005. He has made
