Robert W. “Bobb” Stokes, a past president of the Kansas Section, former member of the ASCE Board of Direction and civil engineering professor emeritus at Kansas State University, has died. He was 70.
He had 40 years of experience in general transportation planning and applied transportation research, focused on the design and implementation of urban, rural and intercity transportation planning studies; highway design, planning and...
Jon Peterka of Fort Collins, CO, a giant of wind engineering who was vital to development of the ASCE 7 national wind load standard, has died. He was 77.
Peterka, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, was pivotal in commercializing the professional practice of wind engineering and wind tunnel testing, taking it out of the academic realm and into the business environment. In addition to ASCE 7,...
Larry A. Fahnestock, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, an associate professor and chair of the Structures Group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Fahnestock’s specialty is structural engineering, and he uses large-scale experiments and numerical simulations to study topics in earthquake-resistant design, seismic stability, steel structures, progressive...
Seshadri S. Iyer, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a water resources professional and current group manager at AECOM in Virginia Beach, VA, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Iyer has over three decades of professional experience. He has covered a variety of projects, including modeling and analysis of water distribution/transmission systems, stormwater and sanitary sewer systems, and hydrologic and hydraulic systems. In...
Sharika U. S. Senarath, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, D.WRE, F.ASCE, a technical leader in the field of numerical modeling and contributor to the development, implementation, and application of many complex hydrologic models, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Senarath currently serves as the director for flood peril at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. He was previously senior principal scientist at the AIR...
Bryant W. C. Wong, P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, a civil engineer specializing in environmental engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Wong is currently a senior consultant with Polytechnique Environmental in Orange County, CA. He previously worked many years for CH2M HILL, and before that for Brown and Caldwell. In his nearly 40 years of consulting engineering, he has contributed...
Marwa M. Hassan, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a significant contributor to knowledge and practice in the areas of sustainable infrastructure materials, sustainable construction, and life-cycle assessment, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Hassan is the CETF Distinguished Professor and Jacobs Professor of Excellence at Louisiana State University. As director of the regional University Transportation Center (UTC) Tran-SET, she leads 11 institutions...
Rasheed Adekunle Hassan, C.Eng, F.ASCE, owner and chief executive officer of RSM Services Limited, an engineering supplier and consultancy firm in Nigeria, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Hassan has had the unique opportunity of working successfully on numerous base stations in the telecommunications industry in Nigeria, at both the construction and maintenance stages. As owner and MD/CEO of RSM...
Dawit Negussey, Ph.D., F.ASCE, professor of civil engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Negussey’s research and consulting interest while at Syracuse has focused on EPS geofoam engineering behavior and applications for infrastructure construction. He is Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Syracuse’s Graduate School, and was the founding director of...
Daniel L. Wade, P.E., G.E., F.ASCE, director of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Water Capital Programs, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Wade’s directorship for SFPUC extends to the $2 billion 10-Year Water Capital Improvement Program and the $4.8 billion Water System Improvement Program (WSIP). He has overall responsible charge for the successful delivery of over 100 projects,...
