From campus to coal to tourism, the work of Aubrey D. May is seen throughout Kentucky.
B.S. Civil Engineering 1949 Change is one of Calvin G. Grayson’s favorite words and he has proven that time and again during his career in the transportation industry. Finding new and better ways of moving people and goods has been his life’s mission.
B.S. Civil Engineering 1981 Aim High. The United States Air Force slogan certainly fits the career of Louisville native Brigadier General Timothy A. Byers.
About 70 percent of the earth is covered in water. And that’s just fine with Dr. Paul Boulos. From water quality principles to hydraulics, he is a global authority on drinking water distribution engineering.
B.S. Civil Engineering 1959 M.S. Civil Engineering 1963 Clifford Randall has spent much of his professional life teaching students as a professor of engineering. But he also has taught by example, as his accomplishments as a leading engineer working with wastewater treatment facilities and other complex water-quality issues around the world have been an example to countless students he taught during a more than 35-year teaching career.
B.S. Civil Engineering 1968 Larry Whaley grew up with a passion for construction and design. As a young boy in Maysville, Ky., he spent hours creating model houses and other imaginative structures with American Plastic Bricks and Erector Sets.
B.S. Civil Engineering 1979 A career in mining wasn’t D.L. Lobb’s first choice. “When I started at UK, I was actually pre-medicine,” Lobb recalls. “While at the hospital during my first semester, I saw blood and passed out. At that point, I figured I probably shouldn’t be a doctor.”
B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1956 Bill Sears knows engineering is primarily a technical business. That is why when he reflects on his induction into the Hall of Distinction, Mr. Sears regards the honor as recognition that he took the fundamental technical training he received at the University of Kentucky and maximized it over the course of his career – a career spanning 40 years in oil and gas exploration and production and characterized by an uncompromised concern for safety.
B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1951 When Garey White was seven years old, his father gave him a calf as a reward for doing chores on the family farm. The young entrepreneur then did what any industrious kid with a passion for construction would do: he sold the calf and bought a basic carpenter’s tool set. Thus was born an engineer who would go on to found the largest non-residential construction employer in central Kentucky.
B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1972
