Features: April 29, 2002

Blitman To Receive RAA Fellows Award

Howard Blitman '50 will be recognized with the Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on Monday, May 6, at the department's advisory board meeting.

Blitman is president and CEO of Blitman Building Corporation and president-elect of the National Society of Professional Engineers for the 2001-2002 term. He received a bachelor's in civil engineering from Rensselaer in 1950 and a master's in political science and government from the New School of Social Research in 1976.

He is an inaugural member and past chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Board at Rensselaer. Blitman and his wife, Maureen, are members of the Amos Eaton Society of Patroons.

The Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award was created to honor those alumni or non-alumni of Rensselaer who, by their achievements in a chosen profession or endeavor or by their service to the Institute, have set an example for Rensselaer men and women to emulate. To date, 112 RAA Fellows Awards have been presented.