Gordon Maskew Fair Award

The Gordon Maskew Fair Award honors one of the pioneers of environmental engineering, Dean Fair. In addition to his own exemplary career, his living legacy includes hundreds of prominent practicing engineers and eminent professors who continue to emulate his values. He taught his students not only the technical aspects of the field but inspired them to use their skills to protect and enhance environmental quality.

Through the Fair Award, the Academy seeks to identify Board Certified Environmental Engineers, Members or Scientists who have contributed to the status of the environmental engineering or science professions by:

Exemplary professional conduct
Recognized achievements in the practice of environmental engineering and science
Significant contributions to the control of the quality of the world's environment

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2025 Gordon Maskew Fair Award Recipient

Michael K. Stenstrom, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Michael K. Stenstrom is a Distinguished Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University and is a registered professional engineer in California. He has been with UCLA since 1977 in the capacity of assistant, associate professor, professor and distinguished professor in addition to several university administrative assignments, including Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in water and wastewater treatment and has performed research in several areas of environmental engineering. He has been a board-certified environmental engineer since 1989 and has won numerous awards, including the Poland Medal, the WEF Camp Applied Research Award and the AEESP O’Melia Distinguished Educator Award.

He is a Fellow of ASCE, AEESP, IWA and WEF. Professor Stenstrom in more recent projects has been working on stormwater management including best management practice, and beneficial wastewater reuse in highly urbanized environments such as Los Angeles. He is interested in the Salton Sea and has recently completed a modeling project to evaluate remediation options.

Past Recipients

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Year	Recipient
2024	Newell, Charles J.
2023	Barlaz, Morton
2022	Daigger, Glen T.
2021	Tobiason, John
2020	Reible, Danny
2019	Dzombak, David A.
2018	Reinhart, Debra R.
2017	Hickox, Stephen J.
2016	Rittmann, Bruce
2015	Luthy, Richard G.
2014	McCarty, Perry
2013	Lawrence, Alonzo W.
2012	Sproul, Otis J.
2012	Huang, C. P.
2011	Shuval, Hillel I.
2010	Surampalli, Rao Y.
2009	Wilson, Thomas E.
2008	Haug, R. Tim
2007	Stahl, Jim F.
2006	Singer, Philip C.
2005	Marini, Robert C.
2004	Conway, Richard A.
2003	Johnson, Jr., Charles C.
2002	Schad, Theodore M.
2001	Lue-Hing, Cecil
2000	Pohland, Frederick G.
1999	Eckenfelder, W. Wesley
1998	Orlob, Gerald T.
1997	Woodruff, Paul H.
1996	Loehr, Raymond J.
1995	Weber, Jr., Walter J.
1994	Gilbert, Jerome B.
1993	Sorber, Charles A.
1992	Carroll, William J.
1991	Busch, Paul L.
1990	Garrison, Walter E.
1989	Geyer, John C.
1988	Longest, II, Henry L.
1987	Canham, Robert A.
1986	Lagnese, Jr., Joseph F.
1985	Bacon, Vinton W.
1984	Malina, Jr., Joseph F.
1983	Stern, Arthur C.
1982	Gloyna, Earnest F.
1981	Rohlich, Gerard A.
1980	Gibbs, William R.
1979	Lawler, Joseph C.
1978	Kappe, Stanley E.
1977	Weston, Roy F.
1976	Boyce, Earnest
1975	Gilbertson, Wesley E.
1974	Butrico, Frank A.
1973	Ludwig, John H.
1972	Okun, Daniel A.
1971	Coulter, James B.