SDSU Distinguished Engineer “Wall of Fame” Recipients of the Distinguished Engineer Award are honored at the annual College of Engineering Banquet, where an award plaque is presented.
The Distinguished Engineer Award was first awarded by the SDSU College of Engineering on Feb. 26, 1976, under the direction of Dean Junis O. Storry. The purpose of the Distinguished Engineer Award is to recognize and honor those who have demonstrated eminent achievements in a field of engineering. Outstanding achievement in other fields is also given consideration, provided the nominee is an SDSU engineering graduate. Selection procedures were developed and implemented and the first awards were presented to 22 SDSU alumni of the College of Engineering in 1977. Since its inception, the coveted award has been presented to more than 141 Distinguished Engineers.
Distinguished Engineer Awards
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| Year | Name | Award | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon R. Schaefer | Distinguished Engineer | Miller | |
| Mike Headley | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Dennis L. Helder | Distinguished Engineer | Canton | |
| Gene Sieve | Distinguished Engineer | Jordan, Minnesota | |
| Lewis Brown | Distinguished Engineer | Fort Belvoir, Arlington | |
| Adolph Fejfar | Distinguished Engineer | Tabor | |
| Reece Kurtenbach | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Gregg Stedronsky | Distinguished Engineer | Wagner | |
| Troy Meink | Distinguished Engineer | Lemmon | |
| Dr. Niaz Latif | Distinguished Engineer | Bangladesh | |
| Larry E. Bell | Distinguished Engineer | Doland | |
| Delvin E. DeBoer | Distinguished Engineer | Milbank | |
| Jane McKee Smith | Distinguished Engineer | Rapid City | |
| Calvin Vaudrey | Distinguished Engineer | Glendo, Wyoming | |
| Donald L. Veal | Distinguished Engineer | Chance | |
| Richard F. Sayre | Distinguished Engineer | Madison | |
| Lynn G. Seppala | Distinguished Engineer | Watertown | |
| Gordon D. Niva | Distinguished Engineer | Aberdeen | |
| Gerald C. Blazey | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Curtis Brudos | Distinguished Engineer | Lake City | |
| Dale Jans | Distinguished Engineer | White River | |
| Beth M. Kaspar | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Richard C. Gustaf | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Wallace J. Hoff | Distinguished Engineer | Ramona | |
| Robert J. Purcell | Distinguished Engineer | Watertown | |
| Richard O. Hegg | Distinguished Engineer | Bruce | |
| Francis Kub | Distinguished Engineer | Ipswich | |
| Jeffrey L. Nelson | Distinguished Engineer | Marion | |
| Ramon Menon Unnikrishnan | Distinguished Engineer | Cochin, India | |
| Kenton R. Kaufman | Distinguished Engineer | Mitchell | |
| John G. Kappenman | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Wanda K. Reder | Distinguished Engineer | Nisland | |
| Ronald W. Mielke | Distinguished Engineer | Groton | |
| Edward L. Cannon | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Albert “Bill” Billman | Distinguished Engineer | Hanson County | |
| James Mentele | Distinguished Engineer | Spencer | |
| Loren B. Wagenaar | Distinguished Engineer | Volga | |
| Kathryn A. Walker | Distinguished Engineer | Aurora | |
| Jerome J. Gaspar | Distinguished Engineer | Bridgewater | |
| Arlo B. DeKraai | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| David E. Christianson | Distinguished Engineer | Wayzata, Minnesota | |
| Jim Morgan | Distinguished Engineer | Ellsworth, Minnesota | |
| Dennis Micko | Distinguished Engineer | Claremont | |
| Marwan Hassoun | Distinguished Engineer | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
| Thomas Weaver | Distinguished Engineer | Brewster, Minnesota | |
| John Madden | Distinguished Engineer | Mound City | |
| Alyn Holt | Distinguished Engineer | Clear Lake | |
| Roger M. Larson | Distinguished Engineer | Boyd, Minnesota | |
| Leon B. Ellwein | Distinguished Engineer | Roscoe | |
| Virgil G. Ellerbruch | Distinguished Engineer | Lander, Wyoming | |
| Robert G. Dutcher | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| A. J. Van Dierendonck | Distinguished Engineer | Larchwood, IA | |
| John C. “Jack” Marshman | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Charles A. Onstad | Distinguished Engineer | Spring Grove, Minnesota | |
| Harold Hohbach | Distinguished Engineer | Plankinton | |
| Donald J. Edwards | Distinguished Engineer | Tracy, Minnesota | |
| Ronald D. Schmidt | Distinguished Engineer | Pipestone, Minnesota | |
| Duane Sander | Distinguished Engineer | Howard | |
| Merlyn Isaak | Distinguished Engineer | Parkston | |
| Harlow J. Miner | Distinguished Engineer | Gregory | |
| Bruce L. Miller | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Paul G. Cummings | Distinguished Engineer | Wessington | |
| Dennis R. Little | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Richard R. Bell | Distinguished Engineer | Hecla | |
| Jerome J. Lohr | Distinguished Engineer | Raymond | |
| Richard A. Berreth | Distinguished Engineer | Veblen | |
| Dale A. Bucks | Distinguished Engineer | Doland | |
| Neil R. Patterson | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Frank R. Knutson | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Wayne Knabach | Distinguished Engineer | Harrisburg | |
| Delvin D. Eberlein | Distinguished Engineer | Volga | |
| John L. Wiersma | Distinguished Engineer | Volga | |
| Jerald A. Tunheim | Distinguished Engineer | Langford | |
| Frederick J. Rittershaus | Distinguished Engineer | Freeman | |
| Donald Kukuk | Distinguished Engineer | Huron | |
| Robert F. Risch | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Leon D. Crossman | Distinguished Engineer | Miller | |
| William G. Borghard | Distinguished Engineer | Brooklyn, New York | |
| Byron J. Anderson | Distinguished Engineer | Lake Wilson, Minnesota | |
| Richard B. Hayter | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| James N. Dornbush | Distinguished Engineer | Pollock | |
| Aelred J. Kurtenbach | Distinguished Engineer | Dimock | |
| Robert C. Olson | Distinguished Engineer | Henry | |
| James A. Larson | Distinguished Engineer | Hudson | |
| Emory E. Johnson | Distinguished Engineer | Ceresco, Nebraska | |
| Harold H. Hall | Distinguished Engineer | Parker | |
| Russell E. Christiansen | Distinguished Engineer | Jefferson | |
| Junis O. Storry | Distinguished Engineer | Astoria | |
| Delbert M. Leppke | Distinguished Engineer | Cresbard | |
| John A. Schmidt | Distinguished Engineer | Canistota | |
| James L. Mann | Distinguished Engineer | Raymond | |
| Dale C. Ryman | Distinguished Engineer | Aberdeen | |
| Dennis L. Moe | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Hans G. Jepson | Distinguished Engineer | Spencer, West Virginia | |
| Errol P. EerNisse | Distinguished Engineer | Rapid City | |
| Leonard F. Swanson | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Albert L. Pugsley | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Charles A. Lundquist | Distinguished Engineer | Webster | |
| Lawrence R. Thielen | Distinguished Engineer | Huron | |
| C. Milo Thelin | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Merlyn E. Schlenker | Distinguished Engineer | Frederick | |
| Merle L. Esmay | Distinguished Engineer | Newell | |
| Kenneth H. Spies | Distinguished Engineer | Valley Springs | |
| Frederick Harold Leinbach, Jr | Distinguished Engineer | Washington, D.C. | |
| Roland J. Jensen | Distinguished Engineer | Lake Norden | |
| John D. Dyson | Distinguished Engineer | Lemmon | |
| Henry H. DeLong | Distinguished Engineer | Redfield | |
| James S. Boyd | Distinguished Engineer | Volga | |
| Mark E. Barber | Distinguished Engineer | Alpena | |
| Robert B. Yule | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Ronald J. LaVallee | Distinguished Engineer | Lisbon, North Dakota | |
| Donald D. Haselhorst | Distinguished Engineer | Northville | |
| Jerome A. Storry | Distinguished Engineer | Astoria | |
| Milo A. Dudden | Distinguished Engineer | Clear Lake | |
| Ernest L. Buckley | Distinguished Engineer | Lemmon | |
| Ernest E. Michaels | Distinguished Engineer | Watertown | |
| William S. Lowe | Distinguished Engineer | Burlington, Kansas | |
| John M. Hanson | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Richard T. Buesing | Distinguished Engineer | Lynd | |
| George H. Oleson | Distinguished Engineer | Lake Andes | |
| Gene Amdahl | Distinguished Engineer | Flandreau | |
| Dewey J. DeBoer | Distinguished Engineer | Corsica | |
| Warren D. Fish | Distinguished Engineer | Tyndall | |
| Leroy F. Harza | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Jack W. Wild | Distinguished Engineer | Woonsocket | |
| Marvin J. Willrodt | Distinguished Engineer | Chamberlain | |
| Leonard E. Johnston | Distinguished Engineer | Bradley | |
| Stephen F. Briggs | Distinguished Engineer | Watertown | |
| Lesher S. Wing | Distinguished Engineer | Arlington | |
| Leonard J. Linde | Distinguished Engineer | Plaza, North Dakota | |
| David A. Christensen | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Melvin L. Manning | Distinguished Engineer | Miller | |
| Charles L. Coughlin | Distinguished Engineer | Carthage | |
| Robert D. Mitchell | Distinguished Engineer | Madison | |
| Donald E. Craig | Distinguished Engineer | Sioux Falls | |
| Calvin C. Oleson | Distinguished Engineer | Lemmon | |
| Harold M. Crothers | Distinguished Engineer | Arlington | |
| Wayne H. Peters | Distinguished Engineer | Humboldt | |
| Everett W. Dunn | Distinguished Engineer | Summit | |
| Harry L. Solberg | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| William H. Gamble | Distinguished Engineer | Wessington | |
| Raymond W. Sundstrom | Distinguished Engineer | Beresford | |
| Archie Higdon | Distinguished Engineer | Spencer | |
| Clifford W. Welsh | Distinguished Engineer | Madison | |
| Robert G. Hoover | Distinguished Engineer | Columbia | |
| Robert A. Wilkens | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Loys A. Johnson | Distinguished Engineer | Brookings | |
| Donald A. Williams | Distinguished Engineer | Clark |