Caesar Abi Shdid, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, associate professor and CIE Chair at Lebanese American University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Abi Shdid has been an educator of next-generation civil engineers for over 15 years. In this capacity he has instructed graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of structural engineering topics at multiple universities and multiple construction engineering and...
Feng Fu, Ph.D., C.Eng, F.ASCE, an associate professor at City, University of London, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Fu has extensive research experience in the area of progressive collapse, structural fire analysis of tall buildings and long-span structures, tensegrity structures, and composite joints. He has authored three textbooks for three of the world’s top publishers and authored or coauthored...
Benjamin Colucci-Rios, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil engineering and director of the Puerto Rico Local Technical Assistance Program and FHWA Every Day Counts initiatives at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Colucci-Rios is also the Abertis International Chair-Puerto Rico, and ITE’s 2019 Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator. Exalted to the Pan...
Binod Tiwari, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, the associate vice president for research and sponsored projects and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at California State University, Fullerton, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Tiwari has made several significant contributions to engineering, educational, editorial, research and engineering society activities. He has taught 19 different freshman to graduate-level courses developing thorough, practical...
Andrea L. Welker, Ph.D., P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean for academic affairs, College of Engineering, at Villanova University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Welker joined Villanova in 1999 after working at Gannett Fleming, in Pittsburgh. She was the first tenure-track woman hired, tenured and promoted to professor in her department. She...
James E. Koch, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a senior vice president and regional director for Michael Baker International’s Mid-Atlantic Region, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Koch has more than 40 years of military and engineering firm experience, with a rich background in federal and international programs. He spent the first half of his career with the United States Army, progressing...
Ming Xiao, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Xiao’s research areas include performances of civil infrastructure and permafrost coastal erosion due to permafrost degradation in the Arctic, and their sociodemographic impacts; soil erosion; geosynthetics and their applications; geotechnical earthquake engineering, particularly on...
Tirusew Asefa, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, the planning and decision support manager at Tampa Bay Water, one of the largest water supply utilities in the southeastern Unites States, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Asefa has over 20 years of experience in applied research and large-scale field application of machine learning approaches to water resources management, decision-making under deep uncertainty,...
Anita Bandela Atkinson, P.E., F.ASCE, vice president and board member of Patterson & Dewar Engineers Inc., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Atkinson leads the Engineering and Surveying division at P&D, headquartered in Norcross, Georgia. Her success at growing the civil department led to her most recent promotion, in which she leads the combined civil engineering, electrical engineering and surveying...
Andrew T. Guatelli, P.E., G.E., F.ASCE, a practicing civil and geotechnical engineer with over 34 years of experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Thirty-three of those years have seen Guatelli in private practice, working through the ranks from construction technician at the DOT to principal engineer. He is a responsible-in-charge, and at various locations in California has worked on...
