Management in 2018 and , in the following year , he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering , also serving on its Civil Engineering Peer Committee .

Before IBM , in 1982 Balta received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University , where he now serves on the Dean ’ s Advisory Council for the College of Engineering .

He was the recipient of Carnegie Mellon University ’ s Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2009 and earned a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( where he was a Tau Beta Pi Fellow ) in 1984 .

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