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Lehman, Truax Tabbed as 2021 President-Elect Official Nominees

The official nominees for 2021 ASCE president-elect, as selected by the Society’s Board of Direction Nominating Committee, are Maria Lehman, P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, and Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE. The election winner will go on from president-elect to serve as Society president in 2022. The Society’s election will be conducted May 1 through June 1 via online balloting. Maria Lehman Lehman has 38...

Go Forward Faster with ASCE

ASCE marked its 167th year in 2019 – one that upheld our goals of engagement and creativity in the civil engineering profession. We also enhanced our commitment to members by expanding exclusive benefits. But as we begin a new year, it’s time to look ahead. Where will you be in five years? Whether you envision having a new job or new roles, it means new...

Noble Honored With OPAL Award in Design

Ronald M. Noble, P.E., L.S., D.CE, D.PE, D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE, president and senior principal engineer of Noble Consultants–G.E.C. Inc., and former director of two major ASCE organizations, has been honored by ASCE as the 2020 Outstanding Projects And Leaders award winner in design. The ASCE OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders for their lifetime accomplishments. This year’s OPAL winners will be recognized at the 2020...

A Future World Vision for Us All

"Engineering With Heart" is a series of articles by Michael Paddock for ASCE News. Paddock, P.E., M.ASCE, a 30-year member of ASCE, is a licensed civil engineer and surveyor. His professional career was spent managing teams of over 100 engineers designing infrastructure projects over $1 billion, and he was the youngest-ever recipient of Wisconsin’s “Engineer of the Year” award. After a near-death cancer experience, he was...

Craddock Honored With OPAL Award in Construction

Ted Craddock, P.E., M.ASCE, acting deputy director of the State Water Project with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), and recent project manager for the emergency recovery of the spillways at the nation’s tallest dam, has been honored by ASCE as the 2020 Outstanding Projects And Leaders award winner in construction. The ASCE OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders for their lifetime accomplishments....

CE Roundtable: 2020 New Year’s Resolutions

The ASCE News Civil Engineering Roundtable showcases insights from a cross section of ASCE members on a variety of industry topics. New Year’s Day might be the best of all holidays. Optimism abounds as everyone resets their hopes and dreams with the calendar. And at ASCE News, we strive to showcase that positivity with the annual collection of civil engineering New Year’s resolutions. This year is even more...

Castelli Honored With Kapp Award

ASCE has honored Raymond J. Castelli, P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award for more than 40 years of contributions in geotechnical engineering, and particularly for providing innovative solutions that overcame problems and optimized the cost of major infrastructure projects. Castelli has spent a career providing services of a high quality. He is characterized as always doing the right thing and...

Puppala Named Peck Award Winner

ASCE has honored Anand Puppala, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Ralph B. Peck Award for outstanding contributions to teaching, research and practice in geotechnical engineering as well as cumulative distinguished research contributions in expansive soils and sustainability. The Peck Award revolves around publishing case histories or developing design histories. Puppala assisted in writing up case histories for the Remote Sensing Geotechnical Special Publication...

Kutter Awarded the H. Bolton Seed

ASCE has honored Bruce L. Kutter, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the H. Bolton Seed Medal for important and sustained contributions to the physical modeling of geotechnical and soil-structure systems to earthquakes, and for centrifuge research and continuing leadership in the field. The Seed Medal is awarded for cumulative distinguished contributions. Kutter has demonstrated pioneering and cutting-edge works in geotechnical earthquake engineering through physical modeling testing. His...

ASCE’S 2019 Year in Review

Members will likely remember Robin Kemper’s 2019 presidential year for her many travels, visits and the inspiring, dramatic “Welcome to the wonderful world of ASCE!” opening line from her many speeches. ASCE will likely remember 2019 as the year the momentous Future World Vision project launched. Kemper herself doesn’t look at her ASCE presidency as some kind of legacy or personal accomplishment, but rather as a...