Dr. Richard F. McCormick, professor of engineering, was given the Roy D. Koch Award for his lifetime of service to the West Virginia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at the section’s annual meeting last month at Oglebay Park in Wheeling.
The award is the highest honor given by the West Virginia Section of ASCE, and it was established in 1974 “to recognize those individuals who have provided meritorious service to the West Virginia Section for an extended period of time.”
McCormick served as treasurer, vice president and president of the section in the late 1980s, wrote the first section handbook in 1996 and has remained active in the section since that time. However, he was recognized with the Koch Award mainly because of his many years of work with ASCE student chapters at WVU Tech and Marshall. He served as the Tech ASCE faculty adviser for more than 20 years, and is the founding adviser of Marshall’s new ASCE student chapter.
McCormick was nominated for the award by Dean Wael Zatar, with the final decision being made by the section’s board of directors.