ASCE has honored David F. Garber, P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Surveying and Mapping Award for significant contributions to the advancement of the Surveying and Geomatics Division, including lengthy service as chair and in key leadership roles that led to the Division joining the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute.
Garber has practiced land surveying and civil engineering for over 40 years, and during that time...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Ibrahim S. Abotaleb, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE, and Islam El-adaway, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for the paper “First Attempt Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Interdependent Rippled Impacts Associated With Out-of-Sequence Work in Construction Projects: System Dynamics Modeling Approach,” published in the September 2018 issue of Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Out-of-sequence...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Yan Liu, Ph.D., and Dan M. Frangopol, Sc.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for their paper “Utility and Information Analysis for Optimum Inspection of Fatigue-Sensitive Structures,” published in the February 2019 issue of the Journal of Structural Engineering.
This paper makes a significant contribution to the design of an optimum decision-making framework that...
ASCE has honored Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with this year’s Peurifoy Construction Research Award for his groundbreaking research in construction automation, robotics, augmented reality, real-time monitoring and visual simulation, as well as for his significant impact on the construction engineering and management profession.
Kamat’s record as a faculty member and as an exemplary leader in the ASCE Construction Institute’s professional activities has been exemplary....
ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives. Just 3 percent of Society members hold this prestigious honor.
The most recent members elevated to Fellow are:
• Barry Band Jr., P.E., S.E., F.ASCE
• Jason T. DeJong, Ph.D., F.ASCE
• Shawnna L. Erter, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE
• T. G. Sitharam, Ph.D., F.ASCE
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There will be more votes to count and boxes to check in the coming year, but the move toward allowing student members to vote in ASCE elections has begun.
The Board of Direction, at its quarterly meeting March 14-15 in Washington, D.C. (with some directors attending virtually because of the coronavirus), voted to approve a recommendation that the Governing Documents Committee prepare an amendment to the...
ASCE has honored Satish Nagarajaiah, Ph.D., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Nathan M. Newmark Medal for the development of nonlinear dynamic analysis techniques for base-isolated structures, development of adaptive stiffness systems, negative stiffness systems and smart tuned mass dampers, as well as for sparse structural system identification techniques and laser-based noncontact strain sensing using nanomaterials.
Nagarajaiah’s pioneering work leading to the solution of the highly nonlinear,...
ASCE Life Member John LaPlante, the first transportation commissioner of Chicago and a past T.Y. Lin manager, has died at 80 from complications of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
LaPlante, P.E., F.ASCE, served the city for 30 years in a variety of transportation engineering positions. During his tenure, LaPlante was known for a redesign that straightened Lake Shore Drive’s treacherous “Z curve” and as a proponent of...
Robert E. “Bob” Boyer, a noted pavement engineer and consultant who promoted Superpave mix design, has died. He was 80.
Boyer, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a retired Air Force colonel, consulted with a vast number of industry clients over his career. Over a 15-year tenure with the Asphalt Institute in Panama City, Florida, he delivered no fewer than 300 presentations on performance-graded asphalt binders and the Superpave...
Emory Leland Kemp, a pioneer of industrial archaeology, engineering professor and founder of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, has died at 88.
Over a well-rounded career, the Distinguished Member was also fascinated by the history of technology. Kemp lectured and published widely, with a special focus on the properties of concrete and methods to analyze historic...
