{"214181":{"#nid":"214181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three Civil Engineering Faculty Awarded Prestigious ASCE Huber Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently announced that three civil engineering faculty from Georgia Tech were chosen to receive the 2013 Walter L. Huber Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/741\/overview\u0022\u003ELaurie Garrow\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/611\/overview\u0022\u003EJaehong Kim\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/701\/overview\u0022\u003EKimberly Kurtis\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) were chosen by the national organization to receive the prize, which is given annually to promising young faculty who demonstrate notable achievements in research related to civil engineering.\u0026nbsp;A fourth recipient, University of California - Davis faculty Jason T. DeJong, earned his doctorate at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three CEE faculty will officially receive this honor at the ASCE\u2019s annual conference in Charlotte, NC this coming October.\u0026nbsp;It is rare to have three Huber winners come from one school\u2019s program. In the past, Georgia Tech administrators have been pleased to see two winners in one calendar year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese awards speak volumes about the depth as well as the breadth of our faculty,\u201d said College of Engineering Dean Gary May.\u0026nbsp;\u201cIn these three Huber Prize awardees, we see a commitment to excellence and innovation that will continue Georgia Tech\u2019s strong tradition of the same into the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ASCE typically awards three to five Huber Prizes each year, one for each of the recognized sub-disciplines of the field. Recipients are all generally younger than 45 and have demonstrated a level of achievement and excellence that bodes well for a long and fruitful career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn naming transportation engineering Associate Professor Garrow to this honor, the ASCE commended her for \u201cdevelopment and integration of advanced discrete choice models of traveler behavior into airline planning, scheduling, and revenue management decision support systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ASCE noted the work of Associate Chair and Georgia Power Distinguished Professor Kim \u0026nbsp;in environmental nanotechnology and lauded him for \u201chis pioneering research on environmental implication and application of nanomaterials as well as developing upconversion biocidal materials for innovative, sustainable environmental technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering ADVANCE Professor Kurtis was commended by ASCE for \u201cexceptional contributions in applying the principles of materials science to the solving practice problems in civil engineering, including hydration, deterioration, creep and nono-destructive characterization of cement-based materials.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReginald DesRoches, Karen and John Huff School Chair, echoed Dean May\u2019s praise for the three awardees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHaving three faculty from CEE win this prestigious award in one year is truly outstanding and unprecedented for Georgia Tech,\u201d said DesRoches. \u201cIt speaks to the quality of our young and mid-career faculty, and to a bright future for our program.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently announced that three faculty from Georgia Tech were chosen to receive the 2013 Walter L. Huber Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) award honors young faculty who demonstrate notable achievements in research related to civil engineering."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2013-05-22 11:32:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:16","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1170","name":"ASCE"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"66721","name":"Huber Prize 2013"},{"id":"167864","name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kathleen.moore@ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKathleen Moore\u003C\/a\u003E, Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s School of Civil and Enivironmental Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-3171\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}