Mark Ballard, Senior Vice President for AECOM, received an A.S. in Architectural Technology in 1974 and a B.S. in Construction Technology in 1975 from Purdue University. Over the past 40 years, he has overseen construction projects across the United States and internationally for clients in the industrial, power & energy, commercial, aviation, defense and federal markets. He served as a Project Director for the Port of Los Angeles Pier 400 Container Terminal, which won the Construction Management Association of America’s 2004 Excellence in Program Management award. He also served as Project Executive and Chairman of the Joint Venture Executive Boards for the $300 million US Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, MD, a GSA Construction Excellence project; the multi-award-winning, $5.4 billion Pentagon Renovation Program in Arlington, VA; and the Department of Homeland Security Campus Consolidation at St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC, the largest construction project in GSA history. After joining AECOM in 1999, Mr. Ballard was promoted to Vice President in 2004 and then Senior Vice President in 2011. In his current role, he is responsible for the oversight of all Program Management/Construction Management-related activities, with an emphasis on client relations, contract management, quality control and business development. In addition, Mr. Ballard is a long-time member of the Construction Management Association of America, and has three times co-chaired its National Project Achievement Awards Program and served on its National Board of Directors since 2010.
Board of Visitors
The distinguished members of our Board of Visitors serve in an advisory capacity to the department to help us identify needs, plan for the future, and develop fundraising strategies to enhance our endowment. The volunteers meet twice a year with the department chair and select members of the faculty and staff.
Our MissionState of the Department
Not pictured: Dr. Kenneth Bell, Michael Lenkin, David Meyers, Robert Raunch, and Eric Tievy
Dr. Kenneth Bell, Manager of Geotechnical & Hydraulic Engineering Service for Bechtel Corporation, has over 34 years of geotechnical engineering experience on a variety of power, transportation, petrochemical, and industrial projects, including roles as the lead field geotechnical engineer during construction of the projects. He has completed three overseas assignments as lead geotechnical engineer, including an assignment in Hong Kong on a rail project, in New Caledonia on a mining project, and in Trinidad on a LNG project. He has written numerous project-specific geotechnical reports and has authored and co-authored 20 technical papers published in professional journals and in national and international conference proceedings. Dr. Bell was elected a Bechtel Fellow in 2011. He also holds the title of ASCE Fellow, ASTM Fellow, and Diplomate Geotechnical Engineer from The Academy of Geo-Professionals. He received B.S. (1974), M.S. (1976), and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in civil engineering from the University of Maryland and has been a registered engineer in the State of Maryland since 1983.
Paul Burkart, Founding Owner and Principal at GeoConcepts Engineering, received his B.S. in civil engineering in 1985 and his M.S. in geotechnical engineering in 1991 from the University of Maryland. Mr. Burkart has collaborated on 1,500 projects in the Mid-Atlantic region, including providing geotechnical design for notable projects such as Jefferson Memorial rehabilitation, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Mall Reflecting Pool Rehabilitation, and the Phase 2 Dulles Corridor Metrorail (Silver Line). In 1999, Mr. Burkart and three colleagues founded GeoConcepts Engineering, Inc., which has grown to 60 employees over the past 15 years. As an owner, Mr. Burkart has been able to financially support multiple staff members to obtain their degrees from the University of Maryland. Mr. Burkart has contributed to dozens of technical publications. Most recently, he co-authored a paper for ASCE on the “Settlement Behavior of Compacted Fill Soils Containing Organic Matter,” a subsurface challenge particularly relevant to the Washington Metropolitan Area. Mr. Burkart is active with the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance (VTCA), and American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE).
Martina Driscoll received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1994, and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Cornell University in 1997. Since joining Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE), a firm of architects, engineers and material scientists, Ms. Driscoll has been involved in a wide variety of projects including forensic investigation of existing facilities, repair document preparation and oversight during implementation, material failure investigation and repair, and design peer review and building enclosure commissioning (BECx) on several newly constructed projects. In 2000, Ms. Driscoll participated in the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) 3-month International Exchange Program, through which she worked on documentation of Diocletian’s Palace in Split, Croatia. Ms. Driscoll also worked on the restoration of the Washington Monument following the 2011 Mineral, VA earthquake, and served as the project manager for the BECx process at the approximately 1.5 billion dollar campus for the National Geospatial Information Administration - New Campus East project in Springfield, VA. She has also been involved in several projects involving the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), including participation in a project to establish quantifiable metrics for high performance buildings, and development of a post occupancy evaluation protocol for the General Services Administration (GSA).
Steve Houff has more than 24 years of experience in the construction industry, over 18 of which have been at Forrester Construction. He started at Forrester as a Project Manager in 1999 and quickly worked his way to Project Executive, leading the education market portfolio. After several years as Vice President of Operations, Mr. Houff was named Forrester’s President and CEO in 2016. He has significant experience managing highly complex projects in a wide range of markets and delivery methods, including new construction, renovation, historic preservation, building repositioning and design build.
Scott Greenhaus graduated with degrees in Civil Engineering ('82) and an MBA ('86) from the University of Maryland is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of the Structural Group headquartered in Columbia MD. The Structural Group is a construction technology and service provider specializing in concrete repair, strengthening, protection and new construction products, systems and services throughout the United States and the Middle East. Mr. Greenhaus began his career as an intern in 1980 through the UMD Co-op engineering program with the founding company of Structural Group, Structural Preservation Systems Inc. Mr. Greenhaus has a variety of roles for Structural Group including Project and Branch Management as well a past President of subsidiary post-tensioning company VSL. The company has grown from a 25 person company to 2000 employees and 25 offices. Mr. Greenhaus is a member of the University Of Maryland Civil Engineering Board Of Visitors and has been on the Board of Directors of the Post-tensioning Institute (PTI), International Concrete repair Institute (ICRI) and American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC) and is a member of ASCE, ACI, ANS, and ASSE. Mr. Greenhaus was also the past president of PTI and has chaired many committees in these trade and technical associations.
Dr. Peggy Johnson is currently the dean of the Schreyer Honors College and a professor of civil engineering at Penn State University, where she has been a faculty member since 1996. As the dean of the Schreyer Honors College, she oversees the top 2 percent of Penn State students in all campuses and disciplines. From 2006 to 2015, she was the head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to coming to Penn State, she served on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland. Over her 27 years as a professor in civil engineering, she has conducted research and taught classes in the areas of hydraulic engineering, bridge scour, stream restoration, reliability analyses, and river mechanics. Dr. Johnson has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals on bridge scour, stream restoration, uncertainty in hydraulics, bridge scour, and stream restoration, and the probability of bridge failure due to scour. She is currently working on the stability and vulnerability of stream channel designs at bridges. Her method for assessing stream stability at bridge-stream intersections is now incorporated as part of the Federal Highway Administration’s manual on stream stability at bridges (HEC-20). Associated with her research and educational goals, Dr. Johnson has supervised the dissertations and theses of dozens of Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. students. Dr. Johnson is the past president and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), the largest institute within ASCE with more than 23,000 members. She received the ASCE Hans Albert Einstein award in 2016 for her contributions in the use of sediment transport for the evaluation and design of in-line control structures and stream restoration projects and the use of uncertainty and risk management for scour analyses. She has also received the ASCE-EWRI Outstanding Woman of the Year award. In addition to winning several teaching awards, Dr. Johnson won the National Science Foundation (NSF) Young Investigator award and in 1995, she won the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow award. Dr. She received a master's degree in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1990, both from the University of Maryland.
*Vice Chair, CEE Board of Visitors and Chair, Nominating Committee
Marco Legaluppi is an Executive Vice President with Whitney Bailey Cox & Magnani LLC, (WBCM) and has full responsibility for the structural design and coordination of the firm's building structure departments. Mr. Legaluppi also oversees the architectural department and marketing department in the Baltimore office. In 1984, after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, Mr. Legaluppi landed his first job at Whitney Bailey Cox & Magnani working in the structural department. In 1995, Mr. Legaluppi became WBCM's first employee to receive his master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland while working full time as part of the company’s continuing education program. Because of Mr. Legaluppi’s continued commitment to WBCM, it helped in his advancement in the company from Chief Structural Engineer, Vice President, Senior Vice President, to Executive Vice President and Partner in 2006. Mr. Legaluppi has over 34 years of experience and his body of project work exceeds $100 million in value. Mr. Legaluppi has acted as principal in charge for projects at University of Maryland, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Andrews Air Force Base, the Washington Navy Yard, the US Naval Academy, The Engineers Club at Garrett-Jacobs Mansion, and more recently the historic Rec Pier—which opened as the Sagamore Pendry Luxury Hotel.
Michael Lenkin received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University in 1986 and his M.E. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University in 1987. Mr. Lenkin has been practicing engineering since graduating from Cornell University in 1987. He became licensed as a Professional Engineer in 1990 and is currently licensed as a Professional Engineer in 22 states plus the District of Columbia. Upon graduating from Cornell, Mr. Lenkin continued his career with KCE Structural Engineers, P. C. in Washington, District of Columbia. After several years with KCE, Mr. Lenkin continued his career working for Blake Construction Company to construct the Fort Belvoir Headquarters Complex, and then for M. A. Mortenson Company constructing the Main Terminal Addition. Mr. Lenkin was initially hired by Miller & Long Co., Inc. to help construct the Carolina Panthers Stadium, and has remained with Miller & Long since the stadium was completed. Mr. Lenkin has experience working on hundreds of projects including many major private and government facilities in the Mid-Atlantic region. In addition to his work experience, Mr. Lenkin is twice a past President of the National Capital Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (NCC-ACI), is past chairman of the Structural Engineers Association of Metropolitan Washington (SEA-MW), and a member of the Board of Directors for the District of Columbia Students Construction Trades Foundation (DCSCTF). Mr. Lenkin is currently a member of ASCE, ACI, ICRI, NCC-ACI, and SEA-MW.
David Little graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. In 1986, became one of the founding partners of the engineering firm Gutschick, Little & Weber, P.A. GLW provides planning, engineering and surveying services throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area. Since establishing GLW, he has been a Principal – in- charge of a variety of residential projects ranging in size in both Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties. As an employer, Mr. Little has been very supportive of the Cooperative Education Program at the University and has employed numerous students over the years. Many are still with the firm today and will be guiding GLW into the future. Mr. Little was licensed in 1981 as a Professional Engineer. Active for many years in the Maryland Building Industry Association, he served on the Home Builders Care Foundation (HBCF) for 7 years and President of the Foundation for 3 years. The HBCF constructs shelter related projects throughout the Washington Suburban Area. He also served as a Board of Director for the Building Industry for 10 years and served on the Executive Committee for 2 years. In 2003, Mr. Little received the Building Industry’s Presidents Award and in 2009 received the Joseph C. Rogers Sr. Memorial Award for Outstanding Associate Member for the Building Industry. Currently, while still a Partner at GLW, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Med-Star Montgomery Medical Center Foundation. The Foundation provides funds, through community philanthropy, to the medical center to purchase equipment, support programs and maintain facilities.
*Chair, CEE Board of Visitors
Tony Mawry, PE is a Partner in Wallace Montgomery (WM), a leading transportation consulting firm. As an ENR Top 500 Design Firm, the firm has recognized expertise in the sustainable development of transportation and public works facilities. Respected for their efforts to enhance and protect the environment, the firm has delivered high-quality services to a diverse group of clients since its founding in 1975. Tony holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and an MBA from Loyola University in business administration. At WM, Tony provides technical direction to a staff of Professional Engineers, designers, and technicians involved in highway planning, highway design, environmental studies, and survey operations for Department of Transportation agencies and local transportation departments. He is recognized as a leader in developing multimodal solutions to complex transportation problems. In addition to his technical responsibilities, Tony’s administrative responsibilities at WM include business development, information technology, and finance. Tony has 28 years of experience in planning, design and construction of major transportation projects, including major highways, interchanges, intersections, and transit facilities. Tony focuses on innovative solutions and progressive improvements, such as roundabouts, diverging diamond interchanges, single point urban interchanges, dual roundabout interchanges, continuous flow intersections, complete streets, and green roads. His experience is broad based and includes planning, preliminary engineering, final design and construction phase support for highways and related transportation projects. Throughout the years, Tony has remained active in various organizations within the engineering industry. He served as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Maryland Section. He served as a president of the American Society of Highway Engineers Chesapeake Section. He is a committee chair for the American Council of Engineering Companies Maryland Chapter. He is an active member of the Maryland Association of Engineers. Finally, he is a guest lecturer for the UMD's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering capstone course. 
David Meyers graduated from the University of Maryland in 1979 with a B.S. in civil engineering. He joined The Whiting Turner Contracting Company in 1981 as a Project Engineer. Throughout his career with Whiting-Turner, Mr. Meyers has been involved with and lead teams on numerous interesting and unique projects in various locations across the U.S. including: Horseshoe Casino (Baltimore MD), Universal Studios—Islands of Adventure (Orlando FL), the Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Plant Expansion (Safe Harbor PA), the Tysons Corner Center first expansion and redevelopment (Tysons Corner VA), the Pier 6 Concert Pavilion (Baltimore. MD), Arundel Mills Mall (Hanover, MD), Pittsburgh Mills Mall (Pittsburgh PA), Opry Mills Mall (Nashville TN), Danbury Fair Mall Renovation (Danbury CT), and the St. Regis Hotel Renovation (Washington DC). He was promoted to Division Vice President in 2010 and currently manages six operating groups specializing in retail, hospitality and entertainment construction.
David G. Mongan, P.E. holds a B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Maryland and a M.B.A. from Loyola College of Baltimore, Maryland. He retired as the President of Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani, LLC, an architectural/engineering/construction firm headquartered in Baltimore, MD on June 30, 2009. WBCM provides professional services in architecture, highway and bridge engineering, design of institutional, commercial and industrial structures, transportation planning, environmental engineering, land development and site engineering, planning and urban design, design of waterfront and marine-related facilities, construction management/inspection, and field surveying. Mr. Mongan is active with the American Society of Civil Engineers at the National Level and served as President in 2008. He has been the District 5 Director, Zone 1 Vice President, and Treasurer and served on or as chair of numerous committees. He is Past Chair of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services. He is a past member of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, past member of the Board of Directors of the Engineering Society of Baltimore, and past Co-Chair of the ACEC-MD Legislative Committee. Mr. Mongan currently serves on the Maryland State Board for Professional Engineers, is a Past Chair of the American Association of Engineering Societies, and is the immediate past President of the Engineers Without Boarders-USA. He recently received The President’s Medal for 2012 from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Engineering Society of Baltimore’s Meritorious Service Award for 2011. In 2003 he was awarded the William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award by ASCE.
Robert Rauch is a principal with the civil engineering and construction management firm Rauch Inc. of Easton, Md. After earning his B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Maryland in 1973, Mr. Rauch began his career with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. In 1978, he served for six years as Director of Public Works and Talbot County Engineer before his move to the private sector in 1984. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. Mr. Rauch is a member of the University of Maryland System Board of Regents, National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the University of Maryland Civil Engineering Board of Visitors, the University of Maryland College of Architecture, MRED Board of Advisors and the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. Board of Directors. 
Dr. Sadek is the Leader of the Structures Group at the Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from Southern Methodist University in 1996 and has worked at NIST since then. His research specialties include mitigation of progressive structural collapse, fire performance of structures, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, and wind engineering and structural reliability. He is the co-author of “Ground Motion and Response Spectra” in the Seismic Design Handbook (F. Naeim, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, pp. 47-124) and “Risk Considerations in Tall Building Design” in the Tall Buildings Reference Book (D. Parker and A. Wood, ed., Council on Tall Buildings, Routledge Publishers, 2012). Dr. Sadek is a member of the Executive Committee (ExCom) for the Codes and Standards Activities Division (CSAD) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and is a member of the ASCE Standard Committee on Disproportionate Collapse Mitigation of Building Structures, Technical Committee on Progressive Collapse, and the Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS) Task Group on Robustness. He is the recipient of the Department of Commerce’s Gold Medal Award in 2005 for his role in conducting the NIST federal building and fire safety investigation of the World Trade Center disaster and the Department of Commerce’s Silver Medal Award in 2007 for his role in conducting the NIST reconnaissance following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Dr. Sadek also received the Department of Commerce’s Special Act Award for his contributions to the investigation of the World Trade Center Building 7 collapse in 2008 and the Building and Fire Research Laboratory Communication Award in 2002. In 2012, he received the ASCE’s Moisseiff Award for best publication on structural design. 
Dr. Schwartz received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park, where he teaches courses on pavement design and analysis, advanced soil mechanics, and computational geomechanics (including pavement mechanics). His research interests and experience span the areas of analytical and numerical modeling techniques for pavement structures and characterization and laboratory testing of pavement materials. He has played leadership roles in many national research projects and regularly assists federal, state, and local agencies and private firms on pavement-related topics. He is a current member of TRB (Chair, AFD80—Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Pavement Layers; Member, AFK50—Characteristics of Bituminous Paving Materials to Meet Structural Requirements), ASCE (Chair, Geo-Institute Pavements Committee; Member, T&DI Highway Pavements Committee), AAPT, and ISAP (Member, Technical Committee on Constitutive Modeling of Asphaltic Materials). He is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Pavement Engineering and serves on the editorial boards for the International Journal of Geomechanics, Transportation Geotechnics, and the International Journal of Roads and Airports. He is a co-developer and co-instructor of the recently updated NHI course Geotechnical Aspects of Pavement Design (NHI Course 132040). 
Gregory Slater was appointed by Governor Larry Hogan as the Administrator of the Maryland Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) State Highway Administration (SHA) March 13, 2017. Mr. Slater’s leadership and priorities in the organization center around innovation, modernization, enhanced communication and providing a customer experience while keeping the needs of Maryland citizens at the center of every decision, project and service MDOT/SHA provides. After beginning his career with two years in the private sector, Mr. Slater has focused on public service for the state of Maryland. He has dedicated 20 years to MDOT with experience in both planning and the engineering with a focus on integrating technology and data driven initiatives into the engineering processes. He most recently served as Deputy Administrator for Planning, Engineering, Real Estate and Environment with seven years prior to that as Planning Director.
Eric Tievy holds two Bachelors of Science degrees from the University of Maryland, one from the Robert H. Smith School of Business in Finance received in 1989; the other from the A. James Clark School of Engineering in Civil Engineering received in 1996. During more than 25 years in the construction industry, Mr. Tievy has held purchasing, estimating and project management roles on hundreds of projects. He has worked on projects in almost every commercial construction market, including: commercial base building, government, hospitality, multifamily residential, healthcare, laboratory, education, institutional, correctional facility and mass transit project types. In his current role as the Director of Operations for Consigli Construction, Mr. Tievy oversees and manages the Washington, DC office for the New England-based construction manager. In his previous role, he created a centralized Procurement Group that played a key role in allowing the firm to provide its clients with the most competitive pricing available from subcontractors. Mr. Tievy has also served several terms as a member of the Board of Directors for the Associated Builders and Contractors of Metro Washington, and is certified as a LEED™ Accredited Professional.