DEPARTMENT NEWS
Grad program listed in latest U.S. News ranking
The 2010 edition of the U.S. News and World Report “Best Graduate Schools” included several college programs. Among them, environmental engineering tied for 13th, while the College of Engineering ranked 16th overall. Not all programs are ranked every year.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) elected Professor Teresa Adams a fellow of the society. Adams directs the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE), a national transportation research center on the UW-Madison campus. Her research interests include infrastructure asset management, geographic information systems in transportation, location referencing systems, spatial/temporal data modeling for transportation, and bridge management. Also, the ASCE Technical Council on Computing & Information Technology selected Adams to receive the 2009 Computing in Civil Engineering Award. Council members cite Adams’ contributions to computing in civil engineering and, in particular, to position-based information to model transportation facilities and systems. Adams accepted the award during the council workshop, June 24-27, in Austin, Texas.
In 2009, Professor Emeritus Thomas Lillesand became the next Honorary Member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The honor is the highest award an ASPRS member can receive; there are only 25 living honorary members at any given time. Lillesand has directed the Environmental Remote Sensing Center, chaired the Environmental Monitoring Graduate Program, taught numerous courses, advised 76 graduate students, and authored more than 200 professional publications. His highly interdisciplinary research has spanned from statewide and regional land cover classification and change detection to applications of remote sensing in forestry, agriculture, civil engineering, long-term ecosystem science, climate change, and water resources management. Lillesand retired from UW-Madison in 2006.
A Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies evaluation committee unanimously selected Professor Ken Potter as the next Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor. The Nelson professorship is named for one of the great champions of environmental stewardship not only in Wisconsin history, but also in national history. In addition to his role in civil and environmental engineering, Potter also is active in the Nelson Institute and chairs its Water Resources Management Graduate Program. His service activities range from local initiatives to national contributions and he is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union.
Professor Emeritus Charles Salmon received the American Institute of Steel Construction Educator Award April 1 in Phoenix, Arizona. Members of the institute cited him for his many years of exceptional service to the institute and to the structural steel design, construction and academic communities. He also is co-author of two new book editions: Steel Structures, Design and Behavior, Emphasizing Load and Resistance Factor Design, in its fifth edition, and Reinforced Concrete Design (with Professor Emeritus Chu-Kia Wang and Professor José Pincheira), in its seventh edition.
