Background
Hoek, Evert was born in 1933 in Zimbabwe.
consultant engineering educator
Hoek, Evert was born in 1933 in Zimbabwe.
Bachelor of Science, University Cape Town, 1955. Master of Science in mechanical engineering, University Cape Town, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy in rock mechanics, University Cape Town, 1965.
Doctor of Science in rock mechanics, University London, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Toronto, 2004.
From 1965 he was at Imperial College, where he set up at the Royal School of Mines one faculty-wide center for rock mechanics. He developed there, among others In 1968, a triaxial test for Rock Mechanics. Later he became a professor at the University of Toronto was in 1975 twelve years senior consulting engineer at Golder Associates (where he was Senior Principal and Chairman) in Vancouver, then an independent consulting engineer with a private engineering firm in Vancouver.
Hoek is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
He received a doctorate degree (Doctorate Sc), London University, and honorary doctorates in Toronto and the University of Waterloo. Doctor Hoek has published more than 100 papers and 3 books
Member of National Academy of Engineering (foreign associate).