Colorado Water Oct 2005

• Year: 2005
• Title: Colroado Water
• Author: Water Center of Colorado State University
• Description: October 2005 Issue
• Publications - Doc Type: Newsletter

Building at Engineering Research Center Named for Daryl Simons
olorado State University's College of
Engineering and the Department of Civil
Engineering celebrated the naming of the main
building at the Engineering Research Center
the Daryl B. Simons Building on Saturday, Aug.
27, as part of a host of activities honoring the
former civil engineering professor's life.
The building dedication began with comments
by Provost and Senior Vice President Anthony
Frank; Ray Chamberlain, former president of
Colorado State; and Sandra Woods, interim
dean of the College of Engineering. A celebra-
tion of Simons' life followed in the North Ball-
room of the Lory Student Center, and the events
concluded with a reception and dinner.
Simons, who died in March, was the first asso-
ciate dean for research at the College of Engi-
neering. In his 18 years there, annual research
funding for the college jumped from $100,000 to
more than $20 million. He had an international
reputation in watershed management and river
mechanics and sedimentology, working on ev-
ery major river system in the world.
"Daryl B. Simons was an extraordinary engineer
and college professor who solved problems
of river degradation and pollution around the
world for more than 50 years," said Neil Grigg,
a civil engineering professor at Colorado State
who was one of Simons' graduate students. "In
addition to his practical work, which helped
reduce flooding and open rivers to navigation and
other uses, he was a mentor to a new generation of
engineers from about 50 countries, and his guid-
ance will be felt in better water systems around the
world."
The Daryl B. Simons Building at the Engineering
Research Center, which is based at Colorado State's
Foothills Research Campus, features research on
hydrology, hydraulics, lasers, optics, materials,
plasmas, groundwater, wind engineering, struc-
tural engineering and environmental issues, among
others.
From a press release by Emily Narvaes Wilmsen
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