Gordon Maskew Fair Award

The Gordon Maskew Fair Award honors one of the pioneers of environmental engineering. Dean Fair, in addition to his own exemplary career, spawned a living legacy during his lifetime -- those that he taught are now teaching us.

In establishing the Fair Award, the Academy sought to identify Board Certified Environmental Engineers and Board Certified Environmental Engineering Members who have contributed to the status of the environmental engineering profession by:

• Exemplary professional conduct
• Recognized achievements in the practice of engineering
• Significant contributions to the control of the quality of the world's environment.

For the full list of eligibility criteria and information on how you can submit nominations for a worthy Environmental Engineer, click here.

Alonzo W. Lawrence

2013 Gordon Maskew Fair Award Recipient: Alonzo W. Lawrence, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Dr. Alonzo Lawrence’s 53 year career in environmental engineering and management includes corporate level environmental and occupational health management, consulting engineering, university teaching and research, and military environmental engineering. He was a sanitary engineer officer in the U. S. Army Medical Service Corps, Assistant Professor of environmental engineering at Drexel University, and Associate Professor of environmental engineering at Cornell University.

In 1976, Dr. Lawrence joined the Koppers Company, where he was Corporate Vice President of Environmental Resources and Occupational Health; Vice President of Science and Technology; and Vice President and General Manager of Koppers Chemical Systems Sector. Dr. Lawrence was general manager of the Pittsburgh office of Hart Environmental Management Corporation during 1990. He was a principal and general manager of the Pittsburgh region of RETEC during which he managed a five-year research program for the Gas Research Institute (GRI) on the management and treatment of natural gas and coal bed methane produced waters.

Dr. Lawrence is also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and was a senior financial consultant with PNC Investments, a division of PNC Financial Services Corporation. He is currently a senior consultant with Corporate Environmental Solutions, LLC, specializing in wastewater treatment and general environmental management.

Dr. Lawrence has published more than 50 technical papers and reports on various aspects of environmental engineering and management with special emphasis and expertise in the design and control of biological wastewater treatment processes and systems. He holds the following academic degrees: B.S., Sanitary Engineering, Rutgers University (1959); M.S., Sanitary Engineering, MIT (1960); and Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University (1967). He is AAEES Board Certified in Water Supply and Wastewater Engineering.

Past Winners

2012 -- C. P. Huang
2011 -- Hillel I. Shuval
2010 -- Rao Y. Surampalli
2009 -- Thomas E. Wilson
2008 -- R. Tim Haug
2007 -- Jim F. Stahl
2006 -- Philip C. Singer
2005 -- Robert C. Marini
2004 -- Richard A. Conway
2003 -- Charles C. Johnson, Jr.
2002 -- Theodore M. Schad
2001 -- Cecil Lue-Hing
2000 -- Frederick G. Pohland
1999 -- W. Wesley Eckenfelder
1998 -- Gerald T. Orlob
1997 -- Paul H. Woodruff
1996 -- Raymond J. Loehr
1995 -- Walter J. Weber, Jr.
1994 -- Jerome B. Gilbert
1993 -- Charles A. Sorber
1992 -- William J. Carroll
1991 -- Paul L. Busch
1990 -- Walter E. Garrison
1989 -- John C. Geyer
1988 -- Henry L. Longest, II
1987 -- Robert A. Canham
1986 -- Joseph F. Lagnese, Jr.
1985 -- Vinton W. Bacon
1984 -- Joseph F. Malina, Jr.
1983 -- Arthur C. Stern
1982 -- Earnest F. Gloyna
1981 -- Gerard A. Rohlich
1980 -- William R. Gibbs
1979 -- Joseph C. Lawler
1978 -- Stanley E. Kappe
1977 -- Roy F. Weston
1976 -- Earnest Boyce
1975 -- Wesley E. Gilbertson
1974 -- Frank A. Butrico
1973 -- John H. Ludwig
1972 -- Daniel A. Okun
1971 -- James B. Coulter

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