Introduction to the
academy
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
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
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Two ACONPE Diplomates Elected to Serve on ASCE's Board of Direction
Stephen 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 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.
(1st Row, L to R: Michael Cox, Douglas Gaffney, Kevin Knuuti, Neal Gruber, Young Kim; 2nd Row, L to R: Donald Treadwell, Joseph Colonell, Billy Edge, Michael Ports, Walter Crampton, ChiaChi Lu, Ronald Heffron, Carl Strock, Richard Czlapinski, Christopher Day, Scott Douglass, Dennis Webb, Kathy Caldwell)
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Inaugural class of Diplomates inducted in Jacksonville, FL at Ports 2010
(From L to R, Front to Back: Row 1: Stephen Curtis, Stanley White, Douglas Thiesson, Thomas Wakeman III, Thomas Campbell, Richard Czlapinski, Walter Crampton, Michael Ports, William McAnally, Robert Nichol, Edward Schmeltz; Row 2: Larry Daggett, James Dailey, Albert Browder, James Marino, Michael Whelan; Row 3: Thomas Spencer, Cliff Truitt, Michael Walther, Jack Cox, Karyn Erickson, Robert Kirby, Matthew Martinez, Lesley Ewing, Stephen Dickenson, James Clausner, Billy Edge; Row 4: Fernando Pages, Allen Dupont, Laurence Emsley, Michael Briggs, James Blanchar, Charles Calhoun, Jr., Peter Marshall, Scott Hagen, Ronald Noble, John Headland, Kevin Bodge, Christopher Creed)
2nd Ceremony in Houston, TX at OTC
(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
(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
(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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