Mohana Rao Killada, P.E., F.ASCE, associate director of operations for the transit and geotechnical arm of AECOM in India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Killada has 17 years of civil engineering experience. He has worked on and delivered a variety of projects in the United States and India, including metro systems, roadways, aviation, and civil projects. He is responsible...
Nancy Straub Cline, P.E., F.ASCE, a consultant whose experience includes over 15 years in municipal engineering and five years as an area engineer for TxDOT, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Cline is currently employed by Texas Central and is working on the high-speed train. Also, for the past 10 years, she has spent time in consulting engineering.
She has been...
Richard Lee Baker, P.E., F.ASCE, a civil engineer with more than 44 years of experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Baker, after retiring in 2011, established Baker Engineering Services Inc., Consulting Engineers, a company that focuses on utility inspection and construction management. As president, Baker directs personnel, manages daily business operations, generates business through client interactions, and reviews proposals...
Ricardo de Abreu, P.E., F.ASCE, a founding principal at Fourrier & de Abreu Engineers and an established leader in the practice areas of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
For more than 25 years, de Abreu has provided geotechnical engineering services for numerous projects involving landfills, buildings, bridges, embankments, retaining-walls, flood reservoirs, roadways, tunnels, and dams....
Todd L. Barber, P.E., F.ASCE, the principal dam safety engineer for the Southern Company Hydro Services group, headquartered in Atlanta, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Barber is renowned for his 23 years of practice in dam safety and geotechnical engineering. His broad expertise covers all aspects of hydroelectric dam safety, including stability analysis, structural assessment, hydraulic studies, spillway gate...
Avinash Prasad, P.E., R.L.S., F.ASCE, an engineer and land surveyor with more than 25 years of professional experience in civil engineering and management, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Prasad is currently a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. His ongoing doctorate major is in bridge asset management. The main topic of research is development and evaluation of a risk...
AKM Anwarul Islam, P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil engineering at Youngstown State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Islam worked on construction of Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh as well as a 24-story Ministry of Education building and expressway bridges in Singapore before moving to the United States, and has been at YSU since 2005. He has made...
Ming Liu, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a research structural engineer at Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) in Port Hueneme, CA, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Liu’s expertise in civil engineering covers field testing and laboratory measurement with nondestructive testing (NDT) methods, forensic investigations for extreme events such as hurricanes, and civil and structural design in accordance...
Baidurya Bhattacharya, Ph.D., F.ASCE, dean of International Relations at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Bhattacharya’s academic career was launched after he spent some time as an engineer at the American Bureau of Shipping, in Houston. He served on the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty at the University of Delaware (UD) before returning...
Deborah H. Lee, P.E., P.H., D.WRE, F.ASCE, SES, director of NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
As director of GLERL, and a member of the federal Senior Executive Service, Lee serves as the laboratory’s leader, providing guidance through conceptual development, implementation, and management of integrated, interdisciplinary scientific research and communications programs.
With a staff...
