Current Award Forms

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
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)
2019 (not awarded)
2020 (not awarded)
2021 (not awarded)
2022 (not awarded)
2023 Dave Nielsen Future City Competition Chair
ASCE Nebraska Civil Engineering Scholarship Award
Year Recipient Details
2018-2019 Teresa Blankman Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund
2018-2019 Katherine Fye Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund
2018-2019 Gage Parsons Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund
2018-2019 Samuel Sobczyk Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund
2018-2019 Brendan Barnes Nebraska Section ASCE Scholarship/Fellowship Fund
2018-2019 Pascual Mauricio Nebraska Section ASCE Student Support Fund for Transportation Engineers
2018-2019 Timothy Adams Nebraska Section ASCE Student Support Fund for Transportation Engineers
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
2020-2021 Sydney James Nebraska Section ASCE Student Support Fund for Transportation Engineers
2020-2021 Lane Applegarth Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund
2020-2021 Jordan Jurgens Peck/Benak Engineering Achievement Scholarship Fund
2021-2022 Braden Labenz Nebraska Section ASCE Scholarship/Fellowship Fund
2021-2022 Ryan Weyers Nebraska Section ASCE Student Support Fund for Transportation Engineers

1997David OlsonAndrew Melville1999James HillPaul Dierking

Outstanding Senior (initiated in 1985)
Year UNO UNL
1985 Tom Thiele John Dallman
1986 Scott Gilliland Tom Shipporeit
1987 Jenni Benak Mary Berlin
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 and Nathan Jensen Gemma Haake and Steven Stauffer
2015 Rachel Schulz and Sean Mascia Amanda Dunekacke and Cara Woldt
2016 Nicholas Williams and Joseph Meuret Andrew Eisenbraun and Jeremiah Dixon
2017 Jesse Walsh Elizabeth Railsback
2018 Cory Staashelm and Matt Roth Austin Kellogg and Sussan Moussavi
2019 Matthew Wynegar
2020
2021 Ethan Hall Elizabeth (Lizzy) Humphus
2022 James Johnson Khalil Sultani
2023 Katrina Meier Ben Goeman

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
2023 Eric Keen
2023 David Meier
2023 Edward Thiele
2023 David Svingen
2023 Wayne Woldt
2023 Wesley Wahlgren
2023 George Little
2023 Reed Schwartzkopf
2023 Daryoush Razavian
2023 Edward Prost
2022 John Thomas
2022 Ka Squire
2022 Stephen Reiners
2022 John Kottmann
2022 Charles Huddleston
2022 Mark Ehrhart
2021 Dennis Hirschbrunner
2019 Nelson Jacobs
2019 John Dempsey
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)
John Dempsey (2019)
Richard Donovan (2009)
Wayne G. Dorough (2003)
Robert E. Dreessen (2001)
David H. Duin (1996)
Lorn P. Dunnigan (1996)
Charles W. Durham (1982)
Mark Ehrhart (2022)
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)
Dennis Hirschbrunner (2021)
Donald Holloway (2004)
Norman D. Holly (2011)
Susan Hoppel (2012)
Charles Huddleston (2022)
Dan Jackman (2003)
Nelson Jacobs (2019)
Dale Jacobson (2010)
Lambert J. Jaroska (1993)
J. Michael Jess (2009)
Jaroslav Z. Jizba (1989)
Charles E. Johnson (1990)
Sorin Juster (2018)
Eric Keen (2023)
David Klostermeyer (2007)
Richard Kotan (2016)
John Kottmann (2022)
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)
George Little (2023)
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)
David Meier (2023)
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)
Edward Prost (2023)
Alfred E. Rasmussen (1988)
David Rathjen (2008)
Daryoush Razavian (2023)
Thomas J. Reading (1980)
Stephen Reiners (2022)
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)
Reed Schwartzkopf (2023)
Terry Sherman (2016)
James B. Siebken (2003)
Ka Squire (2022)
Dennis Smith (2018)
Daniel Sommer (2018)
Loren Steenson (2018)
Charles D. Smith (1995)
Louis J. Sobcyzk (2004)
Wallace R. Stern (2000)
George H. Stickney (1990)
Jim Suttle (2009)
Leslie J. Svatora, III (2017)
David Svingen (2023)
Maher Tadros (2011)
Edward Thiele (2023)
Thomas L. Thelen (2014)
John Thomas (2022)
Arvid L. Thomsen (2004)
William P. Todsen (2000)
Kenneth L. True (2007)
David G. Tunnicliff (1996)
Wayne John Vandertuin (2017)
Rick Voss (2015)
Wesley Wahlgren (2023)
Paula Wells (2000)
Paul L. Welsch (2014)
Jerry J. Westhoff (2017)
Edward R. Wheling (2003)
James Wilkinson (2018)
George Williamson (1991)
John Woelfl (2013)
Wayne Woldt (2023)
Chester R. Worm (2007)
Ronald Yoder (2018)
Robert G. Zilly (1988)
Raymond P. Zink (1989)
George Ziska (2013)