Honorary Member

One or more Honorary Members may be selected each year by the Academy's Board of Trustees by affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its members. The individual so honored possesses one or more of the following characteristics:

  • has attained a position of eminence in the field of environmental and/or human health protection;
  • has made a single noteworthy contribution or sustained contribution to the advancement of environmental and/or human health protection; or
  • has rendered outstanding service over a long period of time resulting in the advancement of the affairs of the Academy.
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2024 Honorary Member

Honorary MemberBernard Amadei, Ph.D., NAE

Dr. Amadei is a Distinguished Professor and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Amadei is the Founding Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities (now Global Engineering). He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders - USA and the Engineers Without Borders-International network co-founder. Among other distinctions, Dr. Amadei is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Construction. He is also an elected Senior Ashoka Fellow and was recently inducted into the 2023 ASEE Hall of Fame.

Dr. Amadei holds seven honorary doctoral degrees (UMass Lowell, Carroll College, Clarkson, Drexel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Technion in Israel, and SUNY-ESF). In 2013 and 2014, Dr. Amadei served as a Science Envoy to Pakistan and Nepal for the US Department of State.


Past Recipients

Year

Recipient

2023

Olmo, J. Sammi

2023

Hering, Janet

2022

Soderberg, Carl-Axel P.

2021

No Recipient

2020

Massey, Ann

2019

Fair, Gordon Maskew (In Memoriam)

2018

Colwell, Rita Rossi

2017

Hawkins, George

2016

Kirk, Ken

2015

No recipient

2014

Jenkins, David

2013

Sutley, Nancy

2013

Rittmann, Bruce E.

2013

Jackson, Lisa

2012

Van Antwerp, Jr., Robert L.

2011

Randall, Clifford W.

2010

Crombie, George R.

2009

McCarty, Perry

2009

Rouse, Michael

2008

Sekarajasekaran, A. "Sek"

2007

Gunaratnam, Daniel J.

2006

Barnard, James L.

2005

Qingtao, Xie

2004

Lohani, Bindu Nath

2003

Gloyna, Earnest F.

2002

Bath, Vincent

2001

Tambo, Norihito

2000

Imhoff, Klaus R.

1999

Ludwig, Harvey F.

1994

O'Connor, Donald J.

1991

Stern, Arthur C.

1988

Okun, Daniel A.

1983

Wolman, Abel

1982

Kappe, Stanley E.

 

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