2001 Advisory Council |
Robert W. Bein, P.E., F.ASCE
President Robert W. Bein is the 2001 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He assumed the Society's highest office in October 2000.
Currently President and CEO of Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates (RBF) in Irvine, California, Bein has more than 40 years of professional engineering experience in the public and private sectors. Under Bein's leadership, the firm has grown into an international firm with more than 500 employees and nine offices in the U.S. In 1999, Engineering News Record ranked the firm 97 out of the top 500 U.S. design firms.
Recognized by his peers as an eminent engineer, Bein has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Civil Engineering Alumni Association of his alma mater, the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
James E. Davis, P.E., F.ASCE
Executive Director and CEO James E. Davis is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He provides direction and support to a combined staff of 295 and an active volunteer leadership of over 7,500, facilitating ASCE's tradition of supplying high quality products and services to members and customers worldwide.
Before joining ASCE, Davis successfully led a corporate initiative of Sea-Land Services, Inc., increasing productivity, improving efficiency, and reducing operating costs in the company's then 65 marine container and rail internodal terminal operations worldwide. Prior to Sea-Land, he restructured and directed a $600 million capital program to rehabilitate and improve Port Authority Trans-Hudson's deteriorating rail transit system, and directed the Federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration's grant and loan programs (totaling over $4.0 billion annually) for planning, design, construction, rehabilitation and operations of the nation's mass transportation systems.
An alumnus of North Carolina State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Mr. Davis also holds master's degrees in Regional Planning (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Civil Engineering (North Carolina State University). He completed course work for a doctorate at the University of Maryland.
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C. Michael Walton, PhD., P.E., F.ASCE
Dr. Michael Walton is professor of civil engineering and holds the Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Dr. Walton's distinguished career in transport policy and engineering analysis spans more than 30 years and is highlighted by his contributions to many transportation professional societies and technical publications. Richard G. Weingardt, P.E., F.ASCE
Richard Weingardt is founder of Richard Weingardt Consultants, Inc., a Colorado-based consulting engineering firm specializing in structural engineering. In addition to his technical expertise, Mr. Weingardt lectures internationally, and is the author of several books and published papers on engineering, leadership and creativity.
Andrew W. Herrmann, P.E. Andrew Herrmann is partner at Hardesty and Hanover Llp, headquartered in New York, and serves as partner-in-charge for many of the firm's bridge projects. He is integrally responsible for the design, inspection, rehabilitation, construction support, analysis, and rating of fixed and movable bridges, highways, railroads and major transportation projects.
Brad Iarossi, P.E.
Brad Iarossi is chief of the Dam Safety Division for Maryland's Department of the Environment. With expertise in environmental regulation and water projects, Mr. Iarossi serves as chair of ASCE's National Water Policy Committee and is past president of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.
Martha F. Juch, P.E.
Martha Juch is president of Martha Ferrero Juch, P.E., Inc., located in Round Rock, Texas. Ms. Juch specializes in water resources engineering and floodplain management, and has more than 16 years experience as both a consulting engineer and as an employee of the Harris County Flood Control District.
Conrad G. Keyes, Jr., ScD., P.E./P.S., F.ASCE
Conrad Keyes is president of ASCE's Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), and proudly serves as consultant to the US Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District. He has been involved in numerous water resource projects throughout the southwest and is presently a member of the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission.
E. Walter LeFevre, PhD., P.E., F.ASCE Dr. Walter LeFevre is a university professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and was the founding director of the University's Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center. Dr. LeFerve also serves as senior vice-president of Engineering Services, Inc., Springdale, Arkansas, a general civil engineering consulting firm.
Roger M. Millar, Jr., P.E., F.ASCE
Roger Millar is a principal of Otak, an award-winning planning, design and engineering firm, and director of the firm's Rocky Mountain Region. He has over 20 years of professional experience with an extensive background in public and private sector transportation, land use and environmental projects.
Randall S. Over, P.E., F.ASCE
Randall Over is the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) District 12 construction engineer, where he is responsible for construction contracts for the Cleveland, Ohio metro area. He also serves on the ODOT statewide Construction and Materials Specification Committee.
Jeffrey S. Russell, PhD., P.E.
Jeffery Russell is an associate professor and chair of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Russell currently serves as editor-in-chief of ASCE's Journal of Management and Engineering, and authored the ASCE Press how-to manual, Constructor Prequalification.
Joseph R. Syrnick, P.E.
Joseph Syrnick is chief engineer and surveyor for the City of Philadelphia. Working in the city's Streets Department, Mr. Syrnick is in charge of the department's engineering division, which includes bridge design and construction, highway design, traffic engineering, surveying and street lighting.
