The Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering celebrated alumni from each of its eight schools on March 8th at the 2025 College of Engineering Alumni Awards and Induction Ceremony on March 8.
The 30 honorees have achieved fame nationally and around the world in a variety of roles, from leaders of globally recognized companies to a pioneer in the telecommunications industry and a shaper of the skyline of Midtown Atlanta.
Each spring, committees within each of the College’s schools formally submit nominees for selection. This year’s honorees graduated from 1967 to as recently as 2021. The included eight new members of the College’s highest honor, the Engineering Hall of Fame.
Meet the 2025 honorees from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering:
ROBERT D. MOSER, CE 07, MS CE 09, PhD CE 11
Director, Senior Executive Service, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni
Robert Moser is the director of the Army’s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), where he oversees the development and execution of a broad range of research and development (R&D) and operational programs on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Army, the Department of Defense (DOD), and other federal agencies.
Robert Moser, second from right, poses with fellow inductees of the Council of Outstanding Engineering Alumni.
Moser directs an annual operating budget of over $550 million and a staff of more than 700 federal and contractor personnel. He also serves as the authorizing official for the DOD-wide Defense Research and Engineering Network, serves as U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s chief information officer, and leads the Center’s Engineered Resilient Systems R&D area.
While at Tech as a PhD student, Moser was the recipient of the Science Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense. That led to him to the Engineer Research and Development Center’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, where he served as a senior scientific technical manager before assuming his current position.
H. ARTHUR (ART) WILLIAMS, CE 83
Vice Chairman and COO, Williams Industries, Inc., Williams Enterprises of Georgia
Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni
Art Williams has worked at Williams Industries and Williams Enterprises for more than 40 years. Williams Industries in Manassas, Virginia, and Williams Enterprises in Smyrna, Georgia, are the 10th largest steel specialty contractor in the country, focusing their efforts on steel erection and fabrication in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The company has worked on such recognizable buildings as Atlanta’s Phillips Arena, Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion, the Bank of America Tower and the Georgia Aquarium.
Art Williams, fourth from left, poses with fellow inductees to the College of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.
Williams served on the CEE External Advisory Board and has previously served on the board of the Steel Erectors Association of America. He is president of the Williams Family Foundation, an organization which focuses its grants on charities local to Northern Virginia. In 2019, the Williams family funded the Williams Family Early-Career Professorship in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The endowed positions are currently held by Professor Lauren Stewart and Associate Professor Iris Tien.
JOSÉ DOMINGO PÉREZ, CE 71
President, Caribe Tecno, Inc., Pan American Academy of Engineering
Engineering Hall of Fame
A year after graduating from Georgia Tech, José founded Caribe Tecno, Inc., a firm recognized for sustainable resilient infrastructure and building, development, design-build, and construction. The company has built more than a billion dollars’ worth of projects over the last 50 years, including national and international award-winning landmarks.
At 27, Peréz was elected president of Puerto Rico’s Institute of Civil Engineers. He has served on The Governors’ Advisory Boards in Construction, International Commerce, and others. Peréz was also a two-term president of Puerto Rico’s Associated General Contractors and member of the AGC’s Executive Committee in Washington, D.C.
Hall of Famer José Domingo Pérez, center, with Dean Raheem Beyah and Shane Kimbrough.
In recognition of his lifelong commitment to engineering and education, Puerto Rico’s largest private university named its engineering school the José Domingo Pérez School of Engineering in 2006. Since 2022, he has been president of the Pan American Academy of Engineering (PAAE), an international organization that unites engineers from more than 18 countries in collaboration to design a better world.
In 2019, Perez made a commitment to fund the José Domingo Pérez Foundation Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, currently held by Professor Shane Snyder.
At the alumni awards ceremony, Perez reflected on how his time at Georgia Tech affected his life. “We do not celebrate our individual achievements, but the shared values that guide us as alumni and engineers in our commitment to serving society and mankind.”