ODU hires new engineering dean
Old Dominion University announced Tuesday it has hired Jeffrey Fergus to be the next dean of the Batten College of Engineering and Technology, starting Aug. 10. Fergus is currently the associate dean for undergraduate studies and program assessment in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University in Alabama, where he’s worked as a […]
Chips ahoy
Finally, the world is catching up with Virginia Tech‘s semiconductor curriculum. Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering started a chip-scale integration major in 2016, but it wasn’t exactly high profile when Sheena Deivasigamani arrived at Virginia Tech as a first-year engineering student in 2019. Chip-scale integration wasn’t even on Deivasigamani’s radar. Tech was t[...]
Guidehouse lands $12B ICBM support contract
McLean-based consultancy Guidehouse has won a contract valued up to $12 billion for systems engineering supporting the Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missiles fleet, although the initial contract awardee has filed a protest. The single-award contract, announced Feb. 28 by the Defense Department and April 15 by Guidehouse, is the Integration Support Contract 2.0. Guidehouse was [&hell[...]
NNS funding helps launch ODU engineering program
Newport News Shipbuilding will be the lead industry sponsor of Old Dominion University’s program to graduate more engineers, the two organizations announced Tuesday. NNS, a division of Newport News-based Fortune 500 military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, will make a five-year financial commitment to the Monarch Accelerator Program to Engineering (MAP-to-E), ODU’s program t[...]
Bowman appoints first chief revenue officer
Lance Hendrix has been named Bowman Consulting Group’s inaugural chief revenue officer, the Reston-based engineering services firm announced Wednesday. Hendrix, who will be based in Reston, has more than 30 years of engineering and construction management experience focused on the power, renewables and industrials markets. “Lance’s experience and impressive track record in the engine[...]
Real Estate 2023: DONALD E. STONE JR.
Stone, who has been Dewberry’s chief executive since 2010, oversees a $602.7 million engineering, architecture and construction firm with more than 60 offices nationwide. A 1980 civil engineering graduate of The Citadel, Stone was an Army second lieutenant, and after leaving the military in 1983, he joined the engineering firm O’Brien & Gere, serving in […]
Real Estate 2023: TONY FIORILLO
Fiorillo was promoted to president of the ECS Group of Cos. in April 2020 after serving as chief operating officer. He began his career at ECS in 1993 as a field technician. Fiorillo leads the development of the organization’s long- and short-term strategies and manages overall operations. He also oversees the company’s fiscal activity, including […]
Real Estate 2023: BRENDAN BECHTEL
Serving as CEO since 2016 and chairman since 2017, Bechtel is the fifth generation to lead his family-owned global engineering, construction and project management company. Ranked the nation’s second largest construction company by Engineering News-Record, Bechtel Corp. has completed more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries since its 1898 founding in San Francisco. The firm’s [&helli[...]
Real Estate 2023: BRIAN F. BORTELL
Bortell has been with Timmons Group for over three decades, starting his career with the company as an entry-level engineer and working his way up into his current role. He sets the strategic direction for the 1,000-plus-person firm and oversees its four operating divisions and 18 offices across the U.S. Under Bortell’s leadership, Timmons Group […]
Real Estate 2023: GARY BOWMAN
Bowman was a principal for 15 years at Urban Engineering before founding Bowman Consulting, which started as a five-person company at its inception in 1995. The publicly traded engineering services firm now has about 1,700 employees and 80 offices nationwide, including eight in Virginia. The company moved up 31 spaces to No. 87 this year […]
2023 Virginia 500: Real Estate
Patrick Bain PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE LONG & FOSTER COS., CHANTILLY Stephen Ballard PRESIDENT AND CEO, S.B. BALLARD CONSTRUCTION, VIRGINIA BEACH Brendan Bechtel CHAIRMAN AND CEO, BECHTEL CORP., RESTON Brian F. Bortell PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, TIMMONS GROUP, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY Gary Bowman FOUNDER, CEO AND CHAIRMAN, BOWMAN […]
VCU names new engineering dean
Azim Eskandarian, a Virginia Tech mechanical engineering professor and department head, has been named the next dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering, VCU announced Tuesday. Eskandarian, whose appointment takes effect Aug. 1, will also serve as the William H. Goodwin Jr. Endowed Chair of the engineering college. He’s currently department head and […]