ASCE has honored John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2020 Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture for his extraordinary accomplishments in using fundamental scientific principles and current research findings to solve the most challenging water quality problems.
Crittenden is one of the world’s foremost experts in physicochemical processes for environmental systems. A pioneer in water treatment systems, his work in...
ASCE has honored A. Jacob Odgaard, Ph.D., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2019 Hans Albert Einstein Award for his leadership and tireless effort in the field of sediment transport and river erosion control.
Many people work their entire career striving to make a difference in their field, but Odgaard has produced groundbreaking achievements in three key areas in civil engineering. First, he designed and patented a...
ASCE has honored Rao S. Govindaraju, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2019 Ven Te Chow Award for his pioneering contributions to the hydrology of infiltration and to run-on processes over hillslopes and watersheds, and for algorithms for the quantification of uncertainty.
Govindaraju is the Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor and Bowen Head of Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering at...
ASCE has honored Brian Morse, Ph.D., P.Eng, M.CSCE, with the 2019 CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity Award for outstanding contributions to cold regions hydraulics that advance the state of the art in river ice processes and for significant publications on the subject that foster positive relationships among river ice researchers in the U.S. and Canada.
Morse has demonstrated an exceptional candidacy through his career as a...
ASCE has honored Farhang Ostadan, P.E., F.ASCE,with the 2019 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Energy Award for significant contributions to practice, research, and codification activities for advancing soil-structure interaction analysis and seismic analysis in the energy industry, in particular the nuclear power industry.
In the past 30+ years, Ostadan has earned his reputation as a worldwide earthquake engineering authority through his numerous contributions to several key...
ASCE has honored Jorge A. Ramirez, Ph.D., with the 2019 Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award for his exceptional wide-ranging research on arid lands hydrology and hydraulics, including analyzing the vulnerability of the U.S. water supply system to climate change and observationally demonstrating the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration, and for his outstanding teaching and mentoring.
Ramirez's research activities and contributions have been broad in the fields...
The official nominees for 2020 ASCE president-elect, as selected by the Society’s Board of Direction Nominating Committee, are Jean-Louis Briaud, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, and Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE.
The Society’s election will be conducted May 1 through June 1 via online balloting. Members at the grade of Associate and above in good standing as of April 1 will be...
Todd Semonite, P.E., M.ASCE, Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has been honored by ASCE as the 2019 Outstanding Projects And Leaders award-winner in government.
The ASCE OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders for their lifetime accomplishments. This year’s OPAL winners will be recognized at the 2019 OPAL Gala, March 14, in Arlington, VA.
Semonite’s leadership is of the highest caliber, and...
Ron Klemencic, P.E., S.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, chairman and CEO of Magnusson Klemencic Associates and one of the most talented, accomplished, and pioneering civil engineers of our time, has been honored by ASCE as the 2019 Outstanding Projects And Leaders award-winner in design.
The ASCE OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders for their lifetime achievements. This year’s OPAL winners will be recognized at the 2019...
The Fourth National Climate Assessment sounded alarm bells about climate change’s effects, both current and future, upon its release last November by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Civil engineering, of course, is at the forefront of this discussion. After all, it is civil engineers – planning, designing, and constructing infrastructure – who have to account for these climate change effects.
But how can civil engineers...
