Edward Wasp

Edward Joseph Wasp died peacefully in San Rafael, California on August 31, 2015. He was 92. He was born in the Bronx in New York City on June 6, 1923, one of seven children, to Anna Fitzgerald and Joseph Wasp. He attended Christopher Columbus High School, graduating in 1941. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1945 from Cooper Union, an M.S. in chemical engineering in 1947 from New York University, a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961 and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1973. He began experimenting with coal slurries when he worked for Consolidation Coal Company in Pittsburgh, PA in the early 1950s. He designed the world's first long-distance coal slurry pipeline, a 108-mile system within Ohio completed in 1957. In 1963, he joined the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco where he continued this work, completing many slurry pipelines around the world, including the world's first iron ore pipeline in Tasmania, Australia, followed by numerous world-first slurry pipelines. Previous awardees have included developers of wide body jet, the Volkswagon automobile, deep diving submarine, supertankers and global positioning systems. He was also the author of the book Solid Liquid Flow-Slurry Pipeline Transportation, published in 1977.He is survived by his wife of 33 years Helena Troy.