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American engineer

Donald Van Norman Roberts
c. 1985
Born	(1928-06-thirteen)June 13, 1928 Fresno, California, U.s.a.
Died	January 31, 2016(2016-01-31) (aged 87)[i] Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Usa
Occupation(s)	Geotechnical and ecology engineer, humanitarian
Spouse	Charleen Doty ​ (m. 1951)​ [ citation needed ]
Children	Jean Leston, Alice Lynn, Alan Emery, James Frederick[ citation needed ]

Donald Van Norman Roberts (June thirteen, 1928 – January 31, 2016) was a civil, geotechnical and environmental engineer from the United States, and advocate for sustainability developments in engineering.^{[2] [3] [four] [v] [6]}

Early life [edit]

Donald Roberts was built-in in Fresno, California, as the son to Jewell A. Roberts and Helen M. Roberts.^{[ citation needed ]} In 1946, he was accepted to Stanford University, where he majored in ceremonious engineering. Having completed his Stanford undergraduate degree in 1950,^[7] he attended a civil applied science and geology graduate program at the Imperial Higher of the University of London, England. At the Royal School of Mines, he completed courses in applied science geology and advanced courses in stratigraphy and mineralogy.

On April 9, 1951, Roberts married Charleen Doty in Dawlish, South Devon England. They had four children: Jean Leston, Alice Lynn, Alan Emery, and James Frederick.^{[ citation needed ]}

Professional career [edit]

Roberts worked at Dames & Moore from 1951 to 1987.^[seven] His early work involved developing new approaches to analyzing and designing foundations for buildings constructed over soft compressible soils which exhibited the farthermost effects of weakness and subsidence. He too studied landslides, soil responses to earthquakes, and expansive soils. In 1961, Roberts became a partner of Dames & Moore.^{[7] [viii]}

Roberts was one of the primeval in the applied science profession to develop the principles of sustainability.^[seven] His career evolved from specialized geotechnical engineering to solving a broader range of problems involving natural hazards and human being-made pollution. In 1987 as one of 2 Senior Partners at Dames & Moore, Roberts joined CH2M Hill as Vice President.^{[four] [viii]}

First in the late 1980s, Roberts began to focus on environmental bug, on applying the concepts of sustainable development on a wider scale,^{[9] [10] [xi]} and on efforts to encourage cooperation between engineering professionals and environmentalists to solve ecology problems.^{[three] [12]} His keynote presentation in 1990 on the need for sustainability in engineering stimulated efforts in the United States by major applied science societies such equally the American Club of Civil Engineers.^[13] In this keynote, he presented a model of sustainability,^[fourteen] outlined the challenge of sustainability for engineers, and suggested ways in which environmentally friendly approaches and sustainability tin be accomplished in applied science education.^{[thirteen] [15] [xvi]} Roberts' keynote influenced the current concerns over global warming and stimulated changes in the engineering curricula in America.^[fifteen] Information technology was too 1 of the initiatives that led to the creation of the World Applied science Partnership for Sustainable Development, and helped with the cosmos of Engineers Without Borders.^[ii]

Since 1990, Roberts has presented on the subject of sustainability and became the President of the World Engineering science Partnership for Sustainable Development.^{[iv] [5]} In 2001, he became vice president of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations,^{[3] [13]} where he published Engineers and Sustainable Development, which is now used extensively in applied science college courses.^[half-dozen] In 2003, WFEO awarded Roberts the Gold Medal, 'for outstanding service to humanity'.^[3] In 2004, Roberts was the recipient of the Joan Hodges Queaneau Palladium Accolade, from the American Association of Technology Societies and the National Audubon Society, for "outstanding achievement in ecology conservation as one of the technology professions' nigh eloquent spokespersons for sustainable development".^[3] In 2005 he received the ASCE President's Award.^[14] In 2009 ASCE bestowed upon Roberts a Distinguished Membership, the guild'south highest honor, for "bringing the principles of sustainability into the lexicon of the technology profession".^{[5] [half dozen]} Roberts served as a board member of Engineers Without Borders -USA (EWB-USA),^{[2] [thirteen]} was a founder of the Hazardous Waste product Coalition,^[v] and served as a president of ASFE.^[17]

Bibliography [edit]

• Foundations for cylindrical storage tanks, Proceedings of the 5th International Briefing on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, 1961, Paris France, 785-788.
• Area Make full Settlements and Building Foundation Behavior at the San Francisco Drome, Symposium on Field Tests and Measurements for Soils and Foundation Technology, Pacific Area National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA Sept thirty-Oct 5 1962, D. 5. Roberts and R.D. Darragh.
• Hazardous Wastes: Liability Insurance and Loss Prevention, Presentation at Spec. Conf. on Geotechnical Exercise for Waste Disposal (ASCE). Ann Arbor, 1987
• Sustainable Development – A Claiming for the Engineering science Profession, Conference Keynote Accost, International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) almanac conference, June eighteen, 1990, Oslo Kingdom of norway.
• Sustainable Development – A Challenge for the Engineering Profession, Proc. IPENZ Annual Conference, Auckland, February 1991
• Sustainable Development - a Challenge for the Engineering science Profession, [online]. Transactions of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand: General Section, Vol. 18, No. 1, Nov 1991: ii-8.
• Qualifications Based Choice - What is it? Where is information technology going?, Consulting Engineers Association of Alberta (Canada). Seminars on September 23–24, 1992. Calgary and Edmonton, Canada.
• Engineering for Sustainable Development, Key Note talk (as a substitute for Al Gore) Summer National Meeting, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Seattle, Washington. August 16, 1993.
• Engineering for Sustainable Development, International Seminar on Development Assist Policy Approaches to New Generic Technologies, Swedish Bureau for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (SAREC). Hasselbachen, Stockholm, Sweden, April 20–21, 1994
• The Engineer'south Role in Sustainable Evolution, Key Note presentation, American Society of Agronomical Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri. June 20, 1994.
• 2020 Vision for Vertical Enterprises and Global Partnering, Management Honorary Lecturer, International Free energy & Environmental Management Symposium, American Club of Mechanical Engineers, Houston, Texas. January 31, 1995
• Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges, ASFE Semi-Annual Coming together, Cancun, Mexico. October 7, 1995
• Sustainable Development - and the Underground Use of Space, North American Tunneling 1996 Briefing, Washington DC, Apr 24, 1996.
• Civil Engineering—The Changing Profession, 8th Annual Stanley D. Wilson Memorial Lecture, University of Washington, May two, 1996.
• Sustainable Development and the Use of Hugger-mugger Space, Tunnelling and Undercover Space Technology, Vol. 11, No. 4, October, 1996, p 383-390
• Sustainable Development in Geotechnical Engineering, lecture presented at GeoLogan, American Society of Ceremonious Engineers, July 1997, Logan, Utah.
• Commentary: Sustainable Development: Threat or Opportunity?, Geo-Strata – Geo Institute of ASCE, Vol. one, No. iii, October 2000, pg. 3
• Engineers and Sustainable Evolution, 2002; widely used in college engineering courses.
• Beyond The Internet, presented at the Globe Congress: Engineering and Digital Separate, Tunis, Oct 2003.
• Geoengineering for the Developing Earth, Geological and Geotechnical Applied science in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation (2006), National research Council of the National Academies, ISBN 978-0-309-10009-0.
• Lessons Learned, presented at the Annual Meeting ASFE, April 14–17, 2010, New Orleans.

References [edit]

1. ^ "Don Roberts". The Denver Mail service. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
2. ^ ^{a b c} "EWB Salutes Roberts for Outstanding Contributions". ASCE News. 31 (four). April 2006.
3. ^ ^{a b c d due east} "UEF Recognizes Centennial and AAES Honors Outstanding Engineering". Washington: AAES and IEEE. May three, 2004.
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America". AMA. Subcontract Mechanism Industrial Research Corporation. 23–25: 82. 1992.
5. ^ ^{a b c d} "ASCE Names x Distinguished Members for 2009". ENR.com Engineering News-Tape, 7/23/2009.
6. ^ ^{a b c} ASCE Honors and Awards, Distinguished Members Videos. 2009. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
7. ^ ^{a b c d} Rogers, J. David. "Thread lines of Geotechnical and Applied science Geology firms in the Greater Los Angeles Metro-Southern California Area". Geocongress 2012 Land of the Fine art and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering science, Missouri University of Scientific discipline and Technology: xxx.
8. ^ ^{a b} Rogers, J. David; Kropp, Alan L. (July 2, 2015). "Pioneer applied science geologist Threadlines of Geotechnical and Technology Geology firms in the Greater San Francisco Bay-Northern California Area". Missouri Academy of Science and Technology.
9. ^ Amadei, Bernard (Summer 2004). "Engineering for the Developing World". The Bridge. National Academy of Applied science, of the National Academies. 34 (2).
10. ^ Kelly, Bill. "Sustainability in Engineering Education and Ethics". Presented at Conference on Engineering at Catholic Colleges and Universities, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. October, 2005.
11. ^ "Engineers and Sustainable Evolution". Prepared by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations' Committee on Technology, August 2002.
12. ^ "IEEE Recognizes Centennial and AAES Honors Outstanding Engineering science". Washington: IEEE. iii May 2004.
13. ^ ^{a b c d} Wallace, Nib (2005). Becoming Office of the Solution: The Engineer's Guide to Sustainable Evolution. American Quango of Engineering Companies. pp. 53, ten.
14. ^ ^{a b} "ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE Presidents' Awards Past Award Winners".
15. ^ ^{a b} Nguyen, Duyen (2002). "Searching for a global model for ecology applied science education". Earth Transactions on Engineering science and Technology Instruction. 1 (one).
16. ^ Parton, Ian (July 2004). "Engineers equally Leaders in the Transition to a Sustainable Future". Keynote Address, International Conference on Sustainability Technology & Scientific discipline: 4–5.
17. ^ "A Recession is Coming.. Exist Prepared". CD/DVDASFE Resource Catalog, Pg 90, ARICBP1013200. Archived from the original on 2015-07-22.

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