ASCE has honored Thomas E. Boothby, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2019 George Winter Award for his expertise as a structural engineer and his passion for the ability of art, history, and culture to catalyze a widespread professional understanding of the interdependence of engineering and the humanities.
Boothby brings the unique perspective of both an architect and an engineer to the assessment, evaluation, and preservation...
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 Bojan Guzina, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Nathan M. Newmark Medal for seminal work on theoretical and computational methods related to wave propagation and inverse scattering problems, with applications to the imaging of biological and engineered systems.
Guzina is unique in that he works on both theoretical, analytical, and practical engineering problems. He has contributed substantially to solid mechanics related to structural...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Michael Pollino, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., M.ASCE; Derek Slovenec, S.M.ASCE; Bing Qu, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; and Gilberto Mosqueda, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Moisseiff Award for the paper “Seismic Rehabilitation of Concentrically Braced Frames Using Stiff Rocking Cores,” published in the September 2017 issue of Journal of Structural Engineering.
This paper advances the understanding of complex nonlinear system-level seismic...
ASCE has honored Amit H. Varma, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Shortridge Hardesty Award for his research contributions to the stability and design of steel and composite members and his service to the profession as chair of the ASCE-SEI Metals TAC and chair of the SEI/ACI joint committee on composite members.
Varma has contributed to the application of research results to solving practical structural stability...
Lisa M. Anderson, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, a senior structural engineer and seismic subject matter expert with Bechtel's Nuclear, Security, and Environmental global business unit, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Anderson has supported seismic soil-structure interaction analysis and structural analysis and design with Bechtel on multiple projects for 13 years.
She is active with ASCE, currently serving as the first president...
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...
Dilip Khatri didn’t tell a soul. Not at first, anyway.
It’s not that he wasn’t excited. It’s just that sometimes pursuing your dreams can be a little … “embarrassing,” Khatri says. “Yeah, it’s kind of embarrassing.
“Here I was, 44 years old, I have a doctorate, I’d been working in the engineering industry for 26 years. I had a nice career going, and then people look...
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...
Kent Shreeve, a forensic engineering specialist and founder of Shreeve Engineers in Little Rock, AR, has died. He was 81.
After serving as a civil engineer lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, Shreeve, P.E., M.ASCE, began his civilian career at Shell Oil Company in Ventura, CA. From there he went to Humble Oil and Refining in Baton Rouge, LA, before later returning to his home...
