CMS professor voted N.J. “Educator of the Year”

HOBOKEN, N.J. - The Board of Directors of the New Jersey Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) voted on behalf of their 4,000 members to name a Stevens Institute of Technology faculty member their organization’s 2008 “Educator of the Year.”

On May 2, at the ASCE Annual Awards Dinner in Woodbridge, N.J., the Section presented the award to Dr. Thomas H. Wakeman III, Deputy Director of the Center for Maritime Systems (CMS).

Wakeman is a Research Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering Department at Stevens. He is the Deputy Director of Stevens’ Center for Maritime Systems and is responsible the administration of the school’s graduate program in Maritime Systems. Recently he was also named the Executive Director of a new National Center of Excellence for Port Security, which was awarded last month to Stevens and its academic partners, Rutgers and University of Miami, by the Department of Homeland Security.

Wakeman’s long list of accomplishments includes a variety of professional management positions with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He holds a Doctorate of Engineering-Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Environmental Management from the University of California, Berkeley/Davis, and a Master of Arts degree in Marine Biology with a minor in Geology from San Francisco State University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

About the American Society of Civil Engineers

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