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Award Winners ACEC presented five Young Professional of the Year awards at its fall Conference in Palm springs, Calif. selected by the ACEC fellows, these engineers were recognized for making significant contributions to the profession at an early stage in their careers. 2009 ACEC Young Professional of the Year Sarah Freeman Water Resources Engineer The Louis Berger Group Washington, D.C. As part of the Louis Berger Group’s International Environmental Resources group, Freeman travels the world to lend expertise on water resources projects. She has served as a field team leader for a sanitation project in rural China; helped develop a water resources planning model in Lima, Peru; and worked on water provision in Ecuador. In 2008, at the 13th World Water Congress in Montpellier, France, Freeman presented a study of water availability in Africa, which calls for basin development and broader riparian interests to promote regional stability. Walter Bogardus Assistant Project Manager Langan Engineering and Environmental Services New Haven, Conn. As project manager, Bogardus was responsible for oversight of conceptual, permitting and construction documents for two projects in 2008 that were recognized by the Connecticut Building Congress for excellence in design. Bogardus also is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, currently serving as the company commander of the 424th Engineer Company in Rutland, Vt. In recent years, Bogardus has been deployed to Germany, Iraq, Kuwait and Niger to support troop construction efforts. K. Brent Gatlin Senior Staff Engineer Langan Engineering and Environmental Services New York, N.Y. Gatlin has extensive international experience. He performed site design and layout for the U.S. Embassy in Panama and designed improvements for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, along with David G. Farragut High School in Rota, Spain. Gatlin also worked with Engineers Without Borders and the Cambodia Water Project to design and construct a dam that provides irrigation water for Cambodians facing severe water shortages. Also active in sustainability, Gatlin has applied “green” design to city parks, greenways, bicycle lanes and other projects. Joseph Tamburini Senior Engineer Tetra Tech RTW Denver, Colo. Tamburini has led the design of five arsenic removal treatment plans using state-ofthe-art technologies, including a novel antimony removal process featuring a combination of pH adjustment and oxidation, followed by coagulation/ filtration. He also develops computer modeling and process simulation tools for water, wastewater and air emissions and maintains software for the American Water Works Association. Tamburini is a U.S. Patent co-author of “Solar Thermal Aerosol Flow Reaction Process,” and has co-authored five papers on energy efficiency. Anna Maria Dix Structural Designer Liftech Consultants Oakland, Calif. As the co-author of “The Floaterm Concept: Reducing Terminal Congestion with Waterside Cranes,” Dix demonstrated how the Floaterm Concept could reduce shipping port terminal congestion, lower pollution and increase productivity. Dix also helped develop the widely used “ductile link” tie-down system for dockside container cranes, greatly improving a structure’s ability to resist extreme winds. She also contributed to a study on dockside container cranes that determined possible causes for chronic unexpected fatigue cracking. NovEmbER / DECEmbER 2009 ENGINEERING INC.

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