Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

You’ve certainly been making us proud! Here are some of the honors and awards you’ve told us about:

Fouad Daoud (BSCE 1985, MSCE 1987) has been named president of WHKS, a consulting engineering, planning, and land surveying company in Iowa.

M. K. Mary Hurd (BSCE 1947) is the first female recipient of the Marston Medal, the highest award bestowed by the College of Engineering.

Hurd, who has achieved international recognition as a writer, editor, and engineer, earned her BS in civil engineering from Iowa State in 1947. Her writing career grew out of a need she observed as an engineering student. While impressed by her department’s faculty, she says, there was not adequate information available on how to construct concrete formwork, the wooden or steel frame that supports a concrete structure as it hardens.

Sixteen years later, Hurd corrected that deficiency when she wrote the 325-page Formwork for Concrete. Today, at age 78, she is working on the seventh edition of the book, known as the “Green Bible” of the formwork industry. With over 119,000 copies in print, Formwork for Concrete is used as a textbook at 16 universities and 5 colleges and professional schools, and as a reference book throughout the industry.

Frank Russo (PhD 2000) was named Young Engineer in Pennsylvania, based upon highly regarded credentials, with particular respect to his academics, professional practice and community involvement.

Leland Walker (BSCE 1944) was inducted in to the Montana Professional Engineers Hall of Fame, which is sponsored by the Montana Society of Engineers. He is retired from the Northern Testing Laboratories, a firm he founded in 1958.

Max Wortman (BSCE 1956) was elected an inaugural Fellow of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. He also was awarded the Max S. Wortman, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship by the U.S. Association of Small Business of Entrepreneurship. The award was named after him, and he was the first awardee.