ASCE has honored Bilal M. Ayyub, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Le Val Lund Award for Practicing Lifeline Risk Reduction for his contributions to resilience enhancement and risk reduction for lifeline-networked systems through measurement science and associated economics toward informing policy and decision-making practices.
Ayyub’s work is highly aligned with the intent of this award. It covers many aspects of risk analysis and...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Juan Delgado, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; Liam Butler, Ph.D., P.Eng.; Ioannis Brilakis, Ph.D., M.ASCE; Mohammed Elshafie, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, and Campbell Middleton with the 2019 Croes Medal for their paper “Structural Performance Monitoring Using a Dynamic Data-Driven BIM Environment,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, May 2018.
From the Abstract:
Structural health monitoring data has not been fully leveraged to support asset...
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:
• Graham E.C. Bell, Ph.D., P.E., FNACE, F.ASCE, with the 2019 Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award
• Kenneth R. Maser, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Wilbur S. Smith Award
• Amit H. Varma, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Shortridge...
ASCE has honored Erica C. Fischer, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Collingwood Prize for the paper “Experimental Evaluation of Single-Bolted Lap Joints at Elevated Temperatures,” Journal of Structural Engineering, January 2018.
The mentioned paper summarizes a series of tests performed at Purdue University that measured the axial force–displacement–temperature relationship of lap splice joints. The field of structural fire engineering consists of designing and analyzing...
ASCE has honored Thomas E. Boothby, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2019 George Winter Award for his expertise as a structural engineer and his passion for the ability of art, history, and culture to catalyze a widespread professional understanding of the interdependence of engineering and the humanities.
Boothby brings the unique perspective of both an architect and an engineer to the assessment, evaluation, and preservation...
ASCE has honored Edward J. Cording, Ph.D., M.ASCE, NAE, with the invitation to present the 2020 Karl Terzaghi Lecture. For more than 40 years, Cording has made continuous efforts to advance the state of practice in the design and performance of underground structures. He remains a much sought-after consultant working on some of the most challenging projects nationwide.
Cording is a professor emeritus of civil...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Tung-Yu Wu, S.E., S.M.ASCE; Sherif El-Tawil, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE; and Jason McCormick, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for the paper “Heavy Ductile Limits for Deep Steel Columns,” published in the April 2018 issue of Journal of Structural Engineering.
The paper offers important contributions to the seismic design of deep steel columns.
Wu...
ASCE has honored Bojan Guzina, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Nathan M. Newmark Medal for seminal work on theoretical and computational methods related to wave propagation and inverse scattering problems, with applications to the imaging of biological and engineered systems.
Guzina is unique in that he works on both theoretical, analytical, and practical engineering problems. He has contributed substantially to solid mechanics related to structural...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Michael Pollino, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., M.ASCE; Derek Slovenec, S.M.ASCE; Bing Qu, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; and Gilberto Mosqueda, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Moisseiff Award for the paper “Seismic Rehabilitation of Concentrically Braced Frames Using Stiff Rocking Cores,” published in the September 2017 issue of Journal of Structural Engineering.
This paper advances the understanding of complex nonlinear system-level seismic...
ASCE has honored the following people with the 2019 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering
Research Prizes:
Christopher P. Higgins, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, for fundamental contributions to advancing the science on the fate and transport of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other emerging contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial systems, which leads to guidelines and models for subsurface remediation.
Higgins has been conducting research on the fate, transport, bioaccumulation, and treatment...
