10/1/2010
Professor, Ph.D. student honored at Central Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers banquet.
Written by
From left: Professor Imad Al-Qadi, George Ghareeb, president-elect of the ASCE Central Illinois Section, and Fernando Moreu (MS 05).
CEE Professor Imad Al-Qadi and CEE Ph.D. student and alumnus Fernando Moreu (MS 05) were honored by the Central Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at the organization’s 86th Annual Meeting and Banquet on September 16 in Peoria, Ill. Al-Qadi was honored by the local section for being selected as a Distinguished Member by the ASCE National Board of Direction, and Moreu received the 2010 Young Engineer of the Year Award.
Al-Qadi is a Founder Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Lab (ATREL) and the Founding Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT). He currently serves on the Board of Governors for the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute and is Chair of the first Congress to be held in Chicago in March 2011. In electing him a Distinguished Member, for which he will be formerly inducted in October, ASCE cited him “for his extraordinary research and technical contributions in pavement engineering, modeling, and rehabilitation technologies, pavement interlayer systems, and transportation infrastructure sensing such as ground penetrating radar, as well as his exemplary leadership in professional service and technology transfer.”
At the same event, Moreu, a design engineer for ESCA Consultants Inc., received the 2010 Young Engineer of the Year award. The award recognizes distinguished civil engineers for significant engineering contributions as judged by the following criteria: demonstrated leadership potential in civil engineering, evidence of high character and professional integrity, civic and humanitarian activities (community service), and contributions to ASCE.