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List of Professors

Name Years at Michigansort icon Position

Ioannis Brilakis

2005 - 2008
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Russell A. Green

2001 - 2008
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos

2000 - 2012
Associate Professor

Terese M. Olson

2000 - 2020
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pierre Goovaerts

1997 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Maria M. Szerszen

1997 - 2007
Associate Research Scientist

Michael J Barcelona

1996 - 2001
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Scientist Dental Research Institute

Kevin R Collins

1995 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bozidar Stojadinovi

1995 - 1999
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Iris D. Tommelein

1989 - 1997
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Avery H. Demond

1989 - 2022
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Kim F. Hayes

1988 - 2022
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ralf Peek

1987 - 1995
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Linda M. Abriola

1984 - 2004
Horace Williams King Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Antoine E. Naaman

1983 - 2007
Professor of Civil Engineering

Richard B. Kapuscinski

1982 - 1987
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Nikolaos D. Katopodes

1981 - 2020
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Andrzej S. Nowak

1979 - 2004
Professor of Civil Engineering

Robert Isaac Carr

1978 - 2004
Professor Civil Engineering

Steven J. Wright

1977 - 2018
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Guillermo Ponce-Campos

1973 - 1974
Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

James K. Wight

1973 - 2020
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Edwin L. Bidwell

1970 - 1973
Associate Professor Civil Engineering

Raymond P. Canale

1968 - 1995
Professor of Civi and Environmental Engineering

Egons Tons

1968 - 1990
Professor of Civil Engineering

Jonathan W. Bulkley

1968 - 2011
Peter M. Wege Professor of Sustainable Systems
Professor of Resources Policy
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

John M. Armstrong

1967 - 1988
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Subhash C. Goel

1967 - 2006
Professor of Civil Engineering

Richard D. Woods

1967 - 2002
Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interim Chair Civil Engineering 1994-1996, Chair 1996-2001

Robert D. Hanson

1966 - 2001
Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1976-1984

Donald H. Gray

1966 - 2000
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Donald E Cleveland

1965 - 1988
Professor of Civil Engineering

E. Benjamin Wylie

1965 - 1999
Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1984-1994

Elmore Horton Wells

1964 - 1965
Instructor in Civil Engineering

John R Hall

1963 - 1969
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Walter J. Weber Jr

1963 - 2009
Gordon Maskew Fair & Earnest Boyce Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Frank E. Richart

1962 - 1986
Professor of Civil Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1962-1969
Walter Johnson Emmons Professor of Civil Engineering

Movses J. Kaldjian

1959 - 1995
Professor Civil Engineering
Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Glen V Berg

1956 - 1984
Professor of Civil Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1969-1976

Charles Fales Powers

1956 - 1968
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering 1967-68
Associate Professor of Zoology
Associate Research Oceanographer IST

Ralph M. Berry

1955 - 1974
Professor of Geodetic Engineering

Nelson A. Dingle

1954 - 1981
Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences

Victor L. Streeter

1954 - 1976
Professor of Hydraulics

Robert O Goetz

1953 - 1987
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Donald N Cortright

1952 - 1979
Professor of Civil Engineering

Wadi S. Rumman

1952 - 1988
Professor of Civil Engineering

Eugene A. Glysson

1951 - 1995
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bruce G. Johnston

1950 - 1968
Professor of Structural Engineering

Vladas Merkys

1950 - 1951
Resident Lecturer in Hydraulics

Jack A. Borchardt

1948 - 1982
Professor Civil Engineering

Robert B. Harris

1947 - 1988
Professor of Civil Engineering
Acting Chair Civil Engineering 1985

John Clayton Kohl

1946 - 1966
Professor of Civil Engineering

Gerard Oscar Kerkhoff

1946 - 1952
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Richard King

1946 - 1950
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Earnest Boyce

1944 - 1962
Professor Municipal and Sanitary Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1947-1962
Professor of Public Health

Leo Max Legatski

1944 - 1973
Professor of Civil Engineering

Ernest F. Brater

1940 - 1982
Professor of Civil Engineering

Ivan C. Crawford

1940 - 1951
Professor of Civil Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1945-1947
Dean of Engineering

Arne A. Jakkula

1933 - 1937
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Walter J. Emmons

1927 - 1960
Professor of Civil Engineering

Roger Leroy Morrison

1926 - 1952
Professor of Highway Engineering & High Transport
Curator of the Transportation Library

Lawrence Carnahan Maugh

1925 - 1971
Professor of Civil Engineering

Walter C. Sadler

1925 - 1959
Professor of Civil Engineering

William S. Housel

1924 - 1971
Professor of Civil Engineering

George M. Bleekman

1923 - 1957
Assistant Professor of Geodesy and Surveying

Robert H. Sherlock

1923 - 1957
Professor of Civil Engineering

John S. Worley

1922 - 1945
Professor of Transportation Engineering

Edwin A Boyd

1921 - 1957
Instructor in High Engineering
Consultant to Department of Civil Engineerng

Gilbert Agnew Hunt

1921 - 1923
Instructor in Structural Engineering

Edward Young

1921 - 1957
Professor of Geodesy and Surveying

Herschel C. Smith

1921 - 1924
Assistant Professor of Highway Engineering

Harold James MacFarlan

1920 - 1921
Instructor in Surveying

Lathrop Carleton Pope

1920 - 1925
Instructor in Structural Engineering

Allen Firman Sherzer

1920 - 1946
Professor of Hydraulic Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Albert Loring Clark

1920 - 1959
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

Harold James McFarlan

1920 - 1963
Associate Professor of Geodetic Engineering

John Henry Bateman

1919 - 1920
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Harold Tuttle Corson

1919 - 1920
Instructor of Surveying

Oliver Frank Heyden

1919
Instructor in Engineering Drawing
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Glenn Leslie Alt

1918 - 1965
Professor of Civil Engineering

Louis Evans Ayres

1918 - 1919
Instructor of Civil Engineering

Charles Joseph Bennett

1918 - 1919
Non-Resident Lecturer of Civil Engineering

Harry Bouchard

1918 - 1953
Professor of Geodesy and Surveying

H. E. Breed

1918 - 1919
Non-Resident Lecturer of Highway Engineering

W. G. Caples

1918 - 1919
Non-Residential Lecturer on Highway Engineering

Walter Rhodes Drury

1918 - 1919
Instructor in Sanitary Engineering

Frank Peter Dunnebacke

1918 - 1919
Assistant Professor of Surveying

Glenn Burdette

1918 - 1919
Instructor in Surveying

Glenn Willis Holcomb

1918 - 1920
Instructor in Surveying

Nelson Hartwell Huntley

1918 - 1919
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Eder Charles Lloyd Matthews

1918 - 1920
Instructor in Surveying

Donald Curtis May

1918 - 1919
Instructor of Civil Engineering

Eduard Fred Metz

1918 - 1919
Instructor in Surveying

Robert Norris

1918 - 1919
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Howard Willard Slack

1918 - 1922
Instructor in Surveying

Frank Alanson Walton

1918 - 1919
Assistant Professor of Surveying

Roscoe Clair Gore

1917 - 1918
Instructor in Civil Engineering

N. P. Lewis

1917 - 1918
Non-Resident Lecturer on Highway Engineering

Chester Owen Wisler

1917 - 1951
Professor of Hydraulic Engineering

Perry Augustus Fellows

1916 - 1918
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Orange Malcolm McNeil

1916 - 1918
Instructor in Civil Engineering

James Harlan Cissel

1915
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Norman Kirkwood Sheppard

1915 - 1916
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Raymond Everett

1914 - 1915
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

Edward Franklin Tanghe

1914 - 1917
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

John Henry Bringhurst

1913 - 1916
Instructor of Civil Engineering

John J. Cox

1913 - 1919
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

William C. Hoad

1913 - 1944
Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering

Harry George Raschbacher

1913 - 1917
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

William Hamilton Sellew

1913 - 1914
Non-Resident Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Wells Ira Bennett

1912 - 1958
Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing
Assistant Professor of Drawing
Professor of Architecture

Lewis Merritt Gram

1912 - 1946
Professor of Civil Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1928-1945

Horace William King

1912 - 1939
Professor of Civil Engineering

Henry Earle Riggs

1912 - 1930
Professor of Civil Engineering

D. F. Crawford

1911 - 1912
Non-Resident Lecturer on Transportation

Wilford Willis De Berard

1911 - 1912
Non-Resident Lecturer on Sanitary Engineering

R. Emerson

1911 - 1912
Non-Resident Lecturer on Railway Administation

C. H. Hoyt

1911 - 1912
Non-Resident Lecturer on Good Roads

Clarence Thomas Johnston

1911 - 1941
Professor of Geodesy and Surveying
Chair Geodesy and Surveying 1911-1928

Charles A. Lutz

1911 - 1912
Lecturer Course on Transportation

Leonard Metcalf

1911 - 1912
Non-Resident Lecturer on "Some Modern Tendencies in Sewage Disposal

Thomas J. Mitchell

1911 - 1912
Assistant Professor of Surveying, Civil Engineering

Caleb Mills Saville

1911 - 1912
Non-Resident Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Harry Arch Augenblick

1910 - 1911
Instructor of Description Geometry and Drawing

Alonzo Simmons Berry

1910 - 1920
Instructor in Wood Shop Practice

George Eveline Lewis

1910 - 1911
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

A. H. Plant

1910 - 1911
Non-Resident Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Franklin Thomas

1910 - 1912
Instructor of Engineering Drawing

Albert Ross Bailey

1909 - 1918
Instructor in Surveying
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Arthur James Decker

1909 - 1946
Professor of Civil Engineering

Herbert Lester Abbott

1908 - 1918
Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Hugh Brodie

1908
Assistant Professor of Surveying and Civil Engineering

Clifton O’Neal Carey

1908 - 1945
Associate Professor Geodesy and Surveying

Charles Alton Ellis

1908 - 1912
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Wilhelm Neilson

1908 - 1909
Instructor of Civil Engineering

Seymour William Pinner

1908 - 1910
Instructor of Engineering Drawing

Roland Borman Renner

1908 - 1909
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

Edward Dunbar Rich

1908 - 1913
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

John Howell Griffith

1907 - 1911
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

Ernest McPherson Sims

1907 - 1909
Instructor in Drawing and Descriptve Geometry

Stanislaus Jan Zowski

1907 - 1922
Professor of Hydro-Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Civil Engineering

George Fessenden Hunt

1906 - 1907
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

Howard B. Merrick

1906 - 1927
Professor of Civil Engineering

John Schmutz

1906 - 1913
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering

James Edwin Fulcher

1906 - 1909
Instructor in Civil Engineering
Instructor in Geometry and Drawing

Harry Hurd Atwell

1905 - 1921
Assistant Professor of Surveying and Civil Engineering

Arthur E. Palmer

1905 - 1906
Instructor of Engineering Drawing

Charles Joseph Tilden

1905 - 1913
Professor of Civil Engineering

George Gottlieb Stroebe

1904 - 1911
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

Gardner Stewart Williams

1904 - 1911
Professor Civil, Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering
Chair Civil Engineering 1904-1911

George Miller Bartlett

1903 - 1910
Instructor in Descriptive Geometry, Mechanism and Drawing

Albert Emerson Greene

1903 - 1912
Professor of Civil Engineering

Charles Baker Davis

1902 - 1903
Instructor in Surveying

Fred Goodrich Frink

1902 - 1904
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Lyman Edgar Cooley

1900 - 1901
Non-Resident Lecturer of Highway Engineering

Frederick May Green

1900 - 1902
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Herbert Jay Goulding

1895 - 1940
Associate Professor of Mechanism and Engineering Drawing

Daniel Benjamin Luten

1894 - 1895
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Clarence George Wrentmore

1892 - 1911
Assistant professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing

Fred Morley

1890 - 1894
Instructor of Engineering Drawing

Joseph Baker Davis

1872 - 1920
Professor of Civil Engineering

Charles Ezra Greene

1872 - 1903
Professor/Chair of Civil Engineering 1872-1903
Dean of Engineering

J. Burkett Webb

1871
Instructor in Civil Engineering

Charles DeWitt Lawton

1870 - 1871
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Regent of the University 1898-1906

William Butler Morgan

1865 - 1966
Instructor in Mathematics & Civil Engineering

Cleveland Abbe

1859 - 1860
Instructor in Physics and Civil Engineering

DeVolson Wood

1857 - 1872
Professor/Chair Civil Engineering and Physics 1857-1872

William Guy Peck

1855 - 1857
Professor/Chair Civil Engineering, Physics 1855-1857

Alexander Winchell

1853 - 1891
Professor of Physics
Professor/Chair Civil Engineering 1853-1855
Professor Geology, Zoology and Botany 1855-1873