The Outstanding Practitioner Advisor Award presented annually by ASCE's Committee on Student Members has been renamed to honor the late Richard H. Nettleton.
Nettleton, P.E., M.ASCE, a design and construction engineer for the Virginia Beach Public Utilities Department and a longtime ASCE member, was tragically and senselessly killed during a mass shooting incident at Virginia Beach Public Works Building Two, May 31, 2019.
"We felt that...
ASCE has honored Ares J. Rosakis, Ph.D., M.ASCE, NAE, with the 2020 Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention for his groundbreaking contributions to earthquake mechanics, specifically for inventing laboratory earthquakes, which have transformed our understanding of failure and damage processes in the earth and have proven central to infrastructure damage prevention.
Rosakis has made pioneering contributions to our fundamental understanding of materials...
ASCE presents nearly 100 Society awards every year, recognizing civil engineers who advance the profession either through achievement or published papers.
The most recent Society awards are:
• Peter J. Vickery, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Jack E. Cermak Medal
• Burcu H. Akinci, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Computing in Civil Engineering Award
• Brent Sherwood, A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Columbia Medal
• Y. Richard Kim,...
ASCE has honored David F. Garber, P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Surveying and Mapping Award for significant contributions to the advancement of the Surveying and Geomatics Division, including lengthy service as chair and in key leadership roles that led to the Division joining the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute.
Garber has practiced land surveying and civil engineering for over 40 years, and during that time...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Ibrahim S. Abotaleb, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE, and Islam El-adaway, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for the paper “First Attempt Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Interdependent Rippled Impacts Associated With Out-of-Sequence Work in Construction Projects: System Dynamics Modeling Approach,” published in the September 2018 issue of Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Out-of-sequence...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Yan Liu, Ph.D., and Dan M. Frangopol, Sc.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for their paper “Utility and Information Analysis for Optimum Inspection of Fatigue-Sensitive Structures,” published in the February 2019 issue of the Journal of Structural Engineering.
This paper makes a significant contribution to the design of an optimum decision-making framework that...
ASCE has honored Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with this year’s Peurifoy Construction Research Award for his groundbreaking research in construction automation, robotics, augmented reality, real-time monitoring and visual simulation, as well as for his significant impact on the construction engineering and management profession.
Kamat’s record as a faculty member and as an exemplary leader in the ASCE Construction Institute’s professional activities has been exemplary....
ASCE has honored Satish Nagarajaiah, Ph.D., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Nathan M. Newmark Medal for the development of nonlinear dynamic analysis techniques for base-isolated structures, development of adaptive stiffness systems, negative stiffness systems and smart tuned mass dampers, as well as for sparse structural system identification techniques and laser-based noncontact strain sensing using nanomaterials.
Nagarajaiah’s pioneering work leading to the solution of the highly nonlinear,...
ASCE has honored Y. Richard Kim, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Francis C. Turner Award for his extraordinary contribution to the fundamental characterization of transportation materials and its application to mechanistic pavement analysis and design.
Kim is one of the most respected pavement engineers in the nation. His research interests are in the areas of pavement mechanics, material characterization and asphalt concrete behavior modeling....
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...
