Topic: Society News

Michelle E. Madzelan, P.E., F.ASCE, a transportation engineer with more than 20 years of transportation, traffic, and civil engineering experience, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Madzelan currently serves as a senior transportation manager for ELA Group Inc., in Lititz, PA, focusing on traffic engineering for land development and municipal projects. Her career path has evolved from engineering design to...

Jonathan E. Upchurch, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a contributor to the civil engineering profession in variety of roles – educator, professional society leader, and in public policy with the U.S. House of Representatives – has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. As an educator, Upchurch served with distinction as a teacher and researcher for 20 years at Arizona State University and the...

Jerry Carl Wolverton Jr., P.E., F.ASCE, a civil engineer for 33 years and founder and chief executive officer of Wolverton and Associates, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Wolverton is responsible for the strategic vision and overall operation of the firm. As its leader, he regularly communicates the corporate viewpoint to key clients and other external constituencies. He conveys mission,...

Jeffrey S. Chiu, Esq., P.E., F.ASCE, who for 20 years has brought an award-winning practice to structural and general civil engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. As the president of Kun-young Chiu & Associates Inc., with offices in Valdosta and Atlanta, Chiu has been awarded for the design and construction management of military, institutional, transportation, and other public infrastructure....

Hayley H. Shen, Ph.D., F.EMI, F.ASCE, a civil and environmental engineering research professor at Clarkson University, where she has held several positions since 1976, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Shen has held visiting professor positions in Sweden, New Zealand, Japan, China, Singapore, and Poland as well. Her research consists of two fields: granular materials and sea ice–wave interaction. She...

Gregory F. Scott, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior project manager in the firm of Buchart Horn, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Scott has over 25 years of experience in civil engineering. At Buchart Horn he is responsible for all phases of project assignments for numerous municipal clients. This involves comprehensive facilities planning; design of collection systems, transmission mains, storage reservoirs,...

Graham E. C. Bell, Ph.D., P.E., FNACE, F.ASCE, the lead for condition assessment and rehabilitation at HDR and its senior vice president, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Bell is an internationally recognized leader in infrastructure condition assessment and rehabilitation. Among his contributions to the industry are authoring numerous technical papers and establishing best practices and other processes through projects,...

Daniel J. De Battista, P.E., F.ASCE, office manager for Terracon’s Las Vegas operations, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. De Battista has worked in the fields of geotechnical engineering and construction materials testing / special inspection for over 22 years in the Ohio River Valley and Southwestern United States. He has thus far applied himself to the design and construction...

Adjo Akpene Amekudzi‐Kennedy, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a professor and associate chair for Global Leadership and Research Development in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Amekudzi-Kennedy studies systems problems in the integrated built, natural, and social environment to understand how we can make better decisions on built systems to promote sustainable...