For their leadership and contributions to the profession, Dr. Ronald Harichandran and Dr. Venkatesh Kodur have been named Fellows by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dr. Harichandran has contributed significantly to research on random vibrations, reliability, structural dynamics, and finite element methods and their application to problems in earthquake, pavement and bridge engineering. His work has strongly impacted the characterization of the spatial variation of earthquake ground motion, the development of the MFPDS/MichPave/MichBack computer programs for flexible pavement analysis, and the enchancement of the random vibration capabilities of the ANSYS finite element package. As Chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University he helped establish a large engineering study-abroad program in Russia, the 11,000 sq. ft. Civil Infrastructure Laboratory, and the National Center for Pavement Preservation. He serves on the Accreditation Committee of the ASCE Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice, the Body of Knowledge II Committee, and is chairman of the Michigan Transportation Research Board. With input from several Big 10+ chairs, he authored a white paper on current civil and environmental engineering research thrusts and their implications for education.

Dr. Venkatesh Kodur, Professor, Michigan State University, has broad-based expertise in structural, material (concrete) and fire areas and has earned significant world recognition for his research in the structural fire safety area. He has undertaken research - both laboratory testing and numerical modeling - for the evaluation of fire resistance of structural members and non-linear design and analysis of structures. Prior to joining MSU in August 2005, Dr. Kodur was a Senior Scientist at the National Research Council of Canada. He has published over 175 technical papers in structural and fire resistance areas. He is an Adjunct Professor at Queen's University, Canada, collaborative investigator of ISIS Canada and has contributed significantly to the activities with professional organizations including: Chairman, ASCE Committee on Structural Fire Protection; Secretary, ACI/TMS Fire Protection Technical Committee; Member, SFPE Standards Committee - Calculating Fire Exposures to Structures and Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. He has led international collaborative research projects with Taiwan, UK, Belguim and USA, has delivered invited keynote presentations at numerous international conferences and has won awards including the "NATO Award for Collaborative Research". Dr. Kodur was part of the ASCE/FEMA "Building Performance Assessment Team" established to study the WTC disaster as a result of September 11 incidents and the report, including recommendations, from this study has been submitted to U.S. Congressional committees.