Region 7 Board of Governors
Robert W. Stokes, Ph.D., F.ASCE (Kansas Section) Director/Chair
Kansas State University
Dept. of Civil Engineering
2118 Fiedler Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
Tel: (785) 532-1595
Robert W. Stokes earned a bachelor's degree in general engineering from Antioch College, a master of science in civil engineering from Ohio State University, and a doctorate in urban and regional science from Texas A&M University. He is presently professor of civil engineering and adjunct professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State University. He previously served as a program manager in the urban mobility program of Texas A&M University's Texas Transportation Institute, as an adjunct professor of transportation at Texas Southern University, and as an associate research planner at the Texas Transportation Institute. His ASCE involvement has included service as a faculty advisor to Kansas State University's student chapter, a member of the Committee on Student Activities, a member and chair of the District 16 Council, and a Region 7 governor. He is a charter member of the Transportation and Development Institute.
F. Jay Burress, PE, M.ASCE (Kansas City Section) Governor
18787 Walmer Street
Stilwell, KS 66085
Tel: (913) 888-7868
Thomas A. Chapel, P.E., M.ASCE (Colorado Section) Governor
3801 Automation Way, Ste 100
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Tel: (970) 223-9600
Tom is Manager of the Geotechnical Engineering Group in the Fort Collins office of Tetra Tech MM. Tom has a B.Sc. degree in Geology (Mesa State College) and an M.Sc. Degree in Geotechnical Engineering (Colorado State University), and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado, Illinois (in process), New Mexico, Utah, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming; a Certified Professional Geologist; and a Professional Geologist in Texas. In his 30 plus year career, Tom has developed a broad engineering and geologic practice including applications in hard and soft rock mining; transportation; water resources; pipelines and storage tanks; municipal infrastructure; forensics and expert witness services; construction phase services; industrial, commercial and residential development; and environmental engineering/investigation.
Jeffrey L. Fouse, P.E., F.ASCE (St. Louis Section) Governor
1216 Moncoeur Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146
Tel: (314) 569-3866
D. V. Griffiths, Ph.D., D.Sc., P.E., F.ASCE (Colorado Section) Governor/Treasurer
Division of Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Tel: (303) 273 3669
www.mines.edu/~vgriffit
Vaughan Griffiths completed his Masters degree at UC Berkeley and Doctoral degrees at the University of Manchester, U.K. He is currently Professor of Civil Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines where his primary research interests lie in application of finite element methods to a broad range of geotechnical engineering topics. He was previously on the Civil Engineering faculty at the University of Manchester, UK and has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Sydney, Australia and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has written over 200 research papers and is the co-author of three textbooks, “Programming the Finite Element Method”, 4th edition, Wiley (2004), “Numerical Methods for Engineers”, 2nd edition, Chapman & Hall/CRC (2006) and “Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering” Wiley (2008). He gives regular short-courses for ASCE Continuing Education on “Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering” and "Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering". He is a Past-President of the Colorado Section of ASCE and currently serves as an Editor of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and as a member of the ASCE Publications Committee. Dr. Griffiths is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Colorado and is a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.
Loras A. Klostermann, P.E., M.ASCE (Nebraska Section) Governor/Vice-Chair
The Schemmer Associates
1044 North 115th Street, Ste. 300
Omaha, NE 68154
Tel: (402) 493-4800
Michael Vander Wert, P.E., M.ASCE (Iowa Section) Governor
1358 E 3rd Street
Pella, IA 50219
Tel: (641) 628-8347
