Nominate a Colleague Today for a COPRI/ASCE Award!

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is now accepting nominations for COPRI's three awards for professional achievement. The deadline for nominations is November 1. These awards are a great opportunity to honor your colleagues who have contributed to the civil and harbor, coastal, and waterways engineering profession in significant ways. Please consider nominating a deserving COPRI/ASCE colleague for one of these awards!

Click here to download the official nomination form.

About the Awards

  • John G. Moffatt-Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award
  • International Coastal Engineering Award
  • Hans Albert Einstein Award


    • ICE Award Presented to Kamphuis

    Each year since 1977 the American Society of Civil Engineers has honored a member for their outstanding leadership and development in the field of coastal engineering. This year Professor J. William Kamphuis, Ph.D., P.E. was honored at the closing banquet of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE) September 8, 2006 in San Diego.

    An Emeritus Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Kamphuis was instrumental in the development of a program of Coastal Engineering at the university, which has gone on to gain world-wide recognition. He is the past director of the Queen’s University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory and president of J.W. Kamphuis Associates Limited, Coastal Consultants.

    Professor Kamphuis receives this award in recognition of his significant contributions on bottom friction under waves and coastal sediment transport and morphology, significant international impact as a consultant; particularly in resolution of disputes with large contentious projects, his world-wide network of successful graduates and his role as founding president of the Canadian Coastal Science and Engineering Association.

    He has published more than 125 research papers covering a broad range of topics in Coastal Engineering, including: wave transformation and breaking, coastal sediment transport and morphology, hydraulic and numerical modeling, coastal structures, and erosion of consolidated cohesive materials to name a few. Kamphius is also the author of “Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management” a widely used reference and textbook.

    He has taken his consulting work to all regions of Canada, as well as internationally to places such as Australia, Dubai, Israel, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States.

    To nominate someone for an ASCE award please visit: http://www.asce.org/pressroom/honors/.
    Please note the deadline to nominate for a 2007 award is November 1, 2006.