Movers and Shakers highlights the career advancements and accomplishments of high-level trailblazers working professionally in diverse areas of standardization, contributing every day to the strength and success of the U.S. standards and conformance community.
ASTM International’s vehicle-pavement systems committee (E17) recently awarded Mike Bilbee with its Billiard-Stubstad Award, in recognition of his exemplary technical, practical, and/or administrative contributions to the pavement engineering community through standards development efforts.
Bilbee is a senior test engineer at Transportation Research Center, Inc, where he has worked since 2009. His career focus is vehicle testing, and his most recent effort with ASTM has been overseeing the E274 locked wheel friction tester calibration and correlation program.
Formed in 1960, ASTM Committee E17 on Vehicle - Pavement Systems has 11 technical subcommittees that focus on standards that play a role in all aspects of pavement management technologies, vehicle pavement interactions, and intelligent transportation systems.
Established in 2015, the Billiard-Stubstad award was created in honor of Gary Billiard, who worked on Committee E17 and was instrumental in the development of the Outflow Meter contained in E2380, and Richard Stubstad, who worked on Committees D18 (Soil and Rock), D04 (Road and Paving Materials), and E17. Both Billiard and Stubstad devoted over twenty years of their careers to ASTM International. Their commitment to professional activities in the pavement engineering field contributed to numerous standards development activities.
Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) recently appointed Dr. Debra Lew as its executive director. She assumes the role after serving as the organization’s associate director for almost four years.
Lew has more than 30 years of experience, including at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and GE Energy Consulting, where she managed power system studies on wind, solar, storage, and distributed energy resources integration.
Lew will succeed Charlie Smith, who has served as the organization’s executive director since its creation in 1989. Smith will continue to serve ESIG half-time as a principal consultant.
“Debbie brings a wealth of knowledge and strong leadership to ESIG,” said Mark Ahlstrom, president of the ESIG board. “She is trusted by our membership, and is especially well positioned to lead ESIG as we continue to support the transformation of energy systems in ways that are technically sound, reliable, economic, and sustainable. Charlie’s passion for ESIG’s work is contagious among our staff and members, and Debbie is the ideal successor to perpetuate his legacy.”
“I am both delighted and humbled to be named ESIG’s executive director,” said Lew. “ESIG plays a critical role in the world’s evolving electricity and integrated energy systems landscape, and it is a true honor to lead our outstanding staff and membership base in their efforts to contribute meaningful solutions toward a clean energy future.”
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