OSU alums honored with Lohmann Medal
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Oklahoma State University alumni Paul Liao and Enos Stover will be recognized for their professional contributions by the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology with the Lohmann Medal, the college’s highest honor for distinguished graduates on Friday, April 15, at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater.
Dr. Liao, from Seattle, Wash., is a global pioneer in the design of water treatment for fish hatcheries and fish farming, who led one of the nation’s largest engineering firms. Dr. Stover, from Stillwater, Okla., has addressed some of the most technically challenging environmental clean-up and treatment problems in the world as head of his environmental engineering firm.
“Dr. Liao also designed the largest aquarium in the world in his native Taiwan, and Dr. Stover holds four high impact patents that testify to his innovation and expertise” said Karl Reid, dean of CEAT at OSU. “Skilled engineering professionals such as Drs. Liao and Stover have set the standard for excellence in environmental engineering and we are excited to add them to the elite group of professionals who have received the Lohmann Medal.” The medal is named after Dr. Melvin R. Lohmann, former CEAT dean (1955-77), who led the college to national prominence.
In 1987, Liao was named chairman and CEO of KCM, a consulting engineering firm, which grew to one of the top 500 engineering companies in the U.S. and merged with Tetra Tech in 1995. Liao became chairman, CEO and CFO of Tetra Tech-KCM Inc. He served on the executive board of Tetra Tech, one of the nation’s five largest engineering companies with more than 10,000 professional staff in 200 offices worldwide.
Following several years of work for private engineering firms, Stover accepted a faculty position with the OSU School of Civil Engineering, where research and advising graduate students were his priorities for six years. He founded the Stover Group in 1984 to provide practical application solutions to sensitive environmental problems for clients in various chemical, refining, pharmaceutical, and food processing industries.
The Melvin R. Lohmann Medal was established in 1991 to recognize graduates of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology who have made “outstanding technical or managerial contributions to the profession or contributions to the education of engineers, architects or technologists that merit the highest recognition. Twenty-five distinguished graduates of the College have been presented the Lohmann Medal.