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ASCE New Orleans Branch
2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Norma Jean Mattei, PhD., P.E.
Congratulations to the the ASCE New Orleans Branch 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Norma Jean Mattei, PhD, P.E. Dr. Mattei, is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Orleans. President Biden recently appointed Mattei to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC). She just completed ten years as one of two civilian civil engineer Commissioners on the Mississippi River Commission (MRC), nominated by President Obama. She was 2017 President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), chairing that organization’s Board of Direction that year. She is currently on the Executive Committee of CROSS-US, on the Board of Governors of COPRI, and locally serves on the ASCE New Orleans’ Chapter of the Structural Engineering Institute, and several non-profit organizations such as the Water Institute of the Gulf, SciHigh and GNOSTEM. Norma Jean also has served in the past on several National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) committees and task forces, most recently serving as chair of the Board-level NCEES Education Committee and is an Emeritus Member of NCEES. She was named by the Governor of Louisiana to Louisiana’s licensing board for professional engineers, LAPELS, serving as Chairman of the LAPELS Board in 2011-12. Mattei received her BSCE in 1982 from Tulane University and practiced as a consulting engineer in the New Orleans area for a decade before returning to Tulane (PhD, 1994). Her research areas of interest include engineering ethics, public policy and leadership, equity and diversity in engineering and engineering education, management of large watersheds, mitigation of repetitively flooded structures with emphasis on nature-based solutions and security/resiliency/sustainability of critical infrastructure. She, her husband, two engineer daughters and engineer son-in-law all reside in New Orleans.