ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 14, 2012 — The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) has selected Col. James L. Lammie, F.SAME, USA (Ret.) as the recipient of the prestigious Academy of Fellows Golden Eagle Award for his outstanding contributions to the engineering profession. The award will be presented at the SAME 2013 Academy of Fellows Golden Eagle Awards Dinner, March 27, 2013, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, North Bethesda, Md.

 

Col. Lammie has served the field of engineering for more than 55 years, serving as a U.S. Army officer, as a leading executive in the private sector, and as a director, professor and lecturer within academia. Most recently, he served as Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 2005–2007, and as Chair of the Civil Engineering Advisory Board at West Point from 2005–2008. 

 

Col. Lammie was President and Chief Executive Officer of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., from 1990–1996, where he was responsible for corporate operations both domestically and internationally. He joined the firm in 1975, and over the next two decades would be involved in some of the nation’s most influential transportation projects, including the Central Artery/Tunnel Project in Boston; the MARTA System in Georgia; the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Extension Program in San Francisco; the LA METRO Red and Blue Lines in Los Angeles; and the Light Rail Transit Line in Pittsburgh. 

 

Before entering the private sector, Col. Lammie served 21 years in the Army, retiring in 1974 as District Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District. He served in the Vietnam War, where his assignments ranged from leading 650 men engaged in combat construction operations, to being an engineer advisor on a 100-man special task force analyzing organizations and capabilities of armor and mechanized forces. Col. Lammie also served as Management Consultant on a 10-man Special Review Panel in the Office of the Army Chief of Staff, in charge of a reorganization plan for the management structure of the Department of the Army. 

 

Col. Lammie has long been a contributor to higher education. In addition to being Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering at West Point, he was Director of Management Programs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Assistant Professor for Military Engineering at Colorado School of Mines; and a lecturer in a range of subjects at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University among other schools.

 

Col. Lammie’s professional recognitions are substantial and they include his induction into the SAME Academy of Fellows as well as his election to the National Academy of Engineering and to the American Public Transit Association Hall of Fame. A 1953 West Point graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Col. Lammie has a master’s in Engineering from Purdue, a Master of Science in Business Administration from George Washington University, and a master’s in Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He also received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Purdue in 1997.