ACI Foundation Establishes Robert F. Mast Memorial Fellowship
The ACI Foundation has established the Robert F. Mast Memorial Fellowship. This new fellowship, created through a very generous legacy donation, honors ACI Past President Robert F. Mast, who died July 16, 2020. The significant contribution will fund the award for decades and will aim to remain financially meaningful to students throughout the life of the award.
An honorary member of the American Concrete Institute, Mast was a member of several ACI committees, including ACI committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, and served on two of the ACI Foundation’s program councils. In 1959 Mast joined brothers Arthur and Tom Anderson and Hal Birkeland’s engineering firm as a junior engineer, eventually becoming a partner in 1963 to form Anderson, Birkeland, Anderson, and Mast, or ABAM Engineers. In the late 1980s, ABAM became BergerABAM, headquartered in Federal Way, Wash. In addition to his service to ACI, Mast was a long-time member of the Prestressed Concrete Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.