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ASCE AWARDS BANQUET HELD ON FEBRUARY 19, 2011By Melissa Fontanese

The ASCE Pittsburgh Sectionʼs annual awards banquet was held on February 19, 2011, atthe stately Pittsburgh Athletic Association in Oakland. Attendees were welcomed byPittsburgh Section President Matt Pierce and ASCE National President-Elect AndrewHerrmann.Linda Boxx, President of the Allegheny Trail Alliance, was the eveningʼs keynote speaker.

She presented Building the Great Allegheny Passage, an overview of the advocacy andengineering required to complete the 150-mile Great Allegheny Passage. When completed,the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail will serve as part of the trail link between Pittsburgh andWashington, DC. The trail highlights some civil engineering points of interest, including a newbridge carrying the trail through the Sandcastle property in Homestead and former railroad

infrastructure such as the 3,295-ft-long Big Savage Tunnel near Meyersdale.Following an exceptional dinner, the 2010 ASCE Pittsburgh Section Awards were

presented by the nightʼs master of ceremonies, Jorge Suarez. As explained bySection President Matt Pierce, “Our annual award winners really exemplify theaccomplishments of our colleagues, and highlight the importance of civil engineeringto everyday quality of life.” (Information about each of the award winners is providedin the following pages).Nearly 120 members, students, award winners, and their families attended the dinner and were treated to

entertaining and heartfelt acceptance speeches by the award winners. The Section Awards were followed by thepresentation of the American Bridge Leadership Award, Student Award Foundation Achievement Awards, and anASCE National award presented to the Younger Members Forum.

ENGINEER OF THE YEAR: LAWRENCE J. LENNON, P.E., D.WREMr. Lennon, founding Principal of the 60 person firm Lennon, Smith, Souleret Engineering, Inc.,

has been engaged in the practice of Civil Sanitary/Environmental Engineering since 1975. Priorto establishing Lennon and Smith Engineering in 1985, Mr. Lennon worked for a large Pittsburghbased environmental engineering consulting firm. He is a registered Professional Engineer in PA,WV and OH. In 2007, Mr. Lennon was certified by the American Academy of Water ResourcesEngineers, in affiliation with EWRI and ASCE as a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer(D.WRE). Mr. Lennon was named Engineer of the Year for 2008 by both the Engineers Societyof Western PA (ESWP) and the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Pittsburgh post.

Mr. Lennon has served on Professional Committees including Ad Hoc Engineering/Technical Advisory Committeeto reviewAllegheny County Sanitary Authorityʼs (ALCOSAN) Long Term Wet Weather Control Plan, the steeringcommittee advising the Allegheny Conference on Community Development on regional sewer and drinking waterissues; as well as multiple 3 Rivers Wet Weather committees(Science and Technical Advisory, Flow Monitoring,Intermunicipal Agreement, O&M Planning subcommittees).Mr Lennon is a lifelong Pittsburgh resident. He and his wife of 37 years live in Bridgeville where they raised their

3 sons, 2 of whom are Professional Engineers and ASCE members. He has been active in civic and churchorganizations including Borough Planning Commission, the Penn State Outreach Advisory Board, Boy Scouts ofAmerica, the Knights of Columbus and the St Vincent De Paul Society.

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YOUNG CIVIL ENGINEER OF THE YEAR: ANDREW DEAO, P.E.Mr. Deao is a Geotechnical Project Engineer in Gannett Fleming, Inc.ʼs

Pittsburgh Office. During his almost nine years with Gannett Fleming, hehas been responsible for the design and review of the foundations, walls,embankments and pavements. Mr. Deao has extensive experience inpavement design including projects for the Pennsylvania Department ofTransportation, multiple airports in West Virginia, and the 171st Air NationalGuard base. Mr. Deao has had the opportunity to work on various projectsthroughout the region including multiple projects on I-79, the PATurnpike,

a new ethanol plant and the New York City water supply system. Mr. Deao received hisbachelors and masters degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Deaoʼs work withASCE began in 2005 when he was asked to become a Trustee of the Student AwardFoundation. Since that time Mr. Deao has completed a three year term of VP, Presidentand Past President of the Pittsburgh Section YMF. He has also been a member of theSection Board of Directors since 2008 and was the chair of the Educational OutreachCommittee for 2 years. Mr. Deao has been active with ASCE nationally as aCorresponding Member to the national Committee on Younger Members. Recently, he wasa member of the national Student Transition Task Committee. Mr. Deao now continues hiswork with the SAF as the Chair of the Trust Committee.

GOVERNMENT ENGINEER OF THE YEAR: KEVIN M. CREAGH, P.E.Kevin Creagh is a 1998 graduate of Virginia Tech, with a Bachelors of Science in Civil

Engineering and has 12 years experience in the engineering field. Kevin has been withShaler Township since December 2002 as their Township Engineer. He is responsible forthe programming, design and construction management of Shaler Townshipʼs yearly $3million dollar investment in their infrastructure. Kevin is responsible for roads, stormsewers, sanitary sewers, and water line projects (as Shaler Township owns their ownmunicipal water utility) in the Township. Kevin is also an active member of the FeasibilityStudies Work Group, which is an adjunct advisory panel to ALCOSAN. This group ofengineers and municipal managers is helping to guide the shape of work for the localmunicipalities for the Regional Wet Weather Administrative Consent Order/Consent OrderAgreements over the next 20 years. He played a critical part on the subcommittee thatworked with ALCOSAN to incorporate local costs into ALCOSANʼs Alternative Costing, sothat all municipalities would have access to the same prices during their feasibility studies.Kevin is a member of ASCE, EWRI and volunteers at North Hills Community Outreach.

ASCE DISTINGUISHED CIVIL ENGINEER: KARL H. LEWIS, Ph.D., M.ASCEKarl H. Lewis, Ph.D., M.ASCE, is Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the

University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. degree from Howard University and M.S. andPh.D. degrees from Purdue University. Professor Lewis specializes in geotechnicalengineering and pavement analysis/design. He has taught courses in many areas of soilmechanics and foundation engineering, and has conducted research in soil behavior andstabilization, stability and deformation of embankments, seepage and groundwater, laterallyloaded drilled piers, arch-shaped culverts built by the inflatable form, and pavements. Hisconsulting work in the United States and in foreign countries such as Belize, Pakistan andVenezuela has involved analysis and design of foundations, earth-retaining structures,dams, embankments, slopes, dewatering systems and pavements. Even though he hasretired from academia, he is still involved with the undergraduate class in Senior Design atthe University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Lewis is also a well known authority on the development,implementation, and evaluation of programs concerned with the advancement of minorityand disadvantaged persons in science and engineering. In 1969, he founded the PittEngineering Impact Program (PEI-P), because he was unhappy with the very small numberof African-Americans and Hispanics in engineering at Pitt. Through PEI-P, Pitt was able tosignificantly improve its ability to recruit, retain and graduate minority engineers at both theundergraduate and graduate levels.



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SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE AWARD: MATTHEW MEHALIK, Ph.D.Matt serves as Program Manager at Sustainable Pittsburgh, where he

has created a sustainable business network for Western Pennsylvania,called Champions for Sustainability. He also teaches as Adjunct Professorof Environmental Policy at Heinz College, School of Public Policy andManagement, Carnegie Mellon. He has taught a variety of coursesrelated to complex systems, sustainable communities, environmentalpolicy and the fundamentals of sustainable product innovation and design

in domestic and international settings. He has written multiple journal articles in the areasof engineering sustainability and engineering education, and has co-authored “Ethical andEnvironmental Challenges to Engineering” with Michael E. Gorman and Patricia Werhane.Matt obtained a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, with concentrations in innovation, ethics,and policy, from the University of Virginia (2001). His research involved an analysis of newenvironmental technologies and strategies for transforming manufacturing networks. Hepossesses a M.S. in Systems Engineering and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, also fromthe University of Virginia. He worked for Lockheed Martin as a test engineer.

PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR: BURCU AKINCI, Ph.DDr. Burcu Akinci is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at

Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her BS in Civil Engineering(1991) from Middle East Technical University and her MBA (1993) fromBilkent University at Ankara, Turkey. After that, she earned her MS (1995)and her Ph.D. (2000) in Civil and Environmental Engineering with aspecialization in Construction Engineering and Management from StanfordUniversity. Her research interests include development of approaches to

model information rich histories of construction projects and facilities, to streamlineconstruction and facility management processes. She specifically focuses on utilization ofbuilding information models and data capture and tracking technologies, such as 3Dimaging, embedded sensors and radio-frequency identification systems to capture as-builthistories of construction projects and facility operations. Dr. Akinci is a Member of ASCEConstruction Research Council, ASCE Database and Information Management Committeeand ASCE Intelligent Computing Committee. She is on the editorial board of ASCEJournal Computing in Civil Engineering, Advanced Engineering Informatics, andAutomation in Construction. Her paper titled: “Formalization and Automation of Time-Space Conflict Analysis” received the Best Paper Award in 2002 fromASCE Journal ofComputing in Civil Engineering.

JOURNALISM AWARD: JON SCHMITZJon Schmitz has been a reporter and editor in Pittsburgh since 1978,

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CIVIL ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: WEST END SR-19 PROJECTThe West End Project involved realigning U.S. 19/S.R. 51

and directly connecting Saw Mill Run Boulevard to the WestEnd Bridge. As part of the Project, the project teamdesigned the roadway realignment, which required four newbridges, three new retaining walls, and two new ramps tofacilitate access to and from the West End community. Thenew bridges include a 188 foot long, steel plate girder bridgethat carries U.S. 19 over South Main Street. RampA, which

leads from Steuben Street to southbound U.S. 19, is a 180 foot long, steel plate girderbridge. A 61 foot long, prestressed concrete spread box beam bridge carries South MainStreet over Saw Mill Run Creek and the 95 foot long South Main Street Connector, aprestressed concrete adjacent box beam bridge, links South Main Street with SteubenStreet. The three new retaining walls are a 950 foot long anchored soldier-pile wall on theeast side of Ramp B along the Mount Washington hillside, which connects U.S. 19 withSouth Main Street; a 660 foot long anchored soldier-pile wall on the west side of RampAand U.S. 19; and a 570 foot long mechanically stabilized earth wall on the west side ofRamp B.The design included the abandonment of Dumas Street, one of the streets that formed

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HERRMANN TESTIFIES ON ECONOMIC GROWTH POTENTIAL OF INFRASTRUCTUREMt. Lebanon resident and National ASCE President-elect, Andrew

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including 2009 Report Card for Americaʼs Infrastructure grades of D- for Roads, C forBridges, and D for Transit, and advised committee members that the most important firststep in improving infrastructure and fostering employment and long-term economic growthwould be to pass a multi-year surface transportation authorization. Herrmann informed thecommittee that the lack of a multi-year program is preventing states from planning for large-scale projects.“ASCE is concerned with the increasing deterioration of Americaʼs

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AASHTO's ALTERNATIVES FOR FUNDING INFRASTRUCTUREBy Nat Hayes

With little progress in Washington,D.C. and Harrisburg to developsolutions to the urgent need fortransportation funding, the AmericanAssociation of State Highway andTransportation Officials (AASHTO) hasrecently published a conference reportof a forum they held in Washington D.C. last September. The forum,titled Funding and Financing Solutions for Surface Transportation in theComing Decade, was convened to discuss surface transportationfunding and financing programs at all levels of government: quantifyingcurrent funding gaps, sharing lessons learned and determining what canwork for the future.The broad conclusions of the forum are there is no shortage of optionsfor infrastructure funding and financing to federal, state and localgovernments; and, government and private industry must continue toeducate Congress by providing case studies on innovative, real-lifeexamples of alternative infrastructure financing.Examples of alternatives discussed are:• conversion of the current volume-based excise tax on gasoline to asales tax levied proportionately to the price of fuel;

• more efficient use of Federal-aid highway apportionments toleverage every dollar of Federal investment;

• value capture-based public-private partnerships;• use of the tax code to accelerate financing of transportationinvestment; and

• expansion of existing programs such as the TransportationInfrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA), which providesfederal assistance to surface transportation projects of national orregional significance.

The latter conclusion is especially important to Pennsylvania, as manyCounty and Municipal governments do not have the engineering supportor the financial ability to compete for federal and state infrastructurefunding. As more local and state governments reach their limits forborrowing or existing taxes and fees, the need for creative andinnovative infrastructure funding and financing strategies becomenecessary.I urge members of the Pittsburgh Section of ASCE, to provide ourunique perspective to our local and state legislators for viable solutionsto the neglect of our infrastructure.For additional information on the current conditions of our infrastructurein Pennsylvania, visit http://www.pareportcard.org. To read the AASHTOreport and review many of the alternative funding and financing optionsdiscussed at the forum, visit http://www.transportation-finance.org.

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IN THIS ISSUE

«FIRST» «LAST»«Title»«Company»«Street»«Street2»«CSZ»

ASCE Awards Banquet...........................................1

Engineer of the Year ..............................................1

Young Civil Engineer of the Year ...........................2

ASCE Distinguished Civil Engineer..........................2

Government Engineer of the Year .........................2

Professor of the Year ............................................3

Service to the People Award..................................3

Journalism Award.................................................3

Award of Merit .....................................................4

Civil Engineering Achievement Award ....................4

ASCE Employer Recognition Award ........................5

Herrmann Testifies on Economic GrowthPotential of Infrastructure.....................................5

AASHTO’s Alternatives forFunding Infrastructure..........................................6

Marcellus Shale Drilling Event ProvidesSolutions for Environmental Impact.......................7

Hydrologic Engineering Center Announcement.......7


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