Paul D. Kovacs, P.E., M.ASCE, chief engineering officer for the Illinois Tollway as well as it and the Engineering department’s representative to all federal, state, and local governments, industry, regulatory agencies, and the public, has been honored by ASCE as the 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...
ASCE has honored Misko Cubrinovski, Ph.D., with the 2019 Ralph B. Peck Award for outstanding contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession through the publication of several insightful field case histories, including Cubrinovski and Robinson’s “Lateral Spreading: Evidence and Interpretation from the 2010-2011 Christchurch Earthquakes,” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (2016).
Over the years, Cubrinovski has been a prolific researcher who has made significant contributions to...
ASCE has honored Jonathan D. Bray, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 Karl Terzaghi Award for his effective leadership and contributions to the geotechnical engineering profession, and for following in the footsteps of Karl Terzaghi in expanding the state of the art of that profession.
Bray is an outstanding engineer, academic, and researcher by any definition of the term, who has made seminal contributions...
ASCE has honored W. Allen Marr, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2019 H. Bolton Seed Medal for his continuous and cumulative distinguished contributions to our understanding of the behavior and interaction of geotechnical materials and to the advancement of research, practice, teaching, and professional service in geotechnical engineering.
Marr is the founder and chief executive officer of the Geocomp Corporation and GeoTesting Express...
ASCE has honored James Hambleton, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award for his innovative research in engineering and computational plasticity extending the domain of geotechnical engineering, and for outstanding teaching and service that strengthens the profession and inspires the next generation of civil engineers.
Hambleton brings a clear long-term vision for research in soil-machine interaction. He is breathing new life into...
Qamar A. O. Kazmi, P.E., F.ASCE, a principal and senior consultant in the Maryland offices of Terracon Consultants Inc., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Kazmi’s experience is in directing, managing, and performing projects involving all facets of geotechnical engineering – from siting and planning, to detailed geotechnical investigation and design, to construction oversight, to investigating failures. Specializing in geotechnical...
Thomas F. Heausler, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, a civil and structural engineer with over 37 years’ experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Heausler currently serves as an independent structural engineer, engaged by engineering firms for mentoring, senior review, and seismic code interpretations and guidance. He started his career in New Orleans, then left the industrial projects of Southern Louisiana for...
Scott Leska, P.E., F.ASCE, who has over 28 years of demonstrated proficiency in heavy civil, traffic, and transportation engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Leska has focused mainly on traffic engineering, transportation management, and heavy civil design. Over the past 14 years he has contributed as an engineering division manager for the Town of Marana, AZ, for Traffic Operations,...
Larry D. McCallister, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, chief of the Engineering and Construction Division for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
McCallister was appointed to the U.S. Army Senior Executive Service in September 2013. He provides executive leadership for all technical engineering activities during planning, design, and construction for the worldwide military, civil works,...
Kevin R. Mackie, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, professor and associate chair in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Mackie’s research interests are in performance-based assessment of bridges and buildings to seismic loading, applications of reliability and probabilistic methods to response of structures to extreme dynamic loads, nonlinear...
