Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize

The Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is awarded annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 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 ASCE website.

List of awardees

Source:

1883-1899

• 1883 Gustav Lindenthal for "Rebuilding the Monongahela Bridge" Smithfield Street Bridge ^[1]
• 1884 Hamilton Smith, Jr., author of "Hydraulics, The Flow Of Water Through Orifices, Over Weirs, And Through Open Conduits And Pipes"(1886) ^[2]
• 1885 A. M. Wellington
• 1886 Charles Conrad Schneider
• 1887 William Metcalf
• 1888 Clemens Herschel
• 1889 James D. Schuyler for work on "Construction of the Sweetwater Dam" ^[3]
• 1890 Octave Chanute, John Findley Wallace, and William H. Breithaupt, an engineer for railways ^[4]
• 1891 William H. Burr
• 1892 Samuel M. Rowe, Stillman W. Robinson (brother of Albert Alonzo Robinson), and Henry H. Quimby, all for The Red Rock Cantilever Bridge ^[3]
• 1893 William Murray Black
• 1894 David L. Barnes
• 1895 William R. Hill ^[3]
• 1896 H. St. L. Coppee, President of the American Society of Railroad Superintendents ^[3]
• 1897 Arthur L. Adams
• 1898 Henry C. Goldmark
• 1899 Richard S. Buck, designer of the Niagara Railway Arch Bridge, and the Chief Engineer for the Manhattan Bridge ^[5]

1900-1999

• 1900 Allen Hazen
• 1901 L. G. Montony Ninety-Sixth Street Power Station of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York City ^[1]
• 1902 William W. Harts for "Description of Coos Bay, Oregon and Improvement of its Entrance by the Government" ^[1]
• 1903 George W. Fuller
• 1904 George Cecil Kenyon for "Dock Improvements at Liverpool" ^[1]
• 1905 Charles L. Harrison and Silas H. Woodard for "Lake Cheesman Dam and Reservoir" (Colorado) ^[1]
• 1906 George B. Francis and W.F. Dennis for "The Scranton Tunnel of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad" ^[1]
• 1907 James D. Schuyler for "Recent practice in Hydraulic-Fill Dam Construction" ^[1]
• 1908 Edward E. Wall for "Water Purification in St. Louis, Mo." ^[1]
• 1909 William J. Wilgus for "The Electrification of the Suburban Zone of the New York Central Railroad ..." ^[1]
• 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

See also

• List of engineering awards

References

1. "Constitution and List of Members" American Society of Civil Engineers 1909; List of award winners pp 25, 26
2. Handbook of Hydraulics for the Solution of Hydrostatic and Fluid-flow Problems 1918; page 38
3. Proceedings, Volumes 18-20 The Society, 1892; page 38
4. Kitchener (Berlin), 1880-1960 Rych Mills; Arcadia Publishing, 2002; page 15
5. Durability of Bridge Structures: Proceedings of the 7th New York City Bridge Conference, 26-27 August 2013 Khaled Mahmoud; CRC Press, 2013 page 290