ASCE has honored the writing team of David W. Spelman, Ph.D., EI, A.M.ASCE, and John J. Sansalone, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Rudolph Hering Medal for the paper “Is the Treatment Response of Manufactured BMPs to Urban Drainage PM Loads Portable?” published in the April 2018 issue of the Journal of Environmental Engineering.
Hydrodynamic separators (HS) and basins/tanks such as rectangular clarifiers (RC), as...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Marc A. Santos, P.E., M.ASCE; Richard F. Carbonaro, Ph.D., P.E.; and Robert R. Sharp, Ph.D., P.E., with the 2019 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for the paper “Control Strategies for the Mitigation and Removal of Attached Manganese Biofilms,” in the January 2018 issue of the Journal of Environmental Engineering.
In the selected work, the team investigated the use of...
The Board of Direction continues to take a big-picture approach to leadership.
Last year, that meant developing a new strategic plan for ASCE. At its quarterly meeting in Arlington, VA, March 10, the Board moved from strategy into implementation, highlighted by the approval of a future-focused reorganization of the Society’s Committee on Advancing the Profession.
“I’m very excited, because in essence what happened with CAP was...
The National Academy of Engineering’s 2019 class of inductees includes several ASCE members.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature" and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology,...
The Midwest has been battered by the aftermath of last week's “bomb cyclone” snowstorms. The resulting combination of fast-melting snow and additional rains has led to significant flooding across several states.
Unfortunately, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and other affected states may not see the unprecedented flooding levels recede until May, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast.
In Nebraska alone, 74 cities have declared states...
John H. Wiedeman, a leading engineer in Atlanta who served as ASCE president in 1983, has died at 83.
Wiedeman, P.E., F.ASCE, Pres.83.ASCE, was for 15 years an owner of Wiedeman and Singleton Inc., a civil and environmental engineering firm specializing in utility and infrastructure work for municipal clients in the Southeast United States.
Wiedeman served as the Georgia Section president in 1974, before taking on...
John Frederick “Fred” Graham Jr., for many years a civil engineering and construction leader in Pittsburgh, has died. He was 82.
Graham, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, was born in Pittsburgh and he devoted his working life to the city. After graduating from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), he worked most of his career as director for engineering and construction for Allegheny County.
In 1989, he became the...
Engineering News-Record magazine recognizes its Top 25 Newsmakers this week at the annual ENR Award of Excellence Gala.
Each year, ASCE members feature prominently on the Newsmakers list, and this year is no exception.
Here are the Society members among the ENR 2019 Top 25 Newsmakers:
Ginger Evans, P.E., M.ASCE
Now the CEO of Reach Airports, Evans helped orchestrate an $8.5 billion overhaul of O’Hare Airport during...
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:
• Ana Maria Ferreira da Silva, A.M.ASCE, and Mohsen Ebrahimi, EIT, A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize
• James L. Fouss, Ph.D, P.E., D.WRE (Ret.), M.ASCE, with the 2019 Royce J. Tipton Award
• Heidi M. Nepf, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE,...
Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE, an associate professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Gude has over 18 years of academic, industry, and research experience in the environmental engineering field, including six years with Du Pont Singapore and a startup company in Seattle....
