Richard A. Parmelee
Richard A. Parmelee is the recipient of the 1984 Civil Engineer of the Year Award. He had written several books including the ‘Designing for soil-structure interaction (Preprint / ASCE National Structural Engineering Meeting, San Francisco ’ in 1973 and ‘Seismic response of multiple-story structures on flexible foundations (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America’ in 1969. He had also established the ‘Richard A. Parmelee Endowed Scholarship in Civil Engineering’ for University of Utah in 2010 to support scholarship for students from underrepresented populations in engineering.