January/February 2024 - 25

Introducing New Board of
Trustees Members
D F I A C T I V I T I E S
Petek is a senior associate geoNew
trustees, Kathryn Petek and Silas Nichols
DFI's membership voted to elect two
new members to the DFI Board of
Trustees. Their terms began on January
1. Members also re-elected four trustees
for new 3-year terms.
The newly elected trustees are Silas
Nichols, P.E., Federal Highway Administration's
(FHWA) Office of Infrastructure,
and Kathryn Petek, Ph.D., P.E.,
Shannon & Wilson.
Nichols is the principal geotechnical
engineer for the FHWA's Office of
Infrastructure responsible for providing
leadership and direction for the
FHWA National Geotechnical Team
through policy support, technical
developments and coordination with
industry and professional groups. He is
internationally recognized for accomplishments
related to design and
construction, risk in project delivery,
and quality assurance in foundation
construction. Nichols is a certified
instructor and master trainer for the
National Highway Institute and
teaches classes part time at the University
of Delaware. He has a bachelor's
degree in civil engineering from
Syracuse University, and a master's
degree in geotechnical engineering
from Tufts University.
technical engineer at Shannon &
Wilson with more than 18 years of
experience in design, construction and
research. She has led numerous transportation
infrastructure projects that
include design and construction of
bridges and approach structures. Petek
served as principal investigator for the
recently completed FHWA research
study on bearing resistance of large
diameter open-end piles and has
unique expertise related to design,
construction and load testing of large
diameter deep foundations. She is a
member of the DFI Driven Pile, Drilled
Shaft and Women in Deep Foundations
(WiDF) committees and was the cotechnical
program chair for the 2023
DFI Annual Conference on Deep
Foundations. She earned a bachelor's
degree in civil and environmental
engineering from the University of
Michigan, and master's and doctorate
degrees in civil and environmental
engineering from the University of
Washington.
The four trustees who were reelected
to serve another term are: John
Anderson, Specrete-IP; Allen Cadden,
P.E., BC.GE, Schnabel Engineering;
Lucky Nagarajan, Geocomp; and
Kwabena Ofori-Awuah, P.E., BC.GE, ENV
SP, Koforia.
DFI is very appreciative of the
support and service of outgoing trustees
Matthew Meyer, P.E., BC.GE, Langan,
and Stefano Valagussa, Treviicos.
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