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Consulting-Specifying Engineer 40 Under 40 Traci Hanegan, PE, LEED AP, HFDP, 36 Principal, Mechanical Engineer, Coffman Engineers, Spokane, Wash. University of Idaho, BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering Gregg Hudock, PE, 33 Senior Engineer and Associate, Golder Assocs., Atlanta Georgia Institute of Technology, BS and MS in Civil Engineering W hen she’s not working, Hanegan can be found playing ice hockey in co-ed and women’s leagues, fly fishing, hunting deer, or on the ski slopes. Her design work experience includes a variety of HVAC systems at laboratories, hospitals, schools, data centers, retail spaces, zoos, and office buildings. Her key projects include managing the civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering efforts for Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and landing one of five, five-year nationwide engineering contracts with the Dept. of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, while coping with morning sickness. She is the first female principal in Coffman’s 27-year history and helped standardize the department in four offices while developing business. Hanegan is on the national Society Board of Directors for ASHRAE and teaches HVAC in the mechanical engineering department at Gonzaga University. She also is a lector at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church. Hanegan and her husband, Jeff, have an 18-month-old son, Mitchell. Her advice to others, especially women: “Have a firm handshake. You don’t have to break their knuckles, but it does make a difference.” W ater conservation is important everywhere, especially in Georgia. Hudock, who specializes in the evaluation, design, and construction of dam rehabilitation projects, has used innovative ideas to create cost-effective solutions, as the leader of the roller-compacted concrete dam design practice at Golder. Hudock has investigated, designed, or constructed more than 30 dams in the past eight years and has led such projects as creating a dry retention pond from purchased homes in Brookhaven, Ga., after homes flooded during Hurricane Ivan. He also has worked on several dams on the Yellow River in Georgia, where he created an auxiliary spillway to rehabilitate the aging Dam No. 15 and performed geotechnical evaluations during the construction and redesign of Dam No. 17. An avid rock climber and backpacker who hiked across the 80-some miles of Appalachian Trail, Hudock said he owes most of his success to his wife, Salome, who is a civil engineer at Golder Assocs. Hudock, a father of two and an Eagle Scout, was the ASCE Georgia Section 2007 Young Civil Engineer of the Year and Georgia Engineering Alliance 2008 Young Engineer of the Year. Gabriel Jimenez, PhD, PE, 38 Principal, Walter P Moore, Houston Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, BS in Civil Engineering University of Minnesota, MS and PhD in Civil Engineering (Structures) Andreas Kammereck, PE, 38 Associate Engineer, Water Resources, Golder Assocs. Inc., Redmond, Wash. University of Washington, BS in Forest Engineering University of Washington, MS in Civil Engineering s a child in Mexico, Jimenez always enjoyed going to work with his father, a structural engineer for ICA, but dreamed of being a pilot. After coming to the United States as a high school exchange student, he became a structural engineer. Jimenez is part of the “911 first responders of engineering,” the structural diagnostic repair group that is called in during emergencies to review and assess problems. He was one of the civil engineers called in to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Wearing an oxygenator and a miner-like flashlight helmet, Jimenez reviewed parking garages around the Superdome that had been vandalized and reeked of bodily fluids. “It was terrible. It was like chaos with help miles away in the wrong place,” he said. Jimenez, who works as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston, developed a nonlinear, inelastic software for buckling loads of tapered beam columns. He helps minority groups with math and physics and volunteers at his Catholic church with his wife, Michelle, and their three children. His advice to others: “You need to be compassionate as an engineer. This isn’t just a project. This is where someone lives or works, and you have to be respectful of that environment and listen to their needs.” A K ammereck has three great passions in his life: his family, skiing, and working on rivers. As a water resources engineer, Kammereck is known as a leader in river and floodplain hazard assessment and design in the pipeline industry. He has worked on flood, erosion, and scour projects near the Dead Sea in Israel; channel migration on the Kobuk River in Alaska; pipeline erosion in Yemen; and stabilized exposed natural gas pipeline in Washington. Kammereck also has worked as a river engineer on the Nooksack River, Wash., for the design, construction, and flood damage repair of more than 80 projects. Kammereck, who volunteers as a ski instructor, spends as much time as possible on the slopes with his wife, Lara, and children, Karl, 6, and Elsa, 4. He volunteers on an ACEC water resource subcommittee; works through Bellevue, Wash., School District’s Volunteers in Bellevue’s Education System; and supports his kids’ school by organizing fundraising events. Kammereck was the recipient of the ASCE Collingwood Prize, an award given to young engineering authors, for a paper titled “Changing Course” that outlined the growing recognition of erosion hazards in floodplains in the June 2004 issue of Civil Engineering magazine. 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