Dr. Robert Ettema

Honors and Awards

• 2021 – Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Colorado State University
• 2020 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Environmental Water Resources Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• 2019 – Harold R. Peyton Award, Cold Regions Engineering, ASCE
• 2017 – Fellow, ASCE
• 2016 – Whitney Borland Chair, Colorado State University
• 2015 – Hans Albert Einstein Award (River and Sedimentation Engineering), ASCE
• 2012 – Fellow, Engineering New Zealand,/li>
• 2011 – Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize (Best paper in Journal of Hydraulic Engineering  “Detached Eddy Simulation Investigation of Turbulence at a Circular Pier with Scour Hole”; with Gokhan Kirkil (PhD student) and George Constantinescu (colleague), ASCE
• 2010 – ASCE-EWRI Outstanding Service Award as Technical Program Chair, American Society of Civil Engineers, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, Organization of joint IAHR-EWRI-CSCE World Congress, Vancouver, Canada
• 2009 – IAHR Outstanding Service Award as Technical Program Chair, World Congress, IAHR (International Association of Hydro-Environment Research and Engineering), ASCE-EWRI-CSCE Congress, August 2009, Vancouver, Canada
• 2005 – Outstanding Faculty Member Service Award, College of Engineering, the University of Iowa, IA
• 2002 – Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award, ASCE
• 1995 – Task Committee Excellence Award, Symposium on Hydraulics Instrumentation. & Experimentation, Buffalo, NY, ASCE
• 1991 – Gustave Willems Award, Best Paper, “Ice-formation Processes in Frequently Transited Navigation Channels,” U.S. Section, Permanent Association for Navigation Congresses (PIANC)