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Missouri S&T | Fall 2017
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Intro to Engineering page 8 Changing the World
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From the Chair 2. Establishing a Professor of the Practice position to mentor our students with experienced leaders from industry. 3. Supporting advanced education for our students looking to enhance their professional development. With our efforts currently focused to complete the 16,000-square-foot enhancement of our facilities, we emphasize this is not just expanding our footprint, but an overall vision to expand our capabilities to better prepare our students to change the world — particularly in infrastructure engineering.
As we enter another academic year this fall, we look forward to more great opportunities to enhance our educational programs, prepare future leaders, and build upon and celebrate the legacy of civil engineering at Missouri S&T. What could exemplify the legacy of engineering at Rolla more than the unparalleled contributions of Jerry Bayless, a.k.a. “Mr. UMR?” Please look at the opportunity on the right to celebrate his unmatched career. In this issue of Common Ground, student activities are highlighted as we continue to emphasize experiential learning. We are proud of the efforts and dedication of all our teams and leaders — taking on national design competitions and international design projects — especially our Engineers Without Borders group that is truly an example of our departmental motto: “Changing the World!” Looking toward the future, we have a unique opportunity to shape our educational programs and our active collaborations. We recently received $1.6 million from the UM System to support the Advanced Construction and Materials Laboratory (ACML) building expansion. Now we charge toward the finish line, but we also stay focused on our original Vision 2020 strategic plan — working to achieve these primary goals: 1. Advancing our educational and research facilities with the ACML.
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Educational and research facilities are central to our efforts to be at the cutting edge of infrastructure engineering and construction. The ACML is far more than a “bricks and mortar” project — even if in this case, the project will literally advance our bricks and mortar research and capabilities. The project has been central to our departmental vision. As shown on pages 4-5, the ACML will enhance our dedicated efforts in innovation, education and testing related to infrastructure engineering. The ACML will also provide unique capabilities for our faculty and students to collaborate with industry, government agencies, peer research institutions and S&T collaborators across campus. The primary benefit will be to position the CArEE team as international leaders for decades to come. We have sought and hired new faculty members to prepare our students, who become leading alumni, to face national and global needs that maintain and advance the future design of our global infrastructure. As always, we strive for our team to “change the world.” If you have any questions regarding the ACML project or civil, architectural and environmental engineering’s vision, please contact me or our new senior development officer, Shannon Bishop, at sbishop@mst.edu. We are thrilled to have Shannon join our team. Sincerely, Joel Burken, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, F.AEESP Email: burken@mst.edu
YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US
THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 2017 DURING HOMECOMING WEEKEND AS WE CELEBRATE THE RETIREMENT OF
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WELCOME NEW TEAM MEMBER
Shannon Bishop
Senior Development Officer Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 573-341-4944 Cell Phone: 636-295-6762 Email: sbishop@mst.edu
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SHAPING THE FUTURE OF BUILT AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS OF OU
Innovation Missouri S&T is unique with two concurrent University Transportation Centers (UTCs) that focus on infrastructure materials development, sustainability and testing, and are carrying out a projected $12.5 million in research funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Equipment Investment in equipment acquisition over the past 4 years — largely part of a National University Transportation Center — will have a central location. The existing equipment uniquely positions Missouri S&T as a testing and development center.
Alumni New facilities enhance our capabilities to both prepare students to enter the profession as leaders in infrastructure engineering and to support continued learning through ongoing education and collaborations.
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Teaching and Testing The ACML provides true state-of-the-art materials testing to educate students, industrial partners and collaborators across the S&T campus and other UM campuses.
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Education The Butler-Carlton expansion will provide an environment for students and faculty to interact and to enhance hands-on learning, particularly through experiential learning and new collaborative work with industrial partners.
Collaborations The ACML will enhance our collaborations with industry, with governmental agencies and with multidisciplinary research partners in materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and many others at Missouri S&T.
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Faculty Hires New faculty provide new approaches and innovative ideas. Best in Class Hires: Dr. Hongyan MA, infrastructure materials Dr. Jenny Liu, pavements engineering Dr. Bob Wu, infrastructure mechanics Dr. Aditya Kumar, materials science and eng. Missouri Asphalt Pavement Association (MAPA) Professor: Dr. Magdy Abdelrahman Hurst McCarthy Professor: Coming Soon
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1. 1. Sarah Jemison, a senior in civil and architectural engineering and a Greenberg Scholar, received first place in the Engineering Poster Category at the Undergraduate Research Conference held in April.
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2. Hayder Alghazali and Ahmed Gheni received ACI Missouri Honorary Abdeldjelil “D.J.” Belarbi Graduate Scholarship Certificates. The awards were presented by Missouri Chapter ACI President and civil engineering grad, Dane Shaw, CE’11, MS CE’13.
3. Ahmed Gheni and Eli Hernandez were among those named CEC Dean’s Scholars in recognition of their scholarly merit and research productivity. 4. Mohanad Abdulazeez, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering, was
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2. selected to speak at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting held in Washington, D.C. 5. Our department took home over half of the awards from the 2017 Spring Graduate Research Showcase.
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JACKLING INTRODUCT Campers learn how math and science relate to engineering and what different types of projects engineers work on.
CIVIL ENGINEERING Build Bridges ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING Design Popsicle Towers ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Purify/Test Water Samples
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AN ACADEMY RECEPTION TO REMEMBER
ALUMNI, FACULTY AND STUDENTS GATHER TO BUILD ON TRADITIONS AND EXPERIENCE The Academy of Civil Engineers exemplifies the success available to current students. Recognizing and interacting with this elite group of alumni who have achieved greatness in scholarship and research starting with the same set of tools prepares our students to excel in an ever-changing world.
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ACADEMY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Zuhair Al-Jaberi, Outstanding Achievement Award
Hayder Alghazali, Outstanding Achievement Award
Ahmed Gheni, Outstanding Achievement Award
Eli Hernandez, Outstanding Achievement Award
Yi Bao, Outstanding Achievement Award
Katherine Bartels, Stueck Outstanding Senior Achievement Award
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Concrete Canoe There isn’t much of a market for concrete canoes, but there is a market for young engineers who can “bend” materials to their will. The team re-engineers concrete so it floats, then proves it by chasing other universities’ concrete canoes around a lake.
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The team is proud to report that they finished first overall in races. MORE RESULTS: ................................................................................ Men’s & Women’s Sprint...................1st Women’s Endurance.........................2nd Men’s Endurance................................. 4th Co-Ed Team..........................................2nd ................................................................................ The team is also planning to experiment with new ingredients such as white Portland cement and finding new, non-ceramic aggregates.
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Engineers Without Borders
Developing communities and improving quality of life through the implementation of sustainable engineering projects.
EWB saves lives and serves people.
The team works with remote communities in Central and South America to solve health, economic and quality-of-life challenges. They will be starting their ninth community partnership in the 12 years of EWB’s existence at S&T.
Nahualate, Guatemala
Our eight-year partnership is coming to an end and 3,000 residents now have water taps at their homes. The system consists of a water tower, an eight-mile distribution line, a chlorination system and a well.
Los Eucaliptos to Erquiz Oropeza, Bolivia (NEWEST)
350 residents of Los Eucaliptos have taken ownership of a successful water system. The team is working with a new community to design a water system to bring clean, potable water.
Puerto Pando, Bolivia:
Team members have been working on designing a 60-meter long piping bridge through the Amazon jungle and full distribution piping to the community. They will travel over Thanksgiving break to implement both the bridge and distribution piping.
Pimiento, Honduras:
Students continue to work with the community of around 10,000 people. The Miners drilled the community’s fifth well this past year, bringing more water to the citizens of the southern area. The Honduran government has funded a 100,000-gallon storage tank for the community based on the Miners’ design. In May 2017, the team traveled to Honduras to assess the best connections between the wells and the tank.
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Solar House The Missouri S&T Solar House Design Team will compete in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon in Denver this fall. Their net-zero solar house — Smart Innovative Living Oasis (SILO) — is designed for a couple in their late 40s or early 50s who are ready to downsize, clear their clutter and live sustainably. The team’s design exhibits a sensitivity to the needs of its occupants, as well as a mindfulness to its area of focus on research and innovation involving smart living. Over the past two years, the team has designed and built a house that blends design excellence and smart energy production with innovation, market potential, and energy and water efficiency.
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Steel Bridge The Steel Bridge Team was stunned at the sudden passing of their much-loved advisor, Dr. Timothy Philpot, and the students responded by dedicating their 2017 design in his memory. ASCE officials gave bonus points for teams that added a cantilever, so the “Philpot” bridge featured an over-truss design supplemented with a cantilever. They got the points. RESULTS: Economy...............................................................2nd Construction Speed (17.60)............................3rd Overall....................................................................3rd
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Hugh Wilson, PetE, and his wife, Judy, report that the 18th reunion of the Jackling Jocks during Homecoming 2015 was a great success. Those attending included Perry Allison, ME’59, and wife, Ann; Art Bell, ChE’75, and wife, Linda; Chick Boren, ME’62; Dick Boyett, CE’58; Leon Calvin, NDD, and wife, Carole; Delbert Day, CerE’58, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of ceramic engineering; Jerry Dorlac, NDD, and wife, Pat; Bill Engelhardt, ME’60, and wife, Celia; Marilyn Feaster; Tyler Fenwick, head football coach; Gini Helm; Jim Houseman, ChE’60, and wife, Nancy; Charles McCaw, ME’62, and wife, Peggy; Don McGovern, ME’58, and wife, Mary; Mark Mullin, director of athletics; Joel Scharf, PetE’59; Paul Singer, CE’58, and wife, Jan; Mike Vancil, CerE’60, and Ruthann Henry; and Newt Wells, ME’59, and wife, Marilyn.
Patrick Byrne, CE’73, retired from Massman Construction Co. after 43 years. He now resides in Olathe, Kan., and is enjoying spending time with his grandson in the Kansas City area and two granddaughters in the Phoenix area.
1960s Dave Flanagan, CE’67, retired as circuit court judge in Madison, Wis., after 17 years on the bench presiding over criminal, civil and juvenile trials. He was a guest lecturer at the Shanghai High Peoples Court and founded the Veterans Treatment Court. After earning a law degree from the University of Wisconsin, Flanagan served as an assistant attorney general for 24 years, specializing in jury trials. He was a Navy Seabee diving officer in 1968-71, including duty in Vietnam. Johnnie Hall, CE’60, and his wife, Peggy, are enjoying retirement and “a precious new great-grandson.” Maurice L. “Bud” Northcutt, CE’63, MS CE’64, spent 30 years in the Army as an engineer, serving around the world, including a stint in the Vietnam War. He retired from the military in 1979, and in 1994 he retired as an associate professor from the Southern College of Technology.
Elgin Richard L. “Dick” Elgin, CE’74, MS CE’76, was named Surveyor of the Year by the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors. Elgin is semi-retired from Archer-Elgin Engineering, Surveying and Architecture, and is an adjunct professor at Missouri S&T, where he teaches the civil engineering department’s required surveying course. He authored The U.S. Public Land Survey System for Missouri among other books. James “Jim” Frey, CE’74, won the Construction Forum Education Foundation’s Board of Advisors’ Award in October in St. Louis. He was recognized for his career of reaching across lines to promote fairness. Frey retired from Alberici Constructors in 2016. Part of his legacy is Alberici’s “Fairness Doctrine,” which is designed to ensure fair business and honesty in the company’s dealings with its contractors and suppliers. Richard F. Hill III, CSci, wrote a book about the adventures he and Kenneth D. Jobe, GGph’60, CE’66, had in Vietnam in 1967-68 titled Iron Soldiers in Vietnam. Jobe says: “I have helped him with details, photos and reviewed the draft. Rick has written it with a light touch, is irreverent and probably not politically correct. It is our (continued on the next page)
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years with the 577th Engineer Battalion. It is available on Amazon and from Rick at richardhill.com.” Hamilton C. “Tony” Timbrell, CE’70, joined George, Miles & Buhr as a construction representative and resident project representative in the Salisbury, Md., office. He has over 35 years of experience in engineering and construction management. Thomas F. Wolff, CE’70, was elected national president of the 119,000member civil engineering honor society, Chi Epsilon. Wolff is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan State University.
1980s Terry Bodine, CE’81, was hired as director of rail services at Patrick Engineering in the Chicagoland area. Previously he worked as an engineering manager at AMEC Foster Wheeler in St. Louis.
Jim Coll, MS CE’82, joined Burns & McDonnell in St. Louis, to develop and oversee programs and projects for a range of clients focused on public water and wastewater infrastructure upgrades. Before joining Burns & McDonnell, he served as project manager over the Combined Sewer Overflow and Sanitary Sewer Overflow Control Plan projects for the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District. Charles D. Shackelford, CE’80, an expert with 30 years of experience in the geoenvironmental aspects of waste management and environmental remediation, was named a Fellow by the ASCE board of directors. Shackelford is a professor and head of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University.
1990s Danielle D. Kleinhans, MS CE’99, PhD CE’02, was promoted to managing director of the Epoxy Interest Group of the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute.
FUTURE miners Buddy Pearson, ArchE’12, CE’12, and his wife, Alli (Petry) Pearson, ArchE’12, CE’12, had a boy, Edward Alan Pearson III. The Pearson family lives in Germantown Hills, Ill.
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Justin Wylam, EE’03, and his wife, Kira (Bluebaum) Wylam, CE’06, had a boy, Joseph James, on June 19, 2014. He joined big sister Anna.
ALUMNI news Darren Mulford, CE’97, a civil engineering and administrating contracting officer for the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntsville, Ala., is also a competitive pistol shooter. Mulford is ranked in the top 15 percent of classified shooters in the U.S. Practical Shooting Association.
2000s Ryan A. Elam, CE’07, was hired as director of the Lee’s Summit (Mo.) Development Center — a one-stop shop for community development activity. James Granich, CE’04, MS CE’06, has been with Wallace Engineering since 2014 and is a structural engineer in the Oklahoma City office. He is responsible for the structural analysis, design, coordination and preparation of construction documents for building projects including large retail lifestyle centers, low- and medium-rise office and industrial buildings, and restaurant tenant finishes. He is a licensed professional Engineer in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Washington and a member of the Oklahoma Structural Engineers Association. Kyle Griffin, CE’09, works with the residential design team for Civil Site Design Group in Nashville, Tenn., where he creates site development plans of all types. Jill (Henzler) Hutchinson, CE’07, an accredited professional in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), was promoted to project manager for St. Louis-based Tarlton Corp. She is working on the Cortex Innovation Community building and the Evogene Blending & Ingredients Inc. laboratory relocation and renovation. Srivatsan Raman, CE’03, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, shared a $200,000 Shaw Scientist Program grant through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation for distinct and innovative molecular research.
Andrew Rucker, CE’06, celebrated 10 years of service at Hanson Professional Services Inc.’s Kansas City, Mo., metropolitan office. He provides civil design services for railway projects, including design of horizontal and vertical railroad tracks, rail yard layouts, hydraulics and erosion control. Darcey Schumacher, CE’02, was promoted to principal of Wallace Engineering in Kansas City, Mo., where she has worked for more than 13 years. Matthew K. Swenty, CE’01, MS CE’03, received the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award at Virginia Military Institute in May 2015. He is an assistant professor of civil engineering at VMI.
2010s Chris Brenner, ArchE’16, joined Holland as a project engineer after serving as an intern in the summer of 2016. He completed his internship at the end of August and was hired on full time. Fawn Burrelsman, ArchE’12, was promoted to project engineer at JE Dunn Construction. Before joining JE Dunn in Savannah, Ga., Burrelsman worked at JE Dunn’s corporate headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., as a scheduling engineer. Grant Johnson, CE’11, joined Engineering Enterprises Inc. of Sugar Grove, Ill., as a project engineer. His primary focus will be on transportation related projects. Carl Rouse, CE’14, was hired as director of estimating for Byrne & Jones Construction’s concrete division. He will oversee cost estimates and project management of flatwork and foundation projects on commercial and municipal jobs, including building and maintaining parking lots, roads and highways. David Zdvorak, CE’15, joined Milwaukeebased Sigma Group Inc. as a staff engineer. (continued on the next page)
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WEDDINGS Ryan T. Semar, ArchE’09, married Barbara Wheelden, ChE’10, on June 13, 2015. The couple lives in Oak Park, Ill.
Todd Miller, PetE’10, MS PetE’12, married Stephanie Rostad, CE’12, on May 23, 2015, in Weston, Mo. The couple lives in the Houston area.
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ELGIN’S BOOK REFLECTS ON VIETNAM EXPERIENCES Far from his usual books on surveying, Dick Elgin’s latest work, Shoulda Played the Flute, is a memoir of his time in Army aviation, including a year flying helicopter combat missions in Vietnam. Elgin, CE’74, MS CE’76, an adjunct professor of civil engineering at Missouri S&T, washed out on his first try at S&T, so he volunteered for the Army rotary wing flight school. After graduating from flight school, he was sent to Vietnam in 1969 and assigned to the Americal Division innChu Lai. Within the Americal, he flew the Hughes OH-6A out of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade on a variety of missions. Through humorous, serious and sad vignettes in the book, Elgin describes the missions he flew. Long before Vietnam, Elgin played the flute in his high school band. During basic training in Fort Polk, La., the post band director made him an offer: He could fulfill his Army obligation — guaranteed — playing the flute in the Fort Polk Army Band. Elgin declined. There were missions in Vietnam when he remembered the offer, thinking he “shoulda played the flute.”
ALUM LEADS HARBOR PROJECT David Winter, CE’78, president and CEO of Seattle-based Hart Crowser, was the geotechnical engineer on the Governors Island project in New York Harbor to build hybrid natural and human-made hills on the island. The tallest hill, called Outlook, gives visitors a 360-degree view of the harbor. “If the hill is built traditionally, with soil fill placed and compacted in layers, the weight of the new soil would cause several feet of settlement and likely result in a slope stability failure into the harbor,” Winter says. But Hart Crowser made Outlook weigh about 50 percent less by using debris from demolished island buildings, mechanically stabilized earth and an expanded aggregate, or pumice. Other hills on the island were built with general granular fill barged to the site from a Hudson River quarry. The construction technique used on Governors Island “reduces the settlement dramatically and forces the critical slope stability failure surface farther back away from the shoreline, thus increasing the stability factor of safety,” Winter says.
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IN MEMORIAM Remembering the following alumni who have passed away.
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George O. Boeckman, CE’49, (Aug. 10, 2016)
August R. Bardelmeier, CE’57, (Jan. 1, 2016)
Robert E. Held, CE’48, was a member of the Army Specialized Training Program contingent in 1943-44 in Rolla and returned in 1946 under the G.I. Bill after serving as a combat infantry sergeant in the European Theater. He retired as the director of technical services for the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (Region 3) in Olney, Md. (June 14, 2015)
Joseph A. Beatty, CE’51, (Nov. 17, 2015)
Robert Hall Kendall, CE’47, was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Miner track and field team, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. College was interrupted by three years of service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. His longest term of employment was in Huntington, W.Va., with CSX and predecessor railway companies, designing bridges. (May 15, 2016)
Randall L. Garten, CE’52, (Oct. 16, 2016)
Forrest G. Robinson, CE’49, (Aug. 4, 2016)
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Edward B. Campen, CE’57, (June 1, 2016) Billy W. Franklin, CE’57, worked for Missouri American Water and retired from the St. Louis County Water Co. in 1992. (May 13, 2016) Charles A. Frey, CE’57, (June 10, 2016)
Charles B. Germer, CE’55, was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, the Miner football and track teams, and the Order of the Golden Shillelagh. Mr. Germer served in the Air Force from 1947 to 1952. He worked for Alpha Portland Cement Co. in St. Louis, and in 1962 he started a mining company, Old Monroe. (Jan. 2, 2016)
Eugene W. Myers, CE’53, (Feb. 25, 2016)
Charles T. Schweizer, CE’51, (Jan. 8, 2016)
Robert W. Sprick, CE’55 (Nov. 19, 2015)
Robert R. Steele, CE’50, (April 19, 2016)
Daniel J. Houser, CE’56, was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Theta Tau, Blue Key, Chi Epsilon, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Road Builders Association. Mr. Houser was an engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation and retired as vice president of PB Booker Associates Inc. He is survived by daughter Rachel (Houser) Wilhelm, EMgt’87, and son-in law Gregg Wilhelm, CE’83. (Nov. 13, 2015)
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James D. Jackson, CE’59, was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order, Independents (GDI) and Army ROTC. He worked for the Missouri Department of Transportation for over 41 years before retiring in 1999 and was a life member of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers and the Academy of Civil Engineers. (July 14, 2016) Thomas F. Lane, CE’55, (May 31, 2016) Donald W. Marshall, CE’50, (Jan. 24, 2016) Dwight L. Meyer, CE’58, (Nov. 6, 2015) William R. Montgomery, CE’58, joined the Missouri S&T Order of the Golden Shillelagh in 1991, was an Honored Founder in 1994 and was inducted into the Academy of Civil Engineers in 1998. He was a veteran of the Korean War as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in K Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. Mr. Montgomery was vice president of J.S. Alberici Construction Co. and then formed his own construction company in 1974 — William R. Montgomery & Associates, specializing in industrial contracting. He was a member of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis, where he served as president in 1992. (Oct. 14, 2016) Wallace E. Northup, CE’58, (Dec. 28, 2015)
Kerwood W. Barrand, CE’60, was a member of Chi Epsilon and was self-employed. (March 20, 2016) Thomas A. Barrett, CE’69, (Jan. 8, 2016) Harold C. Bennish, CE’64, (March 28, 2016) Bruce H. Bradford, CE’65 (June 4, 2014) Edward C. Carlstrom, CE’60, (Nov. 28, 2015) Byrl J. Engel, CE’62, (Sept. 21, 2014) Richard S. Groner, CE’60, (May 6, 2016) Thomas R. Halbrook, CE’60, (July 17, 2016) Henry T. Martin, CE’60, (May 27, 2016) Donald G. Peters, CE’64, was a member of Chi Epsilon, Army ROTC, the American Society of Civil Engineers, Independents (GDI), the Residence Hall Association, the Society of American Military Engineers and the Honors Association. He retired in 1990 as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and retired as public works director of Coolidge, Ariz., in 2011. (Feb. 21, 2016) Ralph E. Phillips, CE’66, (Feb. 22, 2016) Joseph Wood Jr., CE’64, was a member of Chi Epsilon. He graduated from Engineer Officer Candidate School in 1953 and was commissioned into the Army. Over the next 26 years in the Army Corps of Engineers, he rose to the rank of colonel as he managed large and complex corps projects. After retirement, he and his wife, Eleanor, traveled the world, visiting 87 countries. (Feb. 4, 2016)
William H. Roberts, CE’51, (June 30, 2016) (continued on the next page)
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Robert H. Winn, CE’67, was a member of Independents (GDI), Student Council, Residence Hall Association, Tech Engine Club, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Rugby Club. He worked for URS Dames & Moore, an engineering, design and construction company. (Feb. 3, 2016)
1970s Danny L. Abel, CE’74, was a member of Independents (GDI) and the Honors Association. He was a civil engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation for 35 years and was a member of the Society of Professional Engineers. (Feb. 14, 2016) Stephen Nathaniel Kinder, CE’72, worked for Kansas City Power and Light and Dayton Power in Aberdeen, Ohio. He worked on nuclear power plants near Ottawa, Kan.; Seabrook, N.H.; and Glen Rose, Texas. He was an independent contractor for General Electric and owner and operator of Project Control S Services. (March 9, 2016) Rick E. Larson, CE’75, (Aug. 1, 2015)
Fredrick N. Mendell, CE’70, (July 9, 2016) Randall L. Mosby, CE’77, (June 12, 2016) Dale Leslie Ricks, CE’70, was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Student Council. He worked many years for the Missouri Department of Transportation, retiring in 2008 as the district engineer in Springfield, Mo. He also worked for Olsson Associated, retiring in 2010. (Aug. 21, 2015) Kenneth L. Woods, CE’76, (Sept. 11, 2016)
1980s Leta Beth Lorenzen, CE’83, (Jan. 8, 2016) Shelton L. Stringer, CE’83, MS CE’87 (Dec. 5, 2015) William Richard Mehrer, CE’88, (Sept. 26, 2016)
1990s Om Prakash Agrawal, CE’92, (April 26, 2016)
Howard F. McCormack, CE’72, (April 28, 2016)
Vernon T. Jones Sr. Vernon T. Jones Sr., CE’53, a member of the 2011 class of Missouri S&T Alumni of Influence, died Feb. 16, 2016. Mr. Jones spent decades in the oil and natural gas industries, becoming president and CEO of Explorer Pipeline Co. in the 1970s and president of Williams Pipeline Co. in the 1980s. He became more involved with his alma mater under chancellors Joseph Marchello and Martin Jischke. After his retirement in 1992, Jones and his late wife, Maralee, endowed a chair in civil engineering and made a gift to help renovate Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall. Missouri S&T honored Mr. Jones with an award of professional distinction in 1974 and with an honorary degree in 1987.
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IN MEMORIAM
Joseph H. Senne Jr. Dr. Joseph H. Senne Jr., MS CE’51, professor emeritus and former chair of civil engineering at Missouri S&T, died Dec. 20, 2016. Dr. Senne joined the S&T faculty as an instructor in civil engineering in 1948 and was named assistant professor in 1951. He spent eight years at Iowa State University, then returned to Missouri S&T as professor of civil engineering in 1963. He served as the chair of civil engineering from 1965 to 1985. Dr. Senne was an avid astronomer who made the astronomical calculations for the Missouri S&T Stonehenge replica that was unveiled in 1984. “The stones had to be placed precisely to be aligned for observing equinoctial and summer and winter solstice sunrises and sunsets, by which ancient Britons kept track of the seasons with the original Stonehenge,” he said in 1985. Working in his spare time, it took Dr. Senne two years to make the calculations by computer. “This makes the construction of the original Stonehenge some 3,000 years ago seem even more remarkable,” he said. In collaboration with the Independent Tracking Coordination Program, Dr. Senne predicted the time of satellite crossings over Missouri and made them available
to news media. He avidly tracked Skylab from its launch in 1973 to its reentry to Earth in 1979. Dr. Senne served in World War II as a Navy Seabee and was stationed on Okinawa when the peace treaty with Japan was signed in 1945. He was a fellow and life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society for Engineering Education and the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, and was the chair of the ASCE Advanced Technology Committee and the ASCE Space Shuttle Task Committee. Dr. Senne also was involved in establishing the Missouri S&T Academy of Civil Engineers and served as secretary-treasurer for 12 years. A member of the Society of Sigma Xi, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Outstanding Educators of America, Dr. Senne held a bachelor of science degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University, both in civil engineering. In memory of Dr. Senne, there will be a dedication ceremony and a Stonehenge plaque unveiling held during Homecoming on Oct. 27, 2017.
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Changing the World
Vision 2020 Looking Ahead: • ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS LAB (ACML) Provide 16,000 square feet of new education and research space for developing and testing new infrastructure materials and construction methods.
Current Commitments:
√ James A. Heidman $3M √ Sunderland Foundation $100,000 √ Charles Bennett $125,000 √ Paul Pender $145,000 √ UM System $1.6M
Future Support:
Continue fundraising efforts to cover the remaining costs, needing $1.4M of $6.5M
Project Design Update:
√ Architect and design firm selection • PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE • FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
For information about supporting Vision 2020, contact Shannon Bishop by phone at 636-295-6762 or email sbishop@mst.edu. Common Ground | care.mst.edu
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