President

Structural Steel Parts, Inc.

Zane has over 30 years of experience in the steel forgings and structural steel fabrication industry. He has performed over 1,200 quality system audits over the past 16 years and maintains several ...

Bridge Engineer

WSDOT

Zach Reid is a bridge design engineer for the Washington State Department of Transportation.  He graduated with his Bachelors of Science in Engineering degree from St....

University of North Dakota

Corproate Consultant

Cives Steel Company

William A. Thornton is a corporate consultant to AISC Member/Certified fabricator Cives Corporation in Roswell, Ga. He was Chairman of the AISC Committee on Manuals for more than 25 years and still se...

Chief Research Director

Drug Screening Compliance Institute

Bill is an attorney with over 33 years of experience in the workplace drug and alcohol testing industry. He is the Co-Founder & Chief Research Director of Drug Screening Compliance Institute (DSCI), focusing on state, federal and subject-specific compliance research, policy development and review, training, education, litigation support and consulting.

Bill is a past Co-Chairman of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce Drug-Free Workplace Program, a 10-year member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) MRO Faculty, a past advisor to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) MRO Committee, A 5-year participant in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Regional Student Drug Testing Summits, and a participant in the 1988 White House Conference for a Drug Free America.

Bill has been involved in many workplace drug testing court cases at all levels, including the 1989 United States Supreme Court ‘Skinner’ decision, were drug testing all started....

Software Engineer and Augmented Reality Technologist

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Principal / Director of Erection Engineering

Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd.

Will Jacobs is a principal at Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. in Atlanta, Georgia, where he serves as director of erection engineering and has been involved in the design and erection planning of building structures throughout the United States.  Mr....

Principle

Ikerd Consulting, LLC

District Representative, Safety Department

Ironworkers International Union

Wayne has been the senior director of health and safety for The Association of Union Constructors (TAUC) since 2008.He serves on several NIOSH committees as well as several ANSI A10 work groups. He maintains professional memberships with the American Society of Safety Engineers, National Safety Council, and the Veterans of Safety International, and the society of Ohio safety Engineers....

James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering

Iowa State University

W. Samuel Easterling began as the James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University on July 15, 2019. He leads the largest college on campus and is responsible for approximately 8100 students, 500 faculty and staff, 14 academic majors, multiple research centers and programs, and 11 buildings that comprise the engineering complex.

Easterling is an Iowa State alumnus having received his doctorate in structural engineering from the university in 1987....