Tag: Awards

ASCE has honored the Philadelphia Younger Member Forum (Large Groups) and Mississippi Section Younger Member Group (Small Groups) with the Younger Member Group Award for their outstanding professional, technical, social, outreach and community service activities.  The Mississippi Section YMG has been working to bridge the gap between students and professionals with various events ranging from community service, social events, presentations and award ceremonies to...

ASCE has honored the writing team of Mustafa Mashal, Ph.D., C.Eng, CP Eng, P.E., M.ASCE, and Alessandro Palermo, Ph.D., for the 2020 Alfred Noble Prize. Their paper, “Low-Damage Seismic Design for Accelerated Bridge Construction,” appeared in the July 2019 issue of Journal of Bridge Engineering. Mashal is Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Idaho State University. Palermo is Professor, Department of...

ASCE has honored Steven A. Hughes, Ph.D., P.E., D.CE, M.ASCE, with the 2020 John G. Moffatt–Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award for his numerous significant achievements and contributions to the coastal engineering profession throughout a most distinguished and dedicated career. For more than 45 years, Hughes has made significant contributions to advancing harbor and coastal project design and construction through his prolific research,...

ASCE has honored the writing team of Ran Cao, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; Anil K. Agrawal, P.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE; Sherif El-Tawil, P.E., F.ASCE; Xiaochen Xu; and Waider Wong with the 2020 Wellington Prize for their paper “Heavy Truck Collision with Bridge Piers: Computational Simulation Study,” Journal of Bridge Engineering, June 2019. Highway bridges form critical nodes in the transportation infrastructure network and are exposed to various types...

ASCE has honored Kyung Doug Suh, Ph.D., D.CE, with the 2020 International Coastal Engineering Award for his research and advances in wave theory and the design of coastal structures; his numerous contributions to academic publishing; and his stewardship of generations of coastal engineers. For more than 40 years, Suh has conducted cutting-edge research on breakwaters and perforated walls of various types and their interaction with...

ASCE has honored Beena Ajmera, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Collingwood Prize for the paper “Characterization of the Reduction in Undrained Shear Strength in Fine-Grained Soils Due to Cyclic Loading,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, May 2019. The author’s paper provides the first comprehensive and systematic study that yields relationships to estimate the strength loss in fine-grained soils through an extensive laboratory testing program...

ASCE has honored Lesley C. Ewing, Ph.D., P.E., D.CE, M.ASCE, with the 2020 Orville T. Magoon Sustainable Coasts Award for her lifelong dedication and significant contributions to coastal sustainability. For more than 35 years, Ewing has made outstanding contributions to sustainable engineering practices for managing shorelines and coastal infrastructure. Like her mentor, collaborator and friend Orville Magoon, she has been a leader in advancing the...

ASCE has honored Bernard G. Dennis Jr., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award for his tireless efforts to advance the understanding and appreciation of past civil engineers and their works. Dennis has served ASCE through his writing, editing and coordination of the ASCE publication “Engineering the Panama Canal: A Centennial Retrospective” (ASCE, 2014), leadership for chairing and membership service on the...

ASCE has honored Pearce Ferriter, S.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Daniel W. Mead Prize for Students for his paper “How Misplaced Loyalties Are Harming the Profession.” The Daniel W. Mead Prize for Students is awarded annually for the most well-written papers on professional ethics. This year’s paper topic was Canon 6 of the ASCE Code of Ethics, which states, “Engineers shall act in such a manner...