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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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Inducted September 26, 2020
Anton Schindler is recognized for excellence in teaching, research, and professional service. He is the Director of the Highway Research Center and Mountain Spirit Professor at Auburn University. He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
Inducted 2022
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.
Inducted, 2021
Sam Kumar is the CEO and founder of the Journeyman Group of companies. Under his leadership, the companies have 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.
Inducted, 2022
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.
Inducted, 2019
General Patrice Melancon studied civil engineering at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette, although it was the University of Southwestern Louisiana when she attended on an Air Force ROTC scholarship. She was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in 1988 and entered the Air Force as a bioenvironmental engineer. She spent the next 9 years on active duty.
Inducted, 2018
David Stueckler, through his 42 years with Linbeck, has varied project experience in educational, corporate, healthcare, and research markets. He has managed projects as the owner’s representative, program manager, project manager, and builder.
Inducted, 2019
Gregor Wollmann came to The University of Texas at Austin in 1986 on a Fulbright scholarship immediately after earning his Diplom-Ingenieur degree at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. His initial intention to stay for one year expanded to six, gaining him a Master’s degree, a Ph.D., and a wife – fellow distinguished CAEE alumna Carin Roberts-Wollmann – along the way.
Inducted, 2018
David Sanders is the Greenwood Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. He came to Iowa State University as chair in 2018 after being at the University of Nevada, Reno for 28 years in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Inducted, 2018
As a world-leading authority in the field of reinforced concrete and a pioneer of performance-based seismic design, Park has provided guidance on deformation-based strength models for building structures. Park is a Professor in the Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea.
Inducted, 2019
Dan R. Stoppenhagan is a distinguished leader with over 35 years of international experience in the engineering and construction industry, specializing in transportation and infrastructure sectors. Throughout his career, Dan has built and maintained deep relationships with top-level officials in departments of transportation and transit agencies across North America.
Inducted, 2018
William M. Camp, III, PE, D.GE, is a technical principal, vice president and senior engineer at S&ME, Inc. in Charleston, SC. With over thirty years of experience, Camp specializes in geotechnical engineering and project management, focusing on the analysis, design and construction of deep and shallow foundations, slope stability and geotechnical earthquake engineering.
Inducted, 2022
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.
Inducted, 2018
Deb Niemeier is a distinguished civil engineer known for her work in identifying and addressing inequities in the built environment. Her research focuses on environmental pollutants and their disproportionate impact on disadvantaged communities, driven by a childhood experience in El Paso where she observed the harmful effects of industrial pollution crossing the Rio Grande River.
Inducted 2021
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.
Inducted, 2019
David L. Lott has over 36 years of experience in the construction industry and project knowledge of health care, commercial, institutional, industrial and residential construction. He is responsible for the company's pre-construction services, estimating and construction engineering functions.
Inducted, 2019
Wayne Lott is a partner at Lott Brothers Construction Company, Ltd. (LBCC), a general construction firm based in Austin, Texas. Since its founding in 1988, LBCC has built a diversified portfolio that includes projects across various sectors such as health care, retail, office, multi-family and single-family residential, industrial, cleanrooms, water and wastewater plants and environmental remediation.
Inducted, 2022
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.
Inducted, 2017
John A. Wooley is an outstanding geotechnical engineer, manager and business developer, with over 40 years of technical experience encompassing significant capital investment projects worldwide, both onshore and offshore.
Inducted, 2017
Andy W. Taylor is an Associate at KPFF Consulting Engineers in Seattle with nearly 30 years of leadership in structural engineering research and design. A seismic design and building performance expert, he is known for tackling complex problems, from rehabilitating drydocks for nuclear submarines to working on major wind turbine installations.
