The 2023 Buchanan Lecturer is Dr. Marc Ballouz, president of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, chief executive officer of IGM and senior lecturer at Texas State University.
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Briaud Named President of American Society of Civil Engineers
In a virtual ceremony held Oct. 29, Distinguished Professor Jean-Louis Briaud assumed the role of 2021 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), accepting the presidential pin and gavel from 2020 President K.N. Gunalan. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society and represents more than 150,000 civil engineers worldwide. Briaud […]
Little Presents Monismith Lecture
Dallas Little, senior research fellow at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, gave the C.L. Monismith Lecture at the Geo-Chicago conference August 17. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute (G-I) is one of the eight specialty ASCE institutes. Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Little was awarded the lecture […]
Little Presents ASCE Turner Lecture
Dallas Little, Senior Research Fellow at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), presented the Francis C. Turner Lecture at the 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) International Conference on Transportation and Development. The conference was held in Houston June 26-29. ASCE announced Little as the recipient of the award earlier this year, citing his […]
Briaud Receives Distinguished Member Status at ASCE
Research Engineer Jean-Louis Briaud has been selected as a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Society’s highest honor. ASCE, representing 145,000 members worldwide, selected 11 members for its 2014 Distinguished Member class. The new members will be formally inducted at the Global Engineering Conference in Panama City, Panama this fall. […]