2023 marks a new year and a new chapter for two outstanding leaders at AISC: retirement!
Vice President of Engineering and Research Lawrence F. Kruth, PE, has spent more than four decades in the structural engineering world. He spent almost 40 of those years at Douglas Steel Fabricating Corporation in Lansing, Mich., where he served as a vice president and member of the Board of Directors. He retired from Douglas Steel in 2015 and joined AISC as the vice president for engineering and research the following November. He’s held that position since then and is succeeded by Christopher Raebel, SE, PE, PhD.
Senior Director of Engineering Cynthia Duncan also retired at the end of the year. She joined the Institute in 1985--as AISC'S first engineer of her gender--and has been integral to the development of all AISC standards, specifications, and manuals since then. Cindi left AISC for a few years in the mid-1990s to raise her family, before returning to lead AISC’s specifications and publications work.
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