Look Who's a D.GE

Thomas O'Rourke, PhD, D.GE(Hon.), NAE, Dist.M.ASCE Cornell University Professor O'Rourke has been a member of the teaching and research staffs at Cornell University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.	Kundan K. Pandey, PhD, PE, D.GE, M.ASCE March 2015 Reed Engineering Group, LTD BIO: I was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. I attended grade school in Kathmandu in the 60s and 70s. I was home schooled up to third grade. I started attending school formally from the fourth grade. The city was less complicated then which made the one hour walking commute to and from school reasonably safe and enjoyable. In the early 80s, I attended college in India at the University of Roorkee (currently Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee). After graduating with a B. E.	John Peirce, PE, LS, D.GE, M.ASCE December 2014 Peirce Engineering, Inc. Before and after receiving his Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in Geotechnical Engineering from Drexel University in 1973 and 1978, John J. Peirce worked 15 years in heavy/highway construction for The Conduit & Foundation Corporation and 11 years for design/build geotechnical specialty contractor, Schnabel Foundation Company, serving 8 years as Branch Manager of Schnabel’s Philadelphia office.
Frank William Pita, PE, LHG, D.GE, F.ASCE September 2013 Frank W Pita Consulting, LLC For the last 5 years, Frank Pita has been a principal and senior project manager with Jacobs Associates in Seattle, Washington.	Richard Short, PE, GE, MSCE, D.GE, M.ASCE Richard D. Short and Associates 45 years experience with over 4,000 projects as an engineering consultant. Past President of the Deep Foundations Institute 2002-2004.	Elizabeth M. Smith, PE, GE, D.GE, M.ASCE May 2015 Terracon Consultants, Inc. Elizabeth M. Smith, PE, GE, D.GE (Liz) is a national transportation program manager and Senior Principal at Terracon Consultants. She graduated from Virginia Tech with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering. She has significant expertise in geotechnical design for highway structures and has successfully managed several complex geotechnical design-build projects with geotechnical design fees over $7.5 million.
Alfonso A. Soto, PE, D.GE, F.ASCE January 2019 Terracon Consultants, Inc. Alfonso is a Principal with Terracon Consultants, Inc. and serves as the manager of Geotechnical and Materials Testing departments in Terracon’s Pharr office. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Rafael Urdaneta (URU ‐ Maracaibo, Venezuela) and a master’s degree from Texas A&M University (TAMU – College Station, TX) in Geotechnical Engineering.	Timothy D. Stark, PhD, PE, D.GE, F.ASCE March 2018 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Timothy (Tim) D. Stark is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he specializes in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. He earned his Masters of Engineering Degree at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) in 1984 under the supervision of J. Michael Duncan and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 1987 also under the supervision of J. Michael Duncan.	Stein Sture, PhD, D.GE(Hon.), Dist.M.ASCE University of Colorado at Boulder Stein Sture serves as Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which is a position that he has held since 2007, and between 2005-2006 as Interim VCR.
Chia K. Tan, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE September 2017 GEI Consultants Chia Tan has more than 35 years of geotechnical and geostructural engineering experiences on hundreds of projects in many parts of the United States and in ten other countries worldwide, including China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Saipan, Malaysia, and Indonesia.	Robert W. Thompson , PE, D.GE(Ret.), F.ASCE* September 2016 CTL/Thompson, Inc Robert W, Thompson P.E., D.GE, F ASCE, Senior Consultant, CTL/Thompson Inc., Denver Colorado. Graduate of Oklahoma State University, BSCE 1962, MSCE 1965. Currently work only on special assignments for CTL/T and coach younger engineers regarding technical issues. Practice primarily in partially saturated soils. Many technical papers and presentations on expansive and collapsing soils. Considerable effort in analysis and solution of slope problems and retained excavations.	Steven Thorne , PE, D.GE, M.ASCE* January 2017 Terracon Steve is currently a principal with Terracon, manager of its New Jersey office, and responsible for overseeing the geotechnical quality program in its northeast division. He has 34 years of geotechnical engineering consulting experience that has included most areas of geotechnical practice, with special focus in the areas of deep foundations, soft ground construction, slope stability, ground improvement and seismic evaluation.

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