Presented By:University of Maryland ASCE

November 13, 2021

A. James Clark School ofEngineering

College Park, MD

Min Wu, the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs and Programs, said it best, “TheClark School is about innovation — pushing boundaries of what was possible andturning the previously impossible and unthinkable into reality.” Offering full-timeundergraduate programs in eleven engineering disciplines and full-time graduateprograms for students pursuing a Master of Science, Master of Engineering, and

Doctor of Philosophy degrees, the Clark School prioritizes hands-on training, helpingstudents turn their ideas into engineered realities. With the help of skilled,

experienced faculty, the Clark School produces trailblazing graduates who areactively working towards a better world.

ASCE Region 2Board of Governors

Central PA, Delaware, Lehigh Valley, Maryland, National Capital, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh

Jack A. Raudenbush, P.E., M.ASCE

Jack is a Senior Vice President at Navarro and Wright and is aProfessional Engineer in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, NorthCarolina, Virginia, Alabama, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District ofColumbia. He earned a BS degree from Penn State University. He is aPast President of the Central PA Section.

Region 2 Director:

Gregory J. Kuklinski, P.E., M.ASCERegion 2 Director and Leadership Training Committee Speaker:

Greg received his BS Degree in Civil Engineering from LehighUniversity in 1998 with 20 years of experience in the Transportationfield and is a registered Professional Engineer in PA. Greg is a ProjectManager at Alfred Benesch & Company in Allentown, PA where hehas worked since 2000 as a structural engineer where he managesvarious bridge and P3 projects for state and local agencies includingPENNDOT, Northampton and Lehigh Counties. Greg has served onvarious Society committees including the Committee on YoungerMembers (CYM), Committee on Geographic Units (CGU) and mostrecently the Leader Training Committee (LTC) all from 2006-2020.His primary responsibilities on those committees was planning thePresidents and Governors Forum and assisting with the planning ofthe Region 1, 2, 4 and 5 Multi-Regional Leadership Conference. Hehas served in various roles on the Lehigh Valley Section Board sincegraduation including Associate Member Director and Secretary.Greg is currently the Practitioner Advisor for the Lehigh UniversityStudent Chapter, a Region 2 Governor, a Corresponding Member onthe Leader Training Committee and a Member on the TaskCommittee for Geographic Assessment of Programs and Support.

ASCE Region 2Board of Governors

Central PA, Delaware, Lehigh Valley, Maryland, National Capital, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh

Carrie Nicholson, P.E., M.ASCE

Carrie earned her B.S. degree in civil engineering from LehighUniversity and she has master's degrees in both engineering andbusiness administration. She is President of Accurate InfrastructureData, Inc. based in Baltimore, Maryland. Carrie is a Past President ofthe Maryland Section and, at the Society level, is a member of thePublic Policy & Practice Committee.

Region 2 Governor:

Joseph Natale, P.E., M.ASCERegion 2 Governor:

Joe received his Bachelors and Masters of Civil Engineering at theUniversity of Delaware in 2008 and 2013. He is a Senior ProjectImplementation Engineer at DVRPC and has 12 years of experience asa civil engineer in the Pennsylvania and Delaware transportationindustries. Joe is the Treasurer for the Philadelphia Section and alsoserves on the Philadelphia Younger Member Forum. In his spare time,Joe is a photographer, woodworking, computer programmer, andmost importantly a doggy daddy.

Angela received her B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from WestVirginia University. She is currently an Asset Integrity Engineer atWilliams Companies North East Headquarters which is located inPittsburgh, PA. At the society level, she has been an active membersince graduating college and has served as a Pittsburgh SectionDirector and YMF President. Her main focus during her time as aGovernor is student engagement.

Region 2 Governor:Angela Mayer, E.I.T., AM.ASCE

ASCE Region 2Board of Governors

Central PA, Delaware, Lehigh Valley, Maryland, National Capital, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh

Patrick Sullivan, P.E., M.ASCE

Principal Civil/Geotechnical Engineer possessing 30 years ofexperience; involved with numerous geotechnical, environmentaland civil engineering projects in both the private and public sector.Specializes in the management and design of geotechnical and civilprojects and the quality assurance responsibilities associated withconstruction. Pat received a BS in Civil Engineering from theUniversity of Pittsburgh. He is a Past President of the PittsburghSection.

Region 2 Governor:

Lauren Dziagwa, P.E., M.ASCERegion 2 Younger Member Representative:Lauren is a 2012 graduate from the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown where she received her B.S. in Civil EngineeringTechnology. She is a geotechnical project engineer at AmericanGeotechnical and Environmental Services, Inc. (AGES). Lauren iscurrently a Pittsburgh Section Director and a former PittsburghSection YMF President.

Joe Platt, P.E., M.ASCERegion 2 Governor:

Joseph Platt graduated from Widener University with a B.S. in CivilEngineering. He has worked at Traffic Planning and Design, Inc. since2001 and is currently the Vice President of Traffic Engineering. Mr.Platt has been very involved in ASCE since college. He was thePresident of the Philadelphia YMF from 2007-2008 and thePresident of the Philadelphia section from 2014-2015. Additionally,he was the co-chair of the Eastern Region Younger Member Councilin 2008.

ASCE 2022 PresidentDennis Truax

Dennis D. Truax is professor emeritus of the Richard A. Rula School of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at Mississippi State University. During his 41 years, he served as school director,department head, and professor. He held the James T. White endowed chair for 15 years and wasdirector or co-director of the Mississippi Transportation Research Institute for 13 years.

Truax is a licensed professional engineer and holds national certifications as an environmentalengineer from the American Academy of Environmental Engineering and Scientists and as a waterresources engineer with American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. As a consultingengineer, he has worked on environmental and water resource management systems throughoutthe world, including the design of over 550 water and wastewater treatments systems.

He was elected fellow of ASCE in 1999 and fellow of the National Society of Professional Engineersin 2016. He is a chapter honor member of the Mississippi State University Chapter of Chi Epsilon.He received the 2020 Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award and the 2018 NCEESDistinguished Service Award. Recently, he was the 2020 ASCE Region 5 Wall of Fame Inductee andin 2021 was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of the Charles E. Via, Jr.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.

ASCE 2022 President Cont.Dennis Truax

He served on the ASCE Board of Direction, chaired numerous committees and task forces relatedto Society organization, student activities, diversity, professional development, and technicaladvancement. He was faculty advisor to the Mississippi State ASCE Student Chapter for 26 yearsand was the charter faculty advisor for the Mississippi State Chapter of Engineers without Bordershaving worked with that group for 11 years. He holds or has held national leadership positions andcommittee appointments with National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, NSPE,and the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. He just completed his 13th year onMississippi’s Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Surveyors, having served as boardpresident twice, and served 12 years on the state’s Onsite Wastewater Advisory Council as chair formost of that time.

During his academic career, he has published over 120 refereed and reference papers and reportand made almost 170 papers and poster presentations. Dr. Truax research areas includedwastewater treatment, process optimization, management of organic and inorganic hazardouswastes, and modeling of surface waters for TMDL determination. His other areas of researchrelated to transportation and construction engineering and included delineation of roadwaysystems and NEPA compliance for highways using remotely-sense data, modeling of highwayevacuation strategies, predicting pavement performance, evaluating resources and their allocationin the management of waterways, and comparing the economics of transportation managementalternatives.

Professionally, he has worked on environmental and water resource management systemsthroughout the United States as well as Argentina, Canada, China, Mexico, Romania, Tanzania,Turkey and Venezuela. He has consulted for local and international engineering firms, smallmunicipalities and regional authorities, law firms, industry, and federal agencies. Technically, he hashelped design over 500 wastewater treatment plants world-wide. He was project engineer for thedesign, permitting, contract management, and construction of a regional solids wastemanagement system and has worked on almost a dozen county or regional solid wastemanagement plans. He has performed numerous Environmental Assessments, supervised theclean-up of several hazardous waste sites, and provided inspection for hazardous materialsmanagement systems throughout Mississippi.

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Dr. Natasha Andrade is the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs and a SeniorLecturer in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University ofMaryland College Park (UMD). She is passionate about teaching and teaches variousenvironmental engineering undergraduate courses and study abroad courses inIceland, Costa Rica, and Peru. Her research focuses on understanding howengineering students make sense of the interaction between technology, social issues,and designer responsibility. She also collaborates with other engineering faculty withinUMD and at other universities in a project to change the engineering curriculum tointroduce more environmental and social context to all engineering design.

Dr. Andrade is involved with several undergraduate students’ organizations, and she thrives in thisenvironment. Her discipline research revolves around mercury contamination of Amazon regions that weredeforested by small-scale and illegal gold mining. Another area of research is related to the production ofstabilized biosolids, focusing on its use as a fertilizer and its impact on environmental pollution concerningorganic contaminants. Outside of work, she enjoys rock climbing, nature, hiking, snorkeling, biking, anddancing.

Natasha Andrade

Jerry BuckwalterGerald (Jerry) Buckwalter is the chief innovation officer responsible for helping toshape the strategic direction of ASCE. Additionally, he oversees the Future WorldVision initiative, a forward-leaning strategic assessment and visualization projectwhere ASCE is creating a virtual and interactive computer model to assess potentialbuilt environments 50 years into the future. Jerry was formerly the ASCE ChiefOperating and Strategy Officer. With over 35 years of experience, he came to ASCEfrom Northrop Grumman, where he most recently served as director of corporatestrategy. Buckwalter earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from MonmouthUniversity and completed advanced coursework in technology systems at The George

Washington University and in international business management at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. He was the 2018 recipient of the ASCE William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award andwas an Engineering News-Record Top 25 Newsmaker in 2019.

John Johnson serves as the Assistant Director at the University of Maryland, CollegePark, Project Management Center for Excellence. He leads the initiatives that helpgrow the Project Management Center for Excellence across its three pillars:Academic Excellence, Outreach and Professional Development, and Research. He isprimarily responsible for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program, whichcurrently is educating over 250,000 enrolled learners across the world. Mr. Johnsonalso teaches graduate courses on Agile and Predictive management at the Universityof Maryland’s Project Management Program.

John Johnson

Hannah ClarkOriginally from Northern Virginia, Hannah is a Manager for the Geographic ServicesDepartment. Having been with ASCE since 2015, she primarily works on content andA/V coordination for the Multi Region Leadership Conferences, the Presidents andGovernors Forum and Leader Orientation. She also manages the Leader TrainingCommittee(LTC) website, acts as a Staff Contact for the Drupal website program forSections and Branches and presents with members of the LTC at Region Assembliesand Institute Summits. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University inRichmond, VA where she received her B.S. in Psychology and serves as Co-Chair of

the ASCE Staff Culture Committee and is a founding member of the ASCE Staff Health & Wellness Committee.

Carol MartsolfCarol Martsolf, PE, PMP, CPTD, LEED AP, M.ASCE is Vice President and Chief LearningOfficer for Urban Engineers, Inc. (Urban Training Institute). A graduate of TempleUniversity and a Professional Engineer with 27 years of experience, Ms. Martsolf hasutilized her technical expertise and career knowledge to create the Urban TrainingInstitute and develop dynamic training programs. Under her leadership, the Institutequickly evolved into an award-winning and highly-respected institution. She is aformer President of the ASCE Philadelphia Section, past Region 2 Governor, and

Chair of MOSAIC. She has developed and executed various extensive leadership and project managementprograms for Urban Engineers, SEPTA, Amtrak, the Philadelphia Streets Department, PhiladelphiaInternational Airport, PennDOT, and other clients, to help them achieve organizational strategic goals andenhance leadership growth and development.

Deb Niemeier

Deb Niemeier is the Clark Distinguished Chair in Energy and Sustainability at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park and serves as a professor in the Dept. of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering. She has extensive expertise in understanding the spatialproperties of mobile source emissions, developing new methods for improving vehicleemissions inventories, and accelerating the implementation of regulatory guidance tobetter identify vulnerable populations and environmental health disparities. Herresearch is currently focused on understanding infrastructure features that give rise toinequitable outcomes in the built environment, particularly with the onset of climate

change. In 2014, Niemeier was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) for “distinguished contributions to energy and environmental science study and policy development.”In 2015, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for foundational work on pro bono service in engineering. In2017, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Niemeier received a B.S. in civil engineeringfrom the University of Texas (1982), her M.S. from the University of Maine and a Ph.D. in civil engineeringfrom the University of Washington (1994).

Interim Chair and the Ben Dyer Professor in the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD), Dr. Alba Torrents hasmore than 30 years of research assessing the fate and transport of pollutants in theenvironment and best practices for soil remediation. Her work combines fieldobservations and case studies to link scientific and engineering principles toengineering practice. Her group is also part of a team evaluating the use of biosolidsand compost for onsite remediation at two superfunds sites. Her role as an educator is

Dr. Alba Torrents

to facilitate learning by creating experiences where scientific principles can be appliedto effectively address current and future environmental issues. In her spared time sheenjoys gardening, cooking, and traveling.

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"Thank you for joining us for the 2021 Region 2 Assembly! We look

forward to building a sustainable future with you!"

- UMD ASCE Executive Board