Barkdoll Named ASCE Fellow

Associate Professor Brian Barkdoll (CEE) has been elected a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Gaining fellow status involves being an ASCE member for a significant amount of time, being a licensed professional engineer, being nominated by an ASCE official and having three testimonial references of unique achievement from other ASCE fellows.

Barkdoll is associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, supervising reviews of potential journal articles.

In addition, he is a certified evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), evaluating other civil engineering programs around the United States.

His research areas are sedimentation and erosion, water-distribution systems, watershed processes and low-impact development.

He was a Peace Corps volunteer for four years in Nepal, helping villagers get clean drinking water, irrigation, suspension bridges and biogas energy.

ASCE was founded in 1852 and has over 140,000 members all over the world. Their mission is "to provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners and the public by developing leadership, advancing technology, advocating life-long learning and promoting the profession."

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