Department Chair Robert Gilbert Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
Department Chair Robert Gilbert is recognized for his expertise in geotechnical engineering by the NAE.
The National Academy of Engineering officially welcomed its 2020 class of inductees at its Annual Meeting on October 2nd in Washington, DC.
Because this was the NAE’s first in-person meeting since 2020, the organization inducted classes 2021 and 2022 as well. Members of the NAE are peer-elected and are established as leaders within the engineering community. Department Chair Robert Gilbert is internationally recognized as an expert in geotechnical engineering.
Robert Gilbert joined UT Austin as a faculty member in 1993 and holds the Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professorship in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering. He has established himself as an expert in assessing and managing risk, consulting on a variety of high-profile projects, including flood protection in New Orleans, the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, nuclear waste disposal in Nevada and offshore oil and gas facilities around the world.
He was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Award from the United States Army Corps of Engineers for his service on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ External Review Panel in the forensic analysis of the levee failures in Hurricane Katrina. In 2011, Gilbert received the Norman Medal, the highest award given by ASCE for a journal paper, and in 2016, he received the E.B. Burwell Award for his work with the National Science Foundation on the 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington.