2016 Alumni Service Award
Seth L. Pearlman (ENG 1978, 1979), now the CEO and North American Manager of Menard Group USA, has more than 30 years of experience in geotechnical engineering. As an expert in ground improvement, he ensures that the foundations of major construction projects are firm enough to support the new structure’s weight.
When the famous Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, began to sink at a rate of about 15 mm a week in 1998, it was Pearlman who received the distress call. He developed a plan to drill grouted steel pipes 200 feet into the soil beneath the hotel’s basement, effectively saving the resort.
Pearlman not only strengthens the foundations for engineering projects, but he strengthens the foundations of CEE students with his continued service to the department.