ASCE has honored Clyde Chambliss Jr., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Outstanding Public Official Award for his impeccable service and dedication to the State of Alabama, as well as to the civil engineering profession and land surveying professionals.
Chambliss has contributed tirelessly to the public and to the civil engineering profession while currently serving as a senator for the State of Alabama, and as...
ASCE has honored Ahsan Kareem, Ph.D., F.EMI, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 Ernest E. Howard Award for his contributions to research and practice on modeling, analysis and design of flexible structures for wind loadings.
Elected to Distinguished Membership in 2010 and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, Kareem is internationally renowned as a scholar/engineer who has made lifetime contributions to civil engineering theories...
For the first time in nearly 50 years, ASCE is pursuing a wholesale review of its Code of Ethics.
The time is right, ASCE President Robin A. Kemper said, to ensure that the code reflects the cultural shifts in society and technological changes in the industry.
“Through time, the Code of Ethics has been reworked, things have been added, maybe things have been taken out, but...
The Large Group award goes to the Los Angeles Younger Member Forum
“For outstanding professional, technical, social, outreach, and community service activities on behalf of the Los Angeles Section.”
From the record—
It is my pleasure to nominate the Los Angeles Younger Member Forum (LA YMF) for the ASCE Younger Member Group Award. During the 2017-18 year, ASCE LA YMF has strived to provide a professional,...
Jean-Louis Briaud has been elected ASCE’s 2020 president-elect by a majority of Society members and will advance to serve as 2021 president.
Briaud, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, has taught at Texas A&M University since 1978, most recently as a distinguished professor since 2015.
Briaud has served in several Society roles. The Distinguished Member recently completed a three-year term on the board of direction as a technical...
Mostafa Elseifi, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Elseifi has more than 20 years of academic and industrial experience in civil engineering in the areas of asphaltic materials, pavement management and evaluation, and sustainable infrastructure. Since joining LSU in 2007, he has successfully...
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:
• Frederick W. Blickle III, P.E., F.ASCE
• Larry A. Fahnestock, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
• Joel Galt, P.E., F.ASCE
• Kenneth J. O’Connell, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
• Keith Louis Wood, P.E., F.ASCE
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Kenneth J. O’Connell, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor with over 37 years of experience in engineering and construction, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
His civil engineering career has ranged from designer, contractor and surveyor to construction consultant and teacher. He is co-founder and president of O’Connell & Lawrence Inc., a firm that specializes in providing civil engineering, construction consulting,...
Joel Galt, P.E., F.ASCE, recently retired after a 39-year career with Southern Company, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
At the time of his retirement he served as the hydro services supervisor for the Atlanta office of Southern Company Generation Hydro Services and as chief dam safety engineer for Georgia Power Company’s (GPC) hydroelectric plants. His career has encompassed civil...
Keith Louis Wood, P.E., F.ASCE, a civil engineer with more than 31 years of experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
For the past 14 years Wood has been employed with Central Arizona Project, where he is currently a senior project manager. He manages infrastructure projects from conception through planning, design, construction and commissioning, supporting CAP’s $4 billion aqueduct system....
