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PEOPLE ON THE MOVE:
Maria Lehman: Get to know new ASCE President-Elect!
In May 2021, the Members of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) voted Maria C. Lehman, P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, into the position of 2022 President-Elect during the ASCE 2021 election. Her presidential role will mark her fifth stint on the ASCE Board of Direction: She currently serves as the Treasurer; was Assistant Treasurer from 2018-2020; Vice President-Zone 1 from 2001-2003; and Director-District 1 from 1993-1996. Also a member of ASCE’s Industry Leaders Council, Lehman has many past ASCE commitments, including three years on the Environmental and Water Resources Institute board of governors, serving a second term on the Committee on America’s Infrastructure, a variety of other Society-level committees, and five years of officer service to the Buffalo Section.
Lehman has nearly four decades of multidisciplinary experience in transportation and facilities engineering, including her current position as the Director of U.S. infrastructure for GHD; leadership roles and terms as Chief Operations Officer at Parsons; and interim Executive Director for the New York State Thruway Authority.
Lehman said, “It’s an honor to represent ASCE and the civil engineering profession as the Society President. And I look forward to the challenge. I’ve made a lifelong commitment to ASCE and been involved in a lot of things over a lot of time. So I feel I have an interesting voice to add – to be able to right some of the wrongs in the profession right now and really set us up to be the leaders that we’re meant to be.”
She will take on the role of President-Elect during the Society’s annual business meeting in October—part of the ASCE 2021 Convention. In October 2022, she will take the Society reins as President for 2023.
Lehman’s answers to questions in annual “get to know your new president-elect” interview by Civil Engineering Source:
Civil Engineering Source: Of what are you most proud in your career?
Maria Lehman: Being able to deliver complex mega-projects on tight schedules that really impact a region. The keys to success on these projects have to do with very careful early project planning, extensive project stakeholder engagement, and environmental risk management … the master key to success.
Source: What sparked your interest in civil engineering?
Lehman: I attended a very blue-collar high school in Cheektowaga, NY, where only about 10% of the graduates went on to college. Most of us ended up in STEM fields, as the head of the math department, Mr. Thomas LaPena, was an incredible teacher and mentor. His pre-AP calculus class had a real focus on engineering, but he told us that while he wanted us to love calculus like he did (read calculus books for leisure). Every day of my professional career, I think about the class motto he impressed upon us: ‘cogitation and tenacity’. Civil engineering: While in high school, I started dating Carl—he was a civil engineering freshman at Univ. at Buffalo (UB). I also became a civil engineer and the rest is history—we have been married for 41 years!
Source: What is your favorite civil engineering landmark?
Lehman: Machu Picchu is an amazing international landmark and the ASCE landmark plaque is in an area near the fairly touristy entrance. As soon as you pass the plaque, you turn a corner on a narrow path, and the entire site opens up in front of you—it is a sacred place! The engineering that was done on top of a mountain hundreds of years ago is phenomenal. We took Steven Wright’s book with us and looked at all the engineering elements—adding to items in the guided tour.
Source: One thing ASCE members would be surprised to learn about you?
Lehman: That I have a minor in art and love to paint in acrylics. That I am an avid photographer, and love to do many different media things like silk painting, stained glass, ceramics, jewelry, woodcraft. I just don’t have enough hours in a day to do many of those things currently, but I am looking forward to getting back to them. I do lots of crafts with my granddaughters. … I am a left-right brain argument!
More details and information, please go to the ASCE Civil Engineering Source Society News Page: www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2021/09/01/get-to-know-your-new-president-elect-maria-lehman
CO/WY-ACPA Chapter Attends NASAO Convention in Colorado Springs, CO
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September 12-15, 2021, the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter-ACPA (CO/WY Chapter-ACPA) staff represented the concrete pavement industry at the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) Convention in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Angela Folkestad, Executive Director-CO/WY-ACPA, and Sarah Sanders, Pavement Engineer-CO/WY-ACPA had the opportunity to discuss concrete pavement solutions with nationwide DOT aviation directors and engineering consultants. They talked about
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Concrete Overlays
• Changes to the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) construction specifications that have allowed for additional cement types to be used, including Portland Limestone Cement (PLC)
CP Tech Center Welcomes New Associate Director John Adam
John Adam, PE (Iowa), Program Manager–Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center) and Lab Director-Portland Cement Concrete (PCC), has been selected as the CP Tech Center‘s newest Associate Director to manage multifaceted, multiyear research projects from inception through final deliverables. He will also provide technical assistance to paving professionals and presentations to stakeholders toward the goal of further advancing concrete pavement design, construction, and maintenance.
Adam joined the CP Tech Center in 2018 after 33 years with the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT), most recently as Highway Division Director and Chief Engineer, and earlier as Director-Statewide Operations Bureau, after 6 years in industry as Senior Vice President-Knight Engineering.
Meet the New CPTech Executive Board Member John Becker
The CP Tech Center‘s Executive Board of Directors has a new Board member, John M. Becker, PE-North Carolina and Pennsylvania, President-ACPA Pennsylvania Chapter (ACPA/PA) has extensive concrete paving knowledge, experience, and contacts across both agency and industry. During the past 21 years, Becker has represented the concrete pavement industry in Pennsylvania. Previously, Becker served the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for 16 years, 5 as a member of the Pavement Division Concrete Team. Becker is a past president of the Harrisburg section of the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE). He earned his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois.
John and the organization he leads are passionate about providing technical, educational, and promotional assistance to their local cement and concrete paving industries and about the longer life pavement that quality concrete paving provides—as demonstrated every year by ACPA/PA’s Annual Concrete Conference. The CP Tech Center is pleased John Becker has joined its executive board!
ACPA In-Person Mid-Year Chapter-State Meeting:
Sustainability, Resiliency, & FHWA
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The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) Chapter State Meeting: Sustainability was held the week of September 20, 2021. The Chapter-State Executives met at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. The meeting featured a variety of topics including several topics on Sustainability, Resiliency, and FHWA.
As part of the Sustainability presentations, three new case studies, as well as three new videos on resiliency, were presented by Scott Mueller. These will be posted on the website in the upcoming week. The Chapter State Meeting had attendees from 11 Chapters/States, National Staff, as well as IGGA and the CP Tech Center. For more information, please go to: www.acpa.org/association-news/29887/
CPTech & ACPA Leaders in PennDOT Pavements Industry Meeting: “Long-Life, Maintenance & Strategies”
Week of September 20, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) hosted a meeting with concrete and asphalt industry stakeholders to discuss long-life pavements, associated maintenance cycles, and strategies. John Becker, President-ACPA/PA, led the concrete pavement industry’s presentation with the TEAM who included: David Sciullo, Golden Triangle Construction and Member-ACPA’s Board of Directors; Rich Jucha, ACPA/PA; Peter Taylor, CP Tech Center; and Eric Ferrebee, Director of Technical Services–ACPA. The presentation was on design strategies for a 60-year, long-life concrete pavement. It included highlights of performance engineered mixture (PEM) efforts to address durability issues utilizing Pavement ME’s performance analysis to highlight the proposed design with a minimalistic maintenance and rehabilitation schedule that only utilizes concrete CPR techniques.
Ferrebee assisted Becker with:
• Development of Pavement ME designs
• Associated maintenance and rehabilitation schedule
• Participation in PennDOT Meeting-Discussed merits of the proposed design
The TEAM will be following up with PennDOT to provide further evidence to support the proposed design and maintenance and rehabilitation schedule.
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) Seeks a New Executive Director
Working at MIT offers opportunities, an environment, a culture – and benefits – that just aren’t found together anywhere else. If you’re curious, motivated, want to be part of a unique community, and help shape the future – then take a look at this opportunity.
Jeremy Gregory, Former Executive Director, has moved to Director of the newly formed MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, therefore The MIT CSHub seeks a Executive Director – Principal Research Scientist. Working at MIT offers opportunities, an environment, a culture – and benefits – that just aren’t found together anywhere else. If you’re curious, motivated, want to be part of a unique community, and help shape the future – then take a look at this opportunity…
The Executive Director-Principal Research Scientist will:
• Develop and implement a strategic vision to enhance sustainability and resilience in the concrete industry
• Promote innovation and ensuring maximum impact of CSHub products
• Help advance industry research
• Help develop quantitative sustainability and resilience solutions using an array of advanced techniques, including crowdsourced data acquisition and analytics, deep learning, large-scale modern simulation approaches, and multi-scale experimental techniques
• Lead these team efforts and develop—with faculty and industry partners
—strategic goals
—roadmaps
—research
—educational initiatives
—implementation portfolios
—methods for achieving them
• Be responsible for
—research direction
—resource management
—fostering student engagement and advising
—creating communication and outreach strategies that broaden CSHub’s impact
—convey its research to key audiences
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
REQUIRED:
• Ph.D. in materials-and-structures-related science or engineering field
• track record of scholarly activity in the area of mechanics and materials
• 5 years related experience in academia/industry and record of scholarship and/or industry leadership, preferably in materials science and engineering, sustainability, resilience, industrial ecology, or similar field
• experience managing research teams in academia/industry
• proven consulting skills
• ability to coordinate, manage, and conduct research within the CSHub and CEE and MIT communities
• strong record of publications and presentations at scientific meetings and impact on the international research community
• ability to manage multiple objectives/tasks and meet competing deadlines
• excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills
• engineering background in research and/or design
PREFERRED:
• work experience with large academic-industry projects
• ability to interact with research sponsors, media, etc.
Job #: 19865
Functional Area: Academic (non-faculty)
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
School Area: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time
Please APPLY TO THIS POSITION on the MIT HR website: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/en-us/gateway/viewFromLink.html?jobPostId=21066&localeCode=en-us&referralCode=56754-35077-41236
More information on MIT website: https://cshub.mit.edu/careers-mit-cshub?utm_source=CP+Tech+Center&utm_campaign=809560c955-RESOURCES+Newsletter+March–April+2021_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_07a32343e1-809560c955-169971045