Member #13885, initiated in 1959 at the University of Minnesota (Chapter #5, installed in 1925). He has served as Faculty Advisor at the University of Washington-Seattle from 1996-2004 . Bob Holtz has degrees in civil engineering from Minnesota and Northwestern. He is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle and has also taught at Purdue and Cal State-Sacramento. Dr. Holtz has worked for the California Dept. of Water Resources, Swedish Geotechnical Institute, NRC-Canada, and as a consulting engineer in Chicago, France, and Italy. His research and publications are mostly on geosynthetics, soil improvement, foundations, and soil properties, and instrumentation. He is currently US Secretary for the ISSMGE and the Geo-Institute of ASCE. He is a Fellow and Life Member of ASCE, Member Emeritus of TRB Committee A2KO2, Past President of NAGS, and a past member of the IGS Council; he is also a member of several other professional and technical organizations.