Ed Sloan receives award from OSU
Ed, Prof. Hal Pritchard, and Sid Lasswell at awards dinner
Ed Sloan is the most recent CH2M member to receive the Oregon Stater Engineering Award. On February 27, Scott Ashford, Dean of Engineering and former SFO employee, inducted Ed into the Oregon State University College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineers. Ed joins CH2Mers William Byers and Mark Lasswell (1999), Gary Nuss (2000), Randall Smith (2005), and Jo Danko (2005). The award honors outstanding alumni and friends for their contributions to the engineering profession and to OSU.
Ed is the 22nd CH2M honoree from approximately 400 all-time Oregon Stater Awardees in all categories. “It was an outstanding all-day event,” Ed said, “including lunch, engineering lab tours / demonstrations, and a great dinner attended by university leadership, current and prior awardees!” Ed felt humbled to be included with such outstanding engineers and CH2M staff members. He commented that he owes his outstanding 40-year career, which has taken him around the world working on some of the firm’s largest projects, to the outstanding education that he received at OSU and working for an inspiring company with exceptional staff and challenging projects and clients.
CH2M Oregon Stater Hall of Famers are Fred Merryfield, Jim Howland, Holly Cornell, Thomas Hayes, and Jim Poirot (1998); Earl Reynolds, Jr. and Robert Adams (1999); LaMont Matthews and Sid Lasswell (2000); Ralph Peterson (2005); Kenneth Durant and Jack Mackie (2007); Dan Keuter (2011); and Bob Chapman (2012). Membership in the OSU Engineering Hall of Fame is reserved for Oregon Staters who have made sustained and meritorious engineering and/or managerial contributions throughout their careers. CH2M Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers are Scott Ashford (1998), Gregg Thompson (2004), and Sanjay Vancheeswaran (2007).