Robert W. “Bobb” Stokes, a past president of the Kansas Section, former member of the ASCE Board of Direction and civil engineering professor emeritus at Kansas State University, has died. He was 70.
He had 40 years of experience in general transportation planning and applied transportation research, focused on the design and implementation of urban, rural and intercity transportation planning studies; highway design, planning and...
Jon Peterka of Fort Collins, CO, a giant of wind engineering who was vital to development of the ASCE 7 national wind load standard, has died. He was 77.
Peterka, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, was pivotal in commercializing the professional practice of wind engineering and wind tunnel testing, taking it out of the academic realm and into the business environment. In addition to ASCE 7,...
Theodore “Ted” Williams, a legend of Montana civil engineering, professor emeritus of Montana State University and a stabilizing force in local environmental planning, has died. He was 91.
Williams, P.E., F.ASCE, attended Colorado State University on the GI Bill following World War II. He took his first job in engineering with the Fort Lyon Canal Company, where he helped oversee an irrigation system that served...
Distinguished Member Robert B. Thorn, a longtime bridge engineer, past president of ASCE’s Kansas Section, and member of the Board of Direction, has died. He was 92.
Known as “Bob,” Thorn, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, served on the Board as vice president of Zone III in 2004-05 and Board director of District 16 in 1998-2000.
After some time in the U.S. Army Air Corps and earning a degree...
John H. Wiedeman, a leading engineer in Atlanta who served as ASCE president in 1983, has died at 83.
Wiedeman, P.E., F.ASCE, Pres.83.ASCE, was for 15 years an owner of Wiedeman and Singleton Inc., a civil and environmental engineering firm specializing in utility and infrastructure work for municipal clients in the Southeast United States.
Wiedeman served as the Georgia Section president in 1974, before taking on...
John Frederick “Fred” Graham Jr., for many years a civil engineering and construction leader in Pittsburgh, has died. He was 82.
Graham, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, was born in Pittsburgh and he devoted his working life to the city. After graduating from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), he worked most of his career as director for engineering and construction for Allegheny County.
In 1989, he became the...
ASCE has learned of the passing of Benoit Joubert, an international leader in humanitarian development. He was 96.
Joubert was an ASCE member for many years, and came to the U.S. from his native France to serve through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
He entered the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris in 1941. Two years later, in order to escape forced labor...
David Christopher Roe, whose considerable variety of achievements across his career made him a Renaissance man of civil engineering, has died at 85.
Roe, P.E., L.S., F.ASCE, was a member of ASCE since 1961. He served as a draftsman in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1956 to 1959, then completed his mathematics degree in 1960. He was soon employed by Hubble, Roth & Clark...
Kent Shreeve, a forensic engineering specialist and founder of Shreeve Engineers in Little Rock, AR, has died. He was 81.
After serving as a civil engineer lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, Shreeve, P.E., M.ASCE, began his civilian career at Shell Oil Company in Ventura, CA. From there he went to Humble Oil and Refining in Baton Rouge, LA, before later returning to his home...
C. Samuel Martin, a world-renowned authority in fluid mechanics, specifically water hammer and hydraulics, and a Georgia Institute of Technology professor emeritus who taught from the early 1960s through 1998, has died at 82.
Martin, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, had more than 40 years of experience involving water hammer and pumping in fossil, hydro and nuclear power plant piping, water distribution systems, valve cavitation, and refrigeration...
