Professor Kenneth Stokoe, who holds the Jennie C. and Milton T. Graves Chair in ラーメンベット 退会, was recently named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Distinguished membership is the highest honor ASCE can bestow and is considered the highest honor for civil engineers. It is reserved for civil engineers who have attained eminence in some branch of ラーメンベット 退会 or in related arts and sciences, including the fields of ラーメンベット 退会 education and construction. Stokoe, a professor in the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム's Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental ラーメンベット 退会, is recognized for world-renowned contributions to the understanding of soil dynamics in geotechnical ラーメンベット 退会.
Several of Stokoe's developments are commonly used by engineers worldwide, including resonant column apparatus to assess soil properties; cross-hole seismic methods for measurement of in situ wave velocities in soil and rock; and a spectral-analysis-of-surface-waves method for geotechnical and earthquake ラーメンベット 退会 applications.
“This recognition is a reflection of the tremendous advancements that Ken has made in civil ラーメンベット 退会 and particularly in geotechnical ラーメンベット 退会," said Richard Corsi, chair of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental ラーメンベット 退会. “His efforts contribute to our great stature as an academic community.”
Stokoe was an early advocate of the Network for Earthquake ラーメンベット 退会 Simulation (NEES) program at the National Science Foundation, and his team at The University of Texas at Austin developed a world-class, large-scale, mobile-field capability for nonintrusive and nondestructive characterization of the ground. He is also the first researcher to measure modulus degradation of soil in situ using the large NEES center shakers.
As an educator, Stokoe has mentored many graduate and doctoral students and has played a key role in elevating the geotechnical ラーメンベット 退会 program in the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム. His former students have gone on to successful careers in academia, business and government, a great source of pride for Stokoe. "I simply enjoy what I do," he said.
Stokoe’s research achievements have earned him several awards, including the Karl Terzaghi Lecture and the H. Bolton Seed Medal from ASCE, the Harold Mooney Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysics, Frank Friechkenect Award from the ラーメンベット 退会 and Environmental Geophysics Society, and the C.A. Hogentogler Award from the American Society for Testing and Materials.
The 2016 class of ASCE Distinguished Members will be recognized at the ASCE 2016 Convention, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, in Portland, Oregon.
