Marino Engineering Associates, Inc. (MEA) of St. Louis, Missouri is proud to announce that Dr. Siavash Zamiran, P.E., was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) St. Louis Section to receive the 2018 Young Engineer of the Year Award. This award recognizes professional contributions of Section Members under 35 who have made substantial contributions to the engineering profession as well as the ASCE St. Louis Section. The award was given at the ASCE St. Louis Section 2018 Annual Awards Dinner on September 21, 2018.
Dr. Zamiran is a Project Engineer at MEA, and has worked at the company in various roles since late 2015. He received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in August 2017, with a dissertation on seismic analysis of retaining walls. Dr. Zamiran has published over 30 technical papers and serves on ASCE Rock Mechanics, ASCE Deep Foundations, and Geomate Technical Committees, in addition to being the chair of the Sustainability Committee for ASCE St. Louis.
MEA is a leading expert in advanced subsidence and geotechnical engineering challenges. With over 38 years of service, Marino Engineering Associates, Inc. (MEA) has practice across a wide-ranging scope of geotechnical engineering and subsidence engineering. MEA provides subsidence and geotechnical services including shallow and deep foundation systems, all types of retaining structures, and underground excavations, as well as numerical 2D and 3D seepage, soil-structure interaction analyses, sophisticated slope stability analyses, and rock engineering.