Brigadier
General Joins Florida Tech Faculty
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Ralph Locurcio will
join the Florida Tech Department
of Civil Engineering in fall, 2004. He will be a professor of
civil engineering and director of the Construction Management Program.
As commander and division engineer
of the South Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Locurcio
was responsible for the planning, engineering design and construction
programs of military and civil works in eight southeastern states,
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. His headquarters was in Atlanta,
Ga.
A notable highlight of Locurcio's
career was his assignment to Kuwait following the Gulf War as commander
of the Kuwait Emergency Reconstruction Office. He was responsible for
the $500 million reconstruction of the country's civil infrastructure
immediately following the war.
Locurcio earned the Society of American
Military Engineers' Wheeler Medal for engineering achievement, in 1992,
and was named one of Engineering News Record's "Marksmen" for 1992
for his leadership role in the Kuwait reconstruction.