Dr. Adjo Amekudzi, associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and deputy director of the Georgia Transportation Institute and the Georgia Tech University Transportation Center, was recently named to the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE), an operating unit of the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Research Council (NRC). BICE is the principal unit of the NRC concerned with the built environment and is governed by a group of recognized experts in the built environment disciplines (engineering, architecture, planning, etc.).
Dr. Amekudzi studies systems problems on the integrated built and natural environment to understand how we can make better decisions on built systems to promote sustainable development. Her current research focuses on the development and application of sustainability planning and evaluation methods to built systems. Dr. Amekudzi is involved in course development to address these areas in the curriculum and teaches courses which address the proper stewardship of infrastructure for sustainable development. A two-time invitee of the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Program, Amekudzi is also on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation and Sustainability - The Journal of Record; and associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems. She serves as faculty advisor for Georgia Tech's chapters of Engineers Without Borders and the Women's Transportation Seminar. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University (1994), an M.S. in Civil Engineering (Transportation) from Florida International University (1996), an M.S. in Civil Infrastructure Systems (1997) and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (1999) from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Amekudzi joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1999.
BICE advises the executive and legislative branches of government and the private sector on questions of technology, science and public policy; and, the relationship between the constructed and natural environments and their interaction with human activities. Its members are chosen from industry, academia, research institutes and government to provide a diversity of viewpoints and a balanced spectrum of knowledge. The BICE brings together in an independent forum expertise from a wide range of scientific, engineering, and social science disciplines to address problems and issues in these areas. It provides a unique structure to respond to specific requests from government, or to act on its own initiative with public or private sector support. In pursuit of its goals, the BICE develops strategic plans and oversees committee activities involving studies, briefings, workshops, symposia, and a variety of information dissemination activities. The NRC appoints members for three-year terms. The current Board is comprised of the following individuals:
David J. Nash (NAE), Chair
President, Dave Nash & Associates
Adjo A. Amekudzi*
Associate Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Alfredo H-S. Ang* (NAE)
Research Professor of Civil Engineering
University of California-Irvine
Jesus M. de la Garza
Professor
Construction Eng and Management
Virginia Tech
G. Brian Estes
Consulting Engineer
Lucia E. Garsys
Quality Services Executive Officer
Hillsborough County Florida
Theodore C. Kennedy
Peter Marshall, Chair FFC
Consulting Engineer
James B. Porter Jr.
Deborah Slaton*
Architectural Conservator and Senior Consultant
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
David A. Skiven*
Co-Director
Engineering Society of Detroit Institute
E. Sarah Slaughter
Senior Lecturer and Sustainable Lab Coordinator
Sloan School of Management, MIT
William A. Wallace
Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute