During the Concrete Convention and Exposition in Quebec City, QC, Canada, it was announced that University of Texas alumnus Randall W. Poston has been elected to serve as president of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) for 2019-2020, and UT Professor Maria G. Juenger has been elected to serve on the ACI Board of Direction for a three-year term.
President – Randall W. Poston
Randall W. Poston, FACI, is a senior principal with Pivot Engineers, Austin, TX, and Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. For the past 33 years, he has been engaged in the evaluation, repair and strengthening of hundreds of structures. His expertise includes the investigation of structural failures, evaluation of steel corrosion in concrete, structural concrete repair and strengthening design, and non-destructive testing.
He is an active member of numerous technical committees, particularly the ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, of which he served as chair during the 2014 Code cycle. He is also a Trustee of the ACI Foundation and a voting member of Advancing Organizational Excellence.
Poston received the 2015 ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding leadership of Committee 318. He has garnered numerous awards for technical papers and personal awards for service to the profession. Poston is the author of more than 100 nationally and internationally recognized publications. He was also named an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 25 Newsmaker for 2014 for “managing the remake of the global concrete bible.”
Poston was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2017 “for development of diagnostic and repair technologies for concrete structures and leadership in concrete building code development.” He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI), International Federation of Structural Concrete (FIB) and Structural Engineers Association of Texas (SEAoT).
Poston received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He was named a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering in 2014 and elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering in 2008. He is a licensed professional engineer or structural engineer in numerous states.
Director – Maria G. Juenger
Maria G. Juenger, FACI, is a professor and holder of the Austin Industries Endowed Faculty Fellowship in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where she has been since 2002. Her teaching and research focus on materials used in civil engineering applications. She primarily examines chemical issues in cement-based materials, including phase formation in cement clinkering, hydration chemistry of portland cement, calcium sulfoaluminate cement and supplementary cementitious materials, as well as chemical deterioration processes in concrete. In 2005, she received a Faculty Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
Juenger is a member of ACI Committees 130, Sustainability of Concrete; 231, Properties of Concrete at Early Ages; 236, Material Science of Concrete; 240, Pozzolans; 242, Alternative Cements; 318, Structural Concrete Building Code; and S802, Teaching Methods and Educational Materials; and ACI Subcommittees 130-A, Materials, and 318-A, General, Concrete, and Construction.
She is a Fellow of ACI and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). She has received several awards from ACI for her research, teaching and service, including the 2009 Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, the 2010 Young Member Award for Professional Achievement, the 2011 Wason Medal for Materials Research and the 2018 Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award. She is an associate editor of Cement and Concrete Composites and is on the editorial boards of both the Cement and Concrete Research Journal and ACI Materials Journal.
Juenger received her B.S. in chemistry from Duke University and her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University. After completing her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral researcher in civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
About the American Concrete Institute
The American Concrete Institute is a leading authority and resource worldwide for the development, dissemination, and adoption of its consensus-based standards, technical resources, educational & training programs, certification programs, and proven expertise for individuals and organizations involved in concrete design, construction, and materials, who share a commitment to pursuing the best use of concrete.