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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has elected officers who will be installed 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.
President-elect—Kathy J. Caldwell, P.E., president of Caldwell Cook and Associates.
At-Large Director—Kevin C. Womack, Ph.D., P.E., a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of Utah State University’s Utah Transportation Center.
Region 3 Director—Eriks V. Ludins, P.E., an assistant transportation engineer with transportation planning and emergency management at the St. Paul Department of Public Works. Region 3 includes ASCE Sections and Branches in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota.
Region 4 Director—Sandra N. Knight, P.E., F.NSPE, F.ASCE, a county engineer with the Bradley County government. Region 4 includes Sections and Branches in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Region 8 Director—Kancheepuram N. Gunalan, Ph.D., P.E., a vice president with Parsons Brinkerhoff. Region 8 includes members from Sections and Branches in Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Technical Region Director—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 serve three-year terms.
Region 1—William J. Cunningham, P.E., a project manager/project engineer with 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 Cos. 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.