Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize Explained

The Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). It was started in 1882, and is named for Thomas Fitch Rowland, who endowed it in 1884.^[1]

An author who belongs to the ASCE can be nominated if they have published a print article in an ASCE journal in the last twelve months.

List of awardees

Source: ASCE

1883 Gustav Lindenthal for "Rebuilding the Monongahela Bridge" Smithfield Street Bridge
1884 Hamilton Smith, Jr., author of "Hydraulics, The Flow Of Water Through Orifices, Over Weirs, And Through Open Conduits And Pipes"(1886) ^[2]
1885 A. M. Wellington
1886 Charles Conrad Schneider
1887 William Metcalf
1888 Clemens Herschel
1889 James D. Schuyler for work on "Construction of the Sweetwater Dam"^[3]
1890 Octave Chanute, John Findley Wallace, and William H. Breithaupt, an engineer for railways ^[4]
1891 William H. Burr
1892 Samuel M. Rowe, Stillman W. Robinson (brother of Albert Alonzo Robinson), and Henry H. Quimby, all for The Red Rock Cantilever Bridge
1893 William Murray Black
1894 David L. Barnes
1895 William R. Hill
1896 H. St. L. Coppee, President of the American Society of Railroad Superintendents
1897 Arthur L. Adams
1898 Henry C. Goldmark
1899 Richard S. Buck, designer of the Niagara Railway Arch Bridge, and the Chief Engineer for the Manhattan Bridge^[5]

1900 Allen Hazen
1901 L. G. Montony Ninety-Sixth Street Power Station of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York City^[6]
1902 William W. Harts for "Description of Coos Bay, Oregon and Improvement of its Entrance by the Government"
1903 George W. Fuller
1904 George Cecil Kenyon for "Dock Improvements at Liverpool"
1905 Charles L. Harrison and Silas H. Woodard for "Lake Cheesman Dam and Reservoir" (Colorado)
1906 George B. Francis and W.F. Dennis for "The Scranton Tunnel of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad"
1907 James D. Schuyler for "Recent practice in Hydraulic-Fill Dam Construction"
1908 Edward E. Wall for "Water Purification in St. Louis, Mo."
1909 William J. Wilgus for "The Electrification of the Suburban Zone of the New York Central Railroad ..."
1910 John H. Gregory
1923 F. W. Peek, Jr.
1944 Eugene L. Grant
1945 Donald N. Becker
1946 James B. Hays
1947 Robert F. Blanks; Harmon S. Meissner
1948 M. M. Fitzhugh; J. S. Miller; Karl Terzaghi
1949 Harold M. Westergaard
1950 R. N. Bergendoff; Josef Sorkin
1951 William K. Boyd and Charles R. Foster
1952 Clarence E. Keefer
1953 E. Montford Fucik
1954 A. Warren Simonds
1955 Maurice N. Quade
1956 Jonathan Jones

2001 Keith R. Molenaar; Simon P. Washington; James E. Diekman
2002 Lawrence C. Bank; T. Russell Gentry; Kenneth H. Nuss; Stephanie H. Hurd; Anthony J. Lamanna; Stephen J. Duich; Ben Oh
2003 Simaan Abourizk; Dany Hajjar
2004 Ronie Navon; Eytan Goldschmidt
2005 J. M. Lopes Cordeiro; Paulo Jorge De Sousa Cruz
2006 Mark R. Svinkin
2007 Amr A. Kandil; Khaled El-Rayes
2009 John E. Taylor
2011 Gunnar Lucko; Eddy M. Rojas
2014 Sungjoo Hwang, Moonseo Park, Hyun-Soo Lee, SangHyun Lee, and Hyunsoo Kim, for "Dynamic Feasibility Analysis of the Housing Supply Strategies in a Recession: Korean Housing Market."^[7]
2015 Mounir El Asmar; Awad S. Hanna; Wei-Yin Loh
2016 Vitaliy Priven; Rafael Sacks
2017 Mohammad Ilbeigi; Baabak Ashuri; Soheil Shayegh
2018 Sooyoung Choe; Fernanda L. Leite
2019 Yang-Ping Yao; Yang-Zhi Ruan; Jun Chen; Yi Geng; Xing Zhang; Bing-Yang Liu; Xiao-Peng Zong; Gui-Zhen
2020 Ibahim S. Aboaleb; Islam El-adaway
2021 Ashtad Javanmardi; S. Alireza Abbasian-Hosseini; Min Liu; Simon M. Hsiang for the paper “Improving Effectiveness of Constraints Removal in Construction Planning Meetings: Information-Theoretic Approach”
2022 Hyosoo Moon, Kwonhyun Kim, Hyun-Soo Lee, Moonseo Park, Trefor P. Williams, Bosik Son, and Jae-Youl Chun for "Cost Performance Comparison of Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build for Building and Civil Projects Using Mediation Analysis”