Tag: Fellows

Barry Band Jr., P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, a senior associate structural engineer at AECOM with 23 years of experience in structural design, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. While still a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Band developed equations to predict the effective moment of inertia bar joists, and the equations are used in the AISC Design Guide 11: “Floor Vibrations...

T. G. Sitharam, Ph.D., F.ASCE, director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Sitharam also holds the position of chairman, BOG of IITG, and has been a senior professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India. He was formerly a chaired professor in the area of Energy...

Jason T. DeJong, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a professor at the University of California, Davis, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. DeJong took his current position after first working at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He directs and coordinates research through the Soil Interactions Laboratory, UC Davis Center for...

Shawnna L. Erter, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, vice president of geotechnical engineering at SCI Engineering Inc, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Erter has worked nearly 20 years for SCI, where she has held numerous roles. She conducts geotechnical investigations and evaluations, provides supervision of geotechnical and construction projects, and writes and reviews geotechnical reports, also providing technical guidance to staff...

Partha P. Sarkar, Ph.D., F.SEI, F.ASCE, a professor of aerospace engineering and civil engineering at Iowa State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Sarkar started his academic career in 1992 as an assistant professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech University. He joined the department of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at Iowa State University (ISU) as a Wilson...

Dennis K. Henning, P.E., BCEE, ENV SP, F.ASCE, who has over 43 years of diverse civil and environmental engineering consulting experience in all facets of civil infrastructure project development, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Henning’s experience ranges from performing environmental studies, through project planning and detailed design, to and through final construction. For the past 25 years or so...

Lianyang Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, the Delbert R. Lewis Distinguished Professor and director of the SMART (Sustainable Materials and Recycling Technologies) Laboratory in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Arizona, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Zhang’s specialty is geotechnical engineering and construction materials. His areas of expertise include enhanced rock characterization and...

Kristin D. Barmoy, P.E., F.ASCE, the president of Hanover Land Services Inc., in Westminster, Maryland, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Barmoy manages the administrative and technical aspects of HLS, a provider of professional land surveying, planning, site and hydrology/hydraulic engineering services. She manages the administrative and technical aspects of HLS; develops, implements and maintains effective marketing programs; and reviews...

Deepankar Choudhury, Ph.D., F.ASCE, an Institute Chair Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, in Mumbai, India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Choudhury’s major research areas are geotechnical earthquake engineering, computational geomechanics, foundation engineering and soil dynamics. His video lectures through NPTEL, Government of India, on “Soil Dynamics” and “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” and his...