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President, Hazen and Sawyer Robert E. Hagadorn has served as President of Hazen and Sawyer, Environmental Engineers and Scientists, for the past ten years. The firm specializes in the study, design and construction management of all aspects of potable water supply and treatment and also wastewater collection and treatment. The firm is headquartered in NYC, has 15 offices, works throughout the eastern US and internationally, and had total billings of about $81 million for 2002. Mr. Hagadorn has worked with Hazen and Sawyer for 31 years and he has a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering, a Master Degree in Environmental Engineering and also a Masters of Business Administration. He is a licensed professional engineer in NY and a number of other states, serves as a Board member of the New York Association of Consulting Engineers and also serves as a member of the consultors group to the Manhattan College Environmental Engineering School. |
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COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Commissioner Ward was appointed by the Mayor to the Department of Environmental Protection in April 2002. DEP is responsible for managing New York City’s water supply and wastewater treatment systems, carrying out Federal Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act regulations, handling hazardous materials emergencies and toxic site remediation, overseeing asbestos monitoring and removal, enforcing the City’s noise code, and managing City-wide energy and conservation programs. DEP is one of the City’s largest agencies and the only one with substantial responsibility outside of New York City, managing and protecting 1,900 square miles of wastershed land in the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley. The Department’s 6,000 employees are committed to protecting the environmental health, welfare and natural resources of the City and its residents.
Prior to joining DEP, Commissioner Ward served as Chief of Planning and External Affairs and Director of Port Redevelopment at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Before that, Mr. Ward was the Director of Business Development for a private stevedoring company in Brooklyn. Much of the Commissioner’s professional career has been spent in service to the City of New York, in various roles at the Economic Development Corporation, Department of Telecommunications and Energy, and Public Utility Service. Mr. Ward has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
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HARDESTY & HANOVER Dr. Mahmoud is an expert in bridge engineering with about 20 years of diversified hands-on experience in the design., research, management, analysis, rehabilitation, and seismic retrofit of major bridge projects. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the States of New York, California and Washington. He is the Chairman of the ASCE Committee on Cable-Supported Bridges and he serves on the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering and he is the Chairman of the Bridge Engineering Association. With his expertise in Fracture and Damage Mechanics, Dr. Mahmoud is currently pioneering sate-of-the-art research in the evaluation assessment of bridge cable crackling due to corrosion and Hydrogen Embrittlement. He chaired the New York City Bridge Conference that was held on October 29-30, 2001 and he was the Guest Editor for the Nov./Dec. 2001, Vol.6 No.6 Special Issue of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering that contained the Conference Proceedings. In that issue, current trends as well as future developments in bridge design, maintenance, and retrofitting were critically analyzed. He compiled a set of 30 papers that ere presented at the conference, confirming the largest edition that has ever been published by the Journal. In 2002, the Association for Bridge Construction and Design named him Bridge Engineer of the Year. An author and coauthor of more than 50 technical papers and presentations, Dr. Mahmoud has been published in Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, the International Journal of Fracture, the International Journal of Computer-Integrated Design and Construction, and many conference proceedings. |
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SLATTERY SKANSKA INC. Vince is a 1966 graduate of City College of New York in Civil Engineering. He also has a Masters of Civil Engineering degree from City College. Vince is licensed as both a professional engineer and a contractor in four states. After serving two years as a lieutenant in he United States Army Corps of Engineers, including a year in Vietnam, he began his professional practice. He has been a Project Engineer or Project Manager for major consulting engineering firms including Parsons Brinckerhoff, Jacobs Engineering and Mueser Rutledge. For the last 7 years he had been the Chief Engineer of Slattery Skanska Inc. the largest heavy construction contractor in the New York Metropolitan Area. Vince is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the International Association of Explosives Engineers and the Moles. Vince has also been an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Pratt Institute and is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York. Vince married and has two children. His spouse Mary is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Brooklyn, New York. |
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PRESIDENT, URS
Mr. Rosenstein is a 1959 graduate of the now City University of New York, where he received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree with honors. In 1962, he earned a Masters of Civil Engineering degree from New York University.
He is a member of The American Society of Civil Engineers, formerly an officer of the local chapter, The National Society of Professional Engineers and a member of Chi Epsilon. He serves on the City College Engineering School Advisory Committee and was an adjunct instructor of Civil Engineering in the evening division of the college during the early seventies. Upon receiving his undergraduate degree, Mr. Rosenstein started his professional career with the New York District Army Corps of Engineers in their Civil Works Department.
Upon receiving a Masters degree he worked fro several local consulting engineering firms and in 1974 became a partner in the firm to be named McPhee, Smith, Rosenstein Engineers. His specialty and that of the firm was wastewater engineering and water resources planning and design. In 1977, that 70-person firm was sold to URS Corporation. In 1986 he was promoted to president of the Eastern Region of URS Consultants, followed by his election to the Board of Directors of URS Corporation and the appointment to the presidency of URS Consultants in 1989.
After a series of acquisitions in succession he became president of URS Greiner and URS Greiner Woodward Clyde; and was promoted to his present position as the president of URS.
The company has been involved in some of the major projects in the New York region, including the East-Side Connector; Gowanus Expressway Rehabilitation; the Route 9A construction; the approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge; JFK and Newark International Airports; Flushing Bay Combined Sewer Overflow and Vortex Facility; Inwood Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion; Fresh Kills, Pennsylvania, Fountain and Pelham Bay Landfills, and the Hunts Point, New York Wastewater Facilities.
Last year Irwin was honored by his Alma Mater, CCNY, for his achievements in the field of engineering. He was also honored for his achievements in the construction division of ORT. Irwin is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (formerly an officer of the local chapter), the National Society of Professional Engineers and a member of Chi Epsilon. He has served on The City College Engineering Advisory Board and was an adjunct instructor of Civil Engineering in the evening division of the College during the early seventies. |
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CEO, DMJM+HARRIS John Dionisio is President and Chief Executive Officer of DMJM+HARRIS, a diversified, international, employee-owned transportation and infrastructure consulting firm. John’s career in the industry spans three decades, encompassing a broad range of experience in the management, planning, design and oversight of major civil and engineering projects. He has worked on projects in such fields as rail transit, peoplemover systems, airport access and circulation, highways and bridges, as well as multimodal and alternative analyses for transportation systems. He has also planned, designed and managed the construction of marine facility infrastructure, from breakwaters, piers, ports and harbors, to utility and refueling systems. He has managed many noteworthy projects for state and local agencies. These include involvement in such major Port Authority of New York and New Jersey programs as the $3 billion John F. Kennedy International Airport 2000 Redevelopment Program, JFK 2000 Master Functional Plan, Upgrade of JFK’s Terminal One, and the Alternate Development Plan for LaGuardia Airport Hangars 2 and 4. For the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, John led the design of a new naval ship berthing facilities and submarine tender mooring facilities. Other key assignments include projects for the Long Island Rail Road, such as the Penn Station-West Midtown Transit Link Feasibility Study, and Planning and Designing the Rehabilitation of the Duarte Highway in the Dominican Republic. John will be also supervising the implementation The Metropolitan Transportation Authority – New York City Transit: Engineering Services for the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. John is a graduate of The City College of New York, where he obtained a B.S. in Civil Engineering, and Polytechnic Institute of New York, where he earned a M.S. in Civil Engineering. A licensed Professional Engineer in five states, John is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers; the New York State Soc. of Professional Engineers, the American Soc. of Civil Engnrs; and the Soc. of American Military Engineers. He is an active participant and leader in the programs of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). DMJM+HARRIS is one of the key corporate contributors to APTA’s Transportation Partnership for Tomorrow program (PT)2, a national education and outreach initiative designed to build support for increased investment in public transportation among the public and local, state and federal offices. As Co-Chairman of the (PT)2 Program Funding Cabinet, John is a major program advocate, committing time, energy and resources to the success of this important undertaking. A part of the AECOM Technology Corporation, DMJM+HARRIS provides planning, design, management, and construction support services. AECOM was ranked #1 in Transportation, based on revenues, in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms. With 2,200 employees, DMJM+HARRIS has engineers, construction specialists and other professionals strategically deployed in offices around the nation, and is one of the country’s top transportation and infrastructure consulting firms. |
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PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL and ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Dr. Joseph M. Sussman is the JR East Professor (endowed by the East Japan Railway Company) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has served as a faculty member for 35 years. He is the author of “Introduction to Transportation Systems”, a graduate text, in use at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad, published in 2000 by Artech House of Boston and London. Sussman received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award from TRB, its highest honor, “for significant contributions to research” in 2001.
Dr. Sussman specializes in the study of “complex, Large-Scale, Integrated, Open Systems” (CLIOS), working in many applications areas. He has worked extensively n Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), helping to build the U.S. national program. While serving as the first Distinguished University Scholar at IVHS AMERICA (1991-92), he was a member of the core group that wrote the Strategic Plan for IVHS in the U.S., a twenty-year plan for research, development, testing and deployment which has shaped the U.S. ITS program. He has worked on the development of an “intelligent corridor” in Bangkok, on a comparison of ITS programs in Western Europe, Japan and the U.S., on commercial vehicle operations, on building regional ITS architectures, and on institutional issues concerning ITS. He was the program chair of the ITS America Annual Meeting in 2000, and has conducted short courses in ITS for practicing professionals in the U.S. and abroad. In 2002 ITS Massachusetts named its annual “Joseph M. Sussman Leadership Award” in his honor.
Dr. Sussman has focused recently on developing new methodology for regional strategic transportation planning, called ReS/SITE (Regional Strategies for the Sustainable Intermodal Transportation Enterprise), integrating ideas from strategic management, scenario-building, technology architectures and CLIOS analysis, based on cases in the U.S. and abroad. Currently his wok in this area deals with transportation and sustainability in Mexico City and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
His research in railroads focuses on service reliability, rail operations, maintenance, high speed rail (HSR), and risk assessment; he has had a major impact on the railroad industry in the U.S. and abroad, and has several prize-winning papers. He heads a three-year project with the Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer (UIC), initiated in 2000, dealing with technology scanning for the international freight and passenger railroad industry.
Dr. Sussman chaired the TRB Committee overseeing the Federal Railroad Administration’s R&D program from 1996 to 1999 and currently hairs a TRB panel reviewing the federal transportation strategic plan for R&D. Further, he chaired a TRB Task Force which produced a major report entitled “Airport System Capacity –Strategic Choices”.
He has worked on the application of computers to engineering problem-solving, specializing in simulation methods and their application to the transportation area, and he contributed to the development of ICES (Integrated Civil Engineering system), among the most widely-used computer systems in the engineering field. In 1997 he won the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s Effective Teaching Award. In 2002 he won the Technology and Policy Student Society “Faculty Appreciation Award” for his design and teaching of a new required subject called “Introduction to Technology and Policy”. He has served on review panels for transportation programs at Northwestern, the University of Toronto, Cornell, and the University of Michigan (chair). He currently serves on advisory committees at CCNY’s School of Engineering, the University of California at Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, and Cal-IT2, a joint venture of UC-Irvine and UC-San Diego.
Dr. Susssman earned a B.C.E. from City College of New York in 1961, an M.S.C.E. from the University of New Hampshire in 1963, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Systems form MIT in 1967. He joined the MIT faculty in 1967. From 1977 to 1979, Professor Sussman served as the Associate Dean of Engineering for Educational Programs From 1980 to 1985, he served as Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT. In that period, the Civil Engineering Department developed new programs in infrastructure and construction systems, computer-aided engineering, resource extraction from the Arctic environment, hazardous waste and materials characterization. From 1986 to 1991, he serves as Director of the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) at MIT. During his term, research volume grew by 400%, to more than $4 million annually at that time, reflecting and important expansion of CTS’ research agenda. Also, CTS grew to 50 affiliated faculty, adding colleagues from all five of MIT’s schools.
Dr. Sussman is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Research Board (Executive Committee chair in 1994; member, 1991-1998), ITS America (Board of Directors, 1995-2001) and ITS Massachusetts Board of Directors, 1996-2001), and is a member of the Editorial Board of Transportation Research. He is a founder of Multi-systems of Cambridge, MA |
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EMMANUEL E. VELIVASAKIS, P.E., F.ASCE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT LZA TECHNOLOGY It was said of the great English builder and designer Sir Christopher Wrenn, “If you seek his monument, look around you.” One can find monuments to the engineering contributions of Emmanuel Velivasakis in places far and near. From the restoration of the United States Capitol Dome in Washington, D.C. to the World’s tallest buildings, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, or the Taipei Financial Center in Taipei, Taiwan, to his work at the ruins of the 1999 Istanbul earthquake in Turkey and those of the World Trade Center disaster site after the 9/11/01 terrorist attack. One can also find monuments less physically tangible, but no less important, in his work to bring and educate young people into the engineering and architectural fields. As notable as his contributions to creation of structures, Emmanuel Velivasakis has participated in many of the nation’s major forensic investigations, adding to the sum of the professional knowledge and assuring continued progress in the prevention of disaster. Born in Greece, Mr. Velivasakis received his primary and secondary education there. After serving the Greek Army, he came to the United States for university studies, receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Civil/Structural Engineering from the City College of the City University of New York with Honors. Mr. Velivasakis is a licensed Professional Engineer practicing in the United States and around the world. He is a Managing Principal of The Thornton-Tomasetti Group, an internationally acclaimed Architectural-Engineering Design firm and President of its LZA Technology Division. The Architect of the US Capitol selected Velivasakis’s design firm to lead the Engineering effort for the Engineering evaluation and rehab design of the Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. This prestigious assignment involving the most notable symbol of our Nation represented a tremendous honor, for Mr. Velivasakis and his engineering team. An article on the Structural Analysis and Evaluation of the U.S. Capitol Dome was featured on the cover-page of Civil Engineering magazine in 1999. In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attack on the WTC, Velivasakis’s firm was summoned by the City of New York to lead the technical effort to provide technical assistance to the search and rescue teams at “Ground-Zero”. He participated and directed the multi-disciplinary WTC team of nearly 300 engineers, in the first critical weeks after the terrorist attack. Mr. Velivasakis has served as an adjunct professor of Architectural Engineering at the New York Institute of Technology. Currently he teaches graduate-level courses to Architects and other Construction professionals at the Institute of Design and Construction, in Brooklyn NY. Over the years, he has also lectured in several other colleges and universities, including Pratt Institute, Columbia University and California Polytechnic Institute. For his professional accomplishments, Mr. Velivasakis has been awarded numerous awards of excellence, including:
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