ABOUT THE AUTHORS

N. CATHERINE BAZÁN-ARIAS, PhD, PE, D.GE, PMP, F.ASCE, is a senior engineer with DiGioia, Gray & Associates and the chair of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section’s 100^th Anniversary Task Committee. She has served as president of the Pittsburgh Section and as at-large director of the ASCE National Board of Direction. In 2015, the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania bestowed its Engineer of the Year Award on Cathy.

GREGORY F. SCOTT, PE, is currently serving on the Environmental Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Governing Board. He served two terms as a Region 2 ASCE governor from 2006 until 2012 representing civil engineers from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He is the lead author of our “Pennsylvania’s Borders” and “Drinking Water” chapters.

JODI KLEBICK is the public relations representative for the ASCE Pittsburgh Section. Formerly president of Klebick & Company, Jodi served as president of the Board of Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project and as co-founder of the International Silk Screen Asian Festival. She is a past winner of the National Association of Women Business Owners’ “Make the Connection” award.

DAVID L. WRIGHT, PE, PLS, is a project manager with Allegheny County Public Works Department, handling right-of-way acquisition and trail development. He is a former chair of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section’s History and Heritage Committee and director for Pennsylvania Canal Society and Canal Society of Ohio.

JOHN F. OYLER, Phd, PE, has recently completed twenty-five years as an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, a career preceded by thirty-eight years as an engineer and engineering manager for the Dravo Corporation. He has an intense interest in local history and functions as the historian for the Bridgeville Area Historical Society.

JASON M. MACHUGA, PE, is a transportation engineer working in Pittsburgh. He coauthored the “Roads and Highways” and “Public Transportation” chapters.

CARRIE MACHUGA is a public involvement specialist working in Pittsburgh. She coauthored the “Roads and Highways” and “Public Transportation” chapters.

TODD WILSON, MBA, PE, is an award-winning transportation engineer currently serving as the ASCE Pittsburgh Section’s History and Heritage chair. He wrote the “Bridges” chapter and performed Pittsburgh’s bridge count. Todd has traveled to all fifty states and twenty countries researching and photographing bridges, and he previously coauthored Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America: Pittsburgh’s Bridges.

PATRICK MULVIHILL, DEd, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses as an assistant professor of management in the Rowland School of Business at Point Park University. Mulvihill was also an academic information analyst at Point Park and a part-time instructor for both the School of Business and Department of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies. He authored the “Airports and Aviation” chapter.

RACHEL RAMPA currently serves as the assistant communications manager at the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA). Rachel brings her seventeen years of marketing and communications experience to PWSA and is also the collections manager at Brew: The Museum of Beer in Pittsburgh. She coauthored the “Drinking Water” chapter.

UZAIR (SAM) SHAMSI, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, D.WRE, is a member of the Board of Directors for the ASCE Pittsburgh Section, SPEO and La Roche College. Sam is also the current Continuing Education Committee chair for the Pittsburgh Section and authored the “Wastewater” chapter.

BRIAN H. GREENE, PhD, PG, completed a thirty-two-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, and currently works for Gannett Fleming Inc. He has been chairperson of the AEG Dams Committee since 2008 and been involved with foundations of dams for forty years. Brian has published more than twenty-five technical papers.

ANTON H. KRYSA, PE, is a retired structural engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with thirty-five years of experience in the design of navigational and flood-control structures in the Pittsburgh District. He was often called on to design specialized post-tensioned anchors to extend the service life of aging facilities.

WERNER C. LOEHLEIN, PE, M.ASCE, is a retired supervisory hydraulic engineer from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, where he spent forty-four years. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Werner is a former ASCE Pittsburgh Section president and has published twenty-six technical papers.

STEPHEN STOLTZ, PE, is the chief of the Navigation Design Branch within the Engineering & Construction Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District. He specializes in engineering management of complex inland navigation design projects. Stephen served as treasurer of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section’s Structures Technical Group.

PATRICK J. SULLIVAN JR., PE, M.ASCE, is a principal with Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc. in Pittsburgh and has more than thirty-three years of experience in water resources, civil, environmental and geotechnical engineering. He served as president of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section in 2016–17 and is licensed in eight states.