Daniel
W. Halpin Daniel W. Halpin was born September
29, 1938 in Covington, Kentucky. He graduated
from the U.S. Military Academy in 1961 with a
B.S. degree and then served as engineer in charge
of troop training area construction in the
European area, U.S. Army. He returned to the
United States in 1965 to serve as an Assistant
Resident and Field Manager for the Pittsburgh
Engineer District, Corps of Engineers, until
1966. From 1966 to 1967 he commanded Engineering
Construction troops and civilians in charge of
construction of troop cantonments, warehousing,
radio relay stations, and asphalt airfield and
support facilities in Vietnam.
After his tour of
duty, he attended the Technical University in
Munich, Germany as a Visiting Scholar between
1967 to 1968. He returned to graduate school in
the States receiving his M.S. in 1969 and his
Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Illinois. He
worked as an Operations Research Analyst in the
Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
between 1970 to 1972, responsible for research
projects related to construction management for
the Army Corps of Engineers and served on the
faculty of the Civil Engineering Department of
the University of Illinois from 1972 to 1973
while working on his advanced degrees.
Professor Halpin
was a member of the faculty of the School of
Civil Engineering at Georgia Institute of
Technology between 1973 and 1985. He was promoted
to Full Professor in 1981. While at Georgia Tech
he was Chair of the Construction program in Civil
Engineering. During the period 1985-1987 he held
the Clark Chair Professorship in Construction
Engineering within the Department of Civil
Engineering at the University of Maryland,
College Park. In 1987, he accepted the position
of Head of the Division of Construction
Engineering and Management at Purdue University.
Dr. Halpin has
been recognized for his academic achievements by
numerous awards. He received the ASCE Walter
Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize in 1979
and the Peurifoy Research Prize given by ASCE in
1992. In 2003, he was elected a member of The National Academy
of Construction. Among his other honors are a Faculty
Development Grant given by the Georgia Tech
Foundation in 1980,
NDEA Title IV Fellowship in
1968-70, elected to membership in Sigma Xi in 1972,
and the Bronze Star Medal for Service, Republic
of Vietnam, 1967. He was also named as visiting
Professor of Civil Engineering at the University
of Sydney, Australia during 1981, the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in 1985, and the University
of Karlsruhe, Germany in 1998.He has
served as President of the Georgia Section of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Dr. Halpin is
generally recognized as one of the leading
authorities in the world on the use of simulation
in studying construction processes. The Huber
Research Prize cites him "for his use of
simulation and gaming techniques in the modeling
and management of construction processes."
He is listed in Who's Who in America.
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