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Thomas C. Kavanagh
Thomas Kavanagh
This award is presented to a Civil Engineer who has contributed substantially to the status of the Civil Engineering profession by their public service. The award is named after Dr. Thomas C. Kavanagh (1912-1978), a professor at Penn State University, New York University, and Columbia University and a partner with the consulting firm of Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury. Kavanagh was actively involved with dozens of professional societies, helped to found the National Academy of Engineering, and authored over 100 technical publications. He was responsible for creating the Met Section Structures Group and also served as the president of the ASCE Met Section.

2009 Recipient:

Arthur L. Wolek, P.E.
Principal Engineer, Bridge & Tunnel Division
Parsons

Arthur Wolek, P.E. is a Principal Engineer in the Bridge and Tunnel Division of the Parsons Corporation. He holds a BS degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he also received the Moles Student Award, and an MS degree from the University of Virginia. Arthur is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon engineering honor societies.

Arthur received the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellowship from the Federal Highway Administration's Aerodynamics Laboratory, where he analyzed the dynamics of cable-stayed and suspension bridges, and he has performed research at the Virginia Transportation Research Council. Arthur also served as an adjunct instructor teaching the Finite Element Method at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Arthur has been an enthusiastic member of ASCE during his academic and professional careers. As an undergraduate student at RPI, Arthur assumed a lead role in the student steel bridge design competitions. More recently, Arthur served as Chair for the ASCE Metropolitan Section Structures Group, and he was also the Chair of the ASCE New York State Report Card Committee on Bridges. Arthur was very proud to be able to represent ASCE as Co-Chair of the 125th anniversary celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Arthur enjoys all aspects of bridge engineering. He has over 17 years of bridge analysis, design, inspection, and construction experience; and he has worked on segmental bridges, heavy rail structures, elevated light-rail guideways, cable-supported bridges and truss bridges. He has managed teams of engineers tasked with completing assessments of very large and complex bridges, and has presented papers at both the TRB International Bridge Engineering Conference and at the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania International Bridge Conference.

Arthur is currently involved in a MAGLEV research project at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU as a part of his Ph.D. program. Arthur hopes to help advance the design and construction of MAGLEV structures, a technology that could very well prove to be the future of transportation.

Past Recipients:

2008 Cesare DeRose, Sr.
2007 Andrew Herrmann
2006 Richard B. Cassin
2005 Bruce Podwal
2004 Bernard Haber
2003 Prasad Kudlapur
2002 Albert Machlin
2001 Cengiz H. Mumcuoglu
2000 William Fife
 1999 Otto Maatsch
1998 Edwin Polese
1997 Mortimer Sanders
1996 Susan M. Rossbach
1995 M.D. Morris
1994 Mel Stein
1993 Michael N. Salgo
1992 Elmer Isaak
1991 Jagtar S. Khinda
 1990 Gerald Palevsky
1989 Leonard S. Oberman
1988 Jerome S. B. Iffland
1987 David Caplan
1986 Harold Kessler
1985 Robert Olmstead
1984 Robert Schumacher
 
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