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Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award

Conrad G. Keyes, Sc.D., P.E., P.S., D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE

“For his long and distinguished career in the arid Southwestern US. He has held high committee assignments in ASCE-EWRI and earlier groups. He has also had an outstanding career in New Mexico, Texas, and academia.”

Bizier

Mongan

ASCE President’s Medal

Paul A. Bizier, P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE

“For his passionate representation of ASCE interests to the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and for his superior skills communicating the Society’s positions on numerous challenging issues.”

David G. Mongan, P.E., Pres.08.ASCE

"For dedication to the profession and to ensuring its future through creation of Vision 2025 which provided global direction for the profession and the Society, and for leadership of ASCE, Engineers Without Borders USA, and the American Association of Engineering Societies.”

		ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award Sherif El-Tawil, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE Kent A. Harries, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE Patrick J. Fortney, Ph.D., M.ASCE Bahram M. Shahrooz, Ph.D. Yahya Kurama, Ph.D., M.ASC “For the paper, Seismic Design of Hybrid Coupled Wall Systems: State of the Art,” Journal of Structural Engineering, July 2010.”
El-Tawil	Harries

Fortney	Shahrooz	Kurama

			Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award Andrew E. Romer, P.E., M.ASCE “For his achievements in the planning, design, and construction of large diameter water transmission and municipal pipelines, and for research in extending the service life of piping materials.”
Romer
			Maurice A. Biot Medal Alexander H-D Cheng, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For his outstanding research contributions to theoretical and numerical developments related to the mechanics and hydraulics of porous media with applications to rock mechanics and porous solid-fluid interaction.”
Cheng
			CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity Award Reinhold M. Schuster, Ph.D., P.E. “A leader in education, research and design standards development in the United States and Canada for cold-formed steel structures for many years, Dr. Schuster has been a major contributor to education, engineering and industry in both countries.”
Schuster
			Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award Dimitrios Zekkos, Ph.D, P.E., M.ASCE “For his contributions to the advancement of solid waste engineering and dedicated service and leadership in promoting geo-engineering research, education, and practice through the creation of a pioneering website and on-line journal.”
Zekkos

Photo not available			Jack E. Cermak Medal Nicholas Isyumov, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE “For his outstanding contributions to the experimental methodologies for boundary layer wind tunnel testing of tall and flexible structures and his leadership in the translation of research findings into codes and standards.”

			Ven Te Chow Award Ramachandra Rao, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For pioneering work in statistical and physical hydrology, for providing direction and stimulation to numerous undergraduate and graduate students, for inspiring others and for his unrelenting service to the profession.”
Rao

Photo Not Available			Civil Government Award The Hon. David B. McKinley, P.E., M.ASCE “For his leadership and distinguished service representing the 1st Congressional District of West Virginia. He embodies the American ideal of an informed citizen legislator and exemplifies how a civil engineer can serve society in government as an elected official.”

			Columbia Medal William Whittaker, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE “For breaking new ground in space exploration as evidenced by developing more than 60 robots and for the development of the autonomous vehicle technology. “
Whittaker
			Computing in Civil Engineering Award R. Raymond A. Issa, Ph.D., J.D., P.E., F.ASCE “For extraordinary leadership in the advancement of computing in civil engineering though academic research project application and service to ASCE.”
Issa
			Construction Management Award Aviad Shapira, D.Sc., Reg. Eng., F.ASCE “For three decades of service to the civil engineering profession as a leading international expert advocating crane safety management approaches based on practices derived from academic and industry professional collaboration.”
Shapira

J. James R. Croes Medal

Jorge G. Zornberg, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
John S. McCartney, Ph.D., P.E., A.M.ASCE

“For the paper, “Centrifuge Permeameter for Unsaturated Soils. I: Theoretical Basis and Experimental Developments,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, August 2010.

Zornberg

McCartney

		Hans Albert Einstein Award Panayiotis Diplas, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For his significant contributions to rivers and sediment transport, particularly macroscopic realties for bedload transport, riverbed sediment sampling, self-formed channels, ecohydraulics, and microscopic study of sediment transport and its relation to turbulence.”
Diplas
		Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., Dist.M.ASCE “For outstanding contribution to environmental engineering and management and for pioneer research on development and applications of innovative technologies and processes for environmental pollution control.”
Surampalli
		Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award George A. Munfakh, Ph.D.,M.ASCE “For his commitment to advancing the civil engineering profession through mentoring, innovation, and improvements to the quality and delivery of projects. His passion to educate and nurture young talent has enhanced the professional and ethical conduct of generations of engineers.”
Munfakh

		Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement Andrew L. Deao, P.E., M. ASCE Stacy J. Frost, P.E., M.ASCE Douglas D. Knapp, P.E., M. ASCE Martin J. Pflanz VIII, P.E., M.ASCE Timothy W. Lum Yee, P.E., M.ASCE “For professional achievement in service to the advancement of the profession, evidence of technical competence, high character and integrity, and contributions to public service outside their careers.”
Deao	Frost

Knapp	Pflanz	Yee
Photo not available		Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal Erik Vanmarcke, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For developing methods of probabilistic modeling based on random fields with applications to reliability and risk assessment in geotechnical, wind, and earthquake engineering.”

		Samuel Arnold Greeley Award Tzai-Tang Tsai, C.Eng., Aff.ASCE Chih-Ming Kao, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE Wen-Yen Huang, Ph.D., Aff.ASCE J. P. Rao “For the paper, “Sensitivity Analysis of Risk Assessment at a Petroleum-Hydrocarbon Contaminated Site,” Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, April 2011.”
Kao	Surampalli

Huang

		Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For demonstrating outstanding scholarship in construction engineering through pioneering research and education in construction visualization.”
Kamat
		Shortridge Hardesty Award Jeffrey A. Packer, Ph.D., F.ASCE “For his outstanding body of influential and practical work in the field of structural stability.”
Packer

		Rudolph Hering Medal Erin N. Kallman, M.ASCE Vinka A. Oyandel-Craver, Aff.M.ASCE James A. Smith, M.ASCE “For the paper, “Ceramic Filters Impregnated with Silver Nanoparticles for Point-of-Use Water Treatment in Rural Guatemala,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, June 2011.”
Kallman	Oyandel-Craver

Smith

Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize

Thorsten Stoesser, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Su Jin Kim
Panayiotis Diplas, Ph.D., M. ASCE

“For the paper, “Turbulent Flow through Idealized Emergent Vegetation,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, December 2010.”

Stoesser

Diplas

		Julian Hinds Award James P. Heaney, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, M.ASCE “For a career distinguished by innovative and groundbreaking applications of systems analysis and optimization methods to management of urban stormwater, urban water use, natural waters, and sustainable urban infrastructure systems, as well as his mentorship of students and professionals.”
Heaney
		Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award Augustine J. Fredrich, P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE “For improving the understanding of the history of civil engineering through his many ASCE and EWRI publications such as Sons of Martha, 1989; “From Colosseum to Cathedral: Building Big in the European Dark Ages,” 2008, and “Joseph Totten, Fort Adams, and America’s Third System of Coastal Fortifications,” 2010, government service, and teaching.”
Fredrich

		Wesley W. Horner Award Davide Motta Jorge D. Abad Marcelo H. Garcia, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For the paper, “Modeling Framework for Organic Sediment Resuspension and Oxygen Demand: Case of Bubbly Creek in Chicago,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, September 2010.”
Motta	Abad

Garcia

		George W. Housner Structural Control And Monitoring Medal Sami F. Masri, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For seminal research contributions, innovations, and leadership in the field of Structural Control and Health Monitoring.”
Masri

Photo not available		Ernest E. Howard Award Helmut Krawinkler, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For development of performance-based earthquake engineering procedures and their implementation in guidelines and standards for evaluating and rehabilitating buildings.”

		Hydraulic Structures Medal Richard L. Stockstill, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE “For his contribution in advancing the capabilities for numerical modeling hydraulic structures, particularly for continually developing and improving three-dimensional computation models used to solve complex fluid-structure interaction problems for locks, dams, spillways, approach flows, gates, valves, and vessel maneuverability.”
Stockstill
		Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes Christian Hellmich, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE “For his contributions in the linear and nonlinear, elastic and anelastic, microporomechanics of hierarchical geomaterials and biomaterials, particularly wood, concrete, and bone; and their applications in geotechnical and biomedical engineering, in particular NATM tunnel and orthopaedics.”
Hellmich
		Scott M. Olson, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE “For pioneering research on liquefaction, particularly related to the shear strength and normalized shear strength of liquefied soils using field case history back-analysis, laboratory element testing, and centrifuge testing.”
Olson
		Santiago Pujol, PhD., A.M.ASCE “For his achievements in devising simple and useful solutions to complex problems related to earthquake and high-velocity impact loads on structures.”
Pujol
		Patrick M. Reed, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE “For pioneering advances in multi-objective systems analysis that have significantly advance engineering practice related to hydrologic prediction, observation network design, and risk-based water supply management.”
Reed
		Julie B. Zimmerman, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For innovative research and development of sustainable, cost-effective technologies for the treatment of drinking water.”
Zimmerman
		International Coastal Engineering Award Shigeo Takahashi, Ph.D., D.CE “In recognition of his leadership in coastal engineering and hazard research and fostering international cooperation in the field.”
Takahashi
		Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award Arturo L. Ressi di Cervia, Ph.D., D.GE, M.ASCE “For leadership in the development and utilization of Slurry Wall and Slurry Trench technology World Wide.”
Ressi di Cervia
		James Laurie Prize Zhanmin Zhang, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE “For contributions to the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the management of highway infrastructure systems and in particular his development of a state-of-the-art pavement condition performance prediction process and pavement needs estimates for different pavement condition goals.”
Zhang
		Walter LeFevre Award Oregon Institute of Technology Department of Civil Engineering (Small Program Winner) “For its exemplary promotion of licensure, ethics, and professionalism in engineering education in a small program.”
Oregon Institute of Technology

		T. Y. Lin Award John J. Roller, P.E., S.E., M.ASCE Henry G. Russell, S.E. Robert N. Bruce, Jr., P.E. Walid R. Alaywan, P.E., M.ASCE “For the paper, “Evaluation of prestress losses in high-strength concrete bulb-tee girders for the Rigolets Pass Bridge,” PCI Journal, Winter 2011”
Roller

Bruce

		Daniel W. Mead Prize for Students Jay R. Pastor, S.M.ASCE “For the paper, “Globalization and the Future of ASCE’s Code of Ethics.”
Pastor

Photo not available		Raymond D. Mindlin Medal Yih-Hsing Pao, Ph.D. “For sustained significant contributions to solid mechanics, particularly analytical and experimental methods, to investigate the propagation of mechanical disturbances in elastic solids.”

		Moisseiff Award Yasser Alashker, Ph.D. Sherif El-Tawil, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE Fahim Sadek, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For the paper, “Progressive Collapse Resistance of Steel-Concrete Composite Floors,” Journal of Structural Engineering, October 2010.”
Alashker	El-Tawil

Sadek

Nathan M. Newmark Medal

Yannis F. Dafalias, Ph.D., M.ASCE

“For outstanding contributions to structural engineering and mechanics through his work in constitutive modeling of metals, concrete and soils and in large deformation analysis.”

Dafalias

		Alfred Noble Prize Marios Panagiotou, Ph.D., C.Eng., M.ASCE Jose I. Restrepo, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For the paper, “Displacement-Based Method of Analysis for Regular Reinforced-Concrete Wall Buildings: Application to a Full-Scale 7-Story Building Slice Tested at UC-San Diego,” by Journal of Structural Engineering, June 2011.”
Panagiotou	Restrepo

		Norman Medal Mark Mahan, M.ASCE Yannis F. Dafalias, M.ASCE Mahdi Taiebat, M.ASCE YeongAe Heo, Ph.D. Sashi K. Kunnath, F.ASCE “For the paper, SANISTEEL: Simple Anisotropic Steel Plasticity Model,” Journal of Structural Engineering, February 2011.”
Mahan	Dafalias

Taiebat	Heo	Kunnath


Photo not available		John I. Parcel-Leif J. Sverdrup Civil Engineering Management Award George J. Pierson, P.E., J.D., M. ASCE “For his leadership of Parsons Brinckerhoff following its acquisition by Balfour Beatty in 2009. He has continued Parsons Brinckerhoff’s 127-year tradition of technical excellence while successfully integrating the firm as the professional services division of Balfour Beatty.”

		Ralph B. Peck Award Craig H. Benson, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE “For his collection of case histories and forensic engineering to understand the engineering principles necessary for appropriate environmental applications and hydraulic design of geosynthetic clay liners as hydraulic barriers”
Benson
		Peurifoy Construction Research Award Michael C. Vorster, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For contributions to construction equipment management, alternate dispute resolution, and construction education.”
Vorster

Harold R. Peyton Award for Cold Regions Engineering

David C. Esch, P.E., M.ASCE

“For his exemplary 45-year career of cold regions practice and publications on permafrost engineering research on transportation, insulation performance in road and airfield embankments, frost heave test development, and impacts of climatic warming on transportation facilities to advancing engineering practice.”

Esch


		Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Lecture Marcelo H. Garcia, Ph.D., P.Eng., M.ASCE “For outstanding contributions to the field of hydraulic engineering over 25 years, including research, teaching and service.”
Garcia
		Robert H. Scanlan Medal You-Lin Xu, Ph.D., F.ASCE “For his outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of the aerodynamics and health monitoring of long-span cable-supported bridges.”
Xu
		H. Bolton Seed Medal Geoffrey R. Martin, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For his contributions to research and practice in geotechnical earthquake engineering, including seismic design of slopes, embankments and dams, seismic design of bridge foundations, and evaluation of liquefaction potential and liquefaction impacts.”
Martin
		Wilbur S. Smith Award Eugene R. Russell, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE “For his life-long dedication to teaching, research, consulting and professional work in the area of highway engineering, especially in highway and railroad grade crossing safety.”
Russell

		J. C. Stevens Award James A. Kells, Ph.D., P.Eng., M.ASCE “For the discussion of “Placed Rock as Protection Against Erosion by Flow down Steep Slopes,” Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, August 2010.”
Kells
		Surveying & Mapping Award Carolyn J. Merry, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For exceptional service toward the advancement of Geomatics through efforts in teaching, chairing and active membership in various geomatic related organizations.”
Merry
		Royce J. Tipton Award Kenneth Renard, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE “For significant contributions to the advancement of soil and water management in arid regions through research, technology transfer and public service.”
Renard
		Francis C. Turner Award Matthew M. McDole, P.E., F.ASCE “For his contribution to the advancement of the knowledge and practice of transportation engineering.”
McDole

Photo not available		Theodore von Karman Medal Franz Josef Ulm, Ph.D., M.ASCE “For his contributions to the development of the nanomechanics of cement-based materials and theoretical poromechanics.”

		Arthur M. Wellington Prize Nader M. Okasha, A.M.ASCE Dan M. Frangopol, Sc.D., Dist.M.ASCE “For the paper, “Novel Approach for Multicriteria Optimization of Life-Cycle Preventive Essential Maintenance of Deteriorating Structures,” Journal of Structural Engineering, August 2010.”
Okasha	Frangopol

Goodkind

Phillips

William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award

Michael N. Goodkind, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., F.ASCE

“For his continued meritorious service to ASCE in shaping its future through leadership as President of the ASCE Foundation and as past ASCE Treasurer.”

Monte L. Phillips, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE

“For his continued meritorious service to ASCE in providing leadership requiring additional education as a prerequisite for licensure and as a proponent of ethical and professional practice through the Order of the Engineer.”

Wisconsin Section		Younger Member Group Award Large Group Award: Phoenix Branch Younger Member Forum “For outstanding professional , technical, social, outreach, and community service activities on behalf of the Phoenix Branch Younger Member Forum.” Small Group Award: Wisconsin Section, Southeast Branch Younger Member Group “For outstanding professional, technical, social, outreach, and community service activities on behalf of the Wisconsin Section, Southeast Branch Younger Member Group.” Certificates of Commendation: Hawaii Section Younger Member Forum “For outstanding professional, technical, social, outreach, and community service activities on behalf of the Hawaii Section Younger Member Forum.” Florida Section, East Central Branch Younger Member Forum “For outstanding professional, technical, social, outreach, and community service activities on behalf of the East Central Branch Younger Member Forum.”


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Raymond C. Reese Research Prize
John W. van de Lindt, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Shiling Pei, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E., M.ASCE
Hidemaru Shimizu, Ph.D.
Hiroshi Isoda, Ph.D.

“For the paper, “Experimental Seismic Response of a Full-Scale Six-Story Light-Frame Wood Building,” Journal of Structural Engineering, October 2010.”

van de Lindt

Shimizu