John C. Park Outstanding Civil Engineer Award
An Arizona Society award which may be made annually to a registered professional engineer in Arizona, who is a Fellow or Life Member of the Arizona Society ASCE, and who is judged to have contributed substantially to the status of the engineering profession. Nominations are made by the Committee on Award and Prizes. A wall plaque or formal certificate is given to the recipient at the annual Arizona Society Meeting, and an inscription of recipient’s name is included on the wall plaque located in the University of Arizona Civil Engineering Building.
History of the Award
John C. Park served overseas in World War I. After the war (1923), he enrolled as a Freshman in Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona. After graduation in 1926, he was appointed to the faculty of Civil Engineering at the U of A and except for time to earn his Masters of Science at Iowa State, he served the University continually until 1958. John C. Park became a Full Professor, and served as Dean of the College of Engineering from 1951 to 1958.
John C. Park, along with members of the Arizona Highway Department and the Bureau of Roads initiated the Arizona Roads and Street annual conference program. Professor Park was very active with the Arizona State Board of Technical Registration, and from 1951 was the Supervisor of Examinations as well as being a member of the Board of Technical Registration.
Because of his desire for professionalism in engineering, he was named a member of the National Council of State Boards of Engineering Examiners. He was very active in the Arizona Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and served as President of the Section. Professor Parks served on several National Engineering Committees.
Throughout his professional and academic life, John C. Parks was a strong supporter of engineering ethical behavior, and the desire to establish engineering as a dominant profession. He wrote many articles on these subjects for national publication. Because of his professionalism, the John C. Park Outstanding Engineer Award was established in 1966. The Award exemplifies John C. Park achievements in his engineering professional and personal life.
The plaque permanently resides in the Civil Engineering Building at the University of Arizona, and is dedicated each year to a Registered Professional Engineer in Arizona and a Life Member of ASCE, who is judged to have contributed substantially to the status of the Engineering Profession by:
- Distinguished service in the field of Civil Engineering in Arizona;
- Significant contribution toward improving the professional aspects of civil engineering education or professional development and guidance of young civil engineers;
- Outstanding achievement in the field of professional advancement; or
- Other evidence of merit, which in the judgment of the Awards Committee shall have advanced the Society’s professional objective.
History of Award Recipients
The following is a list of past award winners.
Year – Recipient
2023 – Michael Worlton
2022 – Mark G. Lamer
2021 – Kent Lall
2020 – Larry Hanson
2019 – Steve Jimenez
2018 – David Monihan, Jr.
2017 – Jerry Cannon
2016 – Kent Dibble
2015 – Guy Carpenter
2014 – Stanley E. Turney
2013 – Mick Mathieu
2012 – John A. Replogle
2011 – Enamul Hoque
2010 – Michael J. Barton
2009 – Dennis Richards
2008 – A. Wayne Collins
2007 – Achintya Haldar
2006 – Robert H. Wortman
2005 – Earnest Smerdon
2004 – Kenneth Carter
2003 – Marty Rosness
2002 – Mark Woodson
2001 – Tom McGovern
2000 – Rich Perry
1999 – Ed Nowatski
1998 – Fred Nelson
1997 – Paul Cella
1996 – Margaret Peterson
1995 – Rudolf Jimenez
1994 – Phil Epstein
1993 – John Stufflebean
1992 – James Attebery
1991 – Ed Hall
1990 – Gerald Matlock
1989 – Ed Mangotich
1988 – Gene Morris
1987 – Ken Renard
1986 – Bill Wiley
1985 – Charles W. Newlin
1984 – Emmett Laursen
1983 – Jim Anderson
1982 – Wayne W. Linthacum
1981 – R. A. Jimenez
1980 – R. C. Esterbrooks
1979 – Andrew B. Marum
1978 – Ben T. Dibble
1977 – Quentin M. Mees
1976 – Clarence H. Whalin
1975 – Oscar T. Lyon, Jr.
1974 – Fred Glendening
1973 – Herman Danforth*, Dario Travaini
1972 – John Carollo*, Charles Dryden
1971 – Harold W. Yost
1970 – David J. Hall
1969 – Harold C. Schwalen
1968 – George T. Grove
1967 – Ralph Hoffman
1966 – Vic H. Householder
1965 – Erasmus S. Borgquist
1964 – Wayne O’Hara
1963 – Earle V. Miller
1962 – George E.P. Smith
*- Awarded Posthumously