Current Award Forms
Previous Winners
| Outstanding Service to Section Award | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient | Details |
| 1990 | Gerald R. Swihart | – |
| 1991 | Ervell A. Staab | – |
| 1992 | Alraf U. Rahmen | – |
| 1993 | Maher K. Tadros | – |
| 1994 | Bruce N. Harris | – |
| 1995 | Nathaniel W. Beezley | – |
| 1996 | Kirby D. Woods | – |
| 1997 | Nathaniel W. Beezley and Kirby D. Woods |
– |
| 1998 | William C. Arneson | – |
| 1999 | David A. Meier | – |
| 2000 | J.B. “Brad” Chambers | – |
| 2001 | Mark R. Stark | Legislative Work |
| 2002 | Joseph A. Waxse | – |
| 2003 | John M. Hill | – |
| 2004 | Marie Maly | Younger Member Group |
| 2005 | Dave Ayala | First Transportation Conference |
| 2006 | Phil Rossbach | Engineers Roundtable |
| 2007 | Mike McIntosh | FutureCity |
| 2008 | Marie Maly | Outreach Kits / Displays |
| 2009 | John Hill | President-Elect, Treasurer, and Truss Bustin’ |
| 2010 | – | – |
| 2011 | Joe Flaxbeard and Andres Torres | Younger Member Group Co-Chairs |
| 2012 | Mike Sklenar | – |
| 2013 | John Hill | – |
| 2014 | Andres Torres | Organizing Region 7 Assembly and Visits by Region Director Burress & President-Elect Stevens |
| 2015 | John Smith | E-Week School Blitz |
| 2016 | Ryan Hanson | Truss Bustin’ Competition – More schools, more teams, new testing machine |
| 2017 | Matthew Hubel | Chairing the Centennial Committee |
| 2018 | Mark Egger, Brandon Gardels, Chris Podany, and Isabella Walsh | Planning/Hosting the 2018 Multi-Region Leadership Conference for Regions 3, 6, & 7 |
| Special Achievement for Long Term Service Award | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient | Details |
| 2006 | Bruce Harris and Kirby Woods | Truss Bustin’ and FutureCity (“retiring” chairs) |
| 2008 | Loras Klostermann | – |
| 2009 | (not awarded) | – |
| 2010 | – | – |
| 2011 | Brian Havens | Geotechnical Technical Committee / Conference |
| 2012 | John Hill | – |
| 2013 | John Hill | – |
| 2014 | Scott Gilliland | Past Chair of the Structural Technical Committee |
| 2015 | Brian Havens | Past Chair of the Geotechnical Committee / GEO-Omaha |
| 2016 | Patricia (Ticha) Rohan | Transportation Conference / Scholarship Work |
| 2017 | Marie (Maly) Stamm | Serving the Board for 15 Years in a variety of positions |
| 2018 | (not awarded) | – |
| ASCE Nebraska Civil Engineering Scholarship Award | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient | Details |
| 2019-2020 | Binyam Mammo Bekele | Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund |
| 2019-2020 | Caleb Craven | Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund |
| 2019-2020 | Francisco Garcia | Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund |
| 2019-2020 | Jingtao Zhang | Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund |
| 2019-2020 | Miras Mamirov | Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund |
| 2019-2020 | Noelle Mware | Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund |
| 2019-2020 | Jack Post | Nebraska Section ASCE Student Support Fund for Transportation Engineers |
| 2019-2020 | Max Meyer | Nebraska Section ASCE Student Support Fund for Transportation Engineers |
| – | – | – |
| – | – | – |
| – | – | – |
| – | – | – |
| Outstanding Senior (initiated in 1985) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | UNO | UNL |
| 1985 | Tom Thiele | John Dallman |
| 1986 | Scott Gilliland | Tom Shipporeit |
| 1987 | Jenni Benak | Mary Berlin |
| – | – | – |
| 1997 | David Olson | Andrew Melville |
| – | – | – |
| 1999 | James Hill | Paul Dierking |
| – | – | – |
| 2003 | Jeremy Bowers and Tony Krause | |
| 2004 | Jay Ling | Jason Hascall |
| 2005 | Matt Kleymann | Derek Kowalski |
| 2006 | Dan Samson | Amanda Larson and Diane Rossbach |
| 2007 | Christie Hasenkamp | Katie Vlock |
| 2008 | Lianne Lau | Sarah Schroeder |
| 2009 | Kenton McBride | Greg Seib |
| 2010 | Melissa Letak | John Coburn |
| 2011 | Corey Schram and Lauren Swadner | |
| 2012 | – | – |
| 2013 | – | – |
| 2014 | Nicholas Johnson; Nathan Jensen (ASCE Activities) | Gemma Haake; Steven Stauffer (ASCE Activities) |
| 2015 | Rachel Schulz; Sean Mascia (ASCE Activities) | Amanda Dunekacke; Cara Woldt (ASCE Activities) |
| 2016 | Nicholas Williams; Joseph Meuret |
Andrew Eisenbraun; Jeremiah Dixon |
| 2017 | Jesse Walsh | Elizabeth Railsback |
| 2018 | Cory Staashelm; Matt Roth | Austin Kellogg; Sussan Moussavi |
Life Members
Life Member status is an honor awarded to members that have made a lifetime commitment to ASCE and the civil engineering profession by remaining members for the full length of their professional career.
According to current policy, to obtain the Life Member status with ASCE, a member must be at least 65 years old; have paid dues for at least 35 years; and have paid dues for at least 10 consecutive years immediately preceding the attainment of Life Member.
| Life Members of the Nebraska Section | |
|---|---|
| Year | Recipient |
| 2018 | Sorin Juster |
| 2018 | Doyle Petersen |
| 2018 | Michael Potter |
| 2018 | Jerald Schneider |
| 2018 | Walter Schultz |
| 2018 | Dennis Smith |
| 2018 | Daniel Sommer |
| 2018 | Loren Steenson |
| 2018 | James Wilkinson |
| 2018 | Ronald Yoder |
| 2017 | James E Rowings, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE |
| 2017 | Steven R Saye, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | Mark D Lafferty, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | Wayne J Vandertuin, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | Jerry J Westhoff, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | Michael J Muessel, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | John B Gregory, Jr., P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | Leslie J Svatora, III, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2017 | John D Cox, P.E., M.ASCE |
| 2016 | Michael Baumert |
| 2016 | Stephen Beall |
| 2016 | Randall Graham |
| 2016 | Bruce Harris |
| 2016 | Richard Kotan |
| 2016 | David Maystrick |
| 2016 | Robert Reisdorff |
| 2016 | Steven Schmidt |
| 2016 | Terry Sherman |
| 2015 | Steve Bottum |
| 2015 | Roger Figard |
| 2015 | Frank Kwapnioski |
| 2015 | Rick Voss |
The following Nebraska Section Members have previously achieved Life Membership (individuals in bold recognized within the past year):
Charles G. Alger (1987)
Dennis Allacher (2007)
Dewey R. Anderson (1996)
Charles M. Anson (1992)
Leroy E. Baker (2007)
Richard W. Barnett (1989)
Michael Baumert (2016)
Stephen Beall (2016)
Herbert L. Becker (2013)
Emil W. Beckman (1979)
Joseph V. Benak (1994)
Robert Bitner (2008)
Alan Blair (2015)
Axel C. Boilesen (1990)
Ron D. Bottorff (2013)
Steve Bottum (2015)
Henry E. Brass (2013)
Larry L. Briggs (2001)
Earl T. Brodman (1989)
Wayne E. Brugger (2004)
Carrol Brunken (1988)
George Bryan (2010)
Max A. Burroughs (1989)
Richard L. Buse (2003)
Walter W. Case (2006)
Edward A. Cecil (2000)
Melvin Cerny (2009)
James L. Chandler (1990)
Richard L. Chase (2000)
William D. Churchill (1993)
Royal S. Clark (1976)
Roy L. Cline (2002)
David V. Coe (2003)
Dean M. Connett (1997)
Elias A. Cooney (2000)
John D. Cox (2017)
Milo Cress (2010)
Arthur H. Dederman (1991)
Richard Donovan (2009)
Wayne G. Dorough (2003)
Robert E. Dreessen (2001)
David H. Duin (1996)
Lorn P. Dunnigan (1996)
Charles W. Durham (1982)
Richard Erixson (2002)
Thomas W. Eversden (2006)
Roger Figard (2015)
Larry G. Fischer (2002)
E. Terence Foster (2006)
Kendall C. Fox (1984)
Monty W. Fredrickson (2011)
Harvey D. Funk (2001)
Jerry E. Galligan (1990)
Joseph L. Gerlt (1999)
Eugene M. Gollehon (2002)
Randall Graham (2016)
John Billy Gregory, Jr. (2017)
Raymond J. Hajek (2001)
Paul Harmon (2014)
Bruce Harris (2016)
Alfred S. Harrison (1991)
Frederick L. Henry (2001)
Dennis Heitmann (2005)
Donald Holloway (2004)
Norman D. Holly (2011)
Susan Hoppel (2012)
Dan Jackman (2003)
Dale Jacobson (2010)
Lambert J. Jaroska (1993)
J. Michael Jess (2009)
Jaroslav Z. Jizba (1989)
Charles E. Johnson (1990)
Sorin Juster (2018)
David Klostermeyer (2007)
Richard Kotan (2016)
J. Daniel Kutilek (2010)
Frank Kwapnioski (2015)
Mark D. Lafferty (2017)
Kenneth D. Lathrum (2007)
Gerald W. Lee (2006)
Roberto L. Lenton (2012)
Clarence A. Lewis (1983)
Don W. Lieberknect (1999)
Bruce A. Lind (2006)
Ronald W. Liston (2004)
King K. Little (2013)
Robert H. Livesey (1988)
Melvin R. Loseke (2004)
Ralph R. Marlette (1985)
C.W. Martin (1997)
David Maystrick (2016)
Terry A. McCarl (2010)
Richard L. McCumber (1995)
Harley C. McDonald (2006)
David B. Mead (2014)
Virgil G. Meedel (1992)
Warren J. Mellema (1998)
William D. Miller (2014)
Raymond Moore (2009)
Ronald Morrison (2001)
Michael J. Muessel (2017)
Dennis Murphy (2013)
Kenneth H. Nass (2002)
Norman Nelson (2009)
Steve Nickel (2009)
Richard M. Niedergeses (2014)
Carl J. Nussrallah (1990)
Andrzej Nowak (2010)
Jerome Obrist (2008)
John E. Olsson (1991)
Willard Opocensky (1990)
Doyle Petersen (2018)
Jerry Porter (2009)
Michael Potter (2018)
William B. Preston (2007)
Dean A. Prochnow (2013)
Gary E. Proskovec (2014)
Alfred E. Rasmussen (1988)
David Rathjen (2008)
Thomas J. Reading (1980)
Robert L. Reins (1987)
Robert Reisdorff (2016)
Charles E. Riggs (2014)
Richard L. Robinson (2012)
Robert J. Rohde (1997)
James Emerson Rowings, Jr. (2017)
Steven R. Saye (2017)
Meredith C. Schaff (1999)
Terry F. Schlaht (2002)
Steven Schmidt (2016)
Richard K. Schlenker (1999)
Jerald Schneider (2018)
Robert D. Schroeder (1999)
Walter Schultz (2018)
Terry Sherman (2016)
James B. Siebken (2003)
Dennis Smith (2018)
Daniel Sommer (2018)
Loren Steenson (2018)
Leslie J. Svatora, III (2017)
Charles D. Smith (1995)
Louis J. Sobcyzk (2004)
Wallace R. Stern (2000)
George H. Stickney (1990)
Jim Suttle (2009)
Maher Tadros (2011)
Thomas L. Thelen (2014)
Arvid L. Thomsen (2004)
William P. Todsen (2000)
Kenneth L. True (2007)
David G. Tunnicliff (1996)
Wayne John Vandertuin (2017)
Rick Voss (2015)
Paula Wells (2000)
Paul L. Welsch (2014)
Jerry J. Westhoff (2017)
Edward R. Wheling (2003)
James Wilkinson (2018)
George Williamson (1991)
John Woelfl (2013)
Chester R. Worm (2007)
Ronald Yoder (2018)
Robert G. Zilly (1988)
Raymond P. Zink (1989)
George Ziska (2013)