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Klotz Honored With National Award
D. Wayne Klotz, president of Klotz Associates Inc., an engineering firm specializing in transportation, traffic, water and sewer, aviation, drainage and land development services, will be awarded the 2005 Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award is given in recognition of the advancement of science and professionalism in engineering and will be presented on October 27 at the Leadership and Management Luncheon being held during ASCE's Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.
When Klotz, who is being recognized for his dedication to resolving infrastructure issues and improving engineering educational opportunities, took on the role of president in 1987, Klotz Associates was a small, Houston-based practice with a staff of 12. Currently, the firm employs more than 90 professionals with offices in Houston, Austin, Lufkin and San Antonio.
Klotz serves on the Houston-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District Board of Directors and the Harris County Flood Control Task Force. He has previously chaired the Harris County Clear Creeks Parks Committee and is actively involved with the Greater Houston Partnership, serving on such committees as Infrastructure and Transportation, Local Government Relations, Flood Control, and Water Issues, of which he was chair.
Klotz has provided leadership for ASCE nationally and locally including serving as director of District 15, chair of the Committee on Employment Conditions and as director and president of the Texas Section. He is also a past director of the Texas Council of Engineering Companies.
During his 30-year career, Klotz has received numerous professional honors and awards including the ASCE Texas Section's Award of Honor and Daniel Mead Prize, and the ASCE Houston Branch's Award of Honor. He was named a Distinguished Graduate of the Texas A&M Department of Civil Engineering, an honor given to less than one percent of the department's graduates, and is one of only 20 professionals to serve on the Department's Advisory Council.
A registered professional engineer in Texas and Louisiana, Klotz holds bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and the University of Houston, respectively. Klotz is a resident of Katy.
Other award winners from Texas are:
From Spring, LeAnne M. Napolillo, P.E., M.ASCE, who will be presented the Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement; from Austin, Chandra Bhat, Ph.D., P.E., A.M.ASCE, will be presented the James Laurie Prize; and from Houston, Douglas J. Nyman, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, winner of the Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award (presented at the Pipelines '05 Conference late August in Houston).
Texas Good Roads Hosts Top Brass
General Tommy Franks was among the dignitaries in attendance at Texas Good Roads/Transportation Association's annual meeting held in early July in Austin. The program included panel discussions on rail relocation, the Trans-Texas Corridor and a TxDOT workshop on innovative financing.
Road Hand Awards were presented during a ceremonial luncheon. The honorees were: Roger H. Hord, CEO for the West Houston Association; Jack Hatchell, a longtime supporter of transportation issues in the Dallas area; Charles E. Powell, for his support of transportation issues in San Angelo; and Richard P. LeBlanc, Jr., who worked closely with TxDOT during his 18-year tenure as a Jefferson County judge.
Grant to Help Prepare Students for Careers in Construction
The Associated General Contractors of America and the U.S. Department of Labor recently announced $235,500 in grant funding from DOL to establish eight new Construction Career Academies across the U.S.
The grant is funded under President Bush's High-Growth Job Training Initiative, which seeks to leverage the publicly funded workforce system more effectively in collaboration with private and public sector partners, and to prepare new and incumbent workers with the general and industry-specific skills demanded by employers. This initiative focuses on high-growth industries-such as construction-where specialized skills training curricula needs to be developed or upgraded to ensure that workers have the right skills for the right jobs.
Through the grant, the AGC said it will provide funding to eight of its chapters to start Construction Career Academies in their local communities. Each sub-grantee will receive more than $20,000 during the course of the three year grant. Additionally, each AGC Chapter will be supporting these local schools through matching funds and in-kind contributions.
Among the eight sub-grantee recipients is the AGC of Houston and the Houston Independent School District.
The Houston Independent School District, in partnership with Houston AGC, will work to implement between two to six new construction career academies over the three-year lifecycle of the DOL grant. Houston Community College has also committed to assist in training teachers, aligning the high school curriculum with college level courses and offering dual credit where possible. An AGC report said the Houston AGC is about to revolutionize the public education system in Texas by delivering on its commitment to establish construction career academies across the district.
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