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Michael E. Beehler, P.E.
Burns & McDonnell
Mike Beehler joined Burns & McDonnell as a senior transmission engineer and project manager in 1995 after 14 years with investor-owned electric utilities in Tucson, Arizona, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Beehler has written and presented extensively about the Smart Grid and has initiated the sustainable electric energy design (SEED) process for substation design. He received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1981 and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Phoenix in 1984. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in eight states, a member of IEEE, and a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers. |
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Daniel J. Belcher, P.E., P.S.
Michigan Department of Transportation
Dan Belcher is design services manager for the Michigan Department of Transportation and a licensed civil engineer (P.E.) and land surveyor (P.S.) in the state of Michigan (United States). His 23 years in consulting and state service spans construction inspection, surveying, photogrammetry, environmental, and civil engineering with an emphasis in information technology. |
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Aileen Cho
Engineering News-Record
Aileen Cho is the senior editor for all things transportation at Engineering News-Record. She has been on several award-winning editorial teams covering such crises as the I-35W bridge collapse, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11. She has won a Neal Award―the business publication equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize―multiple times for Best Feature and Best Technical Article in 2011 and 2012. Cho also received a journalism prize in 2006 from the American Association of Engineering Societies and Honorable Mention from the Construction Writers Association for her article on airports in 2004. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Monster.com, and Shipping & Trade News. |
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Daniel A. Cuoco, P.E., F.ASCE
ZweigWhite, LLC/Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
Daniel A. Cuoco is editor-in-chief of Structural Engineer magazine, a ZweigWhite monthly publication. He recently retired as president and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti, a 600-person international engineering and design firm, and currently serves as a consultant to the firm. Cuoco is a licensed professional engineer in several states, a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and serves on the Board of Direction of the American Concrete Institute’s Strategic Development Council. His experience ranges from the design of major projects to the investigation of structural failures, and he has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. Cuoco has bachelors and masters degrees in Civil Engineering from City College of New York and New York University respectively and an M.B.A. degree from Adelphi University. |
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Edwin Ecob
Cambashi
Edwin Ecob is a senior principal consultant with 30 years of experience in the IT, manufacturing, civil engineering, and utility industries. Since joining Cambashi in 1998, he has focused on the use of enterprise and technical applications in the manufacturing and production industries, and has managed and delivered a series of training programs for vendors of IT solutions. Prior to joining Cambashi, Ecob was head of a pan-European sales and marketing program for Unisys, with a focus on solutions for the telecom and utility industries. His early career was spent working for leading international civil engineering contractors on transportation projects in South America and Southeast Asia. Ecob holds an honors degree in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham. |
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Shunji Kusayanagi, Professor, Dr. Eng.
Kochi University of Technology, Japan
Dr. Shunji Kusayanagi is a professor who specializes in international construction project management at Kochi University of Technology, Japan. He provides technical and educational lectures on international construction management, estimating, cost control, scheduling, productivity analysis, quality control, and quantitative analysis in contract administration to groups of engineers working in the construction area. Dr. Kusayanagi is a civil engineer with over 36 years of construction experience on domestic and international projects as a construction and consulting engineer. |
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Felix Mara
Architect, Lecturer, Journalist, and Editor
Felix Mara has been employed as an architect for over 20 years, most recently at Nick Evans Architects, West and Partners, Volume 3 Architects, and SLLB Architects. He has lectured at the University of Humberside, School of Architecture; had various articles on architecture published in The Times Literary Supplement, AA Files and Hinge; and is a technical editor of The Architects' Journal and editor of AJ Specification since 2009 and authored articles in these magazines. Mara received a bachelor of arts in Architectural Studies from Oxford Brookes University, bachelors of architecture of the University of Manchester, masters of science in Architecture from The Bartlett, University College, and a bachelor of arts from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is an ARB-registered architect since 1987 and RIBA-chartered architect since 1988. |
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Stuart Matthews
Construction Week
Stuart Matthews is a writer and editor who has spent much of his career covering design, construction, and industry. Currently based in the Middle East, he works as a managing editor for ITP Publishing, looking after a suite of print, online, and award products aimed at the GCC construction and design industry. The GCC is a union of the Arab states bordering on the Persian Gulf on or near the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. He has a financially debilitating interest in old Italian cars and vintage watches. |
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Antony Oliver
New Civil Engineer
Antony Oliver has edited New Civil Engineer (NCE), one of the best-read weekly magazines in construction, for 12 years. A chartered member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, he spent six years working as a civil engineer with Owen Williams and Balfour Beatty before crossing over to journalism. He started on NCE as a junior reporter and has worked on all sections of the magazine, covering some of the biggest and most interesting stories in construction over the last 15 years. Oliver is dedicated to ensuring that NCE reflects the industry and is passionate about ensuring the next generation views the profession as a sound career option. He was named Business Magazine Editor of the Year 2008 by the Periodical Publishers Association and was shortlisted for the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2010. |
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Jim Porter
Sustainable Operations Solutions, LLC
Jim Porter is the founder and president of Sustainable Operations Solutions, which provides consulting services to help companies make significant and sustainable improvements in workplace safety, process safety management, capital effectiveness, and operations productivity. He recently retired from DuPont, where he had served as chief engineer and vice president of engineering and operations since 2006. Porter is a member of the board of governors for the Argonne National Laboratory, the board of directors of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the National Research Council’s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment. He also has served as chair for the Construction Industry Institute and Delaware’s United Negro College Fund, and has served on the boards of FIATECH, the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative, and the Fieldbus Foundation. Porter is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering board of advisors and National Academy of Construction. |
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Earl C. Schneider, P.E.
Hatch Mott MacDonald
Earl Schneider has 22 years of experience in the planning, design, permitting, and construction of potable water supply projects, including surface and groundwater supply, treatment, transmission, pumping, and storage facilities. He has focused his career on strategic and master planning, asset management practices, hydraulic modeling, and information management system development for water and wastewater utility clients throughout North America. |
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Monica Schnitger
Schnitger Corporation
Monica Schnitger is the founder and president of Schnitger Corporation. She has been quoted in publications such as Automotive Design and Production, Business Week Online, Forbes, Information Week, Mechanical Engineering, Wards Auto World, and Washington Technology, and has appeared on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. Schnitger has over 25 years’ experience in engineering and CAD/CAM and has held positions as a senior VP of market analysis at Daratech, in software development management at Computervision Corporation, and as an engineer at Bath Iron Works. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an honors M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin School of Management at Babson College. |
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Dick Slansky
ARC Advisory Group
Dick Slansky’s responsibilities at ARC include directing research and consultation in areas such as PLM, ALM, engineering design tools for both discrete and process industries, factory floor architecture, and manufacturing enterprise architecture. He also provides technical consulting services for discrete manufacturing end users in the aerospace, automotive, and other industrial verticals. Additionally, he focuses on engineering design tools for process, energy, and infrastructure. Slansky holds a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas and a bachelor of science in Computer Science from Seattle Pacific University. He also holds a certificate in Client/Server Project Management from the University of Washington (Seattle). |
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Rita Stange
ConnectPress
Rita Stange is the managing editor of ConnectPress, an online publisher of design and technology websites including MicroStation Connections, where she has worked since 2006. During this time she has covered all sectors of infrastructure, with a heavy focus on the building industry and sustainable design. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has an interest in green practices, which is shown through her volunteer work with the 2012 GreenBuilt Tour and the United States Green Building Council, New Mexico Chapter. As a lover of the arts, she covers the AEC industry with a true appreciation for seeing design as a captivating art form. |
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Jantien Stoter, Ph.D.
Delft University of Technology
Dr. Jantien Stoter is associate professor at the Section GIS Technology, Delft University of Technology and leading the research group on Spatial Information Infrastructure. She is also employed at the Kadaster. For her Ph.D. work on 3D Cadastre (TU Delft, 2004) she received the Prof. J.M. Tienstra Research Prize. In 2010, she received a prestigious Vidi award for research from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Dr. Stoter is the chair of the EuroSDR Commission on Data Specifications and also leads the national 3D project in the Netherlands, in which over 100 private, governmental, and academic organizations work together to push 3D developments in that country. In 2011, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) awarded this project with the OGC 3D award for the achieved national 3D standard. |
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Marc Thomas
Consultant, Isisst Project Technology
Marc Thomas is the owner of the United Kingdom-based CAD and BIM consultancy Isisst Project Technology. A chartered architect with over 28 years’ experience in the building industry, he has been working as a specialist consultant since 2008. Thomas has been involved with CAD and IT since the early 1990s and regularly writes on these topics for AEC Magazine and Building Design. Previously he spent 17 years at Architects Design Partnership, at which he transitioned from his architectural role to develop the firm’s CAD capabilities from modest beginnings into an integrated nationwide ICT system. |
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Bernhard D. Valnion, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
For more than 14 years, Dr Bernhard Valnion has been editor-in-chief with special interest magazines reporting on enterprise and engineering IT. Dr Valnion is the founder of digitalPLANT business+engineering, a special insert of Economic Engineering magazine, reporting exclusively on IT strategies for the plant industries. In 1998, Dr Valnion finished his Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics at the University of Munich, Germany. |
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Joseph Young
Journalist
Born in China, Joseph Young is the editorial director and publisher of O Empreiteiro, a trade magazine dedicated to infrastructure and construction in Brazil for 50 years, and Minérios & Minerales, a trade magazine dedicated to the mining industry in Brazil for 35 years. O Empreiteiro publishes yearly research on the 500 largest construction and engineering companies in Brazil and Minérios & Minerales conducts an annual review of the 200 largest mines in Brazil. Young has extensive knowledge of the infrastructure, construction, mining, and metals industries in Brazil, Europe, and the United States; equipment industries and technology; infrastructure design; and construction processes. |
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Sharifah Zaida-Nurlisha
General Manager of Project Management Services, MMC Oil and Gas Engineering Sdn Bhd
Sharifah Zaida-Nurlisha began her career as an instrument engineer before moving on to project management at MMC Oil and Gas Engineering. She has been involved in the oil and gas industry for 22 years in design positions ranging from conceptual, detailed, and construction to hookup and commissioning of onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities. Zaida-Nurlisha received her bachelor’s of Electrical and Electronics and an M.B.A. from Nottingham University, England. |