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16 May 2012
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Bentley Systems Honors Tom Lazear With Inaugural Bentley Institute Lifetime Achievement Award
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today presented Tom Lazear, chairman of California-based Archway Systems, the longest-serving Bentley Channel Partner, with the inaugural Bentley Institute Lifetime Achievement Award. He was recognized on behalf of Bentley’s California users, in particular, for his steadfast commitment to inspiring students, architects, and engineers to explore and innovatively apply computer technology in the service of design and engineering.
Lazear’s passion for guiding and motivating young people in their pursuit of the software knowledge and skills they need for success as architects, engineers, and construction professionals has led to his tireless advocacy of Bentley Institute’s Be Careers Network.
In presenting the award, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Tom’s length of service to the CAD and information modeling community of users far exceeds mine – for instance, we recently found a picture of Tom in a 1961 issue of Consulting Engineer demonstrating one of the first applications of computing in engineering. When he was the first graduate student at UCLA to submit a master’s thesis combining computers and engineering, the faculty debated its relevance. Undaunted, he went on to more or less create the CAD business through co-development of VersaCAD .
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