The Weatherton Award

Designed to provide graduates with a broad array of initial opportunities within the concrete industry, the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program supplies the industry with future managers and leaders. CIM is a business-intensive program, providing solid management skills that are applicable in any industry, but developed specifically for the concrete industry. The program is a joint initiative of a growing number of universities supported by networks of local, state and regional concrete industry producers, suppliers and contractors who pledge their time, talent and treasure to support the development of each university’s CIM program.

To highlight CIM’s success in developing young industry professionals, and to honor his contribution to the concrete industry, World of Concrete established the Bob Weatherton Award. Criteria for the selection of the award include practical application of the selected topics, including safety,

productivity and industry improvement. The papers and presentations are judged by a panel of industry professionals who make the selections.

The 2016 award, along with $2,500 in scholarship money, was presented to Jerhard Evangelista, from New Jersey Institute of Technology, for his paper, “Sika Corporation Internship Experience.”