Frank L. Kudrna, Jr., Ph.D.
203 North Cass Avenue
Westmont, Illinois 60559

Education: B.S. Engineering, 1963
M.S. City & Regional Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1973
Ph.D., City & Regional Planning, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1975
Advanced Management Program, University of Chicago, 1981
M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1986

Dr. Kudrna became President of Kudrna & Associates, Ltd. in March, 1986 and, since 1998, serves as the Chief Executive Officer. The firm, with offices in Chicago and DuPage County, provides diversified consulting engineering services in the areas of civil engineering to industrial, commercial and institutional clients including municipal, state and federal agencies.

He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Epstein Civil Engineering, Inc. from July 1982 through March 1986.

As Director of the Illinois Division of Water Resources from November, 1977 to June, 1982, he coordinated the water resource activities of the State of Illinois. He directed a staff of 160 with an annual budget of $19 million and also chaired the Governor's State Water Plan Task Force.

He spent nine years with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and during that period directed the Planning and Flood Control staffs. Prior to this he spent five years with the Illinois Division of Highways.

Dr. Kudrna is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Illinois, California, Wisconsin, New York, Indiana, Michigan and Florida. He has been active in the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers (Chicago Chapter) and has served on numerous committees. He is a Fellow and presently active as a Director in the Chicago Chapter of the Society of American Military Engineers. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and has been active in both the National and the Illinois Section. He has served as Vice-Chairman of the ASCE Technical Council on Research, Chairman of the ASCE Surveying and Mapping Research Committee, ASCE Aesthetics Committee, ASCE Technical Council's Water Resources Planning Committee, Chairman of the ASCE Urban Planning for Environmental Quality Committee, he served as Chairman of the ASCE Executive Committee for the Urban Planning Division, Chairman of the Land Use Committee of the Transportation and Development Institute, and currently serves as a member of ASCE’s National Transportation Policy Committee. He has also served or chaired numerous ASCE, Illinois Section committees. He has been active in the American Society of Planning Officials, the Soil Conservation Society of America; the American Public Works Association, National Water Well Association, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Urban Land Institute.