2009 Recipient:

Dr. Sreenivas Alampalli is the Director of the Bridge Evaluation Services Bureau at the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) that includes bridge inspection, inventory, and safety assurance programs. His Bureau provides data collection and evaluation services to facilitate the preservation, structural integrity, and safety of more than 17,000 highway bridges in New York State. He coordinates with State and Federal Transportation agencies, professional organizations, academia, and consultants to promote research and other projects of interest to his programs.

Prior to his current position, Sreenivas was the Director of the Transportation Research and Development Bureau, where he worked for about fourteen years in various positions. He also served as the Transportation Research Board representative for the NYSDOT and as a member of the National Research Advisory Committee (RAC).

Sreenivas obtained his Ph.D. and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, and B.S. from S.V. University, Tirupati, India. He co-developed a theory of multihazards and has been a great proponent of it to integrate all vulnerabilities including security for effective infrastructure management. Sreenivas is a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), and International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII). He received numerous awards including the prestigious Charles Pankow Award for Innovation by the Civil Engineering Research Foundation in 2000. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 technical publications and is currently co-authoring a book on "Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering," to be published by CRC Press in 2010.

Sreenivas is an active member of several technical committees in TRB, ASCE, and ASNT, and currently chairs the ASCE Technical Committee on Bridge Management, Inspection, and Rehabilitation. He recently chaired ASCE/SEI-AASHTO ad hoc group on Bridge Inspection, Rating, Rehabilitation, and Replacement, which produced a white paper on bridge inspection and rating in August 2008. He is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering and serves on the editorial board of the Journal "Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance." He has been active in organizing the biennial "Structural Materials Technology: An NDT Conference" for the past 10 years promoting NDE/NDT use in infrastructure applications.

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