This document discusses several influential Bangladeshi civil engineers and their contributions: - Dr. M.A. Rashid was the first vice-chancellor of BUET and pioneered engineering education in Bangladesh. He received many honors for his work. - Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan was a structural engineer who pioneered tubular high-rise designs, including for the Willis Tower. He received many awards for his innovative skyscraper designs. - Prof. Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury is a prominent civil engineer and education advocate. He has consulted on major projects in Bangladesh and received several honors. - Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Anam and Mr

1. My idols in Civil Engineering
&
their groundbreaking contributions
By
Md. Kaiyum Hossain
ID. 16205078

2. My inspirations
Dr. M.A. Rashid
Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan
Prof. Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury
Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Anam
Mr. Emtazul Haque
MY opinion about them

3. Dr. M.A. Rashid
(1919-1981)

4. Dr. M.A. Rashid a pioneer of engineering education in
Bangladesh.
He served as the first Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University
of Engineering and Technology during 1962–1970.
 In 1942, he completed his bachelor's in Civil Engineering from
Bengal Engineering College (later Indian Institute of Engineering
Science and Technology) at Shibpur in West Bengal.
For his extraordinary merit as a student, he obtained the Slater
Memorial gold medal and the Tate Memorial medal in 1941, and
the Trevor Memorial prize and gold medal in 1942.

5.  He served as an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department of
the Assam government during 1942–1945.
He went to USA in 1945 with a scholarship and then obtaining MS and
DSc in civil engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology
in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania he returned home in 1948.
 He was the first in East Bengal to have a doctorate degree in engineering.
After returning from the United States in 1948 Rashid joined the
Ahsanullah Engineering College later (Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology ) in Dhaka as an Assistant Professor .
He was the head of the department from 1949 to 1958 and in 1952 became
a professor.

6.  In 1954 he became the first Bangali principal of the Ahsanullah
Engineering College .And for the next 16 years he provided
leadership for putting engineering education in Bangladesh on a
solid footing.
In 1958 he was made a member of the Education Commission of
Pakistan.
It was on the basis of one of its recommendations that the East
Pakistan University of Engineering (later BUET) was established.
In 1966 the Government of Pakistan awarded him the title of
'Sitara-i-Pakistan'.

7.  In 1975 he was appointed a member, with the rank and status of a cabinet
minister, in the president's council of advisors and was put in charge of the
Ministry of Works.
He was elected a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
At the Sydney summit of the Commonwealth countries in 1981 he was chosen
to become chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation .
But before he could take up this high position he died on 6 November 1981 as a
result of a car accident while on his way from Pabna to Bogra.
 He was awarded Independence Day Award in 1982 by the Government of
Bangladesh.
A students’ residential hall of BUET is built after his name, "Dr M A Rashid
Hall".

8. (1929-1982)
Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan

9. Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer
who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers.
Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises.
 Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD).
 He has been called the "Einstein of structural engineering" and the
"Greatest Structural Engineer of the 20th Century" for his innovative use
of structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper design
and construction.
He received his Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree in 1952 from
Ahsanullah Engineering College now ( Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology) .
He received a Fulbright Scholarship from the Pakistan government and
went to the United States in 1952.
There he studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Khan earned two master's degrees – one in structural engineering another
in theoretical and applied mechanics – and a PhD in structural engineering.

10. A sculpture of Khan at the Willis Tower
 During the 1960s and 1970s, he became noted for his designs for Chicago's 100-
story John Hancock Center and 110-story Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower,
the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998.

11. Khan pioneered several other variants of the tube structure design. One of
these was the concept of applying X-bracing to the exterior of the tube to form
a trussed tube.

12. Willis Tower, engineered by Khan and designed by Bruce Graham, was the
tallest building in the world for 25 years. The design introduced the bundled
tube structural system.

13. These are some significant installation of Dr. F.R Khan :
DeWitt-Chestnut Apartments, Chicago, 1963
Brunswick Building, Chicago, 1965
John Hancock Center, Chicago, 1965–1969
One Shell Square, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1972
140 William Street (formerly BHP House), Melbourne, 1972
Sears Tower, renamed Willis Tower, Chicago, 1970–1973
First Wisconsin Center, renamed U.S. Bank Center, Milwaukee,
1973
Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah,
1974–1980
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 1977–1978
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
1982
One Magnificent Mile, Chicago, completed 1983
Onterie Center, Chicago, completed 1986
United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

14. Khan received the Wason Medal (1971) and Alfred Lindau Award (1973) from
the American Concrete Institute (ACI).
In 1971 the Bangladesh Liberation War broke out. Khan was heavily involved
with creating public opinion and garnering emergency funding for Bengali people
during the war. He created the Chicago-based organisation named the Bangladesh
Emergency Welfare Appeal.
He is an ingenious person.One of his favourite quote is, "The technical man
must not be lost in his own technology; he must be able to appreciate life,
and life is art, drama, music, and most importantly, people."
Khan died of a heart attack on 27 March 1982 at the age of 52.

15. Born on 15 novembor ,1943
Prof. Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury

16. Prof. Jamilur Reza Choudhury is a foremost civil engineer, professor, researcher,
and education advocate of this country. He was a former Adviser to the Caretaker
Government of Bangladesh, and is the current Vice Chancellor of University of Asia
Pacific.
He obtained the B.Sc. (Engg.), Civil, degree in 1963 (First Class First with
Honours) from University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, M.Sc.
Engineering Degree (Advanced Structural Engineering) and Ph. D. degree from
University of Southampton in 1968.
Dr. Choudhury joined the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
(BUET) as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering in 1963 and was appointed a Professor of
Civil Engineering in 1976. He was Head of the Dept. of Civil Engineering (1978–79,
81–83), Dean of the Faculty (1983-85) and Director, Computer Centre (1982-
1992).
In March, 2001, he joined BRAC University as its first Vice Chancellor and
relinquished the position on completion of 9 years of his tenure.

17. Prof. Choudhury has authored about 70 papers in international journals and
conference proceedings related to inter alia tall buildings, low-cost housing,
earthquake resistant design, cyclones and storm surges, retrofitting of
structures, IT Applications and Policy.
Prof. Choudhury has acted as consultant to a large number of national and
international agencies.
He was a Member of Panel of Experts (advising the Government, the World
Bank, Asian Development Bank and OECF, Japan) for the Bangabandhu
(Jamuna) Bridge.
 He was the Technical Adviser of Padma bridge.
He is the president of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee.
 He is the founder President of Bangladesh Earthquake Society. He is the
Chairman of the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical
Education (BAETE), Bangladesh.

18. He was the Team Leader for the Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter Programme and prepared
the Master Plan for Cyclone Shelters in the coastal areas of Bangladesh.
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (Bangladesh) and was its President in 1992-
93. He is a Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers (U.K.) and is a Chartered Engineer, UK. He
is a Fellow and former Vice President of the Bangladesh Computer Society. He was elected a
Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in 1999.
 He is the founder President of Bangladesh Earthquake Society. He is the Chairman of the
Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE), Bangladesh.
He was appointed Adviser (Minister) in the Non-Party Caretaker Government in April, 1996
and was in charge of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of
Water Resources.

19. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in the
category of science and technology in 2017.
He has received numerous awards during his illustrious career.
Some of notable awarded in his life are;
Ekushey Padak(2017)
Sheltech Award (2010)
Bangladesh Engineering Institution Gold medal (1998)
Dr. Rashid Gold medal, (1997)
Rotary Sid Award, (2000)
Lions International (District-315) Gold Medal
Received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Manchester. He
is the only Bangladeshi, who is kind of a British university degree in engineering
subjects received.
Jica Recognition Award
Star Lifetime Award (2016)

20. Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan and Prof. Dr. Jamilur Reza choudhury together
in a single frame

21. Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Anam

22. Dr. Iftekhar Anam obtained the B.Sc. (Engg.), Civil, degree in 1993 (First
Class First with Honours) from Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology, Dhaka.
For his extraordinary merit as a student his result has been recorded in
BUET history & till today anyone can`t break the record. He was also
nominated Outstanding Graduate of BUET.
He obtained M.Sc. Engineering Degree with a scholarship from the
American government at The University of Texas at Austin,USA,in 1996 .
He did his Ph. D. degree on from Texas A&M University,USA in 2000.
Dr. Anam joined UAP in the year 2000 as an Assistant Professor . Prior to
that, he was as a Lecturer at BUET, Teaching and Research Assistant at UT
Austin and Texas A&M University.

23. Dr. Anam's main research interest is based on structural dynamics, including
earthquake engineering, vehicular vibration, ocean wave mechanics, offshore
structures, dynamic soil-structure interaction, random vibrations, etc.
He has developed theoretical and numerical methods for the calculation of
nonlinear wave forces, wave kinematics, foundation stiffness and probabilistic
modeling.
His works have been published in the journals and monographs of the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME), International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) and
presented at various international conferences across the world.

24. His research works at UAP (in collaboration with UAP students and faculty
members) have been published in the proceedings of international conferences
across the world.
Dr. Anam has also performed several consultancy services for
CRTTC,UAP,including strengthening RC structures against Earthquakes using
Nonlinear Time History Analysis.
Dr. Anam has served as the principal investigator and main resource person in
government funded research projects and training courses on structural
dynamics and earthquake engineering organized by Public Works Department
(PWD) lectures on earthquake resistant design organizes by Bangladesh
Earthquake Society , School of Engineering and Logistic (SEL) and Bangladesh
Steel Re-Rolling Mills(BSRM).
He has served in the Review Board of the updated Bangladesh National
Building Code (BNBC) as well earthquake resistance design manuals being
developed in Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) .

25. Mr. Emtazul Haque

26. Mr.Emtazul Haque obtained the B.Sc. (Engg.), Civil, degree in 1992 (First Class
with an excellent academic career) from Bangladesh University of Engineering &
Technology, Dhaka.
He obtained M.Sc. Engineering Degree at The University of Oklahoma,USA,in
1997 .
Mr. Haque joined UAP in 2006 following an extensive research and professional
experience at home and abroad. In addition to specializing on Geotechnical
Engineering, he has professional experience in structural engineering and pavements
Before joining UAP, he headed a development company as its Managing Director in
Dhaka; worked as a consultant (foundation and structural design) in Dhaka, the
Manager Technical Services (Geotechnical Engineering) at Terra-Mar, Inc. in USA
and a design engineer at Design Associates Ltd. in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

27. Mr. Haque had been involved in many industrial, commercial, residential, private
housing and public projects in the city of Houston, Beaumont and Austin in Texas,
USA.
Scope of works under these projects included extensive field and laboratory
investigation and geotechnical analyses and engineering recommendations for the
design and construction of under reamed drilled pier foundations, pile foundations
for single and multi-span bridges, retaining walls, communication towers,
pavement thickness design and subgrade preparation, underground utility lines
and lift stations.
He performed extensive slope stability analyses to evaluate the stability of existing
and proposed slopes and provided recommendations regarding geometry,
preparation and drainage to construct/maintain safe and stable slopes for
numerous landfills, lakes, retention ponds and bayous in Texas.
He has been involved in the geotechnical investigation, foundation and structural
design as well as pile load tests of numerous multi-storied residential and
commercial projects, shopping complexes, effluent treatment plants in Dhaka
Division.
His research includes calculation of bearing capacity of foundations, assessment of
geotechnical properties of Dhaka subsoil.

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