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Geotechnical News March 2011
GEO-INSTITUTE NEWS
his work on pile foundation analysis
and design which has been applied to
some of the world’s tallest structures.
Sture was elected for his acknowl-
edged eminence in the fields of frac-
ture mechanics, constitutive modeling
of cementitious composites and geo-
mechanics, and non-linear analysis
and computational techniques related
to granular materials and soil-structure
interaction; and for an exemplary ca-
reer as an educator.
Stanphill Promoted to
President
Dean Stanphill, P.E., G.E., was
promoted to President/CEO of GCE
Environmental. With offices inPortland
OR, Reno NV, and Anaheim CA, GCE
is a leader in the biogas conversion
to energy industry and has worked on
projects worldwide. His role with the
firm will continue to include promoting
GCE’s renewable energy division,
as well as its environmental and
geotechnical departments. Stanphill
also is a member of the Nevada
Renewable Energy Coalition and
president of the Great Basin Chapter of
the Solid Waste Association of North
America. Richard Prosser, founder of
GCE, will serve as Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
Lee Abramson and Jon Stewart
Elected ASCE Fellows
Lee W. Abramson, P.E., D.GE,
F.ASCE and Jonathan P. Stewart,
Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
were recently
elected ASCE Fellows – the Society’s
second-highest membership grade,
exceeded only by distinguished
members.
Abramson,
currently pursuing a
doctorate in civil engineering at the
Colorado School of Mines, is an ex-
ecutive vice president for Hatch Mott
MacDonald. He has held numerous
positions in the public works consult-
ing and architectural and engineering
fields throughout the past 30 years and
has had numerous supervisory respon-
sibilities for more than 150 engineers,
designers, and technicians. The author
of numerous articles and books, he also
has assisted in the preparation of tun-
neling, slope stability, ground improve-
ment, microtunneling, and tunnel reha-
bilitation manuals and seminars.
Stewart
is a professor of civil engi-
neering and vice-chairman for graduate
studies in the civil and environmental
engineering department at the Univer-
sity of California at Los Angeles. His
research interests are in geotechnical
earthquake engineering, with empha-
sis on seismic soil-structure interac-
tion, the engineering characterization
of earthquake ground motions, seismic
compression of unsaturated soils, and
ground failure in saturated soils with
marginal plasticity. The results of the
work done by his research group are
widely used in engineering practice.
Stewart has been the editor in chief of
ASCE’s Journal of Geotechnical and
Geoenvironmental Engineering
since
2007, and has won numerous awards
including ASCE’s Arthur Casagrande
Award and Walter L. Huber Civil En-
gineering Research Prize.
Editor
Linda R. Bayer, IOM, Manager
Geo-Institute of ASCE
1801 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, VA 20190-6162
Tel: 703-295-6162
Fax: 703-295-6351
email:lbayer@asce.org
Harry Poulos.
Stein Sture.
Dean Stanphill.
