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ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives. Just 3 percent of Society members hold this prestigious honor.
The most recent members elevated to Fellow are:
• Adjo Akpene Amekudzi‐Kennedy, Ph.D., F.ASCE
• Graham E. C. Bell, Ph.D., P.E., FNACE, F.ASCE
• Jeffrey S. Chiu, Esq., P.E., F.ASCE
• Daniel J. De Battista, P.E., F.ASCE
• Gregory F. Scott, P.E.,...
Jonathan L. Goodall, an associate professor of civil engineering with appointments in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Goodall’s teaching and research interests are hydrology, water resources engineering, and hydroinformatics. The focus of his primary research is creating new computational approaches for...
John S. McCartney, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor and department chair in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
McCartney’s specialty is geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. His research interests include unsaturated soil mechanics, geosynthetics engineering, and energy geotechnics, and he has led research projects funded by the National Science...
Jean Griffith Hansen, P.E., F.ASCE, managing consultant and director with Ankura, a management consulting firm in Hamilton, NJ, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Hansen has extensive and diverse skills in construction management consulting, and experience applicable to all phases of construction and facility management projects and engagements. Her contract dispute resolution, contract risk management, and insurance claim preparation expertise...
Janis A. Steinbrenner, P.E., F.ASCE, engineering manager for the City of Woodstock, GA, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Steinbrenner is renowned for her thoroughness and follow-through during her 19 years in transportation design of roadway and streetscape projects at the local and state levels. In her current position since 2015, she supervises and reviews both road and stormwater endeavors...
Daniel Nichols’ garage is still standing. Granted, it smells strongly of salmon now. But it’s still standing.
The magnitude-7.0 earthquake that shook Anchorage, AK, Nov. 30, did significant damage, make no mistake. One highway ramp interchange was nearly totally destroyed, among plenty of property damage. That it wasn’t much worse, though, is a point of pride for Alaskan civil engineers.
“Considering how strong it was, how...
The calendar hasn’t turned yet, but the 2019 ASCE Board of Direction’s year is already off to a great start.
Members of the Board gathered for a two-day retreat, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 in Leesburg, VA, to jumpstart their Society work for next year.
“It went well,” said ASCE President Robin Kemper. “I’m very excited about our year.”
If Kemper’s vision for her presidential year could...
Franklin Sherkow, P.E., ENV SP, is an ASCE Fellow and Life Member, and former President of ASCE’s Oregon Section. He was on the civil engineering faculty at Oregon State University for six years before returning to consulting. In today’s Member Voices, he examines how the lessons learned from the attack on Pearl Harbor seven decades ago can help us today.
Can we learn lessons from...
William A. (Billy) Brundage III, P.E., F.ASCE, a dam safety engineer for Southern Company Generation Hydro Services group, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
His group provides dam safety surveillance and monitoring, and interfaces with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for hydroelectric dams in the Southern Company system. Brundage is responsible for seven Georgia Power Company dams on the...
