Ricardo de Abreu, P.E., F.ASCE, a founding principal at Fourrier & de Abreu Engineers and an established leader in the practice areas of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
For more than 25 years, de Abreu has provided geotechnical engineering services for numerous projects involving landfills, buildings, bridges, embankments, retaining-walls, flood reservoirs, roadways, tunnels, and dams....
Todd L. Barber, P.E., F.ASCE, the principal dam safety engineer for the Southern Company Hydro Services group, headquartered in Atlanta, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Barber is renowned for his 23 years of practice in dam safety and geotechnical engineering. His broad expertise covers all aspects of hydroelectric dam safety, including stability analysis, structural assessment, hydraulic studies, spillway gate...
Avinash Prasad, P.E., R.L.S., F.ASCE, an engineer and land surveyor with more than 25 years of professional experience in civil engineering and management, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Prasad is currently a Ph.D. candidate at New York University. His ongoing doctorate major is in bridge asset management. The main topic of research is development and evaluation of a risk...
AKM Anwarul Islam, P.E., F.ASCE, a professor of civil engineering at Youngstown State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Islam worked on construction of Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh as well as a 24-story Ministry of Education building and expressway bridges in Singapore before moving to the United States, and has been at YSU since 2005. He has made...
ASCE has learned of the passing of Benoit Joubert, an international leader in humanitarian development. He was 96.
Joubert was an ASCE member for many years, and came to the U.S. from his native France to serve through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
He entered the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris in 1941. Two years later, in order to escape forced labor...
As civil engineers, you are uniquely qualified to lead Society’s infrastructure conversation – indeed, you know firsthand how infrastructure works.
Civil engineers are at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment. With a mission to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, civil engineers need to be at the table with lawmakers...
On Jan. 15, 2017, a 100-year-old “visual wound” was healed on a vacant lot in Chicago’s burgeoning West Loop.
Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), in collaboration with the design team, had successfully erected a 54-story office building with the smallest of footprints, on a site they transformed from barren to beautiful.
150 North Riverside, in Chicago, has been honored by ASCE as a finalist for the 2019...
ASCE has honored Robert Ettema, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2019 Harold R. Peyton Award for Cold Regions Engineering for a distinguished career of laboratory research, physical modeling, experimentation, teaching, administration, mentoring graduate students, and extensive publication in the fields of ice mechanics, cold regions hydraulics, river engineering, sediment transport, hydraulic structures, and engineering history.
Ettema is an exceptional candidate. His career as a researcher,...
David Christopher Roe, whose considerable variety of achievements across his career made him a Renaissance man of civil engineering, has died at 85.
Roe, P.E., L.S., F.ASCE, was a member of ASCE since 1961. He served as a draftsman in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1956 to 1959, then completed his mathematics degree in 1960. He was soon employed by Hubble, Roth & Clark...
Ming Liu, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a research structural engineer at Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) in Port Hueneme, CA, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Liu’s expertise in civil engineering covers field testing and laboratory measurement with nondestructive testing (NDT) methods, forensic investigations for extreme events such as hurricanes, and civil and structural design in accordance...
