Geotechnical News September 2011
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GEO-INSTITUTE NEWS
Members in the News
Gouda Inducted as Maser
Consulting Shareholder
Moustafa A. Gouda., P.E., D.GE,
F.ASCE
, was recently inducted as
a shareholder at Maser Consulting
of Red Bank, NJ. Maser is a leading
multidiscipline
civil
engineering
company with regional offices in NJ,
NY, and PA. Gouda is a principal
and director of the Geotechnical /
Environmental Services of the firm
and has been practicing geotechnical
and environmental engineering in the
U.S. since 1970. As the director, he
is responsible for all geotechnical and
environmental engineering work from
the preliminary planning phase through
consultation
during
construction
of foundations and earth work for
structures and the remediation of
environmentally-impacted sites. Gouda
has been very active in ASCE and the
Geo-Institute as a past ASCE Board
of Direction member, ASCE treasurer,
and a Geo-Institute Board governor.
Mouradian is Geotechnical
Engineer of the Year
Ara G. Mouradian. P.E., M.ASCE, was
cited as the Philadelphia Section of the
ASCE 2011 Geotechnical Engineer of
the Year. This award was presented
to Mouradian at the Section’s annual
Spring Social and Dinner Dance on
May 13, 2011.
Mouradian serves as a senior as-
sociate and geotechnical department
manager at Gannett Fleming’s office
in Valley Forge, PA. He has been
with Gannett for the past 11years, and
serves as vice president of Quantum
Geophysics, a division of Gannett.
Mouradian has been involved in the
geotechnical design of multimillion
dollar transit and rail, Department of
Transportation, and vital infrastructure
projects, both locally and nationally,
including local projects such as the
Jenkintown Regional Rail station
reconstruction, PennDOT’s District 6
bridge replacement program, and the
Pennsylvania Turnpike-I-95 inter-
change.
He earned his bachelor’s degree
in civil engineering at the American
University of Beirut in 1984, and a
master’s degree from Concordia Uni-
versity in Montreal in 1993. He has
also completed several doctorate-level
courses at McGill University in Mon-
treal and serves as the chair of the Sec-
tion’s Delaware Valley Geo-Institute.
Turner Joins Dan Brown and
Associates
John P. Turner, Ph.D. P.E., M.ASCE
,
recently joined Dan Brown and
Associates, PC as a senior principal.
Turner
is
Professor
Emeritus,
University of Wyoming, where he
spent the past 25 years teaching and
conducting geotechnical engineering
research. He has undergraduate degrees
in geology and civil engineering and
earned his doctorate in geotechnical
engineering from Cornell University.
He is a co-author of the 2010 FHWA
manual “Drilled Shafts: Construction
Procedures and LRFD Design
Methods” and the author of NCHRP
Synthesis 360, “Rock-Socketed Shafts
for Highway Structure Foundations”,
as well as more than 100 technical
publications on the topics of deep
foundations, earth retention, and
landslide stabilization. Early in his
career, Turner was an engineering
geologist with Herbert and Associates
and he maintained his involvement in
consulting throughout his academic
career. Recent projects include design
of rock-socketed drilled shafts for
bridges at Pitkins Curve in Big Sur
and the Antlers Bridge on I-5 in
northern California. He has maintained
membership in ASCE for more than
30 years and is a past chairman of the
Committee on Deep Foundations. He
also is a recipient of the President’s
Award and the Distinguished Service
Award from the ADSC: International
Association of Foundation Drilling.
Moustafa A. Gouda.
Ara G. Mouradian.
John P. Turner.
