The National Academy of Engineering has elected 128 new members and 22 international members to its class of 2025.
And as is usually the case, ASCE members are well-represented on this list, including two recent Society presidential officers.
NAE election is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions in at least one of the following categories:
- Engineering practice, research, or education
- Pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or development and implementation of innovative approaches to engineering education
- Engineering leadership of one or more major endeavors
Founded in 1964, NAE boasts members among the world’s most accomplished engineers from business, academia, and government.
The new class includes the following ASCE members:
Marsha Anderson Bomar, ASCE 2025 president-elect, Duluth, Georgia, for advancing sustainable passenger and freight ground transportation systems and land-use development.
Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Edmund K. Turner Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, for advances in transportation and infrastructure systems modeling and demand analysis.
Charles “C.B.” Crouse, principal engineer, AECOM, Seattle, for contributions to public safety and infrastructure resilience through leadership in transferring research advances into seismic design practice.
Lorne G. Everett, chief scientist and chief executive officer, L. Everett & Associates LLC, Santa Barbara, California, for establishing EPA-endorsed monitoring and cleanup methodologies for contaminated soil and groundwater.
Dan M. Frangopol, Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, ATLSS Engineering Research Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for contributions to life-cycle civil engineering and leadership in its global development and adoption.
Marcelo H. García, professor and M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Endowed Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, for research on sediment transport and river and marine morphodynamics, and for advancing hydraulics and sedimentation engineering.
Masanori Hamada, professor emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, Waseda University, Yokohama City, Japan, for developing methods to protect critical infrastructure against earthquakes and soil liquefaction.
Elizabeth Hausler, founder and chief executive officer, Build Change, Denver, for transformational impact as an international social entrepreneur, and for saving lives by building sustainable communities with natural hazard resilience.
Maria C. Lehman, ASCE 2023 president, infrastructure market leader, GHD Group, Orchard Park, New York, for leadership in public service and business engineering management, focused on the sustainability and resilience of critical civil infrastructure.
Ellen M. Rathje, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, for contributions to seismic slope assessment and site response analysis and developing cyberinfrastructure for natural hazards engineering.
SawTeen See, president, See Robertson Structural Engineers LLC, Foster City, California, for leadership in managing the innovative structural design of tall, super-tall, and other buildings.
Robert (Bob) Smilowitz, senior principal, Protective Design & Security, Thornton Tomasetti, New York City, for protecting lives from acts of terrorism through vulnerability assessment, threat mitigation, and building standards development.
The new class will be formally inducted during NAE’s Annual Meeting, Oct. 5.
