ASCE has honored Brian Morse, Ph.D., P.Eng, M.CSCE, with the 2019 CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity Award for outstanding contributions to cold regions hydraulics that advance the state of the art in river ice processes and for significant publications on the subject that foster positive relationships among river ice researchers in the U.S. and Canada.
Morse has demonstrated an exceptional candidacy through his career as a...
ASCE has honored Farhang Ostadan, P.E., F.ASCE,with the 2019 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Energy Award for significant contributions to practice, research, and codification activities for advancing soil-structure interaction analysis and seismic analysis in the energy industry, in particular the nuclear power industry.
In the past 30+ years, Ostadan has earned his reputation as a worldwide earthquake engineering authority through his numerous contributions to several key...
ASCE has honored Jorge A. Ramirez, Ph.D., with the 2019 Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award for his exceptional wide-ranging research on arid lands hydrology and hydraulics, including analyzing the vulnerability of the U.S. water supply system to climate change and observationally demonstrating the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration, and for his outstanding teaching and mentoring.
Ramirez's research activities and contributions have been broad in the fields...
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:
• Misko Cubrinovski, Ph.D., with the 2019 Ralph B. Peck Award
• Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 Karl Terzaghi Award
• W. Allen Marr, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 H. Bolton Seed Medal
• James...
Paul D. Kovacs, P.E., M.ASCE, chief engineering officer for the Illinois Tollway as well as it and the Engineering department’s representative to all federal, state, and local governments, industry, regulatory agencies, and the public, has been honored by ASCE as the Outstanding Projects And Leaders award-winner in government.
The ASCE OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders for their lifetime accomplishments. This year’s OPAL winners...
ASCE has honored Misko Cubrinovski, Ph.D., with the 2019 Ralph B. Peck Award for outstanding contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession through the publication of several insightful field case histories, including Cubrinovski and Robinson’s “Lateral Spreading: Evidence and Interpretation from the 2010-2011 Christchurch Earthquakes,” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (2016).
Over the years, Cubrinovski has been a prolific researcher who has made significant contributions to...
ASCE has honored Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 Karl Terzaghi Award for his effective leadership and contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession, and for following in the footsteps of Karl Terzaghi in expanding the state of the art of that profession.
Bray is an outstanding engineer, academic, and researcher by any definition of the term, who has made seminal contributions...
ASCE has honored W. Allen Marr, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 H. Bolton Seed Medal for his continuous and cumulative distinguished contributions to our understanding of the behavior and interaction of geotechnical materials and to the advancement of research, practice, teaching, and professional service in geotechnical engineering.
Marr is the founder and chief executive officer of the Geocomp Corporation and GeoTesting Express...
ASCE has honored James Hambleton, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award for his innovative research in engineering and computational plasticity extending the domain of geotechnical engineering, and for outstanding teaching and service that strengthens the profession and inspires the next generation of civil engineers.
Hambleton brings a clear long-term vision for research in soil-machine interaction. He is breathing new life into...
Ron Klemencic is having a good year.
Engineering News-Record named him its 2018 Award of Excellence winner, followed by a cover feature highlighting Klemencic’s remarkable career of innovation and collaboration.
Far from resting on his laurels, though, Klemencic’s relentless drive to push the industry into the future continues. The chairman and CEO of Magnusson Klemencic Associates and director of the Charles Pankow Foundation used the platform...
