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Brendan Gilbreth, an Oregon State University student, has been recognized as one of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2023 New Faces of Civil Engineering in the Collegiate category.

ASCE‘s New Faces of Civil Engineering program highlights up-and-coming civil engineering students from around the country and celebrates their academic and professional achievements, as well as their commitment to serving others.

Gilbreth is focusing on civil engineering and forest engineering. He currently is treasurer of the university’s ASCE chapter. Gilbreth also was the paddling lead of OSU’s concrete canoe team from 2020-2022 and has served as ASCE Community Service chair, helping organize volunteers and acts of service in the community through ASCE.

All New Faces honorees will be recognized during ASCE’s annual Outstanding Projects and Leaders Gala in October in Chicago in conjunction with the ASCE convention.

Ten college students were named to the list, including Gilbreth. Another Pacific Northwest student, Peter Yu, also was recognized. He is a civil engineering student at the University of Washington in Seattle and is the UW’s ASCE student chapter president, as well as an ASCE national student ambassador.

After working in UW’s Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory, Yu has pursued the areas of traffic operations, simulation and safety. He independently developed two new highway interchange designs and novel traffic signal control schemes for them and also developed three new kinematic formulas to determine yellow light times at signalized intersections. The work earned him the Best Student Paper Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers Western District.