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SPECTOR
Eleanor Spector has joined Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, as vice president in its government group, leading contracting activity. Based in Arlington, Va., she was contracts vice president at Lockheed Martin and previously served in the U.S. Dept. of Defense as director and later as deputy assistant secretary of defense procurement.
Margarita D. Gagliardi has been named senior vice president of transportation planning in the Americas for design firm Halcrow, New York City, ENR has learned. Set to start on April 4, she is currently senior vice president and national planning practice leader at engineer STV Inc., New York City. Bill Coupe has joined the Toronto office of Halcrow Yolles, the building structures group of U.K.-based parent Halcrow. He was associate principal at Buro Happold.
HAGHIGHAT
Alireza Haghighat , formerly Florida Power and Light professor at University of Florida, Gainesville, has joined the nuclear engineering program at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., as professor. A fellow of the American Nuclear Society, he also is board chairman of the Southeast Universities Nuclear Reactors Institute for Science and Education and a past chairman of the Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization.
David Evans and Associates, Portland, Ore., has named Tom Walsh vice president and business development leader for transportation. He joins the architect-engineer from Otak Inc., where he was a principal and senior manager.
Parsons Brinckerhoff, the New York City-based professional services firm, has named Steve Moulton a vice president and aviation design manager, based in Chicago. He was vice president and national airfield service group leader for Reynolds, Smith and Hills.
FTI Consulting, West Palm Beach, Fla., has hired Tom Kerr as director of its construction solutions practice. He is based in Philadelphia. FTI Consulting provides services in project and risk management, dispute resolution and as an expert witness. Kerr is formerly a director of Navigant Consulting’s construction practice and had been marketing vice president at Barba-Arkhon International, which Navigant acquired.
Limbach Facility Services LLC, Pittsburgh, has named Dennis Sacco to the new position of chief operations director. He is formerly Northeast region president.
BAKER
William F. Baker Jr., structural engineering partner at architect Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, is among 78 U.S. and overseas engineers elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the profession’s top distinction. He was cited for his innovative structures for global high-rise buildings.
Also elected were Armen Der Kiureghian, Taisei civil engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for contributions to earthquake engineering innovation; Chris T. Hendrickson, engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, for transportation and green design leadership; Michael R. Hoffmann, environmental science professor at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for advances in water contaminant removal; and Henry Z. Kister, Fluor Corp. senior fellow, for leadership in distillation engineering.
The academy also elected Amadeo R. Odoni, professor of aeronautics and astronautics as well as civil and environmental engineering at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., for global leadership in airport systems; Karsten Pruess, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., for advances in assessing subsurface heat and mass transport processes; Joan B. Rose, endowed chairwoman of water research at Michigan State University, East Lansing, for contributions to water quality and public health; and Mark D. Zoback, geophysics professor at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., for technology advances in carbon dioxide sequestration.
Industry and academic engineers from Canada, the U.K. and Sweden were elected as “foreign associates” for their contributions in civil engineering, oil-sands production, water quality and nuclear technology, among other areas.
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