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THE HONORARY MEMBER
The Honorary Member is a distinction given by the SEAoNY Board of Directors to individuals deemed to have contributed outstanding service to the profession of Structural Engineering and to the SEAoNY organization.
2024 - 2025 HONORARY MEMBER
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Robert K. Otani, PE LEED AP is Chief Technology Officer at Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a 1700+ person multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm, and founded the CORE studio, an applications development, advanced computational modeling, and R&D group at his firm. Robert serves as the Advisory Committee for Thornton Tomasetti’s firm wide Research and Development program. He has extensive structural design and project management experience involving commercial, infrastructure, institutional, cultural and residential structures. Over his 25-year career, he has worked on a wide variety of complex projects, including high rise buildings, long-span roof structures, sports arenas, airport terminals, major building structural renovations, complex art projects totaling over $2 billion USD of construction. He has served as President of the Structural Engineers Association of New York in 2007 and has been a professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture from 2008-2018 and Columbia GSAPP from 2009-2015.
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PAST DISTINGUISHED HONOREES
2023 - 2024 Brian Falconer Severud
2022 - 2023 Tim Lynch Thornton Tomasetti
2021- 2022 Thomas Z. Scarangello Thornton Tomasetti
2020- 2021 Robert Murray, PE Murray Engineering
2019-2020 Vicki Arbitrio, PE Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP
2018-2019 Guy Nordenson, PE Guy Nordenson and Associates
2017-2018 Joe Tortorella, PE Silman
2016-2017 William S. Phelan, PE Euclid Chemical Company
2014-2015 Ahmad Rahimian, PhD, PE, SE, F.ASCE WSP
2013-2014 Aine Brazil, PE Thornton Tomasetti
2012-2013 Ramon Gilsanz. PE Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP
2011-2012 Robert LiMandri, PE Vidras
2010-2011 Richard Tomasetti, PE Thornton Tomasetti
2009-2010 Ed DePaola, PE Severud Associates Consulting Engineers, PC
2008-2009 Charles Thornton, PE Charles H. Thornton & Company, LLC
2007-2008 Vincent J. DeSimone, PE DeSimone Consulting Engineers
2006-2007 Robert Silman, PE Silman
2005-2006 Jacob Grossman, PE Rosenwasser / Grossman Consulting Engineers, PC
2003-2004 Matthys Levy, PE Weidlinger Associates
2002-2003 Dan Eschenasy, PE New York City Department of Buildings
2001-2002 Irwin Cantor, PE, Irwin G. Cantor PE
2000 -2001 Robert Rosenwasser, PE Rossenwasser / Grossman Consulting Engineers, PC
1999-2000 Leslie Robertson, PhD, PE, CE, SE, D.Sc, D.Eng, NAE, Dist. M.ASCE, AIJ, JSCA, AGIR Leslie E. Robertson and Associates