With an eye on continuing to strengthen ties to civil engineers in the public sector, the ASCE Board of Direction has approved establishing a Government Engineers Council for an initial period of three years.
Among the new group’s goals is to enhance the profile of government engineer leaders within ASCE by getting them more engaged in Society programs and initiatives.
“I have been saying that a...
The official nominees for 2021 ASCE president-elect, as selected by the Society’s Board of Direction Nominating Committee, are Maria Lehman, P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, and Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE.
The election winner will go on from president-elect to serve as Society president in 2022.
The Society’s election will be conducted May 1 through June 1 via online balloting.
Maria Lehman
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In what has been an intentional and consistent focus for more than a year now, the ASCE Board of Direction continued its work to improve the member experience, Oct. 14-15 at its quarterly meeting in Miami.
From increasingly aligned Society groups and programs to an improved user experience in ASCE’s digital platforms, the Board emphasized the member point of view.
“The Board has made our major...
Kancheepuram Gunalan’s ASCE presidential year started with a beautiful speech … by his children.
“When I look at my father now, with everything in the past stripped away, I don’t see him for what he’s done but for who he is,” his daughter, Pallavi Gunalan, told the crowd, Oct. 12, at the ASCE 2019 Convention in Miami. “I see him for his empathy and his...
For the first time in nearly 50 years, ASCE is pursuing a wholesale review of its Code of Ethics.
The time is right, ASCE President Robin A. Kemper said, to ensure that the code reflects the cultural shifts in society and technological changes in the industry.
“Through time, the Code of Ethics has been reworked, things have been added, maybe things have been taken out, but...
Jean-Louis Briaud has been elected ASCE’s 2020 president-elect by a majority of Society members and will advance to serve as 2021 president.
Briaud, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, has taught at Texas A&M University since 1978, most recently as a distinguished professor since 2015.
Briaud has served in several Society roles. The Distinguished Member recently completed a three-year term on the board of direction as a technical...
Jean-Louis Briaud has been elected ASCE’s 2020 president-elect by a majority of Society members and will advance to serve as 2021 president.
Briaud, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, has taught at Texas A&M University since 1978, most recently as a distinguished professor since 2015.
Briaud has served in a number of Society roles. The Distinguished Member recently completed a three-year term on the Board of Direction as...
The Board of Direction continues to take a big-picture approach to leadership.
Last year, that meant developing a new strategic plan for ASCE. At its quarterly meeting in Arlington, VA, March 10, the Board moved from strategy into implementation, highlighted by the approval of a future-focused reorganization of the Society’s Committee on Advancing the Profession.
“I’m very excited, because in essence what happened with CAP was...
John H. Wiedeman, a leading engineer in Atlanta who served as ASCE president in 1983, has died at 83.
Wiedeman, P.E., F.ASCE, Pres.83.ASCE, was for 15 years an owner of Wiedeman and Singleton Inc., a civil and environmental engineering firm specializing in utility and infrastructure work for municipal clients in the Southeast United States.
Wiedeman served as the Georgia Section president in 1974, before taking on...
John Frederick “Fred” Graham Jr., for many years a civil engineering and construction leader in Pittsburgh, has died. He was 82.
Graham, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, was born in Pittsburgh and he devoted his working life to the city. After graduating from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), he worked most of his career as director for engineering and construction for Allegheny County.
In 1989, he became the...
