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Sill earns Clemson Class of 1939 Award for
Excellence
Ben Sill, director of general engineering, has
received the Class of 1939 Award for Excellence that recognizes
him as one of the top faculty members at Clemson University in the
eyes of his peers.
 Clemson’s
Class of 1939 presents this award, which includes a $5,000 stipend,
to recognize faculty for service to the student body, the university
and the nation. The Faculty Senate elects each year’s recipient
from faculty nominees. The recipient also becomes an honorary member
of the class. Sill’s name is inscribed on the Class of 1939
bell tower monument in the Carillon Garden on campus.
Sill joined Clemson’s civil engineering faculty in 1976. He
was one founder of the university’s wind load test facility,
one of the top three wind load facilities in the country. In 1994,
he was named Alumni Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering.
Since 1999, he has been director of the general engineering program,
home for all first-year engineering students at Clemson. He oversaw
the program’s 2003 move into Holtzendorff Hall. In 2005, he
served as chairman of the Faculty Senate’s select committee
on Clemson land use property.
He is married to Lois Sill, a Clemson University librarian, and
they have two daughters.
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