Arizona State University Scholar Named Distinguished Member of National Civil Engineering Society

Anthony Reed
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Arizona State University Scholar Named

Distinguished Member of National Civil Engineering Society

Reston, Va.— Clifford J. Schexnayder, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, Eminent Scholar Emeritus at Arizona State University’s Del E. Webb School of Construction, was recently named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE’s highest accolade, distinguished membership recognizes eminence in a branch of engineering. The active roster of Distinguished Members is comprised of only 198 of the Society’s 146,000 members worldwide. Schexnayder will be formally inducted, in honor of his more than four decades of service to the civil engineering profession as an international expert in heavy construction equipment, as well as his work for mentoring young engineering educators, Oct. 29, 2009, at ASCE’s 139^th Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Kansas City, Mo.

            During his career, Schexnayder has worked with major heavy /highway construction contractors as a field engineer, estimator and corporate chief engineer. He served in the U.S. Army as an engineer and retired at the rank of colonel.

            In the classroom, Schexnayder involved his students in hands-on educational experiences which included visits to the Pentagon Renovation and the Ronald Reagan Building projects in Washington, D.C., and multiple west coast heavy civil projects. He has also been active in advancing the civil engineering profession in South America, where he has taught at the Universidad de Piura and the Universidad Technica Particular de Loja, Ecuador.

            Additionally, Schexnayder is the lead author for the textbooks Construction Planning, Equipment and Methods and Construction Management Fundamentals, which are widely used in construction courses and have been translated into Chinese.

            Schexnayder has served as chair of ASCE’s Construction Division, as well as a member of the task committee which formed the ASCE Construction Institute. He was a recipient of ASCE’s John O. Bickel Award, the Society of American Military Engineers’ Tasher H. Bliss Award for his contributions to civil engineering education in the military, and has been recognized by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, receiving the Fulbright Scholar Lecturing/Research Awards.

Schexnayder, a native of New Iberia, La., received his doctorate in civil engineering from Purdue University and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. A registered professional engineer in Arizona, North Carolina and Texas, Schexnayder is a resident of Chandler, Ariz.

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 146,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s oldest national engineering society. For more information, visit www.asce.org.

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