Tag: Fellows

Gordon Elliott, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, an independent consulting engineer in Western Pennsylvania, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Elliott has over 40 years of experience in the engineering field. After graduating top of the engineering faculty at King’s College, University of London, he started his career with six years of research into the mechanical, thermal and hydraulic properties of rock...

Arun Kumar, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a civil engineer specializing in water resources and hydropower engineering, and a founding scientist of the Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), IITR, India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Kumar has been an integral part of HRED since its inception, and served as its head from 1998 to 2011. His vision and leadership grew...

Laura E. Champion, P.E., F.ASCE, an architecture, engineering, construction industry consultant and association management specialist, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. For the past five years, Champion has been one of the profession’s technical leaders with ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute (SEI). In line with the Institute’s, her mission is to advance and serve the structural engineering profession through every stage...

Lawrence (Larry) Goldberg, P.E., F.ASCE, director of infrastructure at CivilTech Engineering Inc., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Goldberg has over 37 years of experience in civil engineering. At CivilTech he is responsible for City Infrastructure, County Infrastructure, and residential and commercial developments projects. Prior to joining the firm, he served a year as regional sales director for Neuvokas Corporation,...

Oral Buyukozturk, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a George Macomber Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Sustainability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Buyukozturk joined the MIT faculty in 1976 following two years at United Engineers and Constructors in safety analysis and design of nuclear containment structures,...

Leslie Brunell, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a teaching professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Brunell coordinates all the Civil Engineering senior design projects and one section of Multidiscipline Engineering senior design. These projects are the culmination of the undergraduate engineering experience, where students use the knowledge...

Xianming Shi, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Shi is recognized for his significant contributions to civil engineering research, teaching and professional service. He directs the Laboratory for Advanced and Sustainable Cementitious Materials and the Laboratory of Corrosion Science and Electrochemical Engineering...

Lucy Priddy, P.E., F.ASCE, a military program officer at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Prior to taking on her current role, Priddy served as the assistant technical director at ERDC, where she helped with the planning, technical direction, financial management and execution of the Army research programs...

Said Bolourchi, Ph.D., P.E, F.ASCE, an engineer and principal in charge at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH), in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Bolourchi has been at SGH since 2002, where he first led the nuclear practice group. As a senior principal, he has been PIC of many projects, including seismic SSI analyses, heavy loads lifting...