Two ASIE Members Earn Young Engineer of Year Award

HOUSTON: Texas Society of Professional Engineer Houston Chapter celebrate third week of February as Houston Engineer’s week every year with National Engineers Week. The kick-off this week long event began with the sold-out Young Engineers of the Year Banquet on February 17 at Peeples Restaurant, featuring numerous Houston engineers from various professional societies. The Young Engineer Award is intended to publically celebrate and promote the efforts of young professionals as part of their professional development, who has made outstanding contributions to the Engineering Profession and the community during the early years of one’s career, below 35 years.

Karthik Balasubramanian and Naresh Kolli, both are members of American Society of Indian Engineers (ASIE) were presented Young Engineer of Year Award in presence of an overflowing audience. Both have excelled and established themselves in their field of engineering.

Karthik is a Senior Civil/Structural Engineer at Technip USA, Houston. He received his education at Mumbai University, India, earning a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 2004, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont in 2006. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. Previously, he worked for KBR Inc for 5.5 years as a Senior Technical Professional-Civil. In February 2013, Karthik was awarded a “Recognition Certificate for Excellent Performance” in Jazan IGCC project for Saudi Aramco. His engineering experience includes Civil, Structural and Infrastructure work for Refinery, LNG terminals, Natural gas basins, and Integrated Gasification Combined cycle plant. He gained extensive exposure to Pre-FEED, FEED and Detailed Engineering phases in Petrochemical and Refinery projects. Karthik has been also involved in activities such as design of Marine facilities, Dredging, Single Point Mooring (SPM), and Marine Simulation studies. He has worked for clients such as Anadarko, Chevron, Saudi Aramco, Sonangol, Sasol, Statoil, Trunkline and many more. He is currently serving as Executive committee member of ASIE and in the past has served as Board of Directors. Previously, he has served as President for the Civil Engineering Students Association (CESA). Karthik has served a Secretary and Treasurer for ASIE last year.

Naresh Kolli is a project engineer at Geotest Engineering, Inc. Houston. He has over 8 years of experience in the civil, geotechnical and environmental field and has worked on various projects involving high rise office buildings to single story commercial buildings, warehouses, schools and government projects, Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments, site reconnaissance and geological and rock profile studies. His responsibilities at Geotest include coordination of field activities, supervision of laboratory testing, performing engineering analysis and preparation of geotechnical as well as Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessment reports. Kolli has worked with several public and private projects in the greater Houston Area.

Naresh received a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Kakatiya University, India in 2002 and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from McNeese State University, Louisiana in 2005. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas and Louisiana. He has been active member of AAEA for four years and attended several meetings. He is currently serving as board member of the ASIE and in the past he has served as secretary and Treasurer.