Several ASCE groups were honored with awards during the 2020 Multi-Region Leadership Conferences.
The Metropolitan Section received the 2019 ASCE Outstanding Section/Branch Award for very large Sections (over 2,500 members).
The 2019 ASCE Outstanding Section/Branch Award for large Sections and Branches (1,00o-2,500 members) was bestowed on both the Dallas Branch and Pittsburgh Section.
The 2019 ASCE Outstanding Section/Branch Award for medium Sections and Branches (500-1,000 members) was...
More than 1,200 current and rising civil engineering leaders from ASCE Regions, Sections, Branches, Institutes, Younger Member Groups and Student Chapters gathered at the 2020 ASCE Multi-Region Leadership Conferences in January, hosted in Philadelphia, Detroit and San Francisco, for an opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills, receive greater exposure to the Society programs and resources.
The three MRLCs included workshops for Section, Branch...
ASCE has honored Gonzalo R. Rada, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Wilbur S. Smith Award for leadership and dedication to quality data contributing to important advances in pavement preservation, performance measures, deflection testing and forensic investigations, and to the establishment of the Long-Term Pavement Performance database.
Rada is a distinguished highway engineer whose work has contributed to important advances in pavement technology as...
ASCE has honored Constantine Samaras, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Harland Bartholomew Award for contributions to urban infrastructure resiliency design and alternative fueled, automated and connect vehicle planning.
Samaras has made substantive contributions to three areas of critical importance for urban planning and development in the civil engineering domain:
Systems and infrastructure impacts of the transition to autonomous vehicles.
Transition to low-carbon energy systems.
Civil...
ASCE has honored John S. Gulliver, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award for over three decades of service in bringing water quality into the field of hydraulic engineering, educating engineering students, authoring prominent textbooks and handbooks and serving the engineering practice.
Gulliver exemplifies the approach and capabilities of Hunter Rouse. Over many years he developed and exercised significant depth...
The West Vancouver Freight Access project helped solve three problems at once in the Port of Vancouver.
The project made it possible that unit train capabilities can remain competitive with other West Coast ports; rail access to the Port is granted by eliminating the at-grade crossing of two tracks; and overall rail operations within the port are strengthened.
The West Vancouver Freight Access Project, in Vancouver,...
Queensferry Crossing, in Scotland, United Kingdom, has been honored by ASCE as a 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Honor Award recipient.
All 10 Honor Award projects will be showcased at ASCE’s 2020 OPAL Gala, March 13, in Washington, D.C., with two runners-up and the OCEA winner announced at the event.
The 1.6-mile-long cable-stayed bridge is the centerpiece of the Forth Replacement Crossing Project, Scotland’s largest infrastructure...
ASCE has honored Randall P. Bass, P.E., with the 2020 Rickey Medal for his mentorship of young civil engineers in the field of dam engineering and safety assessment, and for numerous presentations to the Georgia Geo-Institute chapter of ASCE.
Bass has more than 40 years of experience in the planning, design, construction, regulation and inspection of dams, spillways and other water storage and control, and...
ASCE has honored Teresa B. Culver, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Margaret S. Petersen Award for her selfless dedication to preparing and mentoring future civil and environmental engineers and to serving the professional community through service and leadership.
Culver is an associate professor of civil engineering in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia (UVA), specializing in environmental and water...
ASCE has honored Sebastien Erpicum, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Hydraulic Structures Medal for his significant contributions to the hydraulic engineering community in the areas of piano key weir spillway design and for organizing international Labyrinth and Piano Key Weir workshops that advanced the science.
Erpicum is a unique individual who has worked very hard to make a positive impact in hydraulic structure engineering and...
