Tag: Awards

ASCE has honored the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering (Large Program) with the 2020 Walter LeFevre Award for their outstanding program promoting licensure, ethics and professionalism. SUNY Buffalo's Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering Program takes advantage of a strong ASCE Student Chapter and local Buffalo Section to bring messages and experiences of professionalism and licensure into the...

ASCE has honored Robert B. Sowby, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the Daniel W. Mead Prize for Younger Members for the paper “To Uphold and Enhance the Profession.” Canon 6 of the ASCE Code of Ethics states, "Engineers shall act in such a manner as to uphold and enhance the honor, integrity, and dignity of the engineering profession and shall act with zero tolerance for bribery,...

ASCE has honored Amanda A. Tanaka, P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement. She is recognized for professional achievement in service to the advancement of the profession, evidence of technical competence, high character and integrity, and contributions to public service outside her career. Tanaka has nine years of experience in the private sector and has worked on various wastewater,...

ASCE has honored Nicos Makris and Mehrdad Aghagholizadeh, Ph.D., EIT, S.M.ASCE, as the 2020 winners of the J. James R. Croes Medal for their paper “Effect of Supplemental Hysteretic and Viscous Damping on Rocking Response of Free-Standing Columns,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, May 2019. Abstract: This paper investigated the nonlinear, rocking seismic response of slender, free-standing columns when equipped along their sides (or at their...

ASCE has honored Anshel J. Schiff, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Le Val Lund Award for Practicing Lifeline Risk Reduction Award for his significant contributions in advancing knowledge of the seismic performance of electric power lifeline systems. Schiff is always willing to share his knowledge and mentor young engineers. He has devoted a significant amount of his retirement life to practical engineering research, and has...

ASCE has honored Gregory B. Baecher, Ph.D., P.E, NAE, M.ASCE, with the opportunity to deliver the 2021 Karl Terzaghi Lecture, being so recognized for his advancing of the field of geotechnical risk through research, education and practice. Baecher is an excellent candidate for the Terzaghi Lecture. He is an internationally renowned expert in assessing, analyzing and managing risk and uncertainty in geotechnical engineering. He is...

ASCE has honored Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award for his outstanding contributions in promoting the seismic resilience of water supply systems. As a program manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Davis initiated the department's Water System Resilience Program. That program integrated all aspects of the water system, including operation...

ASCE has honored the winners of the 2020 Walter L. Huber Research Prizes. They are— Amir AghaKouchak, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, for his fundamental and innovative contributions to the study of hydrologic extremes, including droughts, coastal floods and compound natural hazards. AghaKouchak is a professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine. His group developed the first...

ASCE has honored the writing team of Tomoaki Takeda, Tsukasa Mizutani, Tomonori Nagayama and Yozo Fujino with the 2020 Moisseiff Award for the paper “Reproduction of Cable-Stayed Bridge Seismic Responses Involving Tower-Girder Pounding and Damage Process Estimation for Large Earthquakes,” published in the February 2019 issue of Journal of Bridge Engineering. The authors investigated tower-girder transverse pounding that was observed on the Yokohama Bay Bridge...