ANAK: Secret Society of Undergraduates Honors Professor Mike Meyer

Congratulations to Dr. Michael D. Meyer who recently received the coveted ANAK Award, considered the highest honor the undergraduate student body can bestow on a Georgia Tech faculty member.  Dr. Meyer is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and coordinator of the transportation systems engineering program in CEE.  His research interests are in transportation planning, multimodal evaluation, policy analysis, mass transit planning, institutional analysis and project implementation, public works economics and finance, environmental impact analysis, sustainable development, and engineering design.

The secret ANAK society, founded in 1908, is an organization that honors juniors and seniors who display exemplary leadership, outstanding character, and a true love for Georgia Tech.  ANAK works to identify campus needs and develop ways in which they can be met.  Today, the group undertakes these initiatives in secrecy, keeping the Institute’s improvement at the core of its mission.  To recognize efforts with similar spirit, the annual ANAK Award has been given since 1942, and annually since 1947, to a faculty member at Georgia Tech who has demonstrated outstanding service to the Institute and to the student body through teaching, research, advisement, and general involvement in campus life.

Professors must be nominated by a member of the society, and the winner is determined by current collegian members of the society, thus making it the only faculty award given that is determined solely by students.

Professor Meyer joins an elite group of leaders in Georgia Tech’s history, and a legacy of past ANAK Award winners from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering including:  James H. Lucas (1956); Paul G. Mayer (1970); Laurence Jacobs (1998); Mahera S. Philobos (1999); Larry Kahn (2003); and Reginald DesRoches (2007).

For additional information about Dr. Meyer, visit http://www.ce.gatech.edu/fac_staff/faculty-listing/research-interests/?active_id=mm39.