Alaska Capital Engineers
Engineer of the Year

The Juneau Chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Professional Engineers, together as the Alaska Capital Engineers, named Dick Somerville, P.E., the 2007 Engineer of the Year. Dick was nominated for the annual award by the Juneau Chapter of ASCE. The nomination package cited his work on a number of Southeast harbor projects.

“I don’t mind waking up each morning with a host of challenges rattling around in my mind,” he said. “It actually gets me to work early and I look forward to this nearly every day.

“Many people find that sort of behavior very odd. But for engineers, solving a problem is natural for us and in that exercise we find our own reward. To those who share these sentiments, engineering is more than just a job – it is our calling,” he said.