André Sterling

André Sterling was a Belgian civil engineer, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles and academician of the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, the last Belgian federal academy.

Career

Sterling was lead engineer during the works that have succeeded the floodings of 1953. He became director of the Belgian state hydraulic laboratory and was the founder of the Walloon hydraulic laboratory and secretary general of the Ministry of public works.
His entire work is being digitized and will be put online under a CC BY-SA licence compatible with Wikipedia in a Digithèque that will be inaugurated in Brussels on 5 December 2015.
He was a member of the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences. and later became director of this Academy.
Sterling died on April 14, 2018.