Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize


The Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is awarded annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Established in 1882, the prize is named after Thomas Fitch Rowland, a pioneering engineer in construction and infrastructure.
Each year, the award honors a single outstanding contribution to the advancement of construction engineering by recognizing the authors of a peer-reviewed article published in an ASCE journal within the past twelve months.
A list of past winners can be found on the
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List of awardees

Source:
;1883-1899
;1900-1999
  • 1900 Allen Hazen
  • 1901 L. G. Montony Ninety-Sixth Street Power Station of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York City
  • 1902 William W. Harts for "Description of Coos Bay, Oregon and Improvement of its Entrance by the Government"
  • 1903 George W. Fuller
  • 1904 George Cecil Kenyon for "Dock Improvements at Liverpool"
  • 1905 Charles L. Harrison and Silas H. Woodard for "Lake Cheesman Dam and Reservoir"
  • 1906 George B. Francis and W.F. Dennis for "The Scranton Tunnel of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad"
  • 1907 James D. Schuyler for "Recent practice in Hydraulic-Fill Dam Construction"
  • 1908 Edward E. Wall for "Water Purification in St. Louis, Mo."
  • 1909 William J. Wilgus for "The Electrification of the Suburban Zone of the New York Central Railroad..."
  • 1910 John H. Gregory
  • 1923 F. W. Peek, Jr.
  • 1944 Eugene L. Grant
  • 1945 Donald N. Becker
  • 1946 James B. Hays
  • 1947 Robert F. Blanks; Harmon S. Meissner
  • 1948 M. M. Fitzhugh; J. S. Miller; Karl Terzaghi
  • 1949 Harold M. Westergaard
  • 1950 R. N. Bergendoff; Josef Sorkin
  • 1951 William K. Boyd and Charles R. Foster
  • 1952 Clarence E. Keefer
  • 1953 E. Montford Fucik
  • 1954 A. Warren Simonds
  • 1955 Maurice N. Quade
  • 1956 Jonathan Jones
  • 1957 Harry N. Hill, Ernest C. Hartman, and John Wood Clark
  • 1958 Charles I. Mansur and Robert I. Kaufman
  • 1959 J. George Thon and Gordon L. Coltrin
  • 1960 Jack W. Hilf
  • 1961 H. Bolton Seed, Robert L. McNeill, and Jacques De Guenin
  • 1962 James D. Parsons
  • 1963 Marvin J. Kudroff
  • 1964 Francis E. Mullen
  • 1965 Kent S. Ehrman
  • 1966 L. Earl Tabler, Jr.
  • 1967 John W. Kinney, Herman Rothman, and Frank Stahl
  • 1968 C. Y. Lin
  • 1969 James Douglas
  • 1970 Norman L. Liver
  • 1971 Richard E. Whitaker
  • 1972 Hans Sacrison
  • 1973 John V. Bartlett, Tadeusz M. Noskiewicz, and James A. Ramsay
  • 1974 Russell C. Borden and Carl E. Selander
  • 1976 Daniel J. Smith, Jr.
  • 1977 Thor L. Anderson and Melvin C. Williams
  • 1978 Charles H. Thornton and Paul A. Gossen
  • 1979 Marcello H. Soto
  • 1980 Laurent Hamel and David M. Nixon
  • 1981 C. V. Knudsen
  • 1982 Alfred M. Petrofsky
  • 1983 James E. Olyniec
  • 1984 Yuzo Takeuchi and Akira Kitamura
  • 1985 Samir G. Mattar
  • 1986 James L. Lammie and Dhirajlal P. Shah
  • 1987 James T. O'connor and Richard L. Tucker
  • 1988 Warren L. Schroeder, Vincent W. Rybel, and Larry Cochran
  • 1989 Victor E. Sanvido
  • 1990 Roozbeh Kangari, J. Doug Pruitt, and Tariq S. Cheema
  • 1991 H. Randolph Thomas, Victor E. Sanvido, and Steve R. Sanders
  • 1992 Michael C. Vorster and Jesus M. De La Garza
  • 1993 Kenneth F. Reinschmidt, F.H. Griffis, and Patrick L. Bronner
  • 1994 John G. Everett and Alexander H. Slocum
  • 1995 Walter C. Hornaday, Ii, Carl T. Haas, James T. O'connor, and Jin Wen
  • 1996 Kevin D. Swiggum, Stuart D. Anderson, and Jeffrey S. Russell
  • 1997 James E. Diekmann and Matthew J. Girard
  • 1999 Terry Brown and James Doebler
; 2000–present
  • 2001 Keith R. Molenaar, Simon P. Washington, and James E. Diekman
  • 2002 Lawrence C. Bank; T. Russell Gentry; Kenneth H. Nuss; Stephanie H. Hurd; Anthony J. Lamanna; Stephen J. Duich; Ben Oh
  • 2003 Simaan Abourizk; Dany Hajjar
  • 2004 Ronie Navon; Eytan Goldschmidt
  • 2005 J. M. Lopes Cordeiro; Paulo Jorge De Sousa Cruz
  • 2006 Mark R. Svinkin
  • 2007 Amr A. Kandil; Khaled El-Rayes
  • 2009 John E. Taylor
  • 2011 Gunnar Lucko; Eddy M. Rojas
  • 2014 Sungjoo Hwang, Moonseo Park, Hyun-Soo Lee, SangHyun Lee, and Hyunsoo Kim
  • 2015 Mounir El Asmar, Awad S. Hanna, and Wei-Yin Loh
  • 2016 Vitaliy Priven and Rafael Sacks
  • 2017 Mohammad Ilbeigi, Baabak Ashuri, and Soheil Shayegh
  • 2018 Sooyoung Choe and Fernanda L. Leite
  • 2019 Yang-Ping Yao, Yang-Zhi Ruan, Jun Chen, Yi Geng, Xing Zhang, Bing-Yang Liu, Xiao-Peng Zong, and Gui-Zhen
  • 2020 Ibahim S. Aboaleb and Islam El-adaway
  • 2021 Ashtad Javanmardi; S. Alireza Abbasian-Hosseini; Min Liu; Simon M. Hsiang
  • 2022 Hyosoo Moon, Kwonhyun Kim, Hyun-Soo Lee, Moonseo Park, Trefor P. Williams, Bosik Son, and Jae-Youl Chun
  • 2023 Zhongming Xiang, Abbas Rashidi, and Ge Ou
  • 2024 Abdolmajid Erfani, Zihui Ma, Qingbin Cui, and Gregory B. Baecher
  • 2025 Yoojun Kim and Youngjib Ham