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Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize

Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize rather than just read about it. In short: The Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is awarded annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Established in 1882, the prize is named after Thomas Fitch Rowland, a pioneering engineer in construction and infrastructure.

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Reference excerpt

The Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is awarded annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Established in 1882, the prize is named after Thomas Fitch Rowland, a pioneering engineer in construction and infrastructure. Each year, the award honors a single outstanding contribution to the advancement of construction engineering by recognizing the authors of a peer-reviewed article published in an ASCE journal within the past twelve months. A list of past winners can be found on the ASCE website.

List of awardees Source: [1]

1883-1899 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) 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" 1890 Octave Chanute, John Findley Wallace, and William H. Breithaupt, an engineer for railways 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 1900-1999 1900 Allen Hazen 1901 L. G. Montony Ninety-Sixth Street Power Station of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York City 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 1911 B. H. M. Hewett and W. L. Brown 1912 Eugene Klapp and W. J. Douglas 1913 Burgis G. Coy 1914 H. T. Cory 1915 Charles W. Staniford 1916 E. L. Sayers and A. C. Polk 1917 John Vipond Davies 1918 F. W. Scheidenhelm 1919 O. H. Ammann 1920 Charles Evan Fowler 1921 Ernest E. Howard 1922 Gustav Lindenthal 1923 F. W. Peek, Jr. 1925 H. De B. Parsons 1926 Nichlas S. Hill, Jr. 1927 L. S. Stiles 1928 Roderick B. Young 1929 D. B. Steinman and William G. Grove 1930 R. Mcc. Beanfield 1931 Samuel A. Greeley and William D. Hatfield 1932 Clifford Allen Betts 1933 J. C. Baxter 1934 Miles I. Killmer 1935 W. H. Kirkbride 1936 A. V. Karpov and R. L. Templin 1937 Eugene A. Hardin 1940 J. D. Galloway 1941 O. J. Todd and S. Eliassen 1942 Shortridge Hardesty and Alfred Hedefine 1943 Paul Baumann 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 1957 Harry N. Hill, Ernest C. Hartman, and John Wood Clark 1958 Charles I. Mansur and Robert I. Kaufman 1959 J. George Thon and Gordon L. Coltrin 1960 Jack W. Hilf 1961 H. Bolton Seed, Robert L. McNeill, and Jacques De Guenin 1962 James D. Parsons 1963 Marvin J. Kudroff 1964 Francis E. Mullen 1965 Kent S. Ehrman 1966 L. Earl Tabler, Jr. 1967 John W. Kinney, Herman Rothman, and Frank Stahl 1968 C. Y. Lin 1969 James Douglas 1970 Norman L. Liver 1971 Richard E. Whitaker 1972 Hans Sacrison 1973 John V. Bartlett, Tadeusz M. Noskiewicz, and James A. Ramsay 1974 Russell C. Borden and Carl E. Selander 1976 Daniel J. Smith, Jr. 1977 Thor L. Anderson and Melvin C. Williams 1978 Charles H. Thornton and Paul A. Gossen 1979 Marcello H. Soto 1980 Laurent Hamel and David M. Nixon 1981 C. V. Knudsen 1982 Alfred M. Petrofsky 1983 James E. Olyniec 1984 Yuzo Takeuchi and Akira Kitamura 1985 Samir G. Mattar 1986 James L. Lammie and Dhirajlal P. Shah 1987 James T. O'connor and Richard L. Tucker 1988 Warren L. Schroeder, Vincent W. Rybel, and Larry Cochran 1989 Victor E. Sanvido 1990 Roozbeh Kangari, J. Doug Pruitt, and Tariq S. Cheema 1991 H. Randolph Thomas, Victor E. Sanvido, and Steve R. Sanders 1992 Michael C. Vorster and Jesus M. De La Garza 1993 Kenneth F. Reinschmidt, F.H. Griffis, and Patrick L. Bronner 1994 John G. Everett and Alexander H. Slocum 1995 Walter C. Hornaday, Ii, Carl T. Haas, James T. O'connor, and Jin Wen 1996 Kevin D. Swiggum, Stuart D. Anderson, and Jeffrey S. Russell 1997 James E. Diekmann and Matthew J. Girard 1999 Terry Brown and James Doebler 2000–present 2001 Keith R. Molenaar, Simon P. Washington, and 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 2015 Mounir El Asmar, Awad S. Hanna, and Wei-Yin Loh 2016 Vitaliy Priven and Rafael Sacks 2017 Mohammad Ilbeigi, Baabak Ashuri, and Soheil Shayegh 2018 Sooyoung Choe and Fernanda L. Leite 2019 Yang-Ping Yao, Yang-Zhi Ruan, Jun Chen, Yi Geng, Xing Zhang, Bing-Yang Liu, Xiao-Peng Zong, and Gui-Zhen 2020 Ibahim S. Aboaleb and Islam El-adaway 2021 Ashtad Javanmardi; S. Alireza Abbasian-Hosseini; Min Liu; Simon M. Hsiang 2022 Hyosoo Moon, Kwonhyun Kim, Hyun-Soo Lee, Moonseo Park, Trefor P. Williams, Bosik Son, and Jae-Youl Chun 2023 Zhongming Xiang, Abbas Rashidi, and Ge Ou 2024 Abdolmajid Erfani, Zihui Ma, Qingbin Cui, and Gregory B. Baecher 2025 Yoojun Kim and Youngjib Ham

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize

In research: Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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