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  • Respected expertise
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  • Increased knowledge base
  • Increased earnings potential

Introduction to the

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COPNE-Profession

The COPNE-Profession comprises the individuals and professional organizations that are engaged in the sustainable development and protection of coastal, ocean, port, and navigation environments for the benefit of society in the United States and foreign countries. ACOPNE has in part been created to complement the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) and provides recognition to those individuals who have excelled in one or more of the sub-disciplines embraced by COPRI. In this regard, ACOPNE has defined the follow subspecialty fields of expertise consistent with the sub-disciplines contained in COPRI.

Coastal Engineering

Coastal engineering involves the practice of civil engineering, as well as the sciences of oceanography and coastal geology concerned with the interactions between water and land, including shorelines, bays, lakes, estuaries, inlets, river mouths, and harbors, and the structures within these environments.

Ocean Engineering

Ocean engineering involves the practice of civil engineering and the science of oceanography concerned with the design, analysis, operation, and planning of systems that operate in the oceanic environment.

Port Engineering

Port engineering involves the practice of civil engineering, environmental engineering, and the science of oceanography concerned with the planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation, pollution control, and technical functioning of ports and harbors.

Navigation Engineering

Navigation engineering involves the life cycle planning, design, construction, operation and life maintenance of safe, secure, reliable, efficient and environmentally sustainable navigable waterways (channels, structures and support systems) used to move people and goods by waterborne vessels.

Additional Fields within the COPNE-Profession

The Board of Trustees, in the name of and on behalf of ACOPNE, may in its sole discretion identify and define additional suitable specialty fields of expertise within the COPNE-Profession.

 

academy News

 

 



Passing of Yoshima Goda
Professor Yoshima Goda

ACOPNE is saddened to hear that Emeritus Professor Yoshimi Goda passed away on 19th January, 2012.  He was a Professor at Yokohama National University from 1988 to 2000.  In addition to being a Distinguished Diplomate in the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port & Navigation Engineers (ACOPNE), he most recently was employed at ECHO Corporation.  Born in 1935, he graduated from The University of Tokyo in 1957, and worked at The Port and Harbour Research Institute, Ministry of Transport, from 1957 to 1988, prior to joining Yokohama National University.

Professor Goda has done a lot of important and valuable researches and published many papers as evident by the number of his papers that are cited by worldwide researchers. He has also received many awards for his research and books.  He will be missed by many lives that he touched, as shown by an outpouring of support and memories of Professor Goda on the Coastal ListServ.

 


 


NEW "DIPLOMATE ADVANTAGE" BROCHURE READY FOR DOWNLOAD

Civil Engineering Certification, Inc. (CEC) has developed a brochure for Diplomates to give to their clients that explains the advantages of hiring a Diplomate of the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers.  To download a copy of the brochure, please click here.

Two ACONPE Diplomates Elected to Serve on ASCE's Board of Direction

Stephen CurtisStephen A. Curtis, P.E., D.PE, M.ASCE 
ASCE At-Large Director
Stephen A. Curtis represents civil engineers from the Society’s 10 regional governing boards.Curtis is a program lead for Collins Engineers, Inc., in Newport News, Va. He has also served as vice president and program lead for ports, harbors and waterways for Tetra Tech EC, Inc., senior supervising marine engineer for PB Americas and a senior project manager for CH2M Hill-Lockwood Greene.

 

 

Billy Edge
Billy E. Edge, Ph.D., P.E., D.CE, Dist.M.ASCE
Technical Region Director
Billy Edge represens members from all technical groups and Institutes. Edge is a professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and head of coastal processes and engineering at the Coastal Studies Institute at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. 

 

 

 

 

Diplomates Robert Dalrymple and Robert Nichol become latest honored with Distinguished Membership within ASCE

Congratulations to both Robert A. Dalrymple, PhD, PE, D.CE, NAE, Dist.M.ASCE and Robert D. Nichol, PE, Dist.D.PE for earning their Dist.M.ASCE credential!  Distinguished Membership is the highest recognition the Society may confer, second only to the title ASCE President. It is reserved for members of the Society who have attained the grade of Member or Fellow and who demonstrate acknowledged eminence in some branch of engineering or in its related arts and sciences.

The Class of 2011 will be formally inducted during the 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Memphis, Tenn. on October 20, 2011. Since 1852, only 615 individuals have been elected to Distinguished Membership. The complete listing of the Class of 2011 can be found on ASCE’s website by clicking here.

 

Latest Class of Diplomates Inducted in San Diego

The 6th Induction Ceremony for the Academy took place on Monday, August 22nd from 11:45 am - 1:15 pm as part of COPRI's Coastal Engineering Practice conference.  If you are a Diplomate and have not participated in a ceremony yett, please contact staff via email: bsien@asce.org and we'd be happy to include you in the next special event!  To find out more about the conference, please click here.

Group photo of ACOPNE Diplomates inducted in San Diego

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Inaugural class of Diplomates inducted in Jacksonville, FL at Ports 2010

Press Release

 

Group photo of all the inaugural Diplomates in Jacksonville

2nd Ceremony in Houston, TX at OTC

Press Release

Group photo of 8 newly inducted Diplomates of Academy

(From L to R: John Bomba, Richard Seymour, Steven Balint, Gordon Sterling, Jack Templeton, Robert Dean, Robert Randall, and David Wisch)

3rd Ceremony in Shanghai, China at ICCE

Diplomates from 3rd Ceremony in China


(From L to R: Minoru Hanzawa, Shigeo Takahashi, Orville Magoon, Jentsje van der Meer, Jane McKee Smith, David Kriebel, Qihua Zuo, Jiufeng Ge)

4th Ceremony in Memphis, TN at Inaugural COPRI Congress

4th Class of Diplomates of ACOPNE

(L to R, First Row: Orville Magoon, Nancy Powell, Thomas Pierro, Catherine Dunn, Scott Noble, Martin Eskijian. 2nd Row: Michael Cox, Steven Hughes, Julie Dean Rosati, unknown, Billy Edge, Christopher Bender, Harley Winer, Stanley White, Robert Kirby, Allen Dupont, RIchard Czlapinski.

 

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