On Friday, Sept. 15, the OSU Alumni Association will be honoring six graduates with the Distinguished Alumni Award. The third honoree we want to introduce is Lieu Smith.
Lieu R. Smith graduated from OSU in 1954 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering. After serving two years on active duty with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he returned to OSU and earned a master’s degree in civil engineering in 1957.
Smith spent most of his engineering career with Sverdrup Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri where he rose to the rank of corporate vice president of advanced technology. His work on the space shuttle won several awards and was featured in Time magazine in 1984 where the project was described as the “most sophisticated military complex ever built.”
For his work as the program manager on the Space Shuttle Launch Pad Complex, Smith was awarded the Congressional Science and Technology Award for pioneering work in aerospace technology and engineering. He was also selected by Science Digest as one of America’s outstanding innovators in 1985.
To learn more about Smith and all our honorees, visit https://okla.st/3sN2PvC
