2025 committee members

2024 Zia Lecture Committee with speakers

  • Amy Alexander, NC State CCEE

  • Leo Barcley, PE (Chair), Kimley-Horn and Associates

  • Nicholas D’Aiuto, Infrastructure Consulting & Engineering (Chair-elect)

  • Trey Carroll, PE, NCDOT 

  • Greg Cols, PE, AECOM (Past Chair)

  • Santiago Aguilar, PE , Moffatt & Nichol (Past Chair)

  • Shawnak Doshi, Brasfield & Gorrie

  • Venkata Kollipara, PE, PMP, Hardesty & Hanover

  • Greg Lucier, Ph.D., NC State CCEE

  • Ben Mielke, PE (Chair), Bennett & Pless (Past Chair)

  • Kyle Muench, PE, AECOM

  • Ana Paula Bona, NC State CCEE Graduate Student

  • Nubia Renhe, NC State CCEE Graduate Student

  • Rudi Seracino, Ph.D., NC State CCEE

  • David B. Simpson Jr., PE, WGI

  • Stacey Smith, PE, Smith Gardner, Inc.

  • Travis Stump, PE, Benesch

  • Matt West, PE, Dewberry, CCEE Advisory Board Liaison

Past committee members

  • Keith Paschal, Benesch

  • Kevin Austin, RK&K

  • Brian Hanks, NCDOT

  • Will Letchworth, McAdams

  • Matthew Hopkins, Kimley-Horn and Associates

  • Don Kline, PE Kimley-Horn and Associates

  • Mike Creed, PE McKim & Creed

  • Greg Perfetti, PE NCDOT

  • Phil Freelon, AIA The Freelon Group

  • Darrin Holt, PE, Ph.D. FDH

  • Barbara Mulkey, PE Mulkey

  • Pam Townsend, PE WSP USA

  • Valoree Eikinas, PE Calyx Engineers

  • Timothy Hilton, PE LHC Structural Engineers

  • Bobby Lasater, PE LHC Structural Engineers

  • Chuck Lysaght, PE Lysaght & Associates

  • George List, PE, PhD. NCSU CCEE

  • Wayne Place, PE, PhD. NCSU College of Design

  • Tom Koch, PE NCDOT (Retired)

  • Sami Rizkalla, PhD NCSU CCEE (Retired)

  • Dean Penny, PE Kimley-Horn and Associates

  • Michael Stone, PE Lysaght & Associates

  • Mitch Taylor, PE Andrews Consulting Engineers

  • Robert Macia, PE Scalene Design

  • Lora Bremer, NC State Engineering Foundation

  • Emily Ullmer, PhD, PE WSP USA

  • Jacob Bowes, EI McKim & Creed

  • Christine Herrick, PE Kimley-Horn and Associates

  • Lindsay Smith, NCSU CCEE

  • Nicole Brown, PE - Benesch

  • Ariadne Palma Parra - NCSU

Banner Photo Credit to NY State Thruway Authority (2018 Lecture topic)