ASCE has honored Sneha Upadhyaya, Ph.D., EIT, M.ASCE; Russell A. Green, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE; Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, Ph.D., M.ASCE; and Brett W. Maurer, Ph.D., with the 2024 Collingwood Prize for the paper “True Liquefaction Triggering Curve,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, January 2023.
Upadhyaya is the lead author for the paper, which was derived largely from her doctoral dissertation at Virginia Tech. The paper details the framework for overcoming a major shortcoming of “simplified” liquefaction triggering models. This study may shift the way liquefaction triggering is analyzed in the near future as it sets the stage for significant advances in predicting risk from liquefaction triggering and the design of liquefaction risk mitigation strategies.
Upadhyaya is a practicing engineer at GeoSyntec and is destined to become a leader in the field of geotechnical engineering. Her work should be commended!
The Collingwood Prize is awarded to the author or authors, under 35 years of age, of a paper describing an engineering project with which the author is directly connected, or recording investigations contributing to engineering knowledge to which the author has contributed some essential contributions and which contains a rational digest of results.
