C. Roger Ferguson, a lecturer in the civil and environmental engineering department from 1972 to 2000, died Jan. 25, 2010 in Moscow, Idaho.
Ferguson was a popular and respected instructor who taught surveying and the capstone senior design courses. He received the C.R. Klewin Award for Excellence in Teaching from the civil and environmental engineering department in 1994 and 1998.
“I had the pleasure of knowing Roger for over 30 years,” says emeritus professor Christian Davis. “A beloved teacher, his dedication to the profession of surveying and to his students was obvious and a major reason he was such an effective instructor. He will be sorely missed.”
Following his retirement from UConn, Ferguson took a position at the University of Idaho.
Earlier in his career, he owned his own surveying business and served as the city engineer for the Town of Windham for three years and as general manager at Towne Engineering for five years.
Ferguson served as president, and was a Fellow, of the New England section of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and was a founding charter member and first president of the Geographic and Land Information Society. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors, and represented the Association to the National Society of Professional Surveyors Board of Governors for many years.
He received the 1998 National Society of Professional Surveyors Surveying Excellence Award; and the 1997 Earle J. Fennell Award.
Ferguson earned a B.S. degree in accounting (’59) and B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering (’70, ’72) from UConn.