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Awards & Honors

Helmut Krawinkler Award
Edwin G. Zacher Award
H.J. Brunnier Award
Honorary Members of SEAONC
SEAONC Fellows
A recipient for the Helmut Krawinkler Award for outstanding leadership in implementing state of the art research into practice shall be determined by the Board of Directors prior to the Annual Meeting at which the award shall be presented. The award is presented to acknowledge those individual members (academia or practicing engineers) who have applied and adapted pioneering academic research to the structural engineering practice.

Jack Moehle2014
Jon Heintz2015
Gregory Deierlein2016
Stephen Mahin2017
Bill Holmes2018
John Baker2019
Curt Haselton2019
Jim Malley2020
Ron Hamburger2021
Bret Lizundia2022
Kelly Cobeen2023
Steve Pryor2024

A recipient for the Edwin G. Zacher Award for outstanding recent service and contribution to the Association shall be determined by the Board of Directors prior to the Annual Meeting at which the award shall be presented.

Edwin G. Zacher1996
Kelly Cobeen1997
Mark Jokerst1998
Ronald Hamburger1999
Pat Buscovich2000
Carrie Bischoff2001
Ron Gallagher2002
David McCormick2003
David Bonowitz2004
Constantine Shuhaibar2005
Joseph Sutton2006
Joe Maffei2007
Tim Hart2008
Colin Blaney2009
Kevin Moore2010
Bruce Maison2011
Marko Schotanus2012
Lindsey Maclise2013
Marguerite Bello2014
Laura Whitehurst2015
Natalie Tse2016
Rosemarie McClure2016
Ben Mohr2017
Megan Stringer2018
Jonathan Buckalew2019
Keith Palmer2020
Derek Avrit2021
Joyce Feng2022
Megan August2023
Hayley Proctor2024
A recipient for the H.J. Brunnier Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding achievement in structural engineering shall be determined by the Board of Directors prior to the Annual Meeting at which the award shall be presented. From 1996 to 2000 the award honored engineering achievements on specific projects. As of 2001 the award has been known as the H.J. Brunnier Lifetime Achievement Award to focus the award on an individual’s entire body of work.

H.J. Brunnier Award

Navin Amin
SFO International Terminal		1996
Simin Naaseh & Paul Rodler
City Hall Seismic Retrofit		1997
David Mar
Pacific Place		1998
Bret Lizundia
Hanna House in Stanford		1999
Chris Poland
Stanford Museum Project		2000
Eric Ko
UC Davis Laboratories Project		2000

H.J. Brunnier Lifetime Achievement Award


T.Y. Lin2001
Eric Elsesser2002
Dan Shapiro2003
Ben Gerwick2004
Bill Holmes2005
Joseph Nicoletti2006
Charles DeMaria2007
Stefan Medwadowski2008
Vitelmo Bertero2009
Ashraf Habibullah2010
Victor A. Zayas2011
David Friedman2012
Ronald Hamburger2013
Mark Ketchum2014
Mark Sarkisian2015
Alexander G. Tarics2016
Loring Wylie2017
Steven Tipping2018
Mason Walters2019
Maryann Phipps2020
Ed Wilson2021
James Malley2022
David Bonneville2023
Jack Moehle2024
An Honorary Member shall be a person so designated by the Board of Directors in special recognition of the person’s contribution to the excellence of the structural engineering profession. An Honorary Member who is a Voting Member shall have the rights and privileges of the grade s/he holds. An Honorary Member who is not a Voting Member may not vote or hold office.

Norman Abrahamson
Robert Bachman
Vitelmo V. Bertero
David Bonneville
Anil K. Chopra
Kelly Cobeen
Mary Comerico
Craig Comartin
Charles D. De Maria
 Greg Deierlein
Richard Dreyer
Eric Elsesser
Paul Fratessa
David Friedman
Ashraf Habibullah
Ronald Hamburger
Ephraim Hirsch
William T. Holmes
Stephen E. Johnston
James Kelly
Charles Kircher
Laurence Kornfield
Helmut Krawinkler
Stephen A. Mahin
Mike Mahoney
James Malley
Frank E. McClure
Jack Moehle
William W. Moore
Joseph Nicoletti
Maryann Phipps
Chris Poland
F. Robert Preece
Chris Rojahn
Frank L. Rollo
C. Mark Saunders
Daniel Shapiro
Roland Sharpe
Zan Turner
Edward Wilson
Thomas D. Wosser
Loring A. Wyllie, Jr.
Edwin G. Zacher
Theodore C. Zsutty


A Fellow shall be a Member SE so designated by the Board of Directors in recognition of outstanding service to the Association and accomplishments in the field of structural engineering. S/he shall have been a member in good standing for 15 years.

Peter E. Bank
Colin Blaney
David Bonowitz
David Bonneville
Patrick Buscovich
Kelly Cobeen
Thomas Clark
Harold Davis
Art Dell
Edward F. Diekmann
Richard Dreyer
Eric Elsesser
Paul Fratessa
Russell G. Fudge
Ron Gallagher
Ronald Hamburger
Tim Hart
Jon Heintz
Ephraim Hirsch
Doug Hohbach
William Holmes
Darrick Hom
Grace Kang
Jon Kiland
Peter Lee
Bret Lizundia
Reinhard Ludke
Janiele Maffei
Joe Maffei
James Malley
Ronald Mayes
David McCormick
Andrew T. Merovich
David Messinger
 Gary Mochizuki
Kevin Moore
Simin Naaseh
John Paquette
Maryann Phipps
Chris D. Poland
Graham Powell
Rafael Sabelli
C. Mark Saunders
Joe Sutton
Kate Stillwell
Steven Tipping
Loring Wyllie

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