M. Levent Kavvas, Ph.D., Dist.M.ASCE, long at the forefront of research in hydrology and an advancer of the theoretical and practical aspects of hydrologic engineering and science, has been honored by ASCE with inclusion in its 2019 class of Distinguished Members for his pioneering contributions to the estimation of maximum precipitation, to the modeling of coupled atmospheric-hydrologic processes at regional and watershed scales, to...
Jeanette A. Brown, P.E., D.WRE, BCEE, F.ASCE, F.WEF, currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College, has been honored by ASCE with inclusion in its 2019 class of Distinguished Members for exemplifying the role of the engineer in society through mentoring, research, leadership in multiple organizations, services, and encouragement to others to similarly serve and develop...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Tung-Yu Wu, S.E., S.M.ASCE; Sherif El-Tawil, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE; and Jason McCormick, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for the paper “Heavy Ductile Limits for Deep Steel Columns,” published in the April 2018 issue of Journal of Structural Engineering.
The paper offers important contributions to the seismic design of deep steel columns.
Wu...
ASCE has honored the following people with the 2019 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering
Research Prizes:
Christopher P. Higgins, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, for fundamental contributions to advancing the science on the fate and transport of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other emerging contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial systems, which leads to guidelines and models for subsurface remediation.
Higgins has been conducting research on the fate, transport, bioaccumulation, and treatment...
Louay Mohammad, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Louisiana State University and renowned pavement engineer, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Mohammad holds the Irma Louise Rush Stewart Distinguished Professorship and is the Transportation Faculty Group Coordinator at LSU. He also serves as director of the Engineering Materials Characterization and Research Facility at the Louisiana...
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...
ASCE has honored Robert Ettema, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2019 Harold R. Peyton Award for Cold Regions Engineering for a distinguished career of laboratory research, physical modeling, experimentation, teaching, administration, mentoring graduate students, and extensive publication in the fields of ice mechanics, cold regions hydraulics, river engineering, sediment transport, hydraulic structures, and engineering history.
Ettema is an exceptional candidate. His career as a researcher,...
