Award page contents:

Section awards
Previous award recipients
Section awards summary


Section awards

The Section through its awards program annually recognizes its members who by their example are considered outstanding by their peers in their careers and service to the engineering profession and their communities. The nominations originate from the branches and the selections are made by the Special Activities and Awards Committee; a standing committee of the Section. The Section Board of Directors adopted the following Section awards during a regular meeting in November 1994:

• Outstanding Civil Engineer
• Outstanding Young Civil Engineer
• Outstanding Government Civil Engineer
• Outstanding Young Government Civil Engineer
• President's Medal

The Section Board of Directors adopted the following Section awards during a regular meeting in August 2001:

• Lifetime Achievement
• Educator of the Year
• Wall of Fame
• Outreach

For a complete description of each of the Section's awards and a downloadable application form for each, please visit the Awards Information page that is accessed from the sidebar menu under Operations.

Previous award recipients

Outstanding Civil Engineer
1995 Kam K. Movassaghi, PE
1996 Om P. Dixit, PE
1997 David S. Huval, Sr., PE
1998 William W. Gwyn, PE
1999 Todd A. Vincent, PE
2000 Frank Nicoladis, PE
2001 James C. Webb, PE
2002 Mark B. Dubroc, PE
2003 Subash V. Kulkarni, PE
2004 Ralph W. Junius, Jr., PE
2005 Donald C. Makofsky, PE
2006 not awarded
2007 Mark W. Snow, PE
2008

Outstanding Young Civil Engineer
1995 Christopher K. Richard, PE
1996 Molly Franz Evans, EIT
1997 Miles B. Bingham, PE
1998 Susan Herpin Richard, PE
1999 Barbara E. Featherston, PE
2000 Pamela G. Miller, PE
2001 Jan C. Robichaux, EI
2002 Glenn McCall, PE
2003 Aurora N. Luscher, EI
2004 Christopher L. Sanchez, PE
2005 Kurt M. Nixon, PE
2006 not awarded
2007 C. Eric Hudson, PE
2008

Outstanding Government Civil Engineer
1995 Brenton T. Morse, Jr., PE
1996 Thomas R. Carroll, III, PE
1997 Jerome M. Klier, PE
1998 Warren P. Boudreaux, PE
1999 Thomas A. Fromherz, PE
2000 Ali M. Mustapha, PE
2001 Paul A. Richards, PE
2002 Ehab A. Meselhe, PE
2003 G. Joseph Sullivan, PE
2004 David A. Wagner, PE
2005 Ali M. Mustapha, PE
2006 not awarded
2007 Joe E. (Butch) Ford, PE
2008

Outstanding Young Government Civil Engineer
1995 not awarded
1996 not awarded
1997 not awarded
1998 not awarded
1999 not awarded
2000 not awarded
2001 not awarded
2002 not awarded
2003 not awarded
2004 not awarded
2005 not awarded
2006 not awarded
2007 not awarded
2008

President’s Medal
1995 James C. Porter, PE
1996 not awarded
1997 not awarded
1998 not awarded
1999 Charles L. Eustis, PE
2000 Mark W. Snow, PE
2001 not awarded
2002 not awarded
2003 not awarded
2004 Timothy M. Ruppert, PE
2005 E. R. DesOrmeaux, PE
2006 E.R. DesOrmeaux, PE
2007 Jerome M. Klier, PE
2008

Lifetime Achievement
2002 A. J. Szabo, PE
2003 Robert H. Boh, PE
2004 Herbert J. Roussel, Jr., PE
2005 William B. Conway, PE
2006 not awarded
2007 Jerome M. Klier, PE
2008

Educator of the Year
2002 not awarded
2003 not awarded
2004 not awarded
2005 not awarded
2006 not awarded
2007 not awarded
2008 not awarded

Wall of Fame
2002 not awarded
2003 not awarded
2004 not awarded
2005 Walter E. Blessey, PE
2006 not awarded
2007 James C. Porter, PE
Bobby E. Price, PE
2008 not awarded

Outreach
2002 not awarded
2003 not awarded
2004 not awarded
2005 Norma Jean Mattei, PE
2006 not awarded
2007 not awarded
2008 not awarded

Section Awards Summary

Section recognizes members

     Based on a selection from branch nominations made by the Section’s Special Activities and Awards Committee that was recommended to — and approved by — the Section Board of Directors the following Section members were recognized and honored during the Section Annual Meeting in New Orleans September 14, 2007:

• C. Eric Hudson, PE, Outstanding Young Civil Engineer
• Mark W. Snow, PE, Outstanding Civil Engineer
• Joe E. (Butch) Ford, Jr., PE, Outstanding Government Civil Engineer
• Jerome M. (Jerry) Klier, PE, Lifetime Achievement
• Bobby E. Price, PE, Wall of Fame and
• James C. Porter, PE, Wall of Fame.

     The Section through its awards program annually recognizes its members who by example are considered outstanding by their peers in their careers and service to the profession and their communities. The program has evolved over the years to include the following awards:

• Wall of Fame
• Educator of the Year
• Lifetime Achievement
• Outstanding Young Civil Engineer
• Outstanding Civil Engineer
• Outstanding Young Government Civil Engineer
• Outstanding Government Civil Engineer
• Outreach

     Each of the four branches in the Section maintain a parallel branch awards program to recognize their outstanding members. Those so recognized may be nominated by their branch for consideration for the same recognition at the section level. For more information about the Section/branch awards program, visit the Louisiana Section website.

 

Honorary Member
Reston, Virgina, June 4, 2007 — The American Society of Civil Engineers recognized the accomplishments of Bobby E. Price, Ph.D., P.E., Hon.M.ASCE by electing him to Honorary Membership. The Induction Ceremony will take place at the black tie gala banquet, held in conjunction with the Society’s 137th Annual Civil Engineering Conference, on November 3 at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida.
     Dr. Price was honored for his distinguished service and leadership of over four decades in engineering education and the engineering profession and for outstanding contribution in the reformation of the future of civil engineering education and professional licensure. He has been a leader in the decision-making process, as ASCE’s initiative to reform engineering education in the United States has taken form and moved forward. He has provided ASCE with timely and well founded input at key junctures throughout the implementation of Policy Statement 465 and deserves significant credit in this regard as engineering education changes over the coming decades.
     Dr. Price served on the ASCE Committee on Curricula and Accreditation during the development of the ABET EC 2000 Criteria and Civil Engineering Program Criteria, serving as chair of CC &A in 1997-98. In addition, he plays a central role in reforming engineering education through his involvement with the Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice (CAP3) for which he was a founding member and the first chair of its licensure committee.
     Critically important, Dr. Price successfully encouraged cooperation among ASCE, NSPE, NCEES, ABET, and other organizations in developing and proposing engineering educational/licensure models and action plans through the NSPE Engineering Education/Licensure Model Task Force. He launched an initiative with the Professional Engineers in Higher Education to gain greater acceptance of construction experience for purposes of engineering licensure. Dr. Price helped to initiate the “Get Licensed/Get Ahead” Campaign to encourage engineering students and young engineers to pursue engineering licensure and conducted dozens of national, state, and local presentations on changes necessary to improve the engineering education/licensure process. He worked closely with federal governmental officials within USACE and NAVFAC to promote engineering licensure and the establishment of a joint position statement on federal engineers’ final technical authority.
     An outstanding educator in hydraulics and water resources, Dr. Price also taught many courses in engineering mechanics, capstone design, and professionalism and ethics at Louisiana Tech University for 32 years. One of his greatest contributions to the college’s educational mission was the emphasis he placed on communications and presentations. He received the ASCE Student Chapter’s Outstanding Professor Award an amazing 10 times throughout his tenure with the University. In addition to his teaching, advising, and research responsibilities, Dr. Price held numerous leadership positions in the University, including Civil Engineering Program Chair, College of Engineering Graduate Studies Director, and College Undergraduate Studies Director. The University has established a Distinguished Professorship in his name.
     Dr. Price has played key leadership roles, including serving as President or Chairman, of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Louisiana Engineering Society, the Louisiana Engineering Foundation, the American Water Works Association Southwest Section, and as Vice Chairman and member of the Universities Council on Water Resources Committee on Research and Education in Water Resources Engineering. He served on the Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board from 1997-2003, and served as Chair in 2002-03.
     In addition to numerous civic organizations, Dr. Price is a member of the Lincoln Parish Geographical Information System Commission and the Sparta Groundwater Conservation Commission. His achievements have been recognized by numerous awards, including the William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award from ASCE, being inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni by the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and being named a Distinguished Engineer by the Texas Engineering Foundation.
     Honorary Membership is the highest award the Society may confer, second only to the title of ASCE President. Honorary Members on this prestigious and highly selective list have attained acknowledged eminence in a branch of engineering or its related arts and sciences. There are now 565 individuals who have been elected to this distinguished grade of membership since 1853.

Bobby E. Price

Life Members
     The following Section members became Life Members in 2007; from the Baton Rouge Branch: Lewis Burruss, Nilmani Banerjee, Joe H. Harmon, David N. Williams, PE, James M. Aronstein, Jr., PE, and James L. Fouss; from the New Orleans Branch: John C. Gribar, Lloyd A. Held, PE, Eugene A. Brian, PE, Ronald J. Shaw, PE, Leo W. Gagnon, Jr., PE, Enrique J. La Motta, PE, Larry R. Heston, and Harry W. Stinchcomb; and from the Shreveport Branch: Donald M. Edington, PE, Stephen P. Rider, and Jerry G. Lazenby, PE. Life Members David N. Williams, PE, Donald M. Edington, PE, Jerry G. Lazenby, PE, and Steven P. Rider, PE, attended the Section Annual Spring Meeting and Conference in Shreveport to be presented with their Life Member certificates during the Awards Banquet. A brief biography was presented as each of them reveived their certificate.

     David N. Williams, PE, is a resident of Baton Rouge and since 2001 he has been the Civil/Structural Department Manager for CDI Engineering Solutions, Process and Industrial. Williams is a native of Saint Joseph Michigan, and in 1964 he earned his BS in civil engineering from Tri-State University, Angola, Indiana. He is currently licensed to practice in 21 states and territories of the United States.
     Williams is married to his childhood sweetheart and friend for life, the former Nancy Lee Rose, of Saint Joseph, Michigan. They have 4 daughters who graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and have graced them with 10 grand children. Of their 4 sons-in-law, 2 hold degrees from Louisiana Tech University and Louisiana State University.
     He began his career in the Chicago area as a Structural Engineer, designing commercial and residential high rise structures. He was an associate with the joint venture of the businesses including of Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall — Max O. Urbahn — Seeley, Stevenson, Value, and Knecht — and The George A. Fuller Construction Company. Collectively known as DUSAF it was commissioned to engineer and construct the National Accelerator Laboratory west of Chicago now known as the Fermi Laboratory. www.fnal.gov. For his part in this project, Williams was instrumental in the structural design of the 16 story Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall, the 830 seat Norman F. Ramsey Auditorium, and the Meson Laboratory located in the Fixed Target Experimental Area on the 6,800 acre complex.
     In 1973 Williams moved to Baton Rouge where he continued his career as a Senior Structural Engineer in the capacities of Lead Engineer, Project Engineer, and Department Manager with the engineering firm of Barnard and Burk Inc. In 1989 he joined Salmon and Associates as the Chief Structural Engineer and Manager of the Civil/Structural Department. In 1992 he moved to Lakeland Florida as Vice-President, and Chief Engineer of the firm’s Florida Operations.

David Williams receives his Life Member certificate from Section President Tim Ruppert.

       Donald M. Edington, PE, a native of Springhill, Louisiana and a 1965 graduate of Louisiana Tech University, earned his BS in Civil Engineering and continued a semester of graduate studies in Environmental Engineering. He attended Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island and commissioned as Ensign. He served in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineering Corps and attended the Navy Civil Engineering Corps School in Port Hueneme, California. From there he served as Facility Engineer, Public Works Center, Subic Bay, Philippines, 1966-1967; and Assistant Public Works Officer, Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California, 1967-1968.
     In 1969 Edington continued his graduate studies at Louisiana Tech in Environmental Engineering where he and his wife Patricia Carroll from LaSalle Parish met and were married. He was employed as Project Engineer, International Paper Company, Mobile, Alabama, 1970-1974 — Community Development Engineer, Research and Development Center, Jackson, Mississippi, 1974-1981 — Engineer Supervisor, Resource Recovery and Development Authority, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1981-1985 — Parish Engineer and Parish Administrator, DeSoto Parish Police Jury, 1985-2000, from which he retired. He has since served as Branch Manager for Meyer, Meyer, Meyer, LaCroix & Hixson, Inc. to present.
     Don and his wife Pat have a daughter, Suzanne.

 

Donald Edington receives his Life Member certificate from President Ruppert.

      Jerry G. Lazenby, PE, is President of Lazenby and Associates, Inc. in West Monroe, Louisiana. The firm offers consulting engineering and land surveying services. A 1965 Graduate of Louisiana Tech University, Jerry began his engineering career with the Federal Highway Administration. In 1974 he moved to West Monroe joining the consulting firm of Jenkins and Madden Engineering Company that evolved into Lazenby and Associates.
     Jerry is a past chairman of the Professional Engineers in Private Practice, a practice division of the Louisiana Engineering Society, and a past President of the Monroe Chapter of the LES. He is the 1993 recipient of the LES Charles M. Kerr Public Relations Award and the 1994 recipient of the LES Andrew M. Lockett Civic Affairs Award.
     A past President of the Consulting Engineers Council of Louisiana, Jerry also served as its Louisiana National Director 1997-1998 and chaired its Transportation Committee. In 2000 Jerry received the A.E. Wilder, Jr. Award for Outstanding Service to the CEC/L. He has been elected to the position of Fellow in the American Consulting Engineers Council and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Jerry was appointed to — and served 6 years as a member of — the Louisiana Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Board and he has remained active in service to the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors.
     Jerry has served on the Louisiana Tech Engineering Foundation, and the Tech Civil Engineering Advisory Committee and Engineering and Science Foundation. In 1995 he was awarded Tech’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in Civil Engineering and elected a Life Director of Tech’s Engineering and Science Foundation.
     In his community, Jerry is a member and past president of the West Monroe/West Ouachita Chamber of Commerce and the West Monroe Rotary Club and he is a Paul Harris Fellow. Jerry and Christine, his wife of 41 years, have 2 sons, a daughter and 9 grandchildren. Christine is also a Louisiana Tech graduate. They are active members of the First Baptist Church of West Monroe. Jerry’s hobbies include deer hunting and fishing.

Jerry Lazenby receives his Life Member certificate from President Ruppert.

     Steven P. Rider, PE, graduated from college in 1965 and began working for Rust Engineering in Calhoun, Tennessee. He moved to Northeast Engineering in Springfield, Massachusetts and then proceeded to earn his MS from the University of Cincinnati in 1975. In this setting, he was the only student licensed to practice in California and he gave the professor a hard time about leaving out parts of the seismic calculations.
     The following 13 years he worked for Pedco in Cincinnati, Ohio and then for Fleur Daniel in Cincinnati, Ohio and in Richmond, VA for 16 years. He retired on 2000. Since retirement, Williams works on small jobs for McCormick & Co. At one time, he was licensed in 13 states including Civil in California and Structural in Illinois. He has worked all over the world, including service in the countries of Mexico, Uruguay, the Philippines, India, Turkey, and all over the United States.
     Stephen Rider, PE, currently lives in Shreveport with his wife and they were recently blessed with grandchild.

 

Steven Rider receives his Life Member certificate from President Ruppert.

Distinguished Senior Civil Engineering Students
     The Section’s 2007 distinguished senior civil engineering students were also honored during the awards banquet of Section Annual Spring Meeting and Conference the banquet. They are John David Brown from Louisiana Tech University, Lauren Johnson from LSU, Brandon DeJean from Southern University, Rebecca Sherer from UNO, Atieh Sehati from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and David Minton from McNeese State University.

 

 

 

 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  •         Angela Desoto Duncan, PE, Outstanding Government Civil Engineer

  •         Dale C. Biggers, PE, Outstanding Civil Engineer

  •         Heather Emery Myers, EI, Outstanding Young Civil Engineer

  •         John L. Niklaus, Lifetime Achievement and

  •         Waldemar S. Nelson, PE, Wall of Fame

  •         John J. Housey, Jr., PE, President’s Award

 

Angela DeSoto is honored as the Outstanding Government Civil Engineer for 2006 and receives her commemorative plaque from President Sewell.		Dale Biggers is honored as the Outstanding Civil Engineer for 2006 and receives his commemorative plaque from President Sewell.
Heather Meyers is honored as the Outstanding Young Civil Engineer for 2006 and receives her commemorative plaque from President Sewell.		John Niklaus is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award and receives his commemorative plaque from President Sewell.
Waldemar Nelson is posthumously honored as a member of the Civil Engineering Wall of Fame and his son Ken Nelson receives the commemorative plaque from President Sewell.		John Housey is honored with the 2006 President’s Award and receives his commemorative plaque from President Sewell.

 

Citations:

 

Angela DeSoto Duncan, PE, was selected by the Branch Board of Directors to receive the Branch Outstanding Government Civil Engineer Award.  She is employed as a Technical Manager and Team Leader by the US Army Corps of Engineers and she is a licensed engineer in Louisiana.  Duncan is a member of the ASCE, the Louisiana Engineering Society and the American Concrete Institute.  She earned her BS degree from Tulane University in 1988.

            In ASCE, Duncan served as the chair of the national Committee on Licensure and Ethics, an a member of the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites for Professional Practice, as a member of the national Committee on Professional Practice, as a member of the Task Committee on Government Engineers, as the chair of the national Committee on Younger Members and as the President of the New Orleans Branch.  In the Louisiana Engineering Society, she served as President of the New Orleans Chapter and Chair of the MathCounts competition.  Duncan served as a judge for the American Concrete Institute, Louisiana Chapter Outstanding Concrete Project of the Year.

            Duncan is a member of the Tulane University Alumni Admissions Committee recruiting prospective students.  She has been a volunteer for BeechSweep for 6 years, a Christmas in October for 3 years, and a senior judge for the Louisiana Science and Engineering Fair for 13 years and recently served as head judge for the senior team category.

            A coauthor of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force performance evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana hurricane protection system report, Duncan is also the Technical Manager for the Southeastern Louisiana Urban Flood Control, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, and the Technical Manager for the Cousins Discharge Channel, Culvert and Floodwalls.  She is a lead designer for approximately $30 million in hurricane protection projects in the New Orleans area.

 

Dale C. Biggers, PE, was selected by the Branch Board of Directors to receive the Branch Outstanding Civil Engineer Award.  Biggers is employed by Boh Brothers Construction Company, LLC, where he serves as the Vice President of its Piling and Marine Department.  Biggers is a licensed engineer in Louisiana and earned his BS degrees in math and civil engineering from Tulane University in 1966 and 1968.  He graduated from the US Coastguard Officers Candidate School in 1969 as an Ensign in the US Coastguard.

            Biggers served as the chair of the technical committee of the Pile Driving Contractors Association where he led the writing of the installation specifications for driven piles and he presented them to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials for their inclusion in its guidelines.  He is a member of the ASCE and he has served of the board of directors for the New Orleans Opera for 18 years.

 

Heather Emery Myers, EI, was selected by the Branch Board of Directors to receive the Branch Outstanding Young Civil Engineer Award.  Myers is a certified engineer intern in Louisiana and she earned her BS and MS in Environmental Engineering in 1998 and 2006 from Tulane University.  She is employed by MWH - Environmental Engineering, Construction Water and Power and an active member in the ASCE and the Society of Women Engineers.

            Myers was an active member of the Tulane ASCE Student Chapter where she served on the Chapter’s concrete canoe competition team and as Secretary and Vice President on its Board of Directors and was responsible for organizing Chapter social activities.  Myers has been an active member of the New Orleans Branch Younger Member Committee and its Water Resources Committee and a volunteer for the Branch’s Box City outreach effort in the Children’s Village during the New Orleans Jazzfest.

            Myers is an active member of the Greater New Orleans Section of the Society of Women Engineers.  She has served in the offices of Secretary and Treasurer on its Board of Directors and she has chaired several of its committees.  The Section won the Membership Program Award for small sections under her leadership as chair of its Membership Committee and Myers’ service has been twice recognized with the Section’s Distinguished Member Award.

            Myers has served on the Board of Directors of the Green Project with the mission “To match the issues of limited landfill space, neighborhood blight, pollution and waste, with solutions that will benefit the Greater New Orleans area.”   She initiated an office-level community outreach effort in her company and serving as its community coordinator for 2 years.  The effort supports beach cleaning, Christmas tree recycling, food bank, scholarship fund raising and other activities.  Myers volunteered for community improvement projects with the Young Leadership Council, supporting the rebuilding efforts following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita including light demolition, construction and painting.  Following the hurricanes, she assisted volunteer groups of college students nationwide to coordinate their volunteer rebuilding efforts in New Orleans with local non-profit organizations.

            As project manager of the Water Master Plan for the City of New Orleans, Myer oversaw the daily tasks of the project team that includes 3 subconsultants.  She is currently the project manager for the evaluation of the Jefferson Parish recycling program that is temporarily suspended following the hurricanes.

 

            John L. Niklaus was selected by the Branch Board of Directors to receive the Branch Lifetime Achievement Award.  Niklaus began his engineering career as a consultant and an instructor specializing in traffic and transportation engineering while working on his advanced degrees.  He earned his BS and MS in civil engineering from Tulane university in 1955 and 1961 and his PhD in civil engineering from the University of Washington in 1967.  Niklaus joined the Tulane faculty in its Civil Engineering Department in 1963 and became the Chair of the Department in 1984 — a position that he held until his retirement.  During his tenure on the Tulane faculty his specialty areas expanded to include structural engineering while also teaching a much wider range of subjects.

            During his career, Niklaus served as a member on the St. Charles Parish qualification based selection committee for the selection of engineering firms to perform services for the Parish, the advisory committee to revise the New Orleans land use plan and zoning ordinance, and the technical committee to develop a statewide intermodal transportation plan for Louisiana.  He also served as the director for the Canal Street improvement project for the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce.

            Niklaus is a member of the ASCE, the Louisiana Engineering Society, the Society of Tulane Engineers, Tau Beta PI, and the Institute of Traffic Engineers.  Prior to retirement, he was a licensed engineer in Louisiana.  As a member of the ASCE, Niklaus served 2 terms as President of the New Orleans Branch, as a member of the steering committee of the Branch’s Structures Committee, and two terms as a Director on the Louisiana Section Board of Directors.  He also served on the host committees for 2 ASCE national conventions held in New Orleans.  Niklaus served a term as the President of the Society of Tulane Engineers.

 

Waldemar S. Nelson, PE, was selected by the Branch Board of Directors to posthumously receive the Branch Civil Engineering Wall of Fame Award.  He was Director Emeritus of Waldemar S. Nelson and Company, Inc. at the time of his death on November 15, 2005.  Nelson earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Tulane University in 1936 and he was licensed as a civil, electrical and mechanical engineer in 44 states.  He was Fellow and Life Member of the ASCE.

            Nelson served as Chair of the Louisiana State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, Treasurer of the National Council for Engineering Examiners and received the NCEES Distinguished Service Award.  He was a founding member and served as President of the Board of Advisors of the Tulane University School of Engineering, a trustee of the Tulane Engineering Foundation and the 1997 inductee into the Tulane Engineering Hall of Fame, the 1992 Tulane University Volunteer of the Year and the 1976 Tulane University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus.

            Recipient of the ASCE New Orleans Branch Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, Nelson was an active member of the Louisiana Engineering Society where he served a term as its President.  In honor of his “outstanding service to the LES, in an unselfish manner in keeping with the highest professional standards of conduct, including active participation and leadership within the Society,” the LES Waldemar S. Nelson President’s Award was instituted.  Also in honor of Nelson’s “exemplary leadership and overall guidance to bring the Louisiana Engineering Center from a vision to a reality,” the Center’s Waldemar S. Nelson Conference Room was dedicated in 1999.

            Other honors received by Nelson include the Times-Picayune Loving Cup, the James E. West Fellow - National Endowment Award; the Southeast Louisiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America - Distinguished Citizen Award; the Valley Forge Freedom Foundation, New Orleans Chapter - George Washington Honor Medal; the Junior Achievement of New Orleans - Entrepreneur of the Year, and inductee into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame; and the Young Leadership Council - Role Model of the Year in Engineering.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

            The Section members who became Life Members in 2006 were invited to the awards ceremonies during the awards banquet to receive their Life Member certificates.  They and their respective home branches are