The Richard J. Carroll Memorial Lectureship in Civil Engineering was established at The Johns Hopkins University to commemorate one of Baltimore's leading structural engineers. The lectureship has been endowed by the many friends and admirers of Richard Carroll, who died in 1982. That endowment contributes to the ongoing guest seminars in the Department of Civil Engineering and provides for these special lectures.

Richard J. Carroll received his bachelor of civil engineering degree from Villanova University in 1955. He studied advanced structural design at The Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. He was chief structural engineer for the firms of Knoerle, Bender, Stone, and Associates, and Ewell, Bomhardt and Associates and chief field engineer for the Portland Cement Association. In 1964 he founded his own firm, Carroll Engineering, Inc., which grew to 26 employees under his leadership. Mr. Carroll published several papers dealing with concrete use and design, with emphasis on post-tensioned and pre-stressed concrete. He also taught courses in ultimate strength design and plastic design in steel. He belonged to numerous professional societies. His untimely death at the age of 49 left a legacy of professionalism, integrity, and vigor.

Donors to the Carroll Memorial Lectureship include:

Carroll Engineering, Inc.
Leonard J. Dack
Ralph and Dorothy DeChiaro Foundation
Stuart Hettleman
Lester Komaroff
Amy Swirnow
David Swirnow
Richard Swirnow

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For more information about this lecture, please call the Department of Civil Engineering (410)516-8690 or e-mail dlantry@jhu.edu

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2008 Lecture

Professor Dennis R. Mertz, Ph.D., P.E., The Safety of our Nation's Bridges, 2008.

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Past Lectures

Professor Gregory G. Deierlein, Ph.D., Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering: Enabling Transparent Risk Assessment and Innovative Building Design, 2007.

Leslie E. Robertson, P.E., S.E., Let's Discuss the Tall Building: What are its roots? How high can we go?, 2006.

Professor Zdenek P. Bazant, Ph.D., Size Effect and Need for Reform of Reliability Concepts for Quasibrittle Structures, 2005.

David Gissen, Ph.D., Enviro-Scraper: A Green Image of the Immense, 2004.

Theodore V. Galambos, Ph.D., Structural Stability Research and Stability Design Criteria, 2003.

William Gene Corley, Ph.D., Building Performance Study of the World Trade Center Attack, 2002.

Surendra P. Shah, Ph.D., Ultra High Performance Concrete, 2001.

Robert A. Dalrymple, Ph.D., In Over Your Head: Engineering at the Coastline, 2000.

John W. Fisher, Ph.D., Performance of Steel Bridges and the Role of Large Scale Tests, 1999.

Raymond J. Krizek, Ph.D., Geotechnical Engineering: Unde Venimus et Quo Vadimus?, 1998.

Eugene J. Fasullo, Visions of Leadership: The Role of Engineers in Rebuilding Our Country, 1997.

Mitchell Small, Ph.D., New Directions and Dimensions in Risk Management, 1996.

Charles H. Thornton, Ph.D., Mixed Construction for High-Rise Towers, 1995.

Thomas O'Rourke, Ph.D., Geotechnical Engineering for Lifelines and Infrastructure, 1994.

William McGuire, The Role of Analysis in Steel Design, 1993.

T. Y. Lin, Innovative Bridge Crossings - Environmental, Economic, and Constructional Considerations, 1992.

Robert Mark, Ph.D., Justinian's Hagia Sophia: Reinterpreting the Structure of Ancient Large-Scale Domes, 1991.

Adel S. Saada, Ph.D., From Kicking the Soil to Kicking the Computer, 1990.

Gerard F. Fox, Cable-Stayed Bridges, 1989.

David P. Billington, Bridges, Vaults and Towers as Art Forms, Fall 1985.

Leslie E. Robertson, The Role of the Structural Engineer in the Development of Building Concepts, Spring 1985.