Miller Recognized for Excellence in Academic Integration

March 20, 2003
University Park, Pa.– Arthur C. Miller, distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering, will receive the 2003 President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration at the University's Faculty/Staff Recognition Awards Program on March 24 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.

            The award is given to a full-time member of the faculty who has exhibited extraordinary achievement in the integration of the University's three-pronged mission of teaching, research or creative accomplishments, and service.

            Miller joined Penn State in 1972 following graduate studies at Colorado State University, where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in hydraulics and water resources. He has taught a variety of courses, including elementary surveying, highway engineering, strength of materials, wastewater and stormwater management, fluid mechanics, open channel flow, dam-break analysis, and erosion and sedimentation.

            His recent research projects have focused on conducting an environmental analysis of the I-99 corridor, developing a hydrologic manual for PennDOT and a hydraulics/hydrologic course for the Federal Highway Administration, and completion of a six-year project with NASA developing a distributed hydrologic model utilizing remote sensed data.

            He has furthermore been chairman or co-chairman of more than 80 one-week Continuing & Distance Education courses, including 13 different water resource courses, developed to enhance the technical ability of practicing professional engineers; taught more than 100 courses across the United States for the National Highway Institute; and served as a professional consultant to numerous municipalities and organizations in the areas of his expertise. He has also served on many Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, and University-wide committees.

            Among his many past honors, he received the 2002 Central Pennsylvania Engineers Week Council's Engineer of the Year Award and the 2000 Penn State George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching; was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1999; received the 1999 Penn State Engineer Society Premier Teaching Award; and earned advising awards from both the University and the Penn State Engineering Society in 1995. The University appointed Miller a distinguished professor in 2002.

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Contact: Gary W. Cramer, Penn State Department of Public Information, at
(814) 865-7517 or gwc104@psu.edu