Chris T. Hendrickson (born March 31, 1950) is an American environmental engineer. Hendrickson was born in

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

, and earned his bachelor's and first master's degree from

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in 1973. He received a

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for further study at the

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, where he obtained a second master's degree in 1975. Hendrickson completed a doctorate at the

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in 1978. He then began teaching at

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. Hendrickson was appointed Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering in 1996, and was named Hamerschlag University Professor in 2014, until gaining emeritus status the next year. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 2007. In 2011, Hendrickson was elected to membership of the

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"for leadership and contributions in transportation and green design engineering." The National Academy of Construction granted Hendrickson an equivalent honor in 2014, for "outstanding systems oriented research and leadership contributions in construction project management, transportation, and green design."

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