ENGINEERS WEEK EVENTS


Annual Golf Outing
Mon., Sept. 12, 2011
Blue Bell Golf Course

Awards and Proclamation Luncheon
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012
DoubleTree Hotel Philadelphia Center City
Philadelphia, PA

Young Engineers Social
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Yards Brewing Company
901 N. Delaware Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

Celebration of Engineering Reception
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pyramid Club
1735 Market Street, 52nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA

Once again the quality of this year's YEOY candidates was excellent and resulted in a dual selection of the 2007 Young Engineer of the Year. Jeremy Colello, P.E., Pennoni Associates Inc. and Keith Yamatani, P.E., Washington Group International share the prestigious Young Engineer of the Year award.

Jeremy David Colello, P.E.

Mr. Colello has been in the civil engineering field for eight years and holds a Professional License in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of Maryland.  Mr. Colello is a member of both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and of the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE).  He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1997 and a Masters of Science Degree in Hydrosystems Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998.  Currently, Mr. Colello is a Project Engineer and Highway Group Manager at Pennoni Associates Inc.

Mr. Colello has been involved in project management and preliminary and final drainage design of transportation projects in Southeastern Pennsylvania and across the country (Arizona, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, Washington, DC, and West Virginia).  Mr. Colello specializes in roadway drainage design, erosion and sediment control, storm water management, river hydraulics, bridge scour, and NPDES permitting.

Mr. Colello currently serves as Director for ASCE's Philadelphia Section, is a Corresponding Member to ASCE's Committee on Younger Members, and is immediate Past-President of the Younger Member Forum.  An active member of ASCE's Environmental and Water Resources Institute, Mr. Colello currently serves as the Chair of Environmental and Water Resources Technical Group in ASCE's Philadelphia Section.  Previously, Mr. Colello served on ASCE's National Urban Stream Restoration Committee and as a technical reviewer for PA DEP's Storm Water Management Best Management Practices Manual.  In addition, Mr. Colello has co-authored and presented technical papers at several conferences and in several technical journals.

Keith S. Yamatani, P.E.

Keith Yamatani is a Professional Engineer (registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) with more than six years of geotechnical and civil engineering experience, and three years of construction estimating experience. Mr. Yamatani brings additional construction management, and environmental and structural engineering expertise to the fossil and nuclear power plant projects he works on for Washington Group International, Inc., in Princeton, NJ. 

With Washington Group, Mr. Yamatani has worked on nuclear and fossil power plants and chemical disposal facilities throughout the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, including Iraq and Qatar. With primary responsibilities including managing subsurface investigations, preparing calculations, drawings, engineering reports and studies, contract specs and schedules, and, cost estimates and material take-offs, he is also responsible for inspecting soil boring operations, excavations, pile load testing, and pile installation.

In 1999, Mr. Yamatani earned his Bachelor of Science, and in 2000, his Master of Science degrees (both in Civil Engineering), from The University of Pittsburgh.  A member of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Geo-Institute, and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), Mr. Yamatani was inducted into the Order of the Engineer in 2006.  Also in 2006, he presented "Design and Installation of Deep Foundations in Sedimentary Rock with Selected Case Studies" at the annual GSA Conference, in Philadelphia. 

Immediately prior to joining Washington Group, Mr. Yamatani served as geotechnical engineer for American Geotechnical & Environmental Services, Inc., in Bridgeville, PA; and, prior to that, as sitework estimator for Mascaro Construction Company, in Pittsburgh. He previously interned with Baker, Mellon, Stuart Construction, Inc., in Coraopolis, PA, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, in St. Davids, PA.