Tag: Fellows

Thomas P. O’Connor, P.E., F.ASCE, an environmental engineer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. O’Connor has over 22 years with EPA. He currently works for the National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Water Systems Division, Water Resources Recovery Branch at the Edison Environmental Center (EEC) in Edison, New Jersey....

Mostafa Elseifi, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Elseifi has more than 20 years of academic and industrial experience in civil engineering in the areas of asphaltic materials, pavement management and evaluation, and sustainable infrastructure. Since joining LSU in 2007, he has successfully...

Kenneth J. O’Connell, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor with over 37 years of experience in engineering and construction, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. His civil engineering career has ranged from designer, contractor and surveyor to construction consultant and teacher. He is co-founder and president of O’Connell & Lawrence Inc., a firm that specializes in providing civil engineering, construction consulting,...

Joel Galt, P.E., F.ASCE, recently retired after a 39-year career with Southern Company, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. At the time of his retirement he served as the hydro services supervisor for the Atlanta office of Southern Company Generation Hydro Services and as chief dam safety engineer for Georgia Power Company’s (GPC) hydroelectric plants. His career has encompassed civil...

Keith Louis Wood, P.E., F.ASCE, a civil engineer with more than 31 years of experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. For the past 14 years Wood has been employed with Central Arizona Project, where he is currently a senior project manager. He manages infrastructure projects from conception through planning, design, construction and commissioning, supporting CAP’s $4 billion aqueduct system....

Frederick W. Blickle III, P.E., F.ASCE, a civil and environmental engineer specializing in processes and technical applications that redress environmental blight, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Blickle, throughout his 35-year consulting career, has solved many different types of problems for clients. Most projects related to environmental impairment or impediment, as these considerations often obstruct civil projects and can severely...

Larry A. Fahnestock, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, an associate professor and chair of the Structures Group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Fahnestock’s specialty is structural engineering, and he uses large-scale experiments and numerical simulations to study topics in earthquake-resistant design, seismic stability, steel structures, progressive...

Seshadri S. Iyer, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a water resources professional and current group manager at AECOM in Virginia Beach, VA, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Iyer has over three decades of professional experience. He has covered a variety of projects, including modeling and analysis of water distribution/transmission systems, stormwater and sanitary sewer systems, and hydrologic and hydraulic systems. In...

Sharika U. S. Senarath, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, D.WRE, F.ASCE, a technical leader in the field of numerical modeling and contributor to the development, implementation, and application of many complex hydrologic models, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Senarath currently serves as the director for flood peril at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. He was previously senior principal scientist at the AIR...