NU Honorary Degree Awarded to Civil Engineer Jack Bryant

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce that a Northeastern University alumnus and civil engineer, Jack Bryant, has been presented with an honorary degree at Northeastern University’s 2013 commencement ceremony. Jack received his B.S in civil engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Northeastern. He is the president of Bryant Associates, and has been leading this successful civil engineering consulting firm for many years. Bryant received the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush in 2007, and during World War II he became one of the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Congratulations to Jack Bryant for this distinguished honor!

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Source: News @ Northeastern

Over the past four decades, Jack D. Bryant’s award-​​winning engi­neering firm, Bryant Asso­ciates, has helped shape and strengthen com­mu­ni­ties throughout the United States, Canada, South­east Asia, and North Africa.

From water and waste­water issues to con­struc­tion man­age­ment to trans­porta­tion and traffic engi­neering, Bryant Asso­ciates has earned a rep­u­ta­tion for bringing clear vision and state-​​of-​​the-​​art solu­tions to the 21^st cen­tury infra­struc­ture chal­lenges today’s cities face.

Under Bryant’s inspired lead­er­ship the com­pany has won numerous awards, from orga­ni­za­tions ranging from the Boston Society of Land­scape Archi­tects to the Con­struc­tion Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion of America. Today he con­tinues to serve as pres­i­dent, respon­sible for directing all busi­ness oper­a­tions and over­seeing projects in the firm’s six offices nationwide.

Bryant’s impact spans far beyond the world of engi­neering. He also played a crit­ical role in our nation’s history—a role for which he was awarded one of the nation’s highest civilian honors, the Con­gres­sional Gold Medal, by Pres­i­dent George W. Bush in 2007.

During World War II, he became one of 996 Tuskegee Airmen, the renowned group of African Amer­i­cans whose achieve­ments in that war helped shift America’s views on racial equality and integration.

Fol­lowing in the foot­steps of his older brother Joseph, Bryant trained to be a B-​​25 bomber pilot. The war ended before he could see combat, and Jack Bryant was dis­charged from the Army Air Corps in 1946.

But the expe­ri­ence shaped his life in many ways, starting with the GI Bill, which enabled Bryant to attend the Uni­ver­sity of Michigan and earn a bachelor’s degree in civil engi­neering. He sub­se­quently enrolled at North­eastern, receiving a master’s degree in engi­neering management.

Among his numerous honors and dis­tinc­tions, the North­eastern alumnus is a fellow of the Society of Amer­ican Mil­i­tary Engineers.

He holds pro­fes­sional reg­is­tra­tions in many states and mem­ber­ships in sev­eral orga­ni­za­tions: the Amer­ican Society of Civil Engi­neers, the Amer­ican Railway Engi­neering and Maintenance-​​of-​​Way Asso­ci­a­tion, the National Society of Pro­fes­sional Engi­neers, and the Amer­ican Road and Trans­porta­tion Builders Asso­ci­a­tion. In addi­tion, Bryant has served as pres­i­dent of the Boston Post Chapter of the Society of Amer­ican Mil­i­tary Engineers.

Bryant also holds posi­tions related to his his­toric role, serving as a sup­porting member of the pro­posed Mass­a­chu­setts Air and Space Museum. More recently, he was inducted into the Rhode Island Avi­a­tion Hall of Fame.

Related Departments:Civil & Environmental Engineering