Emeritus Members

Dr. Agardy is the president of Forensic Management Associates, Inc. and past president of Thermatrix, Inc. and the URS Corporation. In 2005, Dr. Agardy received the UC Berkeley's College of Engineering's Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award for life-time engineering achievements and public service.

Dr. Becker is the Corporate Senior Vice President of Skanska USA Building where he provides leadership in virtual design and construction operations as well as in the company's innovation grant program. Dr. Becker's projects have been awarded the national AGC Build America Award, one of the highest honors bestowed by the construction industry.

Mr. Bell is the CEO of Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, a national consulting firm based in Waltham, Mass. He served on the SGH team that investigated the WTC collapse for NIST, worked with Stephen Holl on MIT's Simmons Hall, and helped establish the ASCE's Technical Council on Forensic Engineering.

Dr. Berkowitz is a chemist who has consulted on the space program as well as on environmental matters, specifically hazardous waste. She was the first female president of The Electrochemical Society, and is the former CEO of Risk Science International.

Ms. Bice is a Vice President at Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm with offices throughout the United States and abroad. She manages Geosyntec’s San Francisco Bay Area operations, has served on the firm’s Board of Directors, and is the firm’s Diversity Leader. She is a practicing Engineering Geologist, with 35 years of experience in the environmental remediation field.

Dr. Bonaparte is the President and CEO of Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm with offices throughout the United States and abroad. He has been named the Engineer of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Professional Engineering Societies. Dr. Bonaparte was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

Mr. Gilbert was President of PBQ&D Inc., the western lead subsidiary of PB Inc., as well as a Partner and Sr. Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. Mr. Gilbert has received the ASCE Rickey Medal and the Construction Management Award, and in 1997, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1998 he received the UC Berkeley's College of Engineering's Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award.

Ellen Greenberg leads Caltrans' work in advancing zero emission vehicles, reducing vehicle miles traveled, and progressing toward transportation equity. She has over 30 years’ experience working with cities, transportation agencies and non-governmental organizations to guide transportation, development, and conservation decisions. Prior to joining Caltrans, Ellen was a Principal at Arup, working in SF and London on major urban planning and infrastructure projects. Ellen is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Mr. Herson was CEO and President of EMCON Associates, a NASDAQ-listed environmental engineering and construction company. In 2003, he received the UC Berkeley's College of Engineering's Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award for life-time engineering achievements and public service.

In 1978, Dr. van Hoften was selected to be part of the first dedicated Space Shuttle astronaut group. He flew on Space Shuttle flights in 1984 and 1985. He joined Bechtel Corporation in 1986 and currently serves as a consultant for the company. Dr. van Hoften was awarded the ASCE's President's Medal, and was recognized as an outstanding alumnus of UC Berkeley. He serves as a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation.

Dr. Hubbard has made seminal contributions to the understanding of terrestrial system functioning, with a focus on the use of geophysical methods for shallow subsurface characterization and monitoring and the use of integrated datasets to investigate environmental problems. She is the author or coauthor of more than 100 published papers. Since 2007, Dr. Hubbard has served as an Associate Director of the Berkeley Water Center. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Dr. Kavanaugh is a Principal of Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm with offices throughout the United States and abroad. For his contributions to water quality and hazardous waste management, Dr. Kavanaugh was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Ms. Labonte is a Senior Vice President at HDR, an employee-owned engineering and architecture firm with 200 offices around the globe. During her career, she has led the implementation of water infrastructure programs valued at more than $20 billion, including some of the largest and most complex programs in North America. In 2013, the American Society of Civil Engineers recognized Julie with the Government Engineer of the Year in the U.S. Award. She is a past national board member of the Construction Management Association of America. As part of Water For People, she has led multiple teams of technical volunteers in Africa.

Mr. Lin was a Vice President and Division Manager of Watkins Johnson, where he managed operations and taught management courses for technical personnel. He also served as Dean of the Technology Division of the College of San Mateo and was a founder of a joint-venture real estate development project with an engineering and architecture university in China. He served as director of the T.Y. Lin Foundation.

Dr. Love is the Chair of CEE at the University of Michigan. Her research is in the area of environmental biotechnology, where she studies biological processes in environmental engineering and science with a focus on engineering wastewater treatment systems and environmental health applications. In 2006, she received the Virginia Tech Dept. of CEE Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. She was a NSF CAREER Award recipient in 1995.

Professor Luthy is the Silas H. Palmer Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He served as Chair of Stanford CEE from 2003-2009. Professor Luthy teaches in the area of environmental engineering and water quality, with a focus on physiochemical processes and applied aquatic chemistry with application to waste reduction and treatment, and remediation of contaminated soil and sediment. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is the former chair of the National Research C ouncil's Water Science and Technology Board.

Professor Monismith is the former chair of Stanford University's Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. He is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering. His current research includes studies of estuarine hydrodynamics and mixing processes, flows over coral reefs and on the inner shelf, turbulence in density stratified fluids, and physical-biological interactions in phytoplankton and benthic systems.

Dr. Nader is a Vice President at TY Lin International and is their Bridge Technical Director. With over 25 years of experience in long span bridge design, he the Project Manager for the SF Oakland Bay Bridge Self Anchored Suspension Bridge. He serves as chair of the Cable Supported Bridges ASCE Committee and is a member of the TRB Steel Bridge Committee. Dr. Nader is the 2004 recipient of the Arthur M. Wellington ASCE award.

Dr. Nickell is a technical expert in the nuclear power field. His company, Applied Science and Technology of Poway, CA, specializes in life-cycle management relating to license renewal issues relating to nuclear generating plants. He is the past president and current Fellow of ASME and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

Mr. Schirmer is the President of Transnational Associates, Inc. He has had an extensive international civil engineering career having worked in over 65 countries on major infrastructure, industrial, building and environmental projects. He is a Director of MKC Global Protection, Inc., which specializes in risk analysis, and a Director of Toward Zero.org, a non-profit focused on creating net zero energy communities in the US and oversees. He is a Past International Director, Fellow and Life Member of ASCE.

Ms. Sridharan co-founded NextDrop, Inc., an organization that sends text message alerts to notify people in India with the date and time fresh water will be piped to their area—a critical service in an area where water supply is erratic. She also served as the Education and Health director for a water/sanitation project in the slums of Mumbai, India called "Haath Mein Sehat". In 2012, she was selected to the Forbes "30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30" list for her work with NextDrop.

Shane is the President of Trussell Technologies, Inc. with more than 25 years of experience, a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley studying membrane bioreactors, an M.S. from UCLA, and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Riverside. Shane has authored more than 60 publications and is a registered professional engineer in California. Shane is passionate about finding elegant and simple solutions to the complex challenges facing utilities with climate change threatening our water quality and supply. Shane has been involved in the planning, design, permitting, operation and optimization of indirect and direct potable reuse projects. He has also served as the Principal Investigator on research projects that developed critical information to fill important data gaps that supported the development of potable reuse regulations (both surface water and direct) in California.

Dr. Trussell is the founder of Trussell Technologies, Inc. He is an authority in methods and Criteria for Water Quality and in the development of advanced processes for treating water or wastewater to achieve the highest standards. Dr. Trussell served on the EPA's Science Advisory Board, and serves on the Membership Committee for the National Academy of Engineering, and as Chair of the Water Science and Technology Board for the National Academies. In 2010, he was awarded the A.P. Black Award from the American Water Works Association.

Mr. Wadell founded Wadell Engineering Corporation in 1973. Wadell Engineering Corporation's practice is limited to full service airport consulting including site selection, master planning, environmental, design, and construction management. WEC has projects in India, and across the Pacific and the United States. Mr. Wadell is a Fellow and Life Member of ASCE and recipient of the ASCE Edmund Friedman Award.

Dr. Wood is the Chair of the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research areas are the design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures, the evaluation of existing structures, and earthquake engineering.

Mr. Yanev co-founded EQE International, a company that pioneered many of the techniques now used in earthquake engineering. Currently he is involved with earthquake engineering projects for the World Bank, and serves on the councils of several consulting engineering companies.