Philippe Jeanjean, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a geotechnical engineer with over 26 years of industry experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Jeanjean is currently the technical authority, that is, head of Geotechnics, for the Exploration and Production Upstream Segment of BP America Inc., a major oil and gas operator. He leads a team of geotechnical engineers from his base in...
Patrick S. Collins, P.E., F.ASCE, director of the Engineering Department and city engineer at the City of Valdosta, Georgia, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Collins has been in his current position for nine years, and has been employed in the engineering profession in both the private and public sector for 32 years. He specializes in municipal and county government...
The old Bonner Bridge had seen better days. The new Basnight Bridge hasn’t – for those days are now. And at $252 million, the 2.8-mile-long crossing should still be around 100 years from now.
What was merely an addition to North Carolina’s wishlist in 1989 now spans the Atlantic Coast’s most dangerous channel, Oregon Inlet, and connects Hatteras Island to the beautiful Outer Banks.
The Marc...
The new State Route 99 tunnel in Seattle is the largest, machine-bored double-deck highway corridor in the world. Tens of thousands of vehicles now drive the two-mile-long tunnel each day and pass safely under streets, bridges, utilities and 157 buildings of all sizes.
Making this tunnel required an industry heavyweight. “Bertha” was 57.5 feet wide and weighed more than 8,000 tons. She was anything but...
ASCE presents nearly 100 Society awards every year, recognizing civil engineers who advance the profession either through achievement or published papers.
The most recent Society awards are:
• Ben Leshchinsky, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award
• Timothy K. Dougherty, P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Professional Practice Ethics and Leadership Award
• Yang-Ping Yao, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE; Yang-Zhi Ruan, Aff.M.ASCE; Jun Chen, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE;...
Yinhai Wang, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of transportation engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Wang is also the founding director of the UW Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) and has...
David Kerins, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior onshore civil and structures consultant at ExxonMobil, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Kerins is recognized as an expert in structural engineering for industrial facilities both with ExxonMobil and externally. He is vice chair of the Executive Committee, Energy Division and chairs the Task Committee on Onshore Heavy Industrial Modularization Guidelines.
He is also a...
Allen Johnson, P.E., F.ASCE, a pioneer of public infrastructure design-build and public-private partnerships, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Johnson has managed large and highly significant infrastructure programs and projects throughout the United States valued at more than $1.7 billion. His work with AECOM, Gresham Smith and Partners, Parsons, APAC, Fluor and HNTB defines the practice of civil engineering and...
David Swallow, P.E., F.ASCE, the deputy chief executive officer of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Swallow is a civil engineer with over 25 years of transportation-related experience, and has been with Southern Nevada RTC since January 2001. In his position he oversees the RTC’s planning, engineering and funding programs for transportation infrastructure,...
Christopher S. Decker, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior vice president and project manager for RDM International Inc., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Decker has more than 27 years of experience working as a pavement engineer on airfield and roadway projects for miscellaneous state department of transportation agencies, commercial airports and military bases. Over the course of his career, a firm...
