# Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

The Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (Huber Award) is the highest level mid-career research award in all areas of civil engineering. The award is annually given to individuals with notable achievements and contributions in research with respect to all disciplines of civil engineering. This award was first established by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) board of direction in 1946 and was given for the first time in 1949.

## History

Walter L. Huber (1883-1960) was an engineer, mountaineer, and conservationist. His research interests mostly were in the field of structural, hydroelectric, and irrigation projects. He also made some studies in the field of flood control, municipal water supplies, seismic forces and earthquake resistance.
The awards authorized for the first time as annual awards by the ASCE board of direction to encourage research activities in civil engineering in July 1946. These prestigious annual awards endowed in honor of Walter L. Huber, Past President of the ASCE, by his wife Alberta Reed Huber in 1964.

## Award condition

Based on the rules of the award, "the nominees must either be under 40 years of age or have worked no more than 12 years since receiving their doctoral degree at the time of nomination, whichever is less restrictive". Huber awardees are "generally younger than 45 and have demonstrated a level of achievement and excellence that bodes well for a long and fruitful career."

## Past recipients

The following list is based on the information provided by the ASCE.
| Year | Recipients |
| 2023 | Sybil Derrible, Shihong Lin, Steve WaiChing Sun, and Thomas Wahl |
| 2022 | Amir H. Gandomi, Megan Konar, Carol C. Menassa, Gaurav N. Sant, Hao Wang |
| 2021 | Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Ning Lin |
| 2020 | Amir AghaKouchak, Michele Barbato, Eleni Chatzi, John D. Fortner, Zhiyong J. Ren |
| 2019 | Christopher P. Higgins, Sinan Keten, Dimitrios Lignos, Shaily Mahendra |
| 2018 | José E. Andrade, Jack W. Baker, Yuri Bazilevs, Mani Golparvar Fard, Zhen Jason He |
| 2017 | Amit Bhasin, Mikhail V. Chester, James K. Guest, Kaveh Madani, Jamie E. Padgett |
| 2016 | Alexandria B. Boehm, Claudia K. Gunsch, Amit Kanvinde, John S. McCartney, Narayanan Neithalath |
| 2015 | Scott J. Brandenberg, Faisal Hossain, Vineet R. Kamat, Yanfeng Ouyang, Ming Ye |
| 2014 | Alexandre M. Bayen, Larry A. Fahnestock, William J. Likos, Jerome P. Lynch, Enrique R. Vivoni |
| 2013 | Jason T. DeJong, Laurie A. Garrow, Jaehong Kim, Kimberly Kurtis, Patrick J. Lynett |
| 2012 | Christian Hellmich, Scott M. Olson, Santiago Pujol, Patrick M. Reed, Julie B. Zimmerman |
| 2011 | Ahmet H. Aydilek, Casey Brown, Eric M.V. Hoek, Ertugrul Taciroglu, W. Jason Weiss |
| 2010 | Kara M. Kockelman, Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos, Ellen M. Rathje, Benjamin W. Schafer, Thorsten Wagener |
| 2009 | Tarek H. Abdoun, Lori Graham-Brady, Gregory V. Lowry, Srinivas Peeta, Eric B. Williamson, |
| 2008 | Arpad Horvath, Aaron I. Packman, Thanos Papanicolaou, Andrew W. Smyth, Jonathan P. Stewart |
| 2007 | Reginald Desroches, Sherif El-Tawil, Burcu H. Akinci, Feniosky Pena-Mora, Kenichi Soga |
| 2006 | Youssef M.A. Hashash, Khalid M. Mosalam, Roseanna M. Neupauer, Lutgarde M. Raskin, Brian L. Smith |
| 2005 | Henri P. Gavin, Joseph B. Hughes, Mathew G. Karlaftis, Franz-Josef Ulm and Paul K. Westerhoff, |
| 2004 | Rao S. Govindaraju, Glaucio H. Paulino, Rodrigo Salgado, Bozidar Stojadinovic Chandra R. Bhat |
| 2003 | Marc A. Edwards, Barbara S. Minsker, Younane N Abousleiman, Juan M. Pestana-Nascimento, Jerome F. Hajjer |
| 2002 | Teresa B. Culver, Kevin E. Lansey, Ross W. Boulanger, Darcy M. Bullock, Iris D. Tommelein |
| 2001 | J. David Frost, Norman L. Jones, Nicos Makris, Charles S. Melching, David V. Rosowsky |
| 2000 | Craig H. Benson, Gregory G. Deierlein, Roger G. Ghanem, Rakesh K. Goel, Mary C. Hill |
| 1999 | Lawrence C. Bank, Maria Q. Feng, Kyle M. Rollins, Shahram Sarkani, Timothy D. Stark |
| 1998 | George Deodatis, W. Samuel Easterling, Marcelo H. Garcia, Miroslaw T. Skibniewski, Andrew T. Whittle |
| 1997 | Nicholas Jones, David Dzombak, Jiann-Wen Woody Ju, Bilal M. Ayyub, Jonathan D. Bray |
| 1996 | Jeffrey Russell, Menachem Elimelech, Steven L. Kramer, Raymond B. Seed, and Jay R. Lund |
| 1995 | Gregory L. Fenves, Dan A. Brown, Charles Shackelford, Richard M. Vogel, and Y.K. Tung |
| 1994 | Alexander Cheng, Filip C. Filippou, Richard J. Finno, Peter K. Kitanidis, Hugo A. Loaiciga |
| 1993 | Rafael Bras, Albert J. Clemmens, John P. Dempsey, William R. Knocke, Nicholas Sitar |
| 1992 | Medhat A. Haroun, James T. Kirby, Stelios Kyriakikes, Richard N. Palmer, Shuaib Haroon Ahmad |
| 1991 | Hayley H. Shen, John C. Crittenden, Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Robert H. Dodds, Jr., Gary Parker |
| 1990 | Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Jack Moehle, William J. Rasdorf, Bruce E. Rittmann, Stein Sture |
| 1989 | Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghaffar, Chris T. Hendrickson, Pol D. Spanos, Jery R. Stedinger, Michael K. Stenstrom |
| 1988 | Armen Der Kiureghian, Mark H. Houck, George Gazetas, Thomas D. O'Rourke |
| 1987 | Achintya Haldar, Yannis Dafalias, Joseph H. Sherrard, Jean-Louis Briaud, and Earl Downey Brill, Jr. |
| 1986 | William F. Maloney; Yi-Kwei Wen; Enrique Luco; Michael O'Neill; Keith W. Bedford |
| 1985 | David Darwin; Louis F. Cohn; Sterios A. Dendru; Jerald Lee Schnoor; Thomas M. Keinath |
| 1984 | Patrick J. Ryan; James K. Edzwald; Charles Linwood Vincent; Ross B. Corotis; and Erik H. Vanmarcke |
| 1983 | J.N. Reddy; Kenneth H. Stokoe; Gerhard H. Jirka; Stephen A. Mahin; and Gary S. Logsdon |
| 1982 | Ajaya K. Gupta; Raymond E. Levitt; Fred H. Kulhaw; and Adib K. Kanafani |
| 1981 | Douglas A. Haith; Gary C. Hart; Klaus-Jurgen Bathe; Joseph L. Hammack; and William F. Marcuson Iii |
| 1980 | Robert M. Clark; Vincent P. Drnevich; Clive L. Dym; Bruce R. Ellingwood; Boyd C. Paulson, Jr. |
| 1979 | Daniel W. Halpin; Ju-Chang Huang; Hon-Yim Ko; Ruh-Ming Li; And Keith D. Stolzenbach |
| 1978 | John D. Borcherding; Thomas J.R. Hughes; Tin-Kan Hung; James O. Jirsa; and Phillip L.-F. Liu |
| 1977 | Ted B. Belytschko; G. Wayne Clough; David H. Marks; James P. Tullis; and Harry G. Wenzel |
| 1976 | Zdenek P. Bazant; Danny L. Fread; Lester A. Hoe; Paul H. King; And John Lysmer |
| 1975 | Anil K. Chopra; Izzat M. Idriss; Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe; Larry A. Roesner; and Don James Wood |
| 1974 | Asit K. Biswas; Hugo B. Fischer; Alfred J. Hendron, Jr.; Thomas T. C. Hsu; and Paul C. Jennings |
| 1973 | Charles G. Culver; James M. Duncan; Lee E. King; John T. Oden; Chhih Ted Yang |
| 1972 | John A. Hoopes; William B. Ledbetter; Roy E. Olson; Masanobu Shinozuka; Robert L. Street |
| 1971 | Carl A. Cornell; Marvin Gates; Raymond J. Krizek; Norbert R. Morgenstern; Kam Wu Wong |
| 1970 | Kenneth L. Lee; Daniel P. Loucks; Lucien A. Schmit; Marshall R. Thompson; Jan Van Schilfgaarde |
| 1969 | John W. Fisher; Cyril J. Galvin; Charles C. Ladd; Arthur R. Robinson; and Ronald F. Scott |
| 1968 | Alfredo H. S. Ang; Bobby O. Hardin; Marvin E. Jensen; Eduard Naudascher; Jimmie E. Quon |
| 1967 | Jack G. Bouwkamp; George Bugliarello; Donald L. Dean; T. Cameron Kenney; James M. Symons |
| 1966 | Melvin L. Baron; Louis R. Shaffer; George C. Driscoll; William W. Sayre; Paul W. Shuldiner |
| 1965 | Herman Bouwer; James K. Mitchell; Joseph Penzien; Gordon G. Robeck; and Rudolph P. Savage |
| 1964 | Steve J. Fenves; Theodore V. Galambos; John F. Kennedy; Perry L. Mccarty; and Emilio Rosenblueth |
| 1963 | Peter S. Eagleson; Robert M. Haythornthwaite; Houssam M. Karara; Thorndike Saville, Jr.; Mete A. Sozen |
| 1962 | Ven Te Chow; William Joel Hall; Alan Hanson Mattock; Robert V. Whitman; Robert L. Wiegel |
| 1961 | Emmett M. Laursen; William H. Munse; H. Solton See; Anestis Veletsos; Stanley D. Wilson |
| 1960 | Ray W. Clough; Phil M. Ferguson; Donald R. F. Harleman; Bruno Thurlimann; David K. Todd |
| 1959 | Charles L. Bretschneider; Norman H. Brooks; Arthur Casagrande; George S. Vincent; Daniel Frederick |
| 1958 | John Wood Clark; Hans A. Einstein; Warren J. Kaufman; Raymond D. Mindlin; Ivan M. Viest |
| 1957 | Mikael Juul Hvorslev; Bruce G. Johnston; Lorenz G. Straub |
| 1956 | Vinton Walker Bacon; Fred Burggraf; Chester Paul Siess |
| 1955 | Lynn S. Beedle; Eivind Hognestad; Philip F. Morgan |
| 1949 | John S. Mcnown |