Younger Member Committee

Purpose:

The Transportation and Development (T&DI) Committee on Younger Members (CYM) focuses on matters of the professional development of transportation-focused civil engineers 35 years of age or younger and facilitate their engagement with, and participation in, the Society and T&DI. CYM supports all ASCE T&DI younger members, whether academic or industry focused. The committee plans and organizes younger member activities for the International Conference on Transportation and Development (ICTD), facilitates an annual student competition to foster student engagement in T&DI, advocates for more younger member resources, and works to advertise existing resources (e.g., publications, conferences, workshops, technical councils, etc.) to the younger member community.

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Meet the chair

Hampton Worthey, P.E., M.ASCE

Hampton Worthey is a civil engineer in the Aviation Department at Michael Baker International. He received both his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Georgia, where he researched pavement material properties and their influence on mechanistic empirical pavement design systems. Since joining MBI, he has continued the pursuit of pavement expertise while collaborating on numerous airfield projects in the metro Atlanta area, including airfield pavement evaluations and rehabilitations. Hampton looks forward to growing aviation within the transportation industry and inspiring the next generation of engineers.

Working groups

Many first experiences with ASCE occur during undergrad through student competitions such as concrete canoe or steel bridge. The tragedy is that for many transportation engineers, this is all they ever come to know of the Society. At present, there is no annual competition specifically focusing on transportation-related topics. A competition would serve to raise more awareness of the Transportation and Development Institute and recruit students to get involved young, which would hopefully translate into more engaged lifetime members. This group is working to generate a proposal for such a competition that would then get sent to T&DI staff and the Board of Governors for comment before hopefully being submitted to the Society for approval.

For more information about this working group, please contact Myles Overall, Vice Chair.
The T&DI Board of Governors is very interested to see more active engagement in the institute and its councils and committees. They are particularly interested in increasing younger member participation and engagement. We see our annual flagship conference as a great stepping-off point to begin that process. This group explores a variety of creative options for how we can increase younger member attendance at the conference and works with T&DI staff to implement feasible opportunities during the conference planning process.

For more information about this working group, please contact Alyssa Ryan, Past Chair.
The T&DI Younger Member Committee has been hosting quarterly younger member activities since Summer 2023. The goals of these activities are to get together outside of annual conferences and to support younger member career development, build a stronger younger member community, and offer younger members more opportunities to get involved with the institute.

For more information about this working group, please contact Hampton Worthey, Chair.

Membership

Myles Overall, S.M.ASCE
Chair
Andrew Christopher Kline, EIT, M.ASCE
Vice-Chair

Muhammad Sultan Amer, ENV SP, M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact
Ruqaya Alfaris,
Member
Yusra Ibrahim Ali Alhadidi, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member
Cesar Luis Andriola,
Corresponding Member
Taraneh Ardalan, Ph.D.
Corresponding Member

Nancy Beltran, Ph.D., EIT, M.ASCE
Member

Christopher Casey, L.S.I.T, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Annahid Dastgheib-Beheshti, P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Adrianna Fragozo, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Xiaoyu Sky Guo, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member

Thomas Halsey, P.E.
Corresponding Member

Ajayshankar Jagadeesh, Ph.D.
Corresponding Member
Aditya Jha, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Cole Anthony Kopca, S.M.ASCE
Past-Chair
Hamza Bani Khalaf, M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Marcella Kaplan, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Ashok Kumar, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Tanoogna Mallarapu, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Mohammad Mehdi Oshanreh, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Alyssa Margaret Ryan, Ph.D., EIT, M.ASCE
Past-Chair

Surya Narayanan S, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Pranav Saraswat, M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
Mayank Sukhija, S.M.ASCE
Corresponding Member

Hampton Worthey, P.E., M.ASCE
Past-Chair
Melissa Willis, M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact

Younger Member Committee

Purpose:

Hampton Worthey, P.E., M.ASCE

Working groups

Working Group on Developing a Transportation-Related Annual Competition

Working Group on Increasing Younger Member Participation at ICTD

Working Group on Quarterly Virtual Activities

Membership

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