Dr. Jesús M. de la Garza is the Director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University. Prior to this appointment, he was the Chair of the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University. Prior to his Clemson appointments, he was the holder of the Vecellio Endowed Professorship in Construction Engineering and Management at Virginia Tech. Dr. de la Garza has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction. He has received the Faculty of the Year award from the ASCE’s student chapter, ASCE’s 2011 Peurifoy Construction Research Award, ASCE’s Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, and ASCE’s Richard R. Torrens Award. In 2014 he was elected to the grade of Distinguished Member of ASCE and in 2021 he received the ASCE Outstanding Projects And Leaders (OPAL) Award.
National Academy of Construction; ASCE OPAL Award