RESTON, VA — The American
Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) newly elected officers will be
installed to its Board of Direction on Oct. 30, 2009 during the
business meeting at ASCE’s Annual Civil Engineering conference in
Kansas City, MO. The new board members include:
President — Blaine D. Leonard, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, a research
program manager for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in
Salt Lake City. Leonard will hold the organization’s highest elected
office until the fall of 2010.
At UDOT, Leonard is responsible for balancing needs, priorities
and resources in the Research Division, as well as managing a wide
variety of geotechnical, structural, seismic, environmental and traffic
safety research efforts. Previously he served as vice president and
principal civil/geotechnical engineer for Van Boerum & Frank
Associates.
President elect — Kathy J. Caldwell, P.E., president of Caldwell
Cook and Associates. Caldwell will assume the role of Society president
in the fall of 2010.
Caldwell joined Caldwell Cook and Associates in May of 2008,
after retiring as president of JEA Construction Engineering Services,
Inc. Caldwell’s career at JEA spanned almost two decades, during which
time she served as a design engineer, project manager and senior
construction resident engineer for a variety of public works clients
before becoming division manager and vice president.
At Large Director — Kevin C. Womack, Ph.D., P.E., a professor of
civil and environmental engineering, and director of the Utah State
University Utah Transportation Center.
Region 3 — Eriks V. Ludins, P.E., an assistant transportation
engineer with transportation planning and emergency management at the
St. Paul Department of Public Works. Ludins will represent members from
Sections and Branches in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and North Dakota.
Region 4 — Sandra N. Knight, P.E., F.NSPE, F.ASCE, a county
engineer with the Bradley County government. Knight will represent
members from Sections and Branches in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Region 8 — Kancheepuram N. Gunalan, Ph.D., P.E., a vice
president with Parsons Brinkerhoff. Gunalan will represent members from
Sections and Branches in Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Technical Region — Robert D. Stevens, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE,
executive vice president of ARCADIS. Stevens will represent ASCE’s
eight institutes.
ASCE has also elected new Region Governors, who will serve three
year terms, providing leadership for their geographic region.
Region 1 — William J. Cunningham, P.E., a project
manager/project engineer, Siefert Associates, LLC and George Moglia,
Jr., P.E., a vice president and principal project manager with PB
Americas, Inc., will represent members from Sections and Branches in
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New Jersey and Puerto Rico.
Region 2 — Donald W. Vannoy, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor
emeritus at the University of Maryland, will represent members from
Sections and Branches in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.
Region 3 — Darrell J. Berry, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, an associate
vice president and senior project manager with Bloom Companies, LLC,
will represent members from Sections and Branches in Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota.
Region 4 — J.P. Mohsen, Ph.D., chair of the University of
Louisville Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Aaron
K. Robinson, P.S., P.E., a senior project manager/engineer with Bond
Consulting Engineers, will represent members from Sections and Branches
in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Region 5 — Fraser K. Howe, Jr., P.E., a senior associate with
T.Y. Lin International, will represent members from Sections and
Branches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Region 6 — Craig M. Newtson, Ph.D., P.E., an associate professor
at New Mexico State University and Walter T. Winn, Jr., P.E., BCEE,
F.ASCE, founder of Winn Professional Engineers and Constructors, LLC,
will represent members from Sections and Branches in New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Texas.
Region 7 — F. Jay Burress, P.E., associate principal at Shafer,
Kline & Warren, Inc. and Loras A. Klostermann, P.E., manager of the
Field Services Division at The Schemmer Associates Inc., will represent
members from Sections and Branches in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Region 8 — Michael E. Mathieu, P.E., F.ASCE, an adjunct lecturer
at the University of Arizona and Raymond Walton, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, a
vice president with WEST Consultants, Inc., will represent members from
Sections and Branches in Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Region 9 — Kathleen S. Hayes, P.E., a project manager with
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, will represent members from Sections and
Branches in California.
Region 10 — Himansu K. Banerjee, Ph.D., P.E., a senior
structural consultant engineer at Worley Parsons, Resources &
Energy and Ronald Hine, president of SAE Construction Management, will
represent ASCE’s International Sections and Groups.
Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers
represents more than 146,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s
oldest national engineering society. For more information visit
www.asce.org.
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