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Alumni
Academy of Distinguished Alumni
The Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni was established to recognize our graduates' professional achievements and contributions. The academy's members also serve as leaders and role models among alumni and students.
Twenty-seven charter members, all Distinguished Graduates at the Cockrell School of Engineering or CAEE departmental level, were inducted into the Academy in November of 2003. Eight to ten additional members have been inducted into the Academy every fall since.
Each active member holds a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. from the department and is outstanding in his or her field, a leader of community affairs and worthy of emulation.
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Robert B. Anderson is a senior bridge professional registered in eleven states, with over four decades of diverse engineering and management experience. He earned his bachelor’s degree from South Dakota State University in 1983 and his M.S. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1988.
Frank Carmichael earned his B.S. with honors in 1973 and his M.S. at The University of Texas at Austin. While at the University, he worked at the Center for Highway Research during the academic year and at the Brady Residency of the Brownwood District of the Texas Highway Department each summer. This gave him a strong foundation in the theoretical and practical aspects of highway engineering. He was a member of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers and organized a student trip to see the initial construction of the new Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).
Andrea R.H. Cheng, Ph.D., PE, is a principal management specialist at CDM Smith with over 22 years of industry experience. An expert in drinking water systems, Cheng specializes in water quality, lead corrosion and lead service line replacement (LSLR), with a particular focus on digitizing business processes.
Damon A. Davis is a first-generation college graduate, earning his B.S. in civil engineering with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering in 1996. He was very active during his time at UT, including serving as president of Tau Beta Pi, and was also the recipient of the John A. Focht Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Civil Engineering.
Norman Dennis is an emeritus professor of civil engineering and former senior associate dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. His research interests included remote sensing techniques for site characterization, slope stability, autonomous monitoring of transportation systems and nondestructive methods of soil characterization.
Peter Deming, a geotechnical engineer, joined Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers (MRCE) in 1979. He served as manager of the MRCE Soil Mechanics Laboratory from 1979 to 1986, was named an associate in 1988, and joined the partnership in 1998.
Michael C. Walton is a renowned professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, holding the Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering and a joint appointment in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. With over 45 years in transport systems engineering and policy analysis, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Shin-Tower Wang, Ph.D., P.E., is the president of Ensoft, Inc./Lymon C. Reese & Associates, in Austin, Texas. Wang has a strong academic background in both the geotechnical and structural engineering fields and received his M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Cushing is a senior vice president with Carollo Engineers, bringing 27 years of experience in applied environmental science and engineering. Throughout his career, he has integrated fundamental concepts with sound engineering practices to develop innovative and lasting solutions for water and wastewater utilities.
Dominic J. Kelly has been with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) since 2000 and brings over twenty-five years of experience as a consultant in structural design, repair and investigation of both building and non-building structures.
Sam Kumar is the CEO and founder of the Journeyman Group. Under his leadership, the Journeyman Group has developed over $1B in projects in the past 24 years. The Austin Business Journal has recently recognized Journeyman as the #1 multifamily developer in Central Texas, having developed over 10,000 units in Central Texas.
Carl J. “Chuck” Larosche is a senior principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner, with more than 35 years of experience in structural design and construction, including the investigation and repair development for various existing and historic structures. He has successfully combined a broad construction background with knowledge of material behavior in existing structures to become an industry leader in the area of masonry, concrete and steel evaluation, including strengthening and repair of these materials.
Ronald D. Medlock is vice president of technical services at High Steel Structures LLC in Lancaster, PA. High Steel is a steel bridge fabricator that produces fabricated steel products for vehicular and railroad steel Igirder, tub girder, arch and truss bridges. Ronnie is responsible for quality control and training and plays a lead role in advancements in fabrication technology.
Elise Miller-Hooks holds the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Engineering in the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University. She is also an advisor to the World Bank Group and the founding editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s Sustainability Analytics and Modeling journal.
Harvey J. Treybig’s experience in the highway and airfield aspects of civil engineering covers the entire range of engineering management, research and development, design, testing, construction, and rehabilitation. He spent several years of his career in the Design Division of the Texas Highway Department, where many of his responsibilities were roadway design-oriented, with particular attention to field data collection, design calculations, and field inspection.
Neil Graff has built a career that is dedicated to improving our communities, protecting our environment and increasing the resiliency of public infrastructure. A leader in implementing water and wastewater projects, Neil has also helped communities implement many groundbreaking projects for all types of infrastructure.
Chi-Kao Hsu is a prominent engineer and entrepreneur within the Austin community. As the CEO and president of four different engineering companies and the owner of a large portfolio of commercial and real estate properties, Hsu is a highly successful investor.
Clifford Randall is the Charles P. Lunsford Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1968 to help develop the environmental engineering and science program. For more than four decades, he kept a rigorous schedule, teaching generations of environmental engineers, including 96 M.S. and 37 Ph.D. students, while serving in many professional organizations and consulting with wastewater treatment facilities around the world.
Carin Roberts-Wollmann received her B.S. in civil engineering in 1983 from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. She was then hired as the first female construction engineer at Austin Bridge Company in Dallas and, after two years, was assigned to be the field engineer in San Antonio. In San Antonio, she worked in the casting yard for the precast segmental viaduct being constructed downtown, known as the San Antonio “Y.”
