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ASCE Resources to Keep You Plugged In

The coronavirus outbreak has altered many of our personal and professional lives. For ASCE, this meant shifting to virtual operations and canceling or postponing several events. While we must remain socially distant now, it’s our ongoing mission to do our best to serve you and the civil engineering community. We’ve put together some free virtual events that we encourage you to take advantage of. This...

Fini Named ASCE Fellow

Elham H. (Ellie) Fini, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, co-founder of Bio-Adhesive Alliance Inc., senior sustainability scientist at Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and associate professor of Arizona State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Fini has served as a program director at the National Science Foundation and as president of the American Association of Civil Engineers (Northern branch...

Okoh Named ASCE Fellow

Benjamin Osy Okoh, C.Eng, P.E., R.Eng, S.E., CP, F.ASCE, the managing director/CEO of FieldMarshal Integrated Engineering Concept Limited, in Nigeria, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Okoh began his distinctive engineering career with Bulet International Nigeria Ltd. in 2006, and was involved in the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters Abuja and Phase 2 of Head of...

ASCE Adds Maher as Fellow

Ali Maher, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and director of the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Since 1988, Maher has been a full-time faculty at Rutgers, teaching and conducting research in the areas of geotechnical, geoenvironmental and infrastructure engineering. His research contributions have been primarily...

Design thinking and resilience: things are not always what they seem

Thank you for rejoining me in our series on Design Thinking. In the first article, we explored with Seth Godin the overarching themes of design thinking and the foundation of the methodology – empathy. Today, we are joined by Carly Foster to explore the application of design thinking in the world of resilience. Foster’s expertise and work lend to the direct application of DT...

Society Welcomes Abdalla as Fellow

Jamal A. Abdalla, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil engineering (structures) at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Prior to his current position, Abdalla taught at Qatar University and at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. His teaching interest spans a wide range of structural engineering topics, including structural dynamics, structural...

Powell Named ASCE Fellow

Frederick P. Powell, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, a senior associate with Hazen and Sawyer (Hazen), in Atlanta, who has 21 years of experience designing and rehabilitating water treatment facilities throughout the central and eastern U.S., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Powell serves on Hazen’s structural leadership team and manages a core group of engineers and designers. He is responsible for...

Writing Team Earns 2020 Moisseiff

ASCE has honored the writing team of Tomoaki Takeda, Tsukasa Mizutani, Tomonori Nagayama and Yozo Fujino with the 2020 Moisseiff Award for the paper “Reproduction of Cable-Stayed Bridge Seismic Responses Involving Tower-Girder Pounding and Damage Process Estimation for Large Earthquakes,” published in the February 2019 issue of Journal of Bridge Engineering. The authors investigated tower-girder transverse pounding that was observed on the Yokohama Bay Bridge...

Young Earns Hardesty Award

ASCE has honored Ben Young, Ph.D., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Shortridge Hardesty Award for his research contributions to the stability design of cold-formed steel and stainless steel members, including the development of design specifications in North America. Young has published many papers on structural engineering, including more than 50 in ASCE’s Journal of Structural Engineering, and has also presented several keynote lectures on the topic...

Tang Receives Halpin Award for 2020

ASCE has honored Pingbo Tang, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction for research and education activities that pioneer theories and practice of predictive civil infrastructure construction, operation and management through an integration of human-centered automation, structural engineering, automated spatiotemporal data analytics and management science. Tang has continuously contributed and distributed his research discoveries to benefit the civil...