Celebrating Engineers Week – Edward (Terry) Terhune, PE

SAI is privileged to have Edward (Terry) Terhune, PE, as a structures engineer for 43 years.

When Terry was little, he loved building things. He could spend hours playing with erector sets, Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. In high school, Terry was good in math and especially in drafting, so his dad encouraged him that engineering would be a good fit. And so it was. Terry graduated in 1980 from the University of Pittsburgh with his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. That same year, he started with SAI. He later returned to Pitt to get his master’s degree in civil engineering in 1990.

Terry was inspired by John Roebling, a German-born American civil engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. Roebling, an innovator in his time, did this with just his intellect, and had to visualize the scale and magnitude of the project. With a span of 1,595.5 feet, this was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed in 1883.

When asked what “Creating the Future” means to him, Terry said, “within my career, beginning with handwritten calculations and handheld calculators and now with computers and high-powered software, it will be amazing to see what technology engineers will be using to design bridges in the next 40 years.” We thank Terry for his decades of service and for inspiring his SAI family.

Happy Engineers Week! #Eweek2023 #CreatingtheFuture

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