William C. Ackermann
Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1967
CITATION: Research on water resources.
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Alfredo H-S. Ang
MS 1957, PhD 1959, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1976
CITATION: Developer of practical and effective methods of risk and reliability approaches to engineering safety-and-design structural criteria formulation.
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William F. Baker
MS 1980, Specialized Faculty
ELECTION YEAR: 2011
CITATION: For leadership in the development of innovative structures for high-rise buildings worldwide.
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Ana P. Barros
Professor/Head
ELECTION YEAR: 2019
CITATION: For contributions to understanding and prediction of precipitation dynamics and flood hazards in mountainous terrains.
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Ned H. Burns
PhD 1962
ELECTION YEAR: 2000
CITATION: For contributions to development and education in prestressed concrete including unbonded tendon building slabs and high-performance concrete bridges.
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Ven Te Chow
PhD 1950, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1973
CITATION: Developments in hydrological analysis, stochastic hydrology, water resources systems analysis, and watershed hydraulics.
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Joseph P. Colaco
MS 1962, PhD 1965
ELECTION YEAR: 1994
CITATION: For contributions to tall building design, structural systems, and technologies of the future.
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Edward J. Cording
MS 1963, PhD 1967, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1988
CITATION: For major contributions to investigations and practice in methods of underground construction, and development of means for mitigation of associated hazards.
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W. Gene Corley
BS 1958, MS 1960, PhD 1961
ELECTION YEAR: 2000
CITATION: For leadership in raising the standards of the engineering profession for construction of buildings and bridges.
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David E. Daniel
Professor/Head
ELECTION YEAR: 2000
CITATION: For leadership in developing the geoenvironmental engineering field, and major contributions to engineering practice involving landfills and waste containment systems.
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Elio D'Appolonia
PhD 1948
ELECTION YEAR: 1977
CITATION: Contributions to design and construction procedures for foundations of complex facilities subjected to heavy loadings.
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Don U. Deere
PhD 1955, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1967
CITATION: Rock mechanics.
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Armen Der Kiureghian
PhD 1976
ELECTION YEAR: 2011
CITATION: For contributions to risk and reliability and earthquake engineering to advance the practice of civil and structural engineering.
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Robert H. Dodds Jr.
MS 1975, PhD 1978, Professor/Head
ELECTION YEAR: 2008
CITATION: For contributions in non-linear fracture mechanics and applications to practice in nuclear power and space systems.
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Daniel C. Drucker
Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1967
CITATION: Stress measurement and plastic deformation research.
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Bruce R. Ellingwood
BS 1968, MS 1969, PhD 1972
ELECTION YEAR: 2001
CITATION: For leadership in the use of probability and statistics in the design of structures and in the development of new design criteria.
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Richard S. Engelbrecht
Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1976
CITATION: Leadership in environmental engineering through education and health-related research.
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Ralph E. Fadum
BS 1935
ELECTION YEAR: 1975
CITATION: Contributions as a civil engineer, educator, consultant, researcher and author; a pioneer in soil mechanics and foundation engineering.
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Eugene J. Fasullo
MS 1958
ELECTION YEAR: 1994
CITATION: For design of outstanding structures and leadership in engineering and management in the public sector.
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Steven J. Fenves
BS 1957, MS 1958, PhD 1961, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1976
CITATION: Pioneering in development of civil engineering applications of computers and in problem-oriented programming languages.
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Anthony E. Fiorato
MS 1968, PhD 1971
ELECTION YEAR: 2008
CITATION: For research on improved concrete materials and construction, development of tests and standards, and technical leadership.
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George M.C. Fisher
BS 1962
ELECTION YEAR: 1994
CITATION: For leadership in electronic communications and for guiding a company to a preeminent position in wireless communications worldwide.
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Luis E. Garcia
MS 1972
ELECTION YEAR: 2021
CITATION: For contributions to the earthquake-resistant design, construction, and building code development of concrete structures.
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Robert B. Gilbert
BS 1987, MS 1988, PhD 1993
ELECTION YEAR: 2020
CITATION: For advancing the use of reliability analyses, risk assessment, and risk-based decision making for complex engineering projects.
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Hakki Polat Gülkan
PhD 1971
ELECTION YEAR: 2023
CITATION: For improving earthquake safety of buildings and seismic resilience worldwide.
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Charles N. Haas
PhD 1978
ELECTION YEAR: 2021
CITATION: For contributions to quantitative microbial risk assessment for drinking water quality and public health.
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William J. Hall
MS 1951, PhD 1954, Professor/Head
ELECTION YEAR: 1968
CITATION: Contributions to structural engineering, structural mechanics, and soil dynamics.
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Delon Hampton
BS 1954
ELECTION YEAR: 1992
CITATION: For outstanding contributions to education and practice in geotechnical and transportation engineering, and for leadership in engineering education for minorities.
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William H. Hansmire
MS 1970, PhD 1975
ELECTION YEAR: 2002
CITATION: For pioneering leadership in the integration of the design and construction of tunneling projects, including the first design-build demonstration project for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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James R. Harris
MS 1975, PhD 1980
ELECTION YEAR: 2005
CITATION: For contributions to the development, improvement, and implementation of modern standards for the design of buildings.
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Youssef M. Hashash
Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 2022
CITATION: For contributions to geotechnical engineering, seismic safety, and the evaluation, design, and construction of underground infrastructure.
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Henry T. Heald
MS 1925
ELECTION YEAR: 1965
CITATION: N/A
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Alfred J. Hendron Jr.
BS 1959, MS 1960, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1983
CITATION: Preeminent teacher, practitioner, and contributor to geotechnical aspects of civil engineering at the forefront of the science and art.
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John C. Houbolt
BS 1940, MS 1942
ELECTION YEAR: 1990
CITATION: For the concept of lunar-orbit rendezvous in lunar exploration and sustained contributions to structural dynamics, aeroelasticity, aircraft loads and orbital mechanics.
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Srinivasa H. Iyengar
MS 1959
ELECTION YEAR: 2000
CITATION: For leadership and contributions in structural design of tall buildings and long-span structures and advances in fire-resistive construction.
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James O. Jirsa
MS 1962, PhD 1963
ELECTION YEAR: 1988
CITATION: For significant contributions to research on behavior and design of structural reinforced concrete.
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Bruce G. Johnston
BS 1930
ELECTION YEAR: 1979
CITATION: Contributions in the field of inelastic stability and leadership in the development of structural design specifications.
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Clyde E. Kesler
BS 1943, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1977
CITATION: Contributions to the understanding of fatigue, fracture, creep, shrinkage, and relaxation of concrete.
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Milo S. Ketchum Jr.
BS 1931, MS 1932
ELECTION YEAR: 1982
CITATION: Pioneering the development of folded-plate and thin-shell structures and their application to innovative, creative, and aesthetic designs.
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Jon E. Khachaturian
BS 1978
ELECTION YEAR: 2010
CITATION: For developing innovative, safe, reusable, and economical heavy-lifting systems to advance the international marine industry.
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Fazlur R. Khan
MS 1953, PhD 1955
ELECTION YEAR: 1973
CITATION: Innovations in the design and construction of tall buildings of steel and reinforced concrete.
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Gary J. Klein
BS 1973, MS 1975
ELECTION YEAR: 2016
CITATION: For investigations of national and international infrastructure and conveying knowledge from these investigations to the profession.
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David R. Maidment
MS 1974, PhD 1976, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 2016
CITATION: For the development of geographic information systems applied to hydrologic processes.
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Jack P. Moehle
BS 1978, MS 1978, PhD 1980
ELECTION YEAR: 2014
CITATION: For contributions to earthquake-resistant design and analysis of building structures, and for leadership in engineering education.
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James E. Monsees
PhD 1970
ELECTION YEAR: 1991
CITATION: For development and application of innovative design procedures for underground structures in gassy and seismic environments and of methods for utilizing rock-structure interaction.
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Walter P. Moore Jr.
MS 1962, PhD 1964, Specialized Faculty
ELECTION YEAR: 1991
CITATION: For leadership in improving the quality of creative designs.
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R. Shankar Nair
MS 1966, PhD 1969
ELECTION YEAR: 2005
CITATION: For contributions to the art and science of engineering through the design of innovative bridges and building structures.
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Nathan M. Newmark
MS 1932, PhD 1934, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1968
CITATION: N/A
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Roy E. Olson
PhD 1960, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 2003
CITATION: For furthering our understanding of the properties of clays and for contributions to geotechnical engineering design.
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Thomas D. O'Rourke
MS 1973, PhD 1975
ELECTION YEAR: 1993
CITATION: For inspirational teaching and leadership in geotechnical and earthquake engineering for lifeline utilities.
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Ralph B. Peck
BS/MS 1937, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1965
CITATION: Soil mechanics and foundation engineer.
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Lutgarde Raskin
PhD 1993, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 2021
CITATION: For application of genetic tools to improve anaerobic biological water treatment.
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Frank E. Richart Jr.
BS 1940, MS 1946, PhD 1948
ELECTION YEAR: 1969
CITATION: Major contributions to the field of soil dynamics including especially the development of design procedures for treatment of foundations for vibrating machinery, and related problems including vibrati [sic]
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Stanley T. Rolfe
BS 1956, MS 1958, PhD 1962
ELECTION YEAR: 1982
CITATION: Major technical and educational contributions in applications of fracture mechanics to engineering design of structures such as bridges, pressure vessels, and ships.
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Emilio Rosenblueth
PhD 1951
ELECTION YEAR: 1977
CITATION: N/A
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Chester P. Siess
UIUC MS 39, PhD 48, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1967
CITATION: Reinforced concrete construction.
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Vernon L. Snoeyink
Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1998
CITATION: For the theory and practice of removing organic contaminants from drinking water.
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Mete A. Sozen
MS 1952, PhD 1957, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1977
CITATION: Contributions to understanding the structural design and behavior of buildings and bridges subjected to earthquake motions.
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Anestis S. Veletsos
MS 1950, PhD 1953, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 1979
CITATION: Contributions to advancement in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, especially in inelastic behavior and soil-structure interaction.
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Basil W. Wilson
MS 1939, CE 1940
ELECTION YEAR: 1984
CITATION: For pioneering contributions to the technology relating to ship motion and mooring and to the design for tsunami protection.
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Sharon L. Wood
MS 1983, PhD 1986, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 2013
CITATION: For design of reinforced concrete structures and associated seismic instrumentation for extreme loadings and environments.
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Richard N. Wright
MS 1955, PhD 1962, Professor
ELECTION YEAR: 2003
CITATION: For sustained leadership in building research, for the development of standards, and for representing the U.S. building industry and research community worldwide.
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Leonardo Zeevaert Wiechers
PhD 1949
ELECTION YEAR: 1978
CITATION: Analysis, design, and construction of tall, heavy structures on difficult foundations in severe seismic environments.
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