HOBOKEN, N.J. -- The Board of Directors of the New Jersey Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) voted on behalf of their 4,000 members to name a Stevens Institute of Technology faculty member their organization’s 2008 “Educator of the Year.”
On May 2, at the ASCE Annual Awards Dinner in Woodbridge, N.J., the Section will present the award to Dr. Thomas H. Wakeman III. Wakeman is a Research Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering Department at Stevens. He is the Deputy Director of Stevens’ Center for Maritime Systems and is responsible the administration of the school’s graduate program in Maritime Systems. Recently he was also named the Executive Director of a new National Center of Excellence for Port Security, which was awarded last month to Stevens and its academic partners, Rutgers and University of Miami, by the Department of Homeland Security.
Wakeman’s long list of accomplishments includes a variety of professional management positions with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He holds a Doctorate of Engineering-Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental Management from the University of California, Berkeley/Davis, and a Master of Arts degree in Marine Biology with a minor in Geology from San Francisco State University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
About the American Society of Civil Engineers
Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) represents more than 140,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide and is America's oldest national engineering society. The mission of the ASCE is to provide essential value to their members, their careers, their partners and the public by developing leadership, advancing technology, advocating lifelong learning and promoting the profession. For more information, please visit: http://www.asce.org/asce.cfm
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value. Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with about 400 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu. For the latest news about Stevens, please visit www.StevensNewsService.com.