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2010 DEAA Winners
Congratulations to the 2010 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award winners! These exceptional alumni will be recognized at the DEAA Banquet in April. >>Learn more
Mohamed Al-Mady, ChemEngr’73, Industry & Commerce
Jim Gallogly, Special
Bill Reinert, MS CivilEngr’81, Research & Invention
Michael Wirth, ChemEngr’82, Industry & Commerce
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ALUMNI BOOKSHELF
“Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers”
by Richard Weingardt (CivEngr ’60, MS ’64)
 Civil engineers may recognize the name Richard Weingardt from
his monthly column in Structural Engineer magazine,
which provides well-written, insightful commentary on engineers
and their profession.
Or perhaps you know him through the work of his Denver-based
firm, Richard Weingardt Consultants, which has completed 4,500
major projects worldwide, providing services including
structural and civil engineering design, construction
administration, value engineering, and project management.
Weingardt, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the
College of Engineering and Applied Science and is a
Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient, also has
authored nearly a dozen books, including Engineering
Legends: Great American Civil Engineers, published by the
ASCE Press in 2005.
The book includes 32 profiles of engineering inspiration and
achievement, ranging from bridge builders to environmental
experts, and engineering innovators to transportation
trendsetters. Profiles include Emily Roebling, the driving force
behind the Brooklyn Bridge; Stephen Long, for whom Long’s Peak
in Colorado is named; and George Ferris, whose invention of the
big wheel for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago captured the
world’s attention.
“Here is a long overdue book on legendary engineers who helped
shape the world that we live in today…” wrote Ken Wright, a
Denver water engineer, in a review on Amazon.com. “ Buy the book
and get it into the hands of your child or grandchild to help
them choose a career path that he or she will never regret.”
Weingardt’s research on Ferris also inspired him to write the
full-length biography, Circles in the Sky: The Life and
Times of George Ferris, published by ASCE Press in 2009.
A profile of CU’s own Roland Rautenstraus, engineering professor
turned university president, also is included in Engineering
Legends. Rautenstraus was the subject of Weingardt’s 1999
biography, Raut: Teacher, Leader, Engineer, published
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