Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, will receive the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for his work on a paper on shipways at the three day convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers starting tomorrow in New York.

Terzaghi was one of three authors of an essay entitled "Shipways with Cellular Walls on a Marl Foundation."

Terzaghi has been on the faculty of the Graduate School of Engineering since 1938, when he lectured on soil mechanics. He has been active as a consultant on construction and reclamation projects all over the world.