that the first professional engineering degree should be a master’s degree. “All of these eventually became part of the national debate on how to educate engineers,” Goldberg said. Smerdon graduated from the University of Missouri with a BS in engineering in 1951 and served four years in the U.S. Air Force, then returned to his alma mater for his MS and PhD. He went on to Ernie Smerdon hold the Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in the civil engineering department at the University of Texas, Austin, and the Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professorship in Natural Resource Policy Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He was vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Texas system from 1976 to 1982.
Michael Nativi Ihor Kukurba Susan Anderson Paul Mureiko Brian Hewitt Christopher Thomas David Paullin Subramania Sudharsanan Kirk Damron 1992 Meredith (Arbuthnot) Curley Georgina (Suarez) Ahumada Dilli Sharma Gregory Boner Jordan Gerton Alicia Kohner James Tofel Robert Coffan Christopher Whitehead 1993 Kelly (Biller) Twitchell Shelley (Ratliff) McLaughlin Edward Pohl Daryl Hild Bruce Rechichar Cheng-Tsu Fu Ronald Seager Cha Thai Huang Joe Fulton Doug Crawford Henry Knoepfle Jose Arce Mark Sullivan
1994 Janice (Plado) Dalager Lisa (Tank) Severnak Anne Marie (Trujillo) Velosa Shelly (Vogt) Benson Matthew Ploor Vicki Seppala Dan Yuan Hal McGinnis Mark Smiley Gary Degeronimo Jeffrey Kim Jeffrey Berg Wei Yang William Wilkening 1995 Robert Daniels Michael Koerner Jayesh Ramsinghani John Lewis Travis Higgins Heath Lewallen Curtis Bruns Darren Sims David Randolph David Pellinen Wan-Hsin Tang Paul Englehart Jose Lopera Michael Zelnick William Johnson 1996 Dawn (Gladish) Graffam
Toni (Johnson) Rogero Heather (Muir) Woodward Ingrid (Nelson) McNeil Tom Zhong Elena Sanwick Christopher Fall Yung-lin Lin Kris Akre Michael Yockey Keith Lierman 1997 Martha Madero Moreno Ouatfa Chuffe-Moscoso Jose Urcadez Figen Akin Vicente Zaragoza Joaquin Magallanez Paul Joggerst Mary Garrity Andrea Ursillo Shahin El-Sharif 1998 Michelle (Langmaid) Cunningham Dennis Mooney Josh Nies Daniel Sandblom Travis McCarthy Scott Bricker Diemthuy Ngo Brian Sichter Michael Moats Carter Romero Carl Bueter
Timothy Christopherson James Entwistle Keith Ballou 1999 Deborah (Gill) Gross Michael Do Charles Gajda Marc Greenberg Hua Zhu Ziyu Huang Jeffrey Zubel Brian Debnam Ivan Doliani Adam Gilbert Ryan Goebel Charles Scroggins Manuel Teran Cesar Cheng-Guajardo Steven Wayne Tingyang Liu Marco Gardner 2000 Shiraj Mamun Victor Ling Saul Mora Stephen Kuenzli Tawnie Harrison Scott Sayles Michael Wong Sutirtha Kabir Jody Conger Lucinda Williams Leah Stanley Said Ahmad Laura Lohner
2001 Anita (Chapin) McGuire Joon Pyo Lee Jing-Quan Li John Buehler Galen Jokipii Jessa Wright Erin Lyons Suman Dhakal Paul Drobny Jeremy Carlson Lindy Cote 2002 Natasha (Checkovich) Schnaitmann Karol Ginorio Micah Lesmeister Jason Carlaftes Alejandro Angel Geoffrey Hill Nicholas Fifer Babaq Taj Brian Constance Sarah Stewart Jones Tembo Eric Hein Xuejun Li Kathleen Finkelstein Lisa Renner Jorge Noriega 2003 Claire Lubert Nathan Palmer Matthew Bailey Prasad Gabbur
His numerous honors include the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Royce J. Tipton Award, the 2006 Golden Vector Award from the Pan-American Union of Engineering Associations, the 2005 John C. Park Outstanding Civil Engineer Award from ASCE’s Arizona section, and the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award by the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute. The Arizona Society of Professional Engineers named him Engineer of the Year in Education. Smerdon credited his Missouri Ozarks upbringing for his strong work ethic and family values, and has been quoted as saying: “I was surrounded by dairy cattle and crops. I learned early on that hard work was good for you, and I learned that I didn’t want to be a farmer.” His wife of 63 years, Joanne Duck Smerdon, survives him, as do their three children, 10 grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and his sister and brother. Donations can be made in his memory to the Ernest and Joanne Smerdon Endowed Scholarship to support outstanding undergraduate students at the University of Arizona College of Engineering.
Bo Zhao Amarpreet Chawla Balamurugan Krishnan Sarvesh Bhardwaj Joshua Martin Walter Lopez Jason Godinez Kweku Ansah Obiri 2004 Laucretia (Begay) Baum Juan Lopez Andrew Osbrink Evan Lytle Muzaffar Eusuff Arsen Tonoyan Roberto Bringas Allison Basche Faisal El Azzouzi Wen Huang 2005 John Condon Robert Stirling Donald Swanson Gregory Dion Joshua Koch Pirahas Balasingam Vignesh Krishnasamy Bharat Sukhwani Brian Alden Kristy Pearson Brett Yeater Ann Hoang Joseph Augustine
Donghai Wang Judd Dyer Kevin Opalka Nicholas Hansen 2006 Kerry (Ruiz) Magariel Jessica Yeh Angel Otarola Jesus Acosta Iriqui Debora Anjos Deepali Karadge Rosemary Cox-Galhotra Jean Vock Douglas Toperzer Domingo Kiser David Schaller 2007 Shannon (Hoblitzell) Green Stephanie (Sara) Jordan Joseph Fico Ryan Kemmet Ryan Kanto James Rozzoni Stanley Yellowhair Adam Sandifer Bix Beiderbecke William Salus Alexis Alvarez Jeffrey Calhoun Devin Whipple David Kraemer Annapoorna Krishnaswamy Matthew Zerull
2008 Jacob Gulotta Avinash Ayyalasomayajula Logan Gaither Satyajeet Ahuja Rachel Popp Mehul Patel Narendhran Vijayakumar Matthew Kinnaman Jeffrey Hunt Donald Bruyere Geoffrey Steward Adam Ritter 2009 Joanna (Emerson) Zinsli Regina Reed Abhinav Jha Jesus Garcia Margaret Howard Anvesh Cherukupally Kyle Van Renterghem Adam Wagner Kris Milster Michael Balthazar Nathan Decker Andrew Friedman Gene Mechler Lily Gharib Patrick Edwards 2010 William Casson Wayne Chin-Duncan Andrew Bozzi Ruben Romero
Michelle Guardado Ravi Raghavendra
Puneet Bhardwaj Lorenzo Escobar
2011 Myra Tobar Ryan Badilla Jesse Campbell Marcelo Salazar Shailendra Simkhada John Kurz Corey Crosby Andrew Brown Kyle Wollschlager Scott Ketter Josh Spivey Soufiane Mdaghri Aaron Kapilivsky Brandon Skalsky Hans Hony Benjamin Hobson
2013 Juan Mariscal Devin Raymond Pooja Rajguru David Ashton Kevin Forbes Cody Wood-Hromidko John Feather Daniel Lizarraga Nichole Miller
2012 Monica Soto Kevin Ferguson Keith Sangston Eric Hebeisen Franklin Ventura Christopher Wellons Jared Fowler William Duy Wongani Botha Stephen Tan Logan Robinson Kevin Smith Abraham Timler Gwendolyn Woods Suman Maharjan Jared Evans
2014 Ariel (Caquias) Nymeyer Paul Neff Timothy Nelson Robert McCarthy Aaron Abril Patrick Blythe Tianna Stefano Jasmine Gharib James King Connor Macrunnel Luz Dow Octavio Torres Sabrina Ball Nicholas Griffis Jeffrey Noble Amy Nipp Auni Kundu John Hottenstein David Ramirez Daniel Guyll Kelly Reid Mackenzie Lostra Jeffrey Kincaid
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