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TRB names executive director

October 24th, 2022

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering has announced that Victoria Sheehan will join the organization as the new executive director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) on Dec. 5, 2022. Sheehan will succeed Neil Pedersen, who has served as TRB’s executive director for nearly eight years. Victoria Sheehan Sheehan comes to the National Academies from […]

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Frontiers Of Engineering symposium coming to Seattle

August 16th, 2022

Eighty-four highly accomplished early-career engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 U.S.-based symposium. Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the two-and-a-half day event. The participants — from industry, academia, and […]

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Geotechnical engineering expert to deliver first Prakash Lecture at S&T

May 8th, 2017

Richard D. Woods, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering (University of Michigan–Ann Arbor), will present the inaugural lecture in the Shamsher and Sally Prakash Distinguished Lecture Series in Geotechnical Engineering. The Shamsher and Sally Prakash Distinguished Lecture Series was established through a gift from Dr. […]

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