EDUCATIONAL TRUST Trust Board Meets During WPM The DFI Educational Trust Board of Trustees had its first meeting during the DFI Winter Planning Meeting (WPM), held in La Jolla, California, February 19 - 20, 2020. During the meet ing, the board reviewed the year-end financials for 2019, approved the 2020 budget and discussed fundraising initiatives for the year. The group also welcomed new trustee, Matt Roberts of Kiewit. New Baker Scholarship DFI Educational Trust announces the establishment of the Clyde N. Baker, Jr. Foundation Engi- neering Scholarship Fund. The fund, which honors Baker’s contributions to the deep foundations industry, will provide At-Large Scholarships to students enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate civil engineering program at any accredited Tracy Brettmann, P.E., D.GE, Chair [email protected] college or university in the United S t a t e s . R e c i p i e n t s mu s t demonstrate academic merit, an interest in the area of foundations engineering and financial need. Clyde N. Baker, Jr., P.E., S.E., is retired after a successful career as senior principal engineer at STS Consultants and later as a senior consultant at GEI Consultants, in Vernon Hills, Illinois. During his career, he served as a geotechnical engineer or consultant on several of the tallest buildings in the world, including four of the tallest in Chicago (the Willis Tower, known as the Sears Building, Trump International Hotel & Tower, the John Hancock Center, and the Amoco Building) as well as Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, Taipei 101 in Taiwan and Burj Khalifa in Dubai. He also worked as a consultant on several supertall buildings, including the Spire in Chicago, Doha Convention Center Tower in Qatar, and Incheon 151 Tower in Korea. He has led efforts in using in-situ testing techniques correlated with past building performance to develop more efficient foundation designs. In the Chicago soil pro- file, this facilitated economical use of belled DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAY/JUNE 2020 • 65
