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Engineers Nominated By National Society of Professional Engineers Christopher Bender, Ph.D., P.E. In addition to his engineering projects, Dr. Bender is an avid researcher and has helped expand the body of knowledge in this field through five refereed journal articles within the past five years. He also has given presentations at the 2004 and 2006 International Conference on Coastal Engineering, 2005 Clean Beaches Council Conference, 2004 Association of Flood Plain Managers Conference, and at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Outside of work, Dr. Bender enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing tennis, cooking, and visiting the beach. Ian Crawford, P.E. Crawford has served as a mentor for the National Engineers Week Future City Competition in 2006 and 2007. He also is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, and the National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, Pi Tau Sigma. Captain Stephen Leggiero, P.E. Leggiero’s work for the Air Force also includes developing an integrated structural health monitoring system to reduce the inspection burden on aging aircraft and investigating an aircraft flaw at the request of the Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, which led Leggiero to predict a fatal structural failure. Erin Baker Wagoner, E.I.T. Ms. Wagoner also developed and manages the University of Louisville engineering school’s involvement in International Service Learning, an educational curriculum through which students assist developing communities in Belize. Over the past two years, she has helped bring clean water to Gales Point, Belize, by repairing water distribution system components, training individuals to collect and test water quality samples, and speaking to residents and community leaders about the causes of pollution and its impact on local water quality. « BACK |
Christopher Bender, Ph.D., P.E., a project engineer at Taylor Engineering, Inc. in Jacksonville, Florida, works on leading-edge coastal engineering issues, such as beach recession and hurricane inundation. Currently, he is part of a select team studying post-Hurricane Katrina storm surge with models and supercomputing techniques in order to develop water level and nearshore wave estimates necessary to properly redevelop and protect New Orleans and coastal Louisiana. Results from this study already have been applied by several state and federal agencies. 
Ian Crawford, P.E., a structural engineer with Bechtel, is currently based in Doha, Qatar, where he is serving as a structural site engineer on the New Doha International Airport. Prior to this position, he was deployed to coastal Mississippi just days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf states and spent three months helping storm victims and assisting in the rebuilding of their communities. He also has worked as a structural design engineer on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Earthquake Safety Program, helping to strengthen the 35-year-old transit system in preparation for a large earthquake.
Captain Stephen Leggiero, P.E., a Global Hawk Project Engineer with the U.S. Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base, California, has a master’s degree in systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, as well as a master’s in mechanical engineering from Wright State University. His accomplishments include forging the 57-engineer Global Hawk UAV flight test team; establishing the first Global Hawk modeling and simulation-based test plan, which was completed 31 weeks ahead of schedule and saved the program $452 million; executing the first flight of the Global Hawk Block 20; conducting the first UAV wet-runway landing; raising Global Hawk cross-wind limits, thereby increasing the operational landing capability; and executing a fuel starvation evaluation.
Erin Baker Wagoner, E.I.T., a project engineer at Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. (formerly Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott & May Engineers) in Louisville, Kentucky, provides water resource and stormwater management compliance support services to municipal and state government clients. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing stormwater quality plans, performing ordinance assessments and operations audits, working with elected and public stakeholder groups, and evaluating program-financing opportunities to achieve regulatory compliance and protect local waterways.
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