Ron Cox receives ASCE award

摘要

Dr Ron Cox, the PHEW member representing the Republic of Ireland region, has been awarded a 2009 Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award will be presented during the ASCE 139th Annual Engineering Conference, October 29-31, 2009 in Kansas City. The award citation is to read: "For his tireless promotion of civil engineering history in his home country of Ireland and the international engineering community through many books and papers in respected journals and his founding and directorship of the Centre for Civil Engineering Heritage, Dublin." Ron is currently the first Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Panel for the new international peer-reviewed journal Engineering History and Heritage, a part of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.