The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Environmental and Water Resources Institute awarded Peter Lagasse ’60 with their 2025 Hydraulic Structures Gold Medal for “excellence in the design and performance of hydraulic structures used for bridge waterway, alluvial-channel protection, and coastal engineering.”

The annual Hydraulic Structures Medal was instituted in 1983 by Fred W. Blaisdell, F.ASCE, to honor the contributions of Melvin M. Culp, M.ASCE, and William O. Ree, F.ASCE, for their conception and development of generalized procedures for the design and application of hydraulic structures, and for their exemplary ethical and professional standards. 

Lagasse currently serves as Vice President for Applied Technology and Senior Hydraulic Engineer at Ayres Associates, Inc. During his 21-year career in the U.S. Army, his assignments with the Corps of Engineers included serving as Chief of the Port Construction Section, U.S. Army Engineer Command, Vietnam (1966-1967), and Senior Advisor to a Republic of Vietnam Engineer District with design and construction responsibility for infrastructure in a six-province region in the Central Highlands (1970-1971).

Over a 10-year period, Lagasse had assignments of increasing responsibility at USMA, including Assistant Professor (1968-1970) and Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Assistant Dean for Academic Research (1975-1981) when he retired from the U.S. Army.

ASCE will recognize Lagasse at the Society’s World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 18-21, 2025.