Kuhlow is qualified as a Level 3 roundabout designer for
the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT),
the state’s highest level. He has extensive knowledge and
expertise in WisDOT procedures for design and for plans,
specifications, and estimates. Kuhlow worked with WisDOT
and the Florida DOT (FDOT) to develop their roundabout
design guidelines, and he has provided roundabout
design reviews for FDOT projects. He has developed and
provided roundabout design training workshops for DOTs
in Wisconsin, Florida, and Georgia, and he has presented at
numerous conferences.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a registered
professional engineer in Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida,
Arkansas, Minnesota, and Indiana.
Traffic engineer receives
ITE award
Ken Voigt, left, and
Michael Sanderson,
ITE International
President
Ken Voigt, senior traffic engineer,
recently received the Burton W. Marsh
Award for his sustained leadership and
service in the Institute of Transportation
Engineers (ITE) and the transportation/
traffic engineering profession. He
received the award at the Joint ITE
International and Midwestern/Great
Lakes Districts annual meeting and
exhibit in Minneapolis.
Based in the Waukesha office, Voigt has been an active
contributor to ITE for decades and has continued to take
on important responsibilities long after having served
as ITE international president in 2009. Most recently, he
was a major contributor to ITE efforts to establish a new
strategic plan for 2018-2020. Voigt has pushed to add new
programs, including the Collegiate Traffic Bowl, in which
student chapters from the United States and Canada
compete in a test of their traffic, engineering, planning,
and ITE knowledge. Voigt’s passions also include ITE’s
Journal of Transportation, and he has continued his active
participation and leadership through the Transportation
Consultants Council and the Sustainability Task Force.
Voigt has been a member of ITE since 1968 and has been
a district director and vice president of the Midwestern
District and president of the Wisconsin Section.
Voigt is a registered professional engineer with more than
50 years of professional experience in the private and
public sectors as a traffic engineer and transportation
planner. Voigt is the 49th recipient of the Burton Marsh
Award, which recognizes an individual who has made an
outstanding contribution to the advancement of ITE over
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a period of years. Marsh was a founder, president, former
executive secretary, and 50-year member of ITE.
Founded in 1930, ITE is a community of more than 15,000
transportation professionals in more than 90 countries,
including transportation engineers, transportation planners,
consultants, educators, technologists, and researchers.
A banquet celebrating the project and others recognized
in this year’s competition was held March 23 in Kohler,
Wisconsin.
Staff member earns top hydraulic
engineering award
Pete Lagasse, a senior hydraulic
engineer in Ayres Associates’ Fort
Collins office, was awarded the Mark
Miles Distinguished Hydraulic Engineer
award at the 2018 National Hydraulic
Engineering Conference in Columbus,
Ohio, in August. The biennial award
recognizes the outstanding work and
contributions to the transportation
hydrologic and hydraulic engineering profession by an
individual. The award honors Mark D. Miles, who died
at the 2004 National Hydraulic Engineering Conference.
The award recipient must demonstrate contributions to
the transportation hydrologic and hydraulic engineering
profession, such as through a longstanding service at or to
a Department of Transportation, participation in research
projects, participation in national technical committees,
and development of national guidance. Throughout his 58-
year career, Lagasse has demonstrated them all.
He has been a lead bridge hydraulics engineer with
Ayres Associates for 34 years. Prior to entering private
practice in 1981, Lagasse gained 20 years of engineering
experience with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and
academic assignments at the U.S. Military Academy,
West Point, New York. Since 1989, he has been principal
instructor for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
projects to develop and present training courses on stream
stability and scour at highway bridges. As part of these
projects, he is senior author of HEC-20, “Stream Stability
at Highway Structures,” and HEC-23, “Bridge Scour and
Stream Instability Countermeasures.” He is also a technical
contributor to HEC-18, “Scour at Bridges.” He has managed,
scheduled, and participated more than 200 times in the
presentation of NHI scour courses to state departments of
transportation.
Lagasse has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI
for over $4 million in applied research for the National
Academy of Science, Transportation Research Board’s
Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). Research