Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage

male, deceased (1975)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, Olympic athlete of the United States, from Detroit, civilengineering, international olympic committee, Athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics…B.S. degree in Civil Engineering
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily...

Tom Dooley

male, 75 years old
Georgia Institute of Technology alumni, American football, Division I-AA, 1981 NFL season, Super Bowl XV, Southern Conference…civilengineering
Tom Dooley (born September 15, 1934 in Roanoke, Virginia) was an American football official for 32 years with 14 of those years in the National...
Lee Cheuk Yan

Lee Cheuk Yan

male, 52 years old
Chaoshanese, civilengineering, Provisional Legislative Council, Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Lee Cheuk Yan is the General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. He was born in Chaoyang, Guangdong (廣東潮陽) in 1957 and emig...
Frank Baron

Frank Baron

male, deceased (1994)
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University, seismic, University of California, Berkeley, roof, american society of civil engineer…structural engineering, civilengineering, civil engineer
Frank Martin Baron (July 7, 1914, Chicago, Illinois - October 17, 1994) served as professor of civil engineering at University of California,...

Robert William Thomson

male, deceased (1873)
Charleston, civilengineering, inventor, patented, Scottish, tyre
Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) was the Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tyre. Born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Robert was the eleventh of...
Isaac Larian

Isaac Larian

male
Jewish, California State University, Los Angeles alumni, civilengineering, Fortune favors the bold, Entrepreneur of the Year, California State University, Los Angeles
Isaac Larian (born March 28 1954, Kashan, Iran) is the Chief Executive Officer of MGA Entertainment, the biggest privately owned toy company in the...

David B. Ashley

male
Carol Harter, University of California, Merced, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States dollar, American university and college president, University of California, Berkeley…civilengineering
David B. Ashley is the eighth and current president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, appointed to the position on July 1, 2006. Of his...
Vladimir Shukhov

Vladimir Shukhov

male, deceased (1939)
Shukhov Tower, shell structures, thin-shell structure, tensile structure, structural engineering, cracking…civilengineering, civil engineer
Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, (February 2 1939) was a great Russian structural engineer and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new...
James Abourezk

James Abourezk

male, 78 years old
opponent of the Vietnam War, USAID, cia, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Office of Public Safety, Arab-American…Civil Rights, civilengineering
James Abourezk served as the U.S. Congressman and Senator from South Dakota from 1973-1979. His memoir, Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota...

Michael P. Collins

male
professor, Bahen-Tanenbaum Chair, Modified Compression Field Theory, TVOntario, TVO, University of New South Wales…civilengineering, civil engineer
Michael P. Collins is a structural engineer whose research is concerned with the design and evaluation of reinforced and prestressed concrete...