Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough received two major honors in September.

Clough was nominated to the National Science Board on Sept. 23 and received a distinguished engineering alumni award from the University of California at Berkeley on Sept. 18.

President George W. Bush nominated Clough to serve on the NSB, a 24-member panel that oversees the National Science Foundation and advises the president and Congress on science and engineering issues.
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On Sept. 18, Clough received a distinguished engineering alumni Lifetime Award from Berkeley's College of Engineering. Clough, CE 63, MS CE 65, received his PhD in civil engineering from Berkeley in 1969.

Among the other honorees was Berkeley alumnus Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers.

Clough has been a member of the faculty at Duke and Stanford universities, dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Washington.

In 1990, Clough was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has received eight national awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers for his teaching and research, including the 2004 Outstanding Projects And Leaders Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is one of the few civil engineers to have been twice awarded the organization's Norman Medal, in 1982 and 1996.

In 2002, Clough was appointed by President Bush to his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and also chairs The Engineer of 2020 Project for the National Academy of Engineering.

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