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Professional Distinction for UA Civil Engineering Professor
| By Pete Brown - May 15, 2012, 3:06 pm
Professor Achintya Haldar of the UA civil engineering and engineering mechanics department has been made a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Distinguished ASCE members are elected by the ASCE board of directors based on their global reputation of outstanding leadership and research in engineering. In the society the honor is second only to becoming ASCE president.
Each year one in 7,500 ASCE members can be made distinguished members, and just 615 distinguished memberships have been conferred since the society was founded in 1852. Haldar will be formally inducted as a distinguished member in October 2012 at ASCE's 142nd annual conference in Montreal, Canada.
Haldar's citation by ASCE refers to his exemplary 44-year career as a world-class researcher, and his work as a peerless educator, mentor and innovative practitioner. ...... (read more) |  | | Professor Achintya Haldar of the UA civil engineering and engineering mechanics department shows the medal he received from Jadavpur University in 1968. |
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