Bruce E PodwalBruce Podwal received a B.C.E. from City College of New York (CCNY) and an M.S.C.E. from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. A licensed Professional Engineer in eight states. he managed major engineering projects including the $10 billion Westway projct in NYC, $200 million Guam Island-Wide Program, $2 billion Ankara-Gerede Motorway in Turkey, Hong Kong's $400 million Central Kowloon Route, and Houston's $3 billion Katy Freeway. He provided technical expertise on the Panama Canal Expansion, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Dubai's Palm Island. Podwal served on the board of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a 12,000-person engineering firm, where he was manager for the region from New York to Virginia and CEO of several of its subsidiaries. He served on the South Bay Expressway LLC board as the representative of the U.S. DOT, a partial owner of this privatized San Diego toll road. A Fellow of ASCE, Podwal was elected a Director to ASCE's National Board. He served on ASCE's Committee on Advancing the Profession and the editorial board of its Leadership and Management in Engineering journal and chaired its International Activities Committee and Task Committee to Study Professional Liability & Risks/Claims Management. He was President of ASCE's NYC-based Metropolitan Section and received its Thomas C. Kavanagh Service Award. Podwal co-authored Highway Engineering, in McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers, 2nd and 3rd editions. He authored and presented numerous papers including Consortium Teams: How to Make Them Work Multinational, at ASCE's Annual Conference and chaired the California Engineering Foundation's Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation conference. Podwal presented a two-week seminar on the design of highways, toll roads, tunnels and bridges at the Beijing Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute and guest lectured at the University of Houston and Turkey's Middle East Technical University. Podwal chaired the CCNY Dept. of Civil Engineering Advisory Board and presented Project Management Challenges of Major International Engineering Projects, at the CCNY seminar series named in his honor. He was elected a CCNY Chapter Honor Member of Chi Epsilon (the civil engineering honor society) and received the CCNY Engineering School Alumni's Career Achievement Award. Read More Read Less