Professor Lymon C. Reese had a 33-year career at UT Austin, conducting pioneering work in performing field studies with instrumented piles and drilled shafts. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975, he developed analytical methods now widely used in the design of deep foundations. Professor Reese was the ASCE Karl Terzaghi lecturer in 1976. Please join us in celebrating his lifetime of achievement and service. David E. Daniel is the former Deputy Chancellor of The University of Texas System and a member of the National Academy of Engineers, recognized for leadership in developing the geoenvironmental engineering field. He is internationally known for his major contributions to engineering practice involving landfills and waste containment systems, and widely recognized fo an engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served on the faculty at UT Austin in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering from 1980 to 1996. His administrative career began in 1996, when he moved to the University of Illinois to serve as the first Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and later as Dean of Engineering. Daniel was appointed President of The University of Texas at Dallas in 2005 and served in that role until 2015. His professional engineering work has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which awarded him its highest honor for papers published in its journals, the Norman Medal, and on two separate occasions its second highest honor, the Croes Medal. He has also received the Presidents’ Award, the Geotechnical Hero’s Award, and the Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award for Education. The Geo-Institute is a technical society with about 12,000 geotechnical engineers and geologists as members. Find out more or join at http://www.geoinstitute.org. #geotechnicalengineering #geotech #civilengineering #universityoftexas Show more